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Lyra McKee, 29, named as victim after shots were fired, petrol bombs thrown and cars torched during rioting in Creggan area
By Kevin Rawlinson @ TheGuardian.com, April 19
A 29-year-old woman has died after shots were fired in Derry, with police in Northern Ireland treating it as a “terrorist incident”. The victim was named as journalist and author Lyra McKee, who was covering the unrest taking place in the Creggan area of the city.
The assistant chief constable Mark Hamilton, from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said a murder inquiry had been launched after the death on Thursday evening. Petrol bombs were thrown and images from the scene show vehicles alight and others burnt out [....]
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Her last tweet:
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 3:47am
McKee wrote this 2016 piece for The Atlantic which is currently #8 on their "most popular" story list. In some ways I find a kind of spooky equivalence to Appalachia in the U.S. or in rural areas of the world where there an "alienation" problem:
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 3:55am
There troubles are not over. A recent book details how the murder of a young mother in Ireland during the troubles went unsolved because witnesses remained silent.
People know the killers. The disappearances are simply not talked about to keep the “peace” and not restart the troubles.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/03/patrick-radden...
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 9:23am