The Troubles: IRA killings by victim status 1969-2001| ��ƽ��

Total number of killings attributed to the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Troubles from 1969 to 2001, by status or affiliation of the victim

Characteristic	British Forces	Unintended target/ premature explosion/ attack on commercial property	Loyalist paramilitaries	Others
British forces: total	1,013	-	-	-
British Army	472	-	-	-
Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR)	228	-	-	-
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)	285	-	-	-
Prison officers	22	-	-	-
British police	6	-	-	-
Unintended targets/premature explosion/commercial attack: total	-	362	-	-
Protestant civilians	-	153	-	-
IRA personnell*	-	105	-	-
Catholic civilians	-	85	-	-
Civilians not from Northern Ireland	-	19	-	-
Loyalist paramilitary: total	-	-	45	-
Ulster Defence Association (UDA)	-	-	32	-
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)	-	-	12	-
Red Hand Commandos	-	-	1	-
Sectarian killings of Protestant civilians	-	-	-	130
Alleged informers	-	-	-	59
Civilians in Britain	-	-	-	46
Civilians working for British Forces	-	-	-	34
Alleged criminals and drug dealers	-	-	-	19
British "VIPs"	-	-	-	15
PIRA feud with OIRA	-	-	-	11
Irish security forces	-	-	-	8
NI judiciary	-	-	-	8
Unionist/Loyalist politicians	-	-	-	7
Other/unknown	-	-	-	66

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July 2023

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Ireland, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)

Survey time period

1969 to 2001

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*Including two non-specific republican paramilitaries.

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Over 1,800 of all killings committed during the Troubles have been attributed to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). While the Troubles is often described as a "Catholic versus Protestant" or "republican versus loyalist" conflict, the number of loyalist paramilitaries killed by the IRA was just 45 people in total, or 2.5 percent of total IRA killings. In fact, it was British security forces, such as army personnel or the police force (Royal Ulster Constabulary), who suffered the largest number of killings by the IRA, with over 1,000 deaths, or over 55 percent of the IRA's total.