Editing Loyalist Volunteer Force (section)

===Post-ceasefire activities===
In early 2000, an LVF-UVF feud began, and there were several tit-for-tat killings. The Secretary of State declared on 12 October 2001 that the government no longer recognised their ceasefire.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1596068.stm | title={{sic|Poli|ticans|nolink=y}} assess ceasefire end | work=BBC News | date=13 October 2001 | access-date=11 June 2015}}</ref>

After its ceasefire, the LVF continued supporting the Orangemen in their protests at Drumcree. In July 2000, it was revealed that members of [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazi]] group [[Combat 18]] were travelling from England to join the protest. They were given shelter by LVF volunteers in Portadown and [[Tandragee]]. Combat 18 had opposed the LVF's ceasefire, but this trip was said to mark a "healing of the rift".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/02/northernireland.race|title=English fascists to join loyalists at Drumcree|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|date=2 July 2000|access-date=30 December 2010|location=London|first=Henry|last=McDonald}}</ref>

In 2002, Wright's successor as LVF leader, [[Mark Fulton (loyalist)|Mark Fulton]], was found hanged in [[Maghaberry (HM Prison)|Maghaberry prison]]. It is believed that he committed suicide.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20020616/ai_n12576805 Killer of Rosemary Nelson named; Loyalist Mark Fulton is revealed as] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422205802/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20020616/ai_n12576805 |date=22 April 2008 }} ''Sunday Herald'', 16 June 2002</ref>

In July 2005 the IRA declared it had ended its armed campaign and would disarm. In September 2005 weapons inspectors declared that the IRA had fully disarmed. In response, on 30 October that year, the LVF stated that it was standing down.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgvbw1z4xrkjw.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612014347/http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgvbw1z4xrkjw.asp|url-status=dead|title=Irish Examiner|archive-date=12 June 2015}}</ref>

In February 2006, the [[Independent Monitoring Commission]] confirmed that the LVF-UVF feud was over. But, it said that the LVF's involvement with organised crime and drug trafficking continued, describing it as a "deeply criminal organisation". The twentieth IMC report stated that the group was small and without political purpose. Most of its violence was "more criminal than paramilitary" in nature. LVF members who continued violent activity were said to do so "for personal gain" and associated with the organisation at large only when it was helpful to do so. The report added that simple aggressive police work could damage the group's continuance.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081218015532/http://www.independentmonitoringcommission.org/documents/uploads/Twentieth%20Report.pdf Twentieth Report]}} Independent Monitoring Commission</ref>