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Bloody Sunday commander shot dead in Kenya

  • 08-09-2013 09:53PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.independent.ie/world-news/bloody-sunday-commander-shot-dead-in-kenya-29562180.html
    Not a believer in Karma.

    With no hint of sarcasm, this must have been a terrible incident for his family to have had to witness.
    Col Edward Loden, 73, was ambushed by armed robbers as he returned to his son’s home from dinner late on Saturday night.

    His son Jamie, his wife, Jill, and his daughter-in-law, Sarah, are believed to have been in the car with him at the time of the attack, although no-one else was hurt.

    He had been visiting Jamie in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where he is a director of Barclays Bank’s Africa division.

     

    During the Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry  in 1972 he was in command of a Parachute Regiment unit that fired more than 100 shots. Thirteen civilians were killed at the scene.



    Just as terrible as the families of the innocent victims of Bloody Sunday in Derry.

    Thoughts?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    It was on Saturday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL



    Only that this thread will not end well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭brian ireland


    the link says
    404 page not found


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    MadsL wrote: »
    Only that this thread will not end well.

    Early enough to get to a shop and get some popcorn.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    It was on Saturday.

    No it was definitely bloody Sunday.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    He had a good run of it, more than others. Wonder if Kevin Myers will call him a hero in some article.


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 398 ✭✭Benny-c


    Augmerson wrote: »
    He had a good run of it, more than others. Wonder if Kevin Myers will call him a hero in some article.

    lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    One Sunday paper reports that soldiers are to be charged in connection with their actions on Bloody Sunday, is this like the chopper's fatal crash on the Mull of Kintyr. (spelling may not be right) Jackson would want too watch his back. The brits always had a good way of cleaning the $hit that comes back too haunt them. The big wheel keeps on turning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 Dr hoRse


    Maybe his killers will claim they were shot at first?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    the link says
    404 page not found

    Sorry, should be fixed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    sure everyone dies anyhow,id be happy to die a quick painless death at 73


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Oh c'mon, do I have to do everything around here...obligatory Partridge reference.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭Focus_sligo


    Karma!
    I wouldn't take any pleasure in any death, however, can't help think that now he has passed on, he won't be held to justice for his actions in Derry on Bloody Sunday is unfortunate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭greedygoblin


    MadsL wrote: »
    Oh c'mon, do I have to do everything around here...obligatory Partridge reference.

    You beat me to it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    MadsL wrote: »
    Only that this thread will not end well.
    Bit like his day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Good movie on tonight TV3, Bloody Sunday, with James Nesbitt, hopefully it will open a few wounds of the guilty, maybe old Jacko could look back on his evil deeds. Then again you would have to be human to do that,or have a conscience. Which both are surly lacking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 54,868 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    sure everyone dies anyhow,id be happy to die a quick painless death at 73

    Not when you are 73 tomorrow you won't.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Not when you are 73 tomorrow you won't.

    Too soon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭VONSHIRACH


    I wonder did he feel the same in his final moments when the shooting started, just like the unarmed civilians felt back in 1972 when they were fatally shot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    VONSHIRACH wrote: »
    I wonder did he feel the same in his final moments when the shooting started, just like the unarmed civilians felt back in 1972 when they were fatally shot.

    Hopefully the memory of that day haunted him too his last breath. :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Hopefully people won't heed the battle call.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭mcc1


    Karma!
    I wouldn't take any pleasure in any death, however, can't help think that now he has passed on, he won't be held to justice for his actions in Derry on Bloody Sunday is unfortunate.

    ERM........He was totally exonerated by the Saville Inquiry...... Do keep up.

    RIP Edward Loden.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,149 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Thoughts?

    Pity it didn't happen to him years ago.

    The world is a better place without murderers like him around.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭mcc1


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Pity it didn't happen to him years ago.

    The world is a better place without murderers like him around.

    Care to explain what murders he committed?

    Or are you calling all soldiers within the parachute regiment murderers based on the actions of a few soldiers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    mcc1 wrote: »
    ERM........He was totally exonerated by the Saville Inquiry...... Do keep up.

    RIP Edward Loden.

    If you are part of a gang that commits murder you are equally as guilty as the man that pulls the trigger. So says the Judges in the Special Courts declared both here and the occupied counties. It is British law, does that not include murders in uniform. Or are those exempt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    mcc1 wrote: »
    Care to explain what murders he committed?

    Or are you calling all soldiers within the parachute regiment murderers based on the actions of a few soldiers?

    Now it comes down to a few soldiers not their orders. Scapegoating the ordinary grunts to protect the elite. Get a fooking grip.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,724 ✭✭✭flutered


    karma, ah yes, it does come back to bite you in the arse, i do strongly believe in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭Focus_sligo


    mcc1 wrote: »
    ERM........He was totally exonerated by the Saville Inquiry...... Do keep up.

    RIP Edward Loden.

    Yeah, his unit fired 100 rounds at civilians but he done no wrong.
    Good one, the defenders of the army's actions have appeared!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    mcc1 wrote: »
    Care to explain what murders he committed?

    ..........

    Well, as he was in Aden, he would have been involved in repressing a revolt using the usual methods of brutality and torture. As Aden is neither in the North of England or the "home counties" I'm not too sure how you'd justify that one.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭mcc1


    Yeah, his unit fired 100 rounds at civilians but he done no wrong.
    Good one, the defenders of the army's actions have appeared!

    Where did I defend the actions of the soldiers who fired the shots?? Only a small number of soldiers fired shots that day most didnt fire a single one........ Yet they are being labelled murderers.

    His unit bar a few bad apples did an admirable job in N.Ireland.

    RIP.


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