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Subject: ECN/UK: SHOOT-TO-KILL IN BELFAST
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:41:31 +0100
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from: ECN London
5 December 1992
SHOOT-TO-KILL IN BELFAST
A young Irish republican was shot dead by police in Belfast on Wednesday
25th November in what seems to have been a pre-planned shoot-to-kill
operation. 22 year old Pearse Jordan was driving along the Falls Road when
his car was rammed and forced onto the pavement by two cars. As he
stumbled from the car he was shot in the back three times with a Heckler
and Koch rifle, by an undercover member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Pearse Jordan, who was an IRA volunteer, was unarmed and had made no
attempt to run away when he got out of the car.
As usually happens in such cases, the RUC immediately launched a
propaganda offensive to hide the true facts of the killing. For instance it was
initially reported that the shooting was connected with the discovery of a
bomb-making factory in a nearby house. In fact, the house that was raided
was over half a mile way, and nothing was found in the house or at any
other building that night.
After Pearse's murder, local people held a candle-lit vigil at the scene.
Thousands of people attended Pearse Jordan's funeral, resisting attempts by
the RUC to intimidate them. At one point, women mourners prevented an
RUC armoured car from driving through the funeral cortege.
