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12 October: The UVF wounded a Catholic civilian in a gun attack in North Belfast. [178] 19 October: A Catholic man escaped injury in Lurgan, County Armagh after his UVF assailant's gun jammed. [199] 24 October: The UVF claimed to have aborted an attack on the home of a Sinn Féin member in the Antrim area. [200]
It began carrying out gun attacks to kill random Catholic civilians and using car bombs to attack Catholic-owned pubs. It would continue these tactics for the rest of its campaign. On 23 October 1972, the UVF carried out an armed raid against King's Park camp, a UDR/Territorial Army depot in Lurgan.
The UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade, based in the Craigavon area, stepped up its attacks in the early 1990s.At this time it was led by Billy Wright from Portadown.In March 1991, the UVF shot dead three Catholic civilians (two teenage girls and a man) at a mobile shop in Craigavon (see 1991 Drumbeg killings).
On 28 March 1991 a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, shot dead three Catholic civilians at a mobile shop in Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. [1] The gunman boarded the van and shot two teenage girls working there, then forced a male customer to lie on the pavement and shot him also.
All three attacks have been linked to the Glenanne gang. [8] On 22 August, the UVF launched a gun and bomb attack on McGleenan's Bar in Armagh, killing three Catholic civilians and wounding many others. [7] The Glenanne gang has been linked to the attack, [6] which was allegedly retaliation for an IRA attack in Belfast.
The Charlemont pub attacks were co-ordinated militant Loyalist paramilitary attacks on two pubs in the small village of Charlemont, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) on 15 May 1976. The attacks have been attributed to the Glenanne gang which was a coalition of right-wing Loyalist paramilitaries and ...
The 1991 Cappagh killings was a gun attack by the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) on 3 March 1991 in the village of Cappagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.A unit of the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade drove to the staunchly republican village and shot dead three Provisional IRA members and a Catholic civilian at Boyle's Bar.
Emblem used to represent the PAF UVF and its subsidiary PAF and YCV emblems on a mural. The Protestant Action Force (PAF) was a cover name used by Ulster loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) when claiming responsibility for a number of attacks during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.