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=== The Troubles === * May 9, 1992: During the reconstruction of a [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]] (RUC) security base devastated just two days before by a [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] tractor bomb at [[Fivemiletown]], in [[County Tyrone]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Local news from Fermanagh, p. 26|url=http://www.storyfinders.co.uk/directory/uploads/2f82bb5d-bf30-4ada-a490-b5c7da745f40/1990-2000.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322140836/http://www.storyfinders.co.uk/directory/uploads/2f82bb5d-bf30-4ada-a490-b5c7da745f40/1990-2000.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 22, 2012|access-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=May 11, 1992|title=Northern News|work=The Irish Emigrant|issue=275|url=http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37018&Itemid=18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419081420/http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37018&Itemid=18|url-status=dead<!--inaccessible β login required, doesn't seem to be tied to a subscription as such-->|access-date=July 26, 2020|archive-date=April 19, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=May 23, 1992|title=War News - British Soldier Wounded in Landmine Attack|url=https://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/IP/id/20328/rec/1002|access-date=July 8, 2021|website=indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org|publisher=The Irish People|language=en}}</ref> while soldiers from the First Battalion [[Staffordshire Regiment]] were providing a security detail to the workers, an eighteen-year-old private fired his [[SA80]] rifle 14 times at the company's sergeant major in a frenzy, killing him in front of the rest of the platoon. The serviceman was eventually acquitted of the charge of murder in 1993,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Latham|first=Richard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NmqpZ9sYu7MC&q=fivemiletown+SA80&pg=PT39|title=Deadly Beat: Inside the Royal Ulster Constabulary|publisher=Random House|year=2012|isbn=978-1-78057-755-5|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":10">''Fortnight'', Issues 302-312, p. 33</ref> but declared guilty of manslaughter, and given a two-year [[suspended sentence]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=May 1, 1993|title=Soldier, 19, is cleared of murder|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/soldier-19-is-cleared-of-murder-2320269.html|access-date=October 13, 2020|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref> There were allegations of previous [[hazing]] and bullying by the non-commissioned officer against his subordinate.<ref name=":0" />
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