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The Omagh bombing ((アイルランド語:Buamáil an Ómaigh)) was a car bombing that took place on 15 August 1998 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army, a Provisional Irish Republican Army splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement. The bombing killed 29 people and injured about 220 others,〔〔〔 the highest death toll from a single incident during the Troubles. Telephoned warnings had been sent about 40 minutes beforehand, but were inaccurate and police had inadvertently moved people towards the bomb. The bombing caused outrage both locally and internationally,〔 spurred on the Northern Ireland peace process,〔〔〔 and dealt a severe blow to the 'dissident' republican campaign. The Real IRA apologized and declared a ceasefire shortly after.〔 The victims included people from many backgrounds: Protestants, Catholics, a Mormon teenager, five other teenagers, six children, a woman pregnant with twins, two Spanish tourists, and other tourists on a day trip from the Republic of Ireland. Both unionists and Irish nationalists were killed and injured. It has been alleged that the British, Irish and US intelligence agencies had information which could have prevented the bombing, most of which came from double agents inside the Real IRA.〔("Intelligence on Omagh bomb 'withheld from police'" ), ''The Guardian''. 8 August 2013.〕 This information was not given to the local police, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).〔 In 2008 it was revealed that British intelligence agency GCHQ was monitoring conversations between the bombers as the bomb was being driven into Omagh.〔("QGCHQ 'monitored Omagh bomb calls'" ), BBC.co.uk, 14 September 2008.〕 A 2001 report by the Police Ombudsman said that the RUC Special Branch failed to act on prior warnings and slammed the RUC's investigation of the bombing.〔 The RUC has obtained circumstantial and coincidental evidence against some suspects, but it has not come up with anything to convict anyone of the bombing.〔 Colm Murphy was tried, convicted, and then released after it was revealed that the Gardaí forged interview notes used in the case.〔 Murphy's nephew, Sean Hoey, was also tried and found not guilty.〔 〕 In June 2009, the victims' families won a civil action against four defendants. In April 2014, Seamus Daly was charged with the murders of those killed. ==Background== Negotiations to end the Troubles had failed in 1996 and there was a resumption of political violence. The peace process later resumed, and it reached a point of renewed tension in 1998, especially following the deaths of three Catholic children in Orange Order-related riots in mid-July. Sinn Féin had accepted the Mitchell Principles, which involved commitment to non-violence, in September 1997 as part of the peace process negotiations.〔(Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) profile ), Federation of American Scientists; retrieved 13 May 2009〕 Dissident members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), who saw this as a betrayal of the republican struggle for a united Ireland, left to form the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) in October 1997.〔〔 The RIRA began its paramilitary campaign with an attempted car bombing in Banbridge, County Down on 7 January 1998, which involved a explosive that was defused by security forces.〔 Later that year, it mounted attacks in Moira, Portadown, Belleek, Newtownhamilton and Newry, as well as bombing Banbridge again on 1 August, which caused thirty-five injuries but no deaths.〔 The attack at Omagh took place 13 weeks after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which was intended to be a comprehensive solution to the Troubles and had broad support both in Ireland and internationally.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Statement to Seanad Éireann on the Omagh Bombing )〕 Omagh had been bombed twice before. On 17 May 1973, four off-duty British Army soldiers were killed by a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb while getting into a car, outside the Knock-na-Moe Castle Hotel, Omagh. One died of his injuries on on 3 June 1973. On 25 June 1973, three Provisional IRA volunteers were killed in a premature bomb explosion while travelling in a car, Gortin Road, near Omagh. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Omagh bombing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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