Masked and brandishing weaponry, the UDA renewed its armed threat against northern nationalist this week on the basis of a spurious allegation of ``a systematic and orchestrated campaign of intimidation from nationalists'' on members of the Protestant community in North and West Belfast. Free article

Residents of the Springfield Road in Belfast are bracing themselves for another weekend of intimidation and terror. Free article

In a week in which the UDA renewed their threat against the northern nationalist community, sectarian attacks against Catholics continued. Within hours of the UDA statement, another Catholic church in County Antrim was targeted in a sectarian arson attack. Free article

The anxiety-ridden countdown to 2 July, when the Orange Order intends to walk down the Garvaghy Road, has started in nationalist areas of Portadown. Free article

Plastic bullets were fired by the RUC at nationalist residents protesting at the Parades Commission's decision to allow an Orange March through a nationalist part of Lurgan town. Free article

Amnesty International's latest annual human rights report has slammed the failure of both the British and Dublin governments to uphold basic human rights. Free article