Aftermath
A group calling itself the "South Armagh Republican Action Force" retaliated the next day by shooting dead ten Protestant men in the Kingsmill massacre. In 1999, Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley stated in the House of Commons that Eugene Reavey "set up the Kingsmill massacre". In 2010, a report by the Historical Enquiries Team cleared Eugene of any involvement. The Reavey family have since been seeking an apology.
Two days after the Kingsmill massacre, the British Government announced that the Special Air Service (SAS) was being moved into the South Armagh area. This was the first time that SAS presence in Northern Ireland was officially acknowledged. The whole of County Armagh was also declared to be a "Special Emergency Area.".
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