The loyalist Ulster Defence Association has ordered its military wing, the Ulster Freedom Fighters, to stand down. All active units will cease operations from midnight.
In an Armistice Day statement from the UDA leadership, read out at memorials to their dead colleagues, they said all weaponry would be put beyond use [though not formally decommissioned] and all military intelligence destroyed.
They said they were making the move because the military war was over and the struggle to maintain the union was on a new and more complex battlefield.
The UDA sent out a general order to all members not to be involved in crime or criminality, and it said those who had joined its ranks for such purposes had to be rooted out.
So long, guys. Don’t let the door of history kick you in the ass on the way out.
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This one I can’t believe at all. Until the UDA and all its “wings” make a true push for decommissioning and reform then its all just a ploy to keep gov’t funding in loyalist causes. But I’ll keep my fingers crossed for a good result and pray the door of history does indeed kick them in the ass.