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A report by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights was published in which the RUC was accused of the widespread intimidation of lawyers involved in defending Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries. The report also called for an independent investigation into the death of solicitor Pat Finucane in February 1989.

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Elliott, S., and W.D. Flackes, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory, 1968-1999 (Belfast, Blackstaff 1999)