Alan Black, the only survivor of the Kingsmills massacre in County Armagh, has vowed to continue seeking justice for his murdered friends. The 80-year-old was speaking after an inquest concluded that the 1976 attack, in which 10 Protestant workmen were shot dead after a minibus ambush, was an overtly sectarian IRA operation. Mr. Black, who was 32 at the time, said he is still haunted by the attack in which he was shot 18 times. No-one has ever been held to account for the murders.
The families of the victims have called for a public inquiry into the killings. On Friday, a coroner said the attack was carried out by a unit consisting of at least 12 members of the IRA, pretending to be an army patrol. The so-called South Armagh Republican Action Force claimed responsibility for it. However, the coroner said that was a lie and that “the attack was carried out by the IRA operating under the authority of the Army Council which had, in April 1975, given wide authorisation to IRA units.”
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