Who are the UDA trying to kid?
In a remarkable claim made to the BBC on Wednesday afternoon, the
self-styled inner council of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
claimed that their killer gang is not involved in the ongoing
bomb and gun attacks on nationalists across the Six Counties.
There have been 50 bomb attacks alone since the start of the
year.
Just what planet are they on? There is no doubt but that the UDA
has been behind a sustained campaign of bombings and shootings
against Catholics in vulnerable areas since the beginning of the
year. The UDA may claim that their cessation is intact and that
any attacks are `unauthorised', but the dogs in the street know
that this assertion is utter rubbish. It ranks up there with UDA
mouthpiece John White's claim that nationalists were attacking
their own homes.
Nationalists and republicans will be equally sceptical of the
UDA's call for those engaged in such attacks to desist.
Last week, a North Belfast family were lucky to escape with their
lives when their home was gutted following a UDA bomb attack.
This week, a four-year-old girl picked up a bomb and carried it
in to show to her mother.
Had the device exploded, the mainstream media would have been
quick to descend in their droves. The reality of nationalists
living in constant fear is not headline news, but a crippled or
dead child is a great human interest story.
Sinn Féin has continued to warn nationalists to be vigilant. This
is all the more important this week given the worrying discovery
of a UVF bomb factory in Belfast.
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