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24 October 1972 – Michael Naan (31) and Andrew Murray (24), Catholic civilians, were found stabbed to death at the Naan family farm at Aughnahinch, on the southern outskirts of Newtownbutler. They were murdered by members of a patrol from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on suspicion that they were IRA members.
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On 23 October 1972 at around 4:20 p.m., two soldiers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Sgt. Stanley Hathaway and Cpl. John Byrne, attacked farmer and civil rights activist Michael Naan (31) and laborer Andrew Joseph Murray (24) with a Bowie knife, while they were lifting hay off a trailer at Naan’s farm in Aughnahinch, County Fermanagh.
26 August 1972 - Lance Corporal Alfred Johnston (32) and Private James Eames (33), both members of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote controlled bomb, hidden in an abandoned car and detonated when their patrol approached at Cherrymount, on the outskirts of Enniskillen.
18 March 1988 - Gillian Johnston (21), a Protestant civilian, was shot and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army while sitting in a car outside her home.; 4 August 1988 - William Hassard (59) and Frederick Love (64), both Protestant civilians, were shot and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army shortly after driving out of Belleek police and army barracks.
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Gordon Wilson (25 September 1927 – 27 June 1995) was a draper in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, who became known internationally as a peace campaigner during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. On 8 November 1987 a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded during Enniskillen's Remembrance Day parade, injuring Wilson and fatally injuring his ...