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The Provisional IRA admitted Brian Campbell, aged 19, and Colm McGirr, aged 23, were its members.
It later transpired they were shot as they approached an IRA arms dump.
Many of their supporters said they had been victims of "shoot-to-kill" state aggression and an unjust murder.
Army regulations allow soldiers to open fire without warning if by not doing so they would increase the risk of death or injury to themselves or anyone else.
Five years later there was a similar ambush in Gibraltar in March 1988 when three unarmed members of the IRA were shot and killed by members of British special forces.
The Provisional IRA admitted Brian Campbell, aged 19, and Colm McGirr, aged 23, were its members.
It later transpired they were shot as they approached an IRA arms dump.
Many of their supporters said they had been victims of "shoot-to-kill" state aggression and an unjust murder.
Army regulations allow soldiers to open fire without warning if by not doing so they would increase the risk of death or injury to themselves or anyone else.
Five years later there was a similar ambush in Gibraltar in March 1988 when three unarmed members of the IRA were shot and killed by members of British special forces.
