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12/11/2007
UDA Keeps Its Guns
There’s to be no decommissioning of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association’s weapons even though it has claimed to have ‘stood down’ part of its organisation, the Ulster Freedom Fighters.
A statement from the UDA’s ‘military wing’ the UFF said that its weapons were being put beyond use, but stressed this did not mean they would be decommissioned.
The UDA also made an apparent commitment to dealing with the organisation’s widespread involvement in criminality and said anyone with information about crime should pass this to the police.
In its statement, the UDA said: "The Ulster Defence Association believes that the war is over, and we are now in a new democratic dispensation that will lead to permanent political stability.
"But we believe the political parties and the political institutions are themselves still in a period of transition."
The UDA murdered more than 400 people during the Troubles; the majority of the killings were claimed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters, widely regarded as a cover name for the UDA.
Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward welcomed the UDA statement, but said it needed to lead on to decommissioning of the paramilitary group's weapons.
"They will be judged by their actions, not their words," he said.
(BMcC)
A statement from the UDA’s ‘military wing’ the UFF said that its weapons were being put beyond use, but stressed this did not mean they would be decommissioned.
The UDA also made an apparent commitment to dealing with the organisation’s widespread involvement in criminality and said anyone with information about crime should pass this to the police.
In its statement, the UDA said: "The Ulster Defence Association believes that the war is over, and we are now in a new democratic dispensation that will lead to permanent political stability.
"But we believe the political parties and the political institutions are themselves still in a period of transition."
The UDA murdered more than 400 people during the Troubles; the majority of the killings were claimed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters, widely regarded as a cover name for the UDA.
Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward welcomed the UDA statement, but said it needed to lead on to decommissioning of the paramilitary group's weapons.
"They will be judged by their actions, not their words," he said.
(BMcC)
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