Loyalist Attacks In The First Week Of The New Year

EDM number 196 in 1998-99, proposed by Harry Barnes on 18/01/1999.

That this House notes that, according to the respected human rights group, Families Against Intimidation and Terror, Loyalist paramilitary groups allegedly carried out the following attacks in the first week of the new year: on 3rd January, two men were beaten in Newtownards by a UDA gang with iron bars; on 4th January, two 17 year olds were exiled from Holywood by the UDA and two young men were exiled from Larne by the UDA; on 5th January, two men were beaten with iron bars and a gun in Antrim, in front of a 15 year old child and a woman, by the UVF; on 5th January, a man was injured after a bomb attack by the LVF now calling themselves Orange Volunteers, two ex-prisoners were exiled from Belfast for refusing to deal drugs by the UDA, and 11 people, four men, three women and four children were exiled from Ballymena by the UDA; on 6th January, a man was told that he was on a death list, a family of two was petrol bombed in Antrim by the UVF, a family of four was intimidated out of Ballymena and a family of four was intimidated out of Bangor; on 7th January a man was shot five times in a Bangor attempted murder; and on 7th January a man was shot in the leg in Rathcoole.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.