Jean McConville was a Belfast woman who was abducted from her home and killed by the Provisional IRA in 1972. Her body was buried secretly on a beach in County Louth, about 50 miles from her home. The IRA did not admit their involvement until over 20 years later, when they passed information on the whereabouts of the body. Her family contend that she was killed as a punishment for aiding a wounded British soldier, but the IRA claimed that they had discovered she was passing information on local republicans to the security forces via a secret radio transmitter. The IRA have killed their own volunteers and civilians for assisting British forces.
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