Morning Star.png Redundant Military Now A Lethal Farce James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 9 August 2016 Northern Irish leaders condemned Sunday night's murder of loyalist paramilitary John "Bonzer" Boreland yesterday in an apparent internecine shooting. The senior member of the dissident north Belfast group of the Ulster Defence Association was gunned down just before 10pm in Sunningdale Gardens in the unionist Bally-sillan area. His section, led by Egyptian-Irish loyalist "brigadier" Andre Shoukri, had been involved in local feuds with the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Last week the faction reportedly fled the Tiger's Bay area after a series of violent run-ins with the Mount Vernon UVF. Brigadiers of other UVF sections said the north Belfast mob was on its own in the feud. In 2014 Mr Boreland was shot in the thigh in an attack on him and Mr Shoukri by former north Belfast "brigadier" John Bunting - deposed by the Shoukri faction - and his ally John Howcroft. Mr Boreland was also said to be heavily involved in local criminal activity, further muddying the waters in the investigation. Condemnation Northern Irish First Minister Arlene Foster, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and the British government's Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire all condemned the killing. Sinn Fein Member of the Legislative Assembly for North Belfast Gerry Kelly called on anyone with information on the killing to contact the police. Ulster Unionist member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board Ross Hussey said: "Murder is murder and cannot be justified. "It must be condemned." "The people behind this attack want to plunge us back to the past. They must not be allowed to succeed," he said. Communist Party of Ireland Communist Party of Ireland executive committee member Joe Bowers told the Morning Star: "This murder highlights the question of what is the purpose of loyalist, or any, paramilitary organisations. "They claim to represent sections of our community, all of which are facing these serious problems caused by austerity. "Northern Ireland has higher unemployment and a higher proportion of the working poor than any other locality in these islands," Mr Bowers said. "These paramilitary organisations should reorientate themselves towards combining with others similarly adversely affected in opposition to anti-people government policies." From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-13d6-Northern-Ireland-Unionists-feud-k illing-damned-by-politicians#.V6lmWvl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-13d6-Northern-Ireland-Unionists-feud-ki lling-damned-by-politicians#.V6lmWvl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13931 (20160809) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/003c01d1f208%2412115140%243633f3c0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
