William Frazer, head of the south Armagh Protestant victims' group Fair, is today to hand over a dossier to the PSNI which he says proves who was responsible for the Kingsmills massacre.
Relatives of the 10 Protestants killed at Kingsmills, south Armagh 30 years ago yesterday gathered at the murder site yesterday for a memorial service. They were joined by Mr Frazer of Families Acting for Innocent Relatives and DUP Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson.
Relatives of those gunned down on January 5th, 1976, by the Republican Action Force, generally accepted as a cover name for the IRA, were led in prayers and hymns by Pastor Barry Halliday.
The 10 Protestant men were returning home to Bessbrook in Armagh by bus from work at a textile factory at Glennane when they were stopped by the armed gang at Kingsmills. Each man was asked his religion. One man, a Catholic, was allowed to flee while his Protestant colleagues were lined up and shot. One man was hit 18 times but survived.
The killers said the shooting was in retaliation for the UVF attacks, with alleged RUC collusion, the previous day on the Reavey and O'Dowd families.
Three Reavey brothers, John, Brian and Anthony died in the shooting at their home at Greyhilla, Whitecross, Armagh.
Barry O'Dowd, his brother Declan and their uncle Joe O'Dowd died in the attack at their family home at Gilford, Co Down.
No one has been convicted for any of the 16 killings.
Mr Frazer said yesterday that he would present the PSNI's historical murder cases review team with a "dossier of evidence" identifying the Kingsmills killers and illustrating that they were responsible for numerous other murders.
Mr Frazer said that if the on-the-runs legislation, which allows amnesty for IRA members and other fugitives responsible for murder, is enacted at Westminster then he wants the "cold cases" review team not to disclose details of the dossier.
"If the amnesty legislation is passed we will be taking an alternative route to get justice. We will take a civil case against those people we know who were responsible for Kingsmills," he said.
