From "Making Sense of the Troubles"

clipped from www.btinternet.com From "Making Sense of the Troubles", J. McCrittrick (Blackstaff, 1999) News of the Westminster bombed halted the offensive in Belfast only briefly. When British troops began advancing again they did so with a new ferocity. Casualty figures for the retaking of West Belfast are unreliable - press reports of any civilian casulaties were strictly censored and Government records remain secret under a 100-year disclosure rule. Republican sources claim casualties amongst the civilian population reached several thousand and there is widespread anecdotal evidence of atrocities committed by troops as they advanced through Belfast. The British Government has consistently rejected such claims, blaming them on a mixture of terrorist propaganda and the result of the IRA torturing those they deemed "collaborators".