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Loyalist Attacks In The First Week Of The New Year

EDM number 196 in 1998-99, proposed by Harry Barnes on 18/01/1999.

That this House notes that, according to the respected human rights group, Families Against Intimidation and Terror, Loyalist paramilitary groups allegedly carried out the following attacks in the first week of the new year: on 3rd January, two men were beaten in Newtownards by a UDA gang with iron bars; on 4th January, two 17 year olds were exiled from Holywood by the UDA and two young men were exiled from Larne by the UDA; on 5th January, two men were beaten with iron bars and a gun in Antrim, in front of a 15 year old child and a woman, by the UVF; on 5th January, a man was injured after a bomb attack by the LVF now calling themselves Orange Volunteers, two ex-prisoners were exiled from Belfast for refusing to deal drugs by the UDA, and 11 people, four men, three women and four children were exiled from Ballymena by the UDA; on 6th January, a man was told that he was on a death list, a family of two was petrol bombed in Antrim by the UVF, a family of four was intimidated out of Ballymena and a family of four was intimidated out of Bangor; on 7th January a man was shot five times in a Bangor attempted murder; and on 7th January a man was shot in the leg in Rathcoole.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Harry Barnes18/01/1999North East DerbyshireLabourProposed
Lembit 18/01/1999MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley18/01/1999Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Bob Russell19/01/1999ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Smyth19/01/1999Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Alice Mahon19/01/1999HalifaxLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell19/01/1999Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Michael Connarty19/01/1999Falkirk EastLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe19/01/1999LeighLabourSigned
Norman Godman19/01/1999Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
David Wilshire19/01/1999SpelthorneConservativeSigned
Paul Keetch20/01/1999HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cummings20/01/1999EasingtonLabourSigned
John D Taylor20/01/1999StrangfordUUPSigned
Evan Harris21/01/1999Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Tyler21/01/1999North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Roy Beggs21/01/1999East AntrimUUPSigned
Tom Cox21/01/1999TootingLabourSigned
Lynne Jones25/01/1999Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Bill Etherington25/01/1999Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Andrew George25/01/1999St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson26/01/1999Lagan ValleyUUPSigned
Ronnie Fearn26/01/1999SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Jones27/01/1999CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Audrey Wise27/01/1999PrestonLabourSigned
Robert McCartney28/01/1999North DownUKUPSigned
Christine Butler28/01/1999Castle PointLabourSigned
Crispin Blunt01/02/1999ReigateConservativeSigned
Ann Cryer15/02/1999KeighleyLabourSigned

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