The World - News from April 18, 1989

Amnesty International urged Britain to allow a judicial inquiry into the killing of three unarmed Irish Republican Army guerrillas by soldiers in Gibraltar last year. The human rights organization said an inquest verdict that the shootings were lawful had failed to allay suspicions that the three were deliberately killed when they could have been arrested. The report stressed that Amnesty International does not reject the verdict but said that contradictory testimony and government restrictions on evidence made it impossible to establish the truth. A Foreign Office spokesman said no grounds exist for a fresh review.