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===The Troubles=== During [[the Troubles]], 25 people were killed in and around Castlederg (including [[Killeter]] and [[Killen, County Tyrone|Killen]])<ref name=sutton>[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/search.html Malcolm Sutton's Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland] (search for "Castlederg"). [[Conflict Archive on the Internet]] (CAIN).</ref> and there were many bombings in the village. The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) killed 11 members of the [[Ulster Defence Regiment]] and [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]], four fellow IRA members whom it accused of being informers, and three [[Ulster Protestant]] civilians.<ref name=sutton/> Four IRA members were also killed when their bombs exploded prematurely. [[Ulster loyalism|Ulster loyalist]] paramilitaries killed three Catholic civilians.<ref name=sutton/>
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