In mid-December 2024, a man, whose identity has remained confidential, said to the North Irish daily Belfast Telegraph that he was able to locate the body of Columba McVeigh. According to him, this 20 -year -old was kidnapped in 1975, executed and secretly buried on the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, by three men members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), this paramilitary organization fighting at the time for the reunification of all Irish territory by means of violent actions. This source accused a current representative of Sinn Fein, the political party in power in Northern Irande since 2022, of being one of the murderers. “He could walk to the exact location and find this grave without any problem,” he said.
Columba McVeigh is part of a list of 17 people who were victims of “forced disappearances”. This term designates the assassinations followed by secret burials listed during the period of “disorders” (1968-1998), this conflict which violently opposed the loyalists, supporters of the United Kingdom (mostly Protestant), with the Irish Republicans (especially Catholic), and caused more than 3,000 deaths.
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Source: Lemonde