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IMC To Probe Loyalist Ceasefires In Wake Of Feud
The Independent Monitoring Commission, the body that monitors paramilitary ceasefires, is to probe the loyalist feud between the LVF and UVF. The announcement comes as loyalist sources link the UVF to a gun attack in east Belfast where shots were fired into a house in the lower Newtownards Road area.
An MLA for the area, Robin Newton said that the paramilitaries "pretend to represent the people" without listening to what the people are saying.
"They are saying, they don't want violence on their streets. They are concerned about the welfare of the children, they are concerned about the welfare of the elderly."
Robin Newton, DUP MLA for East Belfast
And the paramilitaries? They are concerned about their own pockets and their own power bases. These are not defenders of communities, but parasites living off the backs of communities they claim to protect.
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Here's a potentially incomplete timeline type summary, from what I've been able to cobble together from google, in reverse chronological order.
Today: Thursday 21st - Man escapes injury in gun attack on house in east Belfast early in the morning.
Tuesday 19th - Shots fired at a house in Sydenham
Monday 11th - Craig McCausland, 20, was shot and killed by the UVF at his girlfriend's house in north Belfast last week. Hours earlier, a man in his 20s was shot several times in the upper body at Crumlin Road, near Glenbank.
Sunday 10th - Shooting at a house in Silverstream Avenue area of Ballysillan, north Belfast. A mother and child escaped injury.
Friday 1st - Believed to have LVF connections, James Lockhart was shot as he sat on a lorry in east Belfast.