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[citation needed] The arms were divided between the UVF, the UDA (the largest loyalist group) and Ulster Resistance. [65] The UVF received large numbers of Czechoslovak Sa vz. 58 automatic rifles in the 1980s. The arms are thought to have consisted of: 200 Czechoslovak Sa vz. 58 automatic rifles, 90 Browning pistols, 500 RGD-5 fragmentation ...
UVF may refer to: The Ulster Volunteers , started in 1912 and organised as the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1913 The Ulster Volunteer Force , a paramilitary organisation established in 1965–6, not linked to the 1913 UVF
Although many UVF officers left to join the British Army during the war, the unionist leadership wanted to preserve the UVF as a viable force, aware that the issue of Home Rule and partition would be revisited when the war ended. There were also fears of a German naval raid on Ulster and so much of the UVF was recast as a home defence force. [16]
31 October: The UVF shot dead Tommy English, a UDA member, in Newtownabbey. Loyalist feud. 1 November: The UDA shot dead a UVF member in Newtownabbey. Loyalist feud. 15 December: The UVF and UDA issued a statement to announce an "open-ended and all-encompassing cessation of hostilities". This marked the end of the loyalist feud which had begun ...
Hewanorra International Airport (IATA: UVF, ICAO: TLPL), located near Vieux Fort Quarter, Saint Lucia, in the Caribbean, is the larger of Saint Lucia's two airports and is managed by the Saint Lucia Air and Seaports Authority (SLASPA).
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.
A urethrovaginal fistula is an abnormal passageway that may occur the urethra and the vagina. [1] It is a sub-set of vaginal fistulas. [2] [3] It results in urinary incontinence as urine continually leaves the vagina.
The Red Hand Commando [1] (RHC) is a small secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland that is closely linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Its aim was to combat Irish republicanism – particularly the Irish Republican Army (IRA) – and to maintain Northern Ireland's status as part of the United Kingdom. [2]