Unionist vacuum, loyalist violence
Loyalists attacked homes in two nationalist areas of Belfast on
Monday evening. In separate incidents gangs of Loyalists attacked
homes in Hillman Street in the New Lodge area of North Belfast
and the Glengoland area in West Belfast.
North Belfast assembly member Gerry Kelly said: ``At 10.30pm four
families living in Hillman Street were attacked by a group of
Loyalists. Large ball-bearings were fired through living room
windows and the velocity of the missiles would indicate that some
form of mechanised weapon was used. One woman received a leg
injury.''
Phoblacht has learned that the latest Glengoland attack is
part of an ongoing and increasingly brazen series of attacks
emanating from the loyalist Blacks Road area. In the Monday night
incident up to eleven Loyalists attacked eight homes, two of
which were homes to disabled people. The chapel and priest's
house were also attacked.
Kelly said: ``It is clear there is a degree of organisation
involved which suggests Loyalist paramilitaries are behind these
sectarian attacks. Since the murder of Brian Service there has
been a steady rise in the number of sectarian attacks, they are
not isolated and appear to be planned.''
Meanwhile Kelly has also called on the RUC to state whether or
not they arrested four Loyalists travelling in the Brookfield
Mill area of Ardoyne, North Belfast, in the early hours of last
Sunday morning. The Sinn Fein assembly member said local people
had witnessed arrests but the RUC had failed to make any public
comment.
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