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Ulster Freedom Fighters  

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  • The Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) is a Northern Irish Loyalist paramilitary group that has claimed responsibility for dozens of assassinations believed to have been carried out by members of the Ulster Defense Association (UDA). In Northern Ireland, since the late 1960s, bloody conflict has been regular between the province's Roman Catholics (also called Republicans or Nationalists), who wish Northern Ireland to become a part of the Republic of Ireland, and its Protestants (also called Loyalists or Unionists), who wish it to remain part of Great Britain. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Ulster Freedom Fighters]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JZFWLTHD-2

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