4 August 1999 Edition
UVF-UDA feud threat to baby
By Yamila Petruschansky
TENSION between the UVF and UDA in Derry has seen violence erupting across Protestant communities in the Waterside area of the city last week, with attacks on cars and people.
Loyalists threatened a one-year-old baby, sending a sympathy card to the baby's mother, who lives in the loyalist Nelson Drive area.
The card mocked the deaths of the Quinn brothers in a petrol bomb attack on their Ballymoney home last year. It read: ``We are thinking of you as we watch you carry out the tiny white coffin of your daughter.''
This loyalist feuding is not confined to Derry.
In Belfast, during the week prior to the Twelfth, a number of shooting incidents involving loyalists were recorded, as well a number of arms finds were made by the RUC.
Coleraine, Ballymena, Ballymoney and other loyalist towns in the North have also seen a marked increase in tension between the loyalist death squads.
PUP spokesperson David Ervine is reportedly afraid for the safety of his family after receiving six death threats from opposing loyalists in the last six months. ``I've had more death threats in the last six months from my own community than I have in the 30 years of the Troubles from republicans,'' he said.
TENSION between the UVF and UDA in Derry has seen violence erupting across Protestant communities in the Waterside area of the city last week, with attacks on cars and people.
Loyalists threatened a one-year-old baby, sending a sympathy card to the baby's mother, who lives in the loyalist Nelson Drive area.
The card mocked the deaths of the Quinn brothers in a petrol bomb attack on their Ballymoney home last year. It read: ``We are thinking of you as we watch you carry out the tiny white coffin of your daughter.''
This loyalist feuding is not confined to Derry.
In Belfast, during the week prior to the Twelfth, a number of shooting incidents involving loyalists were recorded, as well a number of arms finds were made by the RUC.
Coleraine, Ballymena, Ballymoney and other loyalist towns in the North have also seen a marked increase in tension between the loyalist death squads.
PUP spokesperson David Ervine is reportedly afraid for the safety of his family after receiving six death threats from opposing loyalists in the last six months. ``I've had more death threats in the last six months from my own community than I have in the 30 years of the Troubles from republicans,'' he said.