Operation Flavius
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Operation Flavius was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army were shot dead by the British Special Air Service in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. The trio were
Petrol station on Winston Churchill Avenue in Gibraltar, where McCann and Farrell were shot, pictured in 2014
Area in front of The Convent where the changing of the guard ceremony takes place
Proposed site of IRA car bomb by Southport Gates
Location between Corral Road and Landport in Gibraltar where Savage was shot
Milltown Cemetery attack
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On 16 March 1988, Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members, killed in Operation Flavius, at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland with hand gre
Operation Flavius
…to make the use of lethal force almost inevitable. The deaths were the first in a chain of violent events in a fourteen-day period. On 16 March, the funeral of the three IRA members was attacked, leaving three mourners dead. At the funeral of one, two British soldiers were murdered after driving into the procession in error. In late 1987, British…
The funerals, minutes before the attack
The republican plot at Milltown Cemetery, Michael Stone's target
Memorial to the victims of the attack in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast
Memorial to Mairéad Farrell, Daniel McCann, Seán Savage and the victims of the attack in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast