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The Troubles: In response to the killings of six Catholics the night before, South Armagh Republican Action Force gunmen killed ten Protestants in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
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The Troubles
1960s–1990s conflict in Northern Ireland
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Irish republican paramilitary group
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1976 sectarian massacre during The Troubles in Northern Ireland
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County Armagh
County in Northern Ireland
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