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- initialism Ulster Volunteer Force
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Examples
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Perhaps, however, the most unusual aspect of Hudson's work with the UVF is the fact that the organisation was responsible for the death of one of his friends.
UVF plans to end paramilitary activity, says loyalist secret intermediary 2010
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As I have written here for many years, the UVF are a particularly repugnant gang of terrorist cut-throats.
A Tangled Web 2010
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And despite the UVF cease fire, the Protestant group was blamed for a murder last year.
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Even loyalist groups like the UVF/PUP were ready for a deal.
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Ken Wilkinson, a representative of the UVF-linked Progressive Unionist party, said he understood the violence was linked to three searches in the area over the past two days by officers from the HET.
Petrol bombs thrown in Belfast during second night of rioting Henry McDonald 2010
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Police said the violence started Monday when masked members of the UVF attacked Catholic homes with bricks, fireworks and smoke bombs.
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Since the UVF were better prepared than the Nationalists or the British Army in 1914, a referendum proposal would certainly have triggered mass displacements of Catholics by Loyalists from all over what would probably have become the Six (or Five and a Half) counties.
Four counties, rather than six? nwhyte 2009
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My worry is that if the small number who are involved are not detected and in the event of further killings by them that the UDA and UVF who haven't decommmissioned will retaliate.
Hoping history doesn't repeat itself O'Neill 2009
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It would be misguided, though, to elevate McIlroy as a symbol of an emerging post-sectarian Northern Ireland just as much as it would be wrong to see the re-emergent UVF as a symbol of 21st-century Protestant working-class identity.
Rory's a hero for all of us, but my homeland is as divided as ever | Sean O'Hagan 2011
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It would be misguided, though, to elevate McIlroy as a symbol of an emerging post-sectarian Northern Ireland just as much as it would be wrong to see the re-emergent UVF as a symbol of 21st-century Protestant working-class identity.
Rory's a hero for all of us, but my homeland is as divided as ever | Sean O'Hagan 2011
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