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The Ulster Volounteer Force(U.V.F.), Ulster Defence Association(U.D.A.), Red Hand Command(R.H.C.), Ulster Resistance(U.R.), and others. All of those are exclusively Protestant and Loyalist/Unionist paramilitaries. There were never any Catholic paramilitaries of any signifagance whatsoever, although Republican paramilitaries like the Provisional I.R.A. were eighty-percent Catholic, fifteen-percent Protestant(the "Prod Squad" commanded P.I.R.A. for years in Belfast), and five-percent "other"; other Republican paramilitaries like the Irish National Liberization Organisation were about sixty-percent Protestant, perhaps because it was founded by a Protestant, Ronnie Bunting, son of a Loyalist/Unionist British Army Major. These Loyalist/Unionist/Prodestant paramilitaries claim to target Republican rebels, but 89% of death's contributed to them are civilians, usually Catholic, and they've only killed fifteen Republican rebels. They have killed more of each other and their allies than anyone else. They have been given arms, training, money, and support by British Forces-soldiers and Royal Ulster Constabulary members. Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary have been convicted of co-operation with these paramilitaries, and even membership, as have soldiers in the British Forces. In the Miami Showband Massacre, British reserve-soldiers(Ulster Defence Regiment) were involved in planting the bomb, despite the Miami Showband being both Catholic and Protestant. One of the British Forces-soldiers involved in the massacre was Special Air Service(S.A.S.) Provisional I.R.A. informer, Robert Niarac. When the Provisional I.R.A. discovered this, they tortured Nairac to death by scalping and disembowlment, before grinding him up and feeding him to dogs. In a British government report into corruption in the British Forces, it found that atleast fifteen-percent percent of Ulster Defence Regiment-soldiers were also in Loyalist-paramilitaries, and described the Loyalists as "a loose assortment of drug-dealing, sectarian, criminal, thugs, who have no political objective". The S.A.S. kept watch while these paramilitaries attacked Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey, a civil-rights campaigner. The U.V.F. was formed in 1966 and their first attack was the killing of a seventy-seven-year-old woman, who was set on fire in bed, just because she was a Catholic. If you are refering to The Troubles when you say "Ireland religious conflict", that was not a religious conflict whatsoever, although the media portrays it as one.
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