``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.''