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18th June 2009, 22:07
Loyalist UVF decommission weapons? As reported in a Northern Ireland media frenzy today, there are strong indications that the loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), have decommissioned a ‘significant’ amount of it’s Weapon’s of Sectarian Destruction.
However, no such assurances have yet to be issued by Northern Ireland’s main loyalist paramilitary group, The Ulster Defense Association (UDA). As with the IRA act of decommissioning in 2005, General John de Chastelain’s Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD), is believed to have been in attendance to witness the event.
For many NI Catholics, think of the word UVF, and it is automatically affiliated with allegations of collusion in Northern Ireland’s ‘dirty war’.
British State Collusion is synonymous with the history of ‘The Troubles’ as underlined by Nuala O’Loan’s Police Ombudsman report which focused primarily on loyalist paramilitary activity in north Belfast during the 1980s and 90s. A callous sectarian gang of UVF gunmen executed 10 murders, 10 attempted murders, 10 punishment shootings, 13 punishment attacks, a bomb attack in Monaghan and 72 other criminal offences while simultaneously working as informers for Special Branch.
For their services in the defence of Ulster, some earned as much as £80,000 a year as well as availing of other British state privileges, including being ‘babysat’ through their RUC interviews by their Special Branch handlers to avoid incriminating themselves.
The Ulster Volunteer Force has had a grim history of sectarian violence and crime perpetrated against Catholics in Northern Ireland. Their litany of blatant sectarian murders perpetrated against innocent Catholics, in their Roll of Terror include:
!970's the Shankill Butchers
1971 McGurk's Bar, Belfast
1974 Dublin/Monaghan Bombings
1975 Miami Show band murders
1994 The Hieghts Bar, loughinisland, Co. Down
Nuala O’Loan’s full report substantiated common Catholic perceptions that there were indeed collusion between Special Branch officers of the then Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and members of the loyalist UVF.
Whilst this hint of UVF decommissioning has been greeted by a universal media fan fair many unanswered questions still remain regarding UVF sectarian activities during Northern Ireland’s embattled history. And what now for the UDA? Given that there have been allegations of UDA chants by the murders of Kevin McDaid in Coleraine which they have strenuously denied. Northern Ireland yet again is poised to endure yet another Waiting Game for answers!
To read this article in full please visit my home page.
However, no such assurances have yet to be issued by Northern Ireland’s main loyalist paramilitary group, The Ulster Defense Association (UDA). As with the IRA act of decommissioning in 2005, General John de Chastelain’s Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD), is believed to have been in attendance to witness the event.
For many NI Catholics, think of the word UVF, and it is automatically affiliated with allegations of collusion in Northern Ireland’s ‘dirty war’.
British State Collusion is synonymous with the history of ‘The Troubles’ as underlined by Nuala O’Loan’s Police Ombudsman report which focused primarily on loyalist paramilitary activity in north Belfast during the 1980s and 90s. A callous sectarian gang of UVF gunmen executed 10 murders, 10 attempted murders, 10 punishment shootings, 13 punishment attacks, a bomb attack in Monaghan and 72 other criminal offences while simultaneously working as informers for Special Branch.
For their services in the defence of Ulster, some earned as much as £80,000 a year as well as availing of other British state privileges, including being ‘babysat’ through their RUC interviews by their Special Branch handlers to avoid incriminating themselves.
The Ulster Volunteer Force has had a grim history of sectarian violence and crime perpetrated against Catholics in Northern Ireland. Their litany of blatant sectarian murders perpetrated against innocent Catholics, in their Roll of Terror include:
!970's the Shankill Butchers
1971 McGurk's Bar, Belfast
1974 Dublin/Monaghan Bombings
1975 Miami Show band murders
1994 The Hieghts Bar, loughinisland, Co. Down
Nuala O’Loan’s full report substantiated common Catholic perceptions that there were indeed collusion between Special Branch officers of the then Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and members of the loyalist UVF.
Whilst this hint of UVF decommissioning has been greeted by a universal media fan fair many unanswered questions still remain regarding UVF sectarian activities during Northern Ireland’s embattled history. And what now for the UDA? Given that there have been allegations of UDA chants by the murders of Kevin McDaid in Coleraine which they have strenuously denied. Northern Ireland yet again is poised to endure yet another Waiting Game for answers!
To read this article in full please visit my home page.