Editing Ulster Volunteer Force (section)

====1994–2005====
More militant members of the UVF who disagreed with the ceasefire, broke away to form the [[Loyalist Volunteer Force]] (LVF), led by [[Billy Wright (loyalist)|Billy Wright]]. This development came soon after the UVF's Brigade Staff in Belfast had stood down Wright and the Portadown unit of the Mid-Ulster Brigade, on 2 August 1996, for the killing of a Catholic taxi driver near Lurgan during Drumcree disturbances.<ref name="UVF leadership">[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uvf-disbands-unit-linked-to-taxi-murder-1307867.html "UVF disbands unit linked to taxi murder"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214334/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uvf-disbands-unit-linked-to-taxi-murder-1307867.html |date=3 March 2016 }} ''The Independent'', 3 August 1996; Retrieved 18 October 2009</ref>

[[File:Carrickfergus.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A UVF mural in [[Carrickfergus]]]]

There followed years of violence between the two organisations. In January 2000 UVF Mid-Ulster brigadier [[Richard Jameson (loyalist)|Richard Jameson]] was shot dead by a LVF gunman which led to an escalation of the UVF/LVF feud. The UVF was also clashing with the UDA in the summer of 2000. The feud with the UDA ended in December following seven deaths. Veteran anti-UVF campaigner [[Raymond McCord]], whose son, Raymond Jr., a Protestant, was beaten to death by UVF men in 1997, estimates the UVF has killed more than thirty people since its 1994 ceasefire, most of them Protestants.{{citation needed|date=October 2009}} The feud between the UVF and the LVF erupted again in the summer of 2005. The UVF killed four men in Belfast and trouble ended only when the LVF announced that it was disbanding in October of that year.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4393664.stm |date=31 October 2005 |access-date=29 July 2009 |publisher=BBC News |title='Cautious welcome' for LVF move |archive-date=16 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051216130355/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4393664.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 14 September 2005, following [[2005 Belfast riots|serious loyalist rioting]] during which dozens of shots were fired at riot police and the British Army, the [[Northern Ireland Secretary]] [[Peter Hain]] announced that the [[Her Majesty's Government|British government]] no longer recognised the UVF ceasefire.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4243652.stm |date=14 September 2005 |access-date=29 July 2009 |publisher=BBC News |title=Hain says UVF ceasefire is over |archive-date=12 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060612231400/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4243652.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>