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    The Red Hand Commando (RHC) is a small secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland that is closely linked to the Ulster Volunteer...
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    riddle". Belfast Telegraph. Steve Bruce, The Red Hand, Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 140 "Red Hand Commando", Wikipedia, 24 August 2024, retrieved 28...
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  • Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and Red Hand Commando (RHC). In 2024, BBC News described the organisation as a legal entity...
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  • Hand Commando, a small Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, which is closely linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) Red Hand Defenders...
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    are still in existence, including the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Red Hand Commando, the Ulster Defence Association, the Provisional IRA, and Irish National...
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  • Winston Churchill Rea (category Red Hand Commando members)
    a Northern Irish loyalist from Belfast. He was the leader of the Red Hand Commando (RHC), a paramilitary organisation that was active during the Troubles...
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  • and Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF). The name had first been used by Red Hand Commandos dissident Frankie Curry in 1996 and he was the leading figure in what...
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  • paramilitary group since 1966. It includes actions carried out by the Red Hand Commando (RHC), a group integrated into the UVF shortly after their formation...
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    killed in the Loughgall ambush in 1987 were heavily armed. On the other hand, the shooting of three unarmed IRA members in Gibraltar by the Special Air...
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    Orange Cross shooting in which IPLO gunmen killed a member of the Red Hand Commando and injured an Ulster Defence Regiment soldier; the 1991 Donegall...
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    Communist Party Ação Libertadora Nacional Ulster Defence Association Red Hand Commando Loyalist Volunteer Force Vanguarda Armada Revolucionaria Palmares...
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  • becoming the PUP in 1979. Linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Red Hand Commando (RHC), for a time it described itself as "the only left of centre...
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    Irish. The former Red Hand Commando prisoner William Smith learnt the language whilst in jail. The motto of the Red Hand Commando was the Irish phrase...
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    Irish Republican Army Loyalists LVF = Loyalist Volunteer Force RHC = Red Hand Commando UDA/UFF = Ulster Defence Association / Ulster Freedom Fighters UVF...
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    Party (PUP), which is linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Red Hand Commando (RHC) Protestant Coalition (2013–2015) Ulster Democratic Party (1981–2001)...
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  • The Creighton Hotel. The Gardaí said they believed the UVF linked Red Hand Commandos were behind the bombing. 28 – 29 October 1972 – A 12 lbs bomb is planted...
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  • 1975. Ulster Freedom Fighters – Used by the UDA to claim violent attacks. Red Hand Brigade – Was used as a cover by the Glenanne gang members who carried...
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  • Michael Stone (loyalist) (category Red Hand Commando members)
    withdrew from the UDA and in January 1974 attached himself to the Red Hand Commando (RHC), a loyalist group that also operated a Braniel unit under Sammy...
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  • asked Spence for his daughter's hand in marriage during a prison visit. Met by two members of the Red Hand Commando upon his release, Spence was informed...
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  • process instead. In June 2009, both the Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando announced that they had completed a process of decommissioning. The...
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  • John McKeague (category Red Hand Commando members)
    loyalist and one of the founding members of the paramilitary group the Red Hand Commando in 1970. A number of authors on the Troubles in Northern Ireland have...
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  • (RHC) (1964–1995), Northern Ireland loyalist, leading member of the Red Hand Commando Billy Elliot (UDA), senior member of the Ulster Defence Association;...
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    Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the closely linked UVF paramilitary the Red Hand Commando (RHC). Some of the Glenanne gang were members of two of these organisations...
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  • newspaper that the father of Dorrian's killer was a member of the Red Hand Commando, and that both of them also had family connections to a senior member...
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  • Belfast, Northern Ireland on 12 April 1975, during the Troubles. The Red Hand Commando (RHC), a loyalist paramilitary group, threw an improvised bomb into...
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    murders during the Troubles, while smaller loyalist groups include the Red Hand Commando, and Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF). Both republican and loyalist...
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    the UDA West Belfast Brigade. Along with those of the UVF and the Red Hand Commando (RHC), YCV flags are regularly carried by loyalist flute band colour...
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    the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), Red Hand Commando (RHC) and the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF). Although Irish loyalist...
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  • member, and injured 50 people. 12 April – Strand Bar bombing: The Red Hand Commando (a UVF-linked group) bombed a Belfast pub, killing six Catholic civilians...
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    paramilitaries Ulster Volunteer Force Ulster Defence Association Red Hand Commando Ulster Resistance Loyalist Volunteer Force Ulster Protestant Volunteers...
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