Killings at the centre of allegations that the security forces in Northern Ireland operated a shoot-to-kill policy 25 years ago will be examined by a coroner today.
The North's senior coroner, John Leckey, is holding preliminary hearings to determine whether inquests can be held into the deaths of six men.
The killings include those of IRA men Eugene Toman, Gervaise McKerr and John Frederick Burns, who were shot dead by members of a specialist Royal Ulster Constabulary unit near Lurgan, Co Armagh, in November 1982.
The men died when police fired 109 bullets into their car.
It later emerged Burns and Toman were suspected of involvement in the killings of three RUC men a fortnight earlier and had been under observation.
Police claimed the vehicle crashed through a roadblock and that they gave chase and opened fire.
The families of the men dispute the official version of what happened, and the controversy that followed led to the appointment of the-then deputy chief constable of Manchester, John Stalker, to investigate the incident and two others.
He claimed his inquiries were hampered and he was removed from the investigation when disciplinary charges were brought against him. The charges were later dropped, but his report was never published. Earlier attempts to hold inquests were abandoned.
Mr Leckey is also examining the killing of Catholic teenager Michael Tighe, shot dead at a hay shed near Craigavon, Co Armagh, in the same month as the three IRA men.
He will also look at the death of suspected INLA man Roddy Carroll who was shot dead near Armagh in December 1982, and the killing of IRA man Patrick Pearse Jordan who was shot dead by police in Belfast in disputed circumstances after a car collision.