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ICLVRA photo of one of those disappeared for the first time has been released in an offer of new information.
The Independent Commission for the location of the victims’ remains (ICLVR) issued the image together with an information appeal in relation to Seamus Maguire de Aghagallon, Anthrim County, who disappeared almost 50 years ago.
It was initially thought that it disappeared at some point around 1973-1974, but has established bone by the ICLVR that after spending time in Manchester returned to Northern Ireland and was killed and secretly Lurgan in the area of Aghagallon/Derryclone.
In February 2022, the ICLVR announced that it was Add Mr. Maguire to the list of the disappeared.
It is believed that his death was the result of republican paramilitary activity thought that it is not yet clear what wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was involved.
‘Complex Case’
The researcher Mark Pickard, who has been directing the investigation of Seamus Maguire since he joined the ICLVR in 2023, said that The work has been in the case since it was sent by the Northern Ireland Police Service (PSNI) to the ICLVR in 2022.
However, the ICLVR has not yet identified a specific search site within the Aghagallon/Derryclone area.
Pickard said: “We have bone constantly working to solve the problem of Seamus’s disappearance using all the resources that can be old for the commission, but this is a complex case that dates back to almost 50 years and, as always, in thesis circumstances we need more information.”
The ICLVR hopes that Mr. Maguare’s new photograph “trot someone’s memory and moves us.”
“As with All Our Cases Our Interst is Purely Humanitarian and All Information That Come To Us Is Treated In The Strictest Confidence and Will Not Be passed to Any Enforcement Body and Will Be used solely to Help US Find Seamus’ Rema and To Bring Family Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home.
“We are convinced that anyone somewhere has vital information in relation to their fair disappearance although it might not be aware of its importance.
“We need to show up and help finish the decades of pain that the Maguire family suffered.”
‘People can see the real person’
Dr. Sandra Peake, executive director of the Wave Trauma Center, who has supported the families of the disappeared, said that sharing an image of Mr. Maguire allows people to “see the real person behind the word” disappeared “”.
“Seamus was particularly close to his mother and the cost of those years of anguish, waiting and not knowing where his son cannot be overstated on the ground,” he said.
“I hope anyone who knows something about the disappearance of Seamus seeks their conscience and do the right thing and bring that information to the ICLVR.”
Who was the missing?
The missing They are those that were kidnapped, killed and secretly buried by Republicans.
Despite extensive and thorough searches, the bodies have never been found of four of the 17 people listed by the commission established to locate the rejusties of the victims.
Searches have been made by the Independent Commission for the location of the victims’ remains (ICLVR), established in 1999 by a treaty between British and Irish governments for Obney’s information with the strictest confidence that the elderly.
The four people that are still found are; Joe Lynskey, Mcveight Columba, Robert Naira and Seamus Maguire.
It was announced last month that the human remains urged a grave in Monaghan County in November 2024 They weren’t Joe LynskeySaid the ICLVR.
A renewed search for Robert Narac’s remains Ended without success in October 2024.
A sixth McVeight columba search ended in November 2023.
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