“In a statement on October 16 2,024, referring to the death of former head of the British Army, General Mike Jackson, a spokesperson for Comhairle Uladh (Ulster Executive), Sinn Féin Poblachtach said: “There will be no tears shed by any principled Republican at the loss of any British soldier.

Jackson was adjutant of the Parachute Regiment’s 1st battalion and was present in Derry on January 30, 1972, when the regiment opened fire and shot dead 13 people during a civil rights march. He was in charge of the British army during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 after serving in the Balkans and the Occupied Six Counties.

“Mike Jackson has been described as a tough and uncompromising British soldier. By all accounts these accolades are meaningless in civi street; especially, when you give an order to indiscriminately open fire on unarmed civilians. This man played a senior role in the carnage at the Ballymurphy Massacre and Bloody Sunday.

“He also courted controversy and wreaked havoc as an officer responsible for the 1st Parachute regiment of the British army while they terrorised the nationalist population in the Six Counties during the early 1970s, in addition to many other murderous action carried out on behalf of Queen and county elsewhere.

“Sinn Féin Poblachtach have said our thoughts are with the Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy families as well as all those Nationalists/Republicans who continue to suffer from the scourge of British oppression in the Occupied Six Counties.”

PRO
Comhairle Uladh (Ulster Executive),
Sinn Féin Poblachtach

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