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Date: 12/09/2017 | Ref. 718112
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland 12th September 2017
Loyalist paramilitary group the Red Hand Commando has made an application to be removed from the UK's list of proscribed terrorist organisations. The RHC was formed in 1972 in the Shankill area of west Belfast. It had close links to the UVF and waged a paramilitary campaign until the loyalist ceasefires of 1994.
A young boy plays football beside a Red Hand Commando mural in the Shankill estate area of west Belfast.
Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye.com