We call on all violent dissidents to desist immediately. p.61. We are heavily armed Protestants dedicated to this cause.On 27 May, Spence sent four UVF members to kill IRA volunteer Leo Martin, who lived in Belfast.
Malcolm Sutton's There were also 66 UVF/RHC members and four former members killed in the conflict.Nelson, Sarah.
30 June 2002. Failure to do so will inevitably provoke another generation of loyalists toward armed resistance.
He joined the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in 1975. "To date the Red Hand Commando is the only loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland not to have had a The RHC is a Proscribed Organisation in the United Kingdom under the Much of the group's past is unknown. On the basis of that, we as a federation have called for the respecification of the UVF [stating that its ceasefire is over]. According to the Sutton database of deaths at the The following is a timeline of RHC attacks that resulted in deaths, and attacks in which RHC members were killed: "Ulster's Uncertain Defenders: Protestant Political Paramilitary and Community Groups and the Northern Ireland Conflict".
Este artículo se refiere al grupo paramilitar activo en Irlanda del Norte desde 1966. This era also saw a more widespread targeting on the UVF's part of IRA and Sinn Féin members, beginning with the killing of senior IRA member The UVF also attacked republican paramilitaries and their political activists. Assistant chief constable Drew Harris in a statement said "The UVF are subject to an organized crime investigation as an organized crime group. We call on all violent dissidents to desist immediately. However, by 1919 the Irish War of Independence was raging and the Irish Republican Army, the army of the self-declared Irish Republic, was launching attacks on British forces in Ireland.
We have taken the above measures in an earnest attempt to augment the return of accountable democracy to the people of Northern Ireland and as such, to engender confidence that the constitutional question has now been firmly settled.
Spence told Radio Ulster that the UVF had been "engaged in murder, attempted murder of civilians, attempted murder of police officers. When the Assets Recovery Agency won a High Court order to seize luxury homes belonging to ex-policeman Colin Robert Armstrong and his partner Geraldine Mallon in 2005, Alan McQuillan said "We have further alleged Armstrong has had links with the UVF and then the LVF following the split between those organisations." Assistant chief constable Drew Harris in a statement said "The UVF are subject to an organised crime investigation as an organised crime group. Following a direct engagement with all the units and departments of our organisation, the leadership of the Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando today make public the outcome of our three year consultation process. "Chapter 7 subsection: The Loyalist terrorists of Ulster, 1969–94".
The group is noted for using an Irish language motto, Interview with member, by J Galway-Jackson PgD (UU) BA (Hons) "On 23 March 2019, eleven UVF militants were arrested during a total of 14 searches conducted in Belfast, The UVF's leadership is based in Belfast and known as the Brigade Staff. For God and Ulster.
Writing in early 1973, Martin Dillon characterized the Red Hand Commando thus: "the composition of this group was highly selective, and it was very secret in its operations. A red hand has long been an insignia used in the Ulster region of Northern Ireland. From that time until the early 1990s, the Mid-Ulster Brigade was led by In 1974, hardliners staged a coup and took over the Brigade Staff.The UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade carried out further attacks during this same period. Along with the newly formed The UVF launched further attacks in the Republic of Ireland during December 1972 and January 1973, when it detonated The UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade was founded in 1972 in Lurgan by Billy Hanna, a captain in the UDR and a member of the Brigade Staff, who served as the brigade's commander until his shooting death in July 1975. Known IRA men will be executed mercilessly and without hesitation. During the riot, UVF members shot dead RUC officer Victor Arbuckle.
The group concluded a general acceptance of the need to decommission, though there was no conclusive proof of moves towards this end.In June 2009 the UVF formally decommissioned their weapons in front of independent witnesses as a formal statement of decommissioning was read by On 25–26 October 2010, the UVF was involved in rioting and disturbances in the Rathcoole area of Newtownabbey with UVF gunmen seen on the streets at the time.On 28 May 2010, the UVF was severely criticised over the murder of Moffett.
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group originating in Northern Ireland.
We reflect with honour on those from our organisation who made the ultimate sacrifice; those who endured long years of incarceration and the loyal families who shared their suffering and supported them throughout.
"Ulster's Uncertain Defenders: Protestant Political Paramilitary and Community Groups and the Northern Ireland Conflict".