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Operation Flavius

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 6, 2023 by Wehwalt (talk) 17:54, 2 February 2023 (UTC)



Operation Flavius was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. The three were believed to be mounting a car bomb attack on British military personnel, but after their deaths they were found unarmed and no bomb was discovered. This event started a violent spree in which mourners were killed at the funeral of the IRA members, then two British soldiers were killed after driving into a funeral procession for one of those mourners. The television documentary "Death on the Rock" was broadcast two months after the event and presented the possibility that the three IRA members had been unlawfully killed. An inquest ruled that the SAS had acted lawfully, though the European Court of Human Rights held that the planning and control of the operation was so flawed as to make the use of lethal force almost inevitable.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Northolt siege, a British event involving police, is TFA on Feb 8
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 * Promoted: April 26, 2014, "Satisfactory" at WP:URFA/2020 in 2020.
 * Reasons for nomination: 35th anniversary of event. I created the blurb using the lede, and did a copyedit of the article before this nom.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 01:39, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:00, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't have strong feelings about TFA. Happy for this to run if desired. Happy for it not to run if not desired. HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 13:43, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Vida0007 (talk) 10:26, 18 January 2023 (UTC)