Ulster Volunteer Force

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The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a Protestant former soldier in the Royal Ulster Rifles from Northern Ireland. The group undertook an armed campaign of almost thirty years during The Troubles, often coming into conflict with the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary. It declared a ceasefire in 1994 and officially ended its campaign in 2007, although some of its members have continued to engage in violence and criminal activities. The group is a proscribed organisation and is on the terrorist organisation list of the United Kingdom. The UVF's declared goals were to combat Irish republican paramilitaries – particularly the IRA – and to maintain Northern Ireland's status as part of the United Kingdom. It was responsible for more than 500 deaths. The vast majority (more than two-thirds) of its victims were Irish Catholic...

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