Divis Flats bombing 1982

Divis Flats bombing 1982
Part of "the Troubles"
Location Cullingtree Walk, Divis Tower,Belfast, Northern Ireland
Coordinates Coordinates: 54°36′00″N 5°56′32″W / 54.6000°N 5.9422°W / 54.6000; -5.9422
Date 16 September 1982 (GMT)
Target British Army foot patrol
Attack type
 Bombing
Weapons remote control bomb
Deaths

1 British soldier

2 civilians
Non-fatal injuries
 4
Perpetrator Irish National Liberation Army

On Thursday the 16 September 1982 the Irish Republican and Revolutionary Socialist paramilitary organization the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) exploded a bomb hidden in a drainpipe along a balcony in Cullingtree Walk, Divis Tower, Belfast. The explosive device was aimed to a British Army foot patrol. The blast killed three people, a British Army soldier named Kevin Waller (20), and two Catholic civilian passers-by, both of whom were children, they were Stephen Bennet (14) and Kevin Valliday (12).[1] Four other people were injured in the explosion including another British soldier and three civilians. The INLA Volunteers involved in the operation used a remote control to detonate the bomb.[2] There was anger from the Irish Nationalist community directed towards the INLA over the deaths of the two young civilians. 1982 was the INLA's most active year of The Troubles and they killed more British security forces in 1982 than in any other year of the conflict. In December 1982 they carried out the Droppin Well bombing which killed 17 people which included 11 off-duty British soldiers, which was the group's most deadliest attack carried out against the British Army. [3] INLA Volunteer Martin McElkerney was sentenced to life for the Divis bombing in 1987, he was released early under the Good Friday Agreement.[4]

See Also

Sources

  • Jack Holland, Henry McDonald (1994) INLA – Deadly Divisions
  • CAIN project

References

  1. ↑ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  2. ↑ Jack Holland & Henry Mcdonald (1994) INLA: Deadly Divisions. pp 213-214
  3. ↑ Jack Holland & Henry Mcdonald (1994) INLA: Deadly Divisions. pp 362-363
  4. ↑ "INLA prisoners set for freedom". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
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