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The Jonesborough ambush took place on 20 March 1989 near the Irish border outside the village of Jonesborough, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Two senior Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers, Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, were shot dead in an ambush by the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade. Breen and Buchanan were returning from an informal cross-border security conference in Dundalk with senior Garda officers when Buchanan's car, a red Vauxhall Cavalier, was flagged down and fired upon by six IRA gunmen, who the policemen had taken for British soldiers. Buchanan was killed outright whilst Breen, suffering gunshot wounds, was shot in the back of the head after he had left the car waving a white handkerchief. They were the highest-ranking RUC offi

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  • IRA-Morde von Jonesborough 1989 (de)
  • 1989 Jonesborough ambush (en)
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  • The Jonesborough ambush took place on 20 March 1989 near the Irish border outside the village of Jonesborough, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Two senior Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers, Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, were shot dead in an ambush by the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade. Breen and Buchanan were returning from an informal cross-border security conference in Dundalk with senior Garda officers when Buchanan's car, a red Vauxhall Cavalier, was flagged down and fired upon by six IRA gunmen, who the policemen had taken for British soldiers. Buchanan was killed outright whilst Breen, suffering gunshot wounds, was shot in the back of the head after he had left the car waving a white handkerchief. They were the highest-ranking RUC offi (en)
  • Die IRA-Morde von Jonesborough ereigneten sich während des Nordirlandkonflikts am 20. März 1989 nahe der irischen Grenze bei im nordirischen County Armagh. Dabei wurden Chief Superintendent Henry Breen und Superintendent Robert Buchanan von der Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) von Angehörigen der South Armagh Brigade der IRA in einem Hinterhalt erschossen. Die Opfer befanden sich auf der Rückreise von Gesprächen mit Amtskollegen der irischen Garda in Dundalk, County Louth, um Informationen über IRA-Schmugglertätigkeiten im Grenzgebiet auszutauschen. Henry Breen und Robert Buchanan waren die beiden hochrangigsten Todesopfer der RUC im Nordirlandkonflikt. (de)
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