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Orange Volunteers  

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  • Relatively little is known about the Orange Volunteers, a Northern Irish terrorist organization that has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks on Roman Catholics beginning in 1998. Since the late 1960s, Northern Ireland, a province of Great Britain, has experienced steady and violent conflict between Catholics, who wish Northern Ireland to become part of the Republic of Ireland, and Protestants, who wish it to remain a part of the United Kingdom. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Orange Volunteers]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-T814SCBJ-S

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