30 January 1997 Edition
``Be on red alert'' warns UVF
Nationalists living in South and East Belfast have been urged to be vigilant after a number of people in the area received death threats, accompanied by UVF propaganda. Dates were marked on the handwritten notes with the message `some important dates for your calender', and the warning, `we have begun military activity again, be on red alert'.
The letter was accompanied by a newspaper cutting carrying a UFF warning from the beginning of the year that threatened the `general nationalist population'.
According to Sinn Fein's Sean Hayes, ``later in the same week three men with balaclavas were seen in the Markets area of South Belfast walking up pathways of houses and checking numbers. They left after local people confronted them. The three men got into a waiting car and made off towards East Belfast. In the wake of recent loyalist attacks in Belfast, Derry and Larne, this is a sinister development and one which should not be dismissed by nationalists.''
The letter was accompanied by a newspaper cutting carrying a UFF warning from the beginning of the year that threatened the `general nationalist population'.
According to Sinn Fein's Sean Hayes, ``later in the same week three men with balaclavas were seen in the Markets area of South Belfast walking up pathways of houses and checking numbers. They left after local people confronted them. The three men got into a waiting car and made off towards East Belfast. In the wake of recent loyalist attacks in Belfast, Derry and Larne, this is a sinister development and one which should not be dismissed by nationalists.''