06/01/99
A petrol bomb exploded as it was thrown against the home of a 63 year old woman in Derry. RM_News

06/05/99
A bomb attack in Portadown left a 59 year old woman dead. A brick was thrown to smash the windo followed by a blast bomb. Elizabeth O'Neill was killed as she attempted to throw the device back outside. Her husband escaped uninjured. Mrs O'Neil was Protestant, but her Husband was Catholic. The attack took place on Corcrain rd., which has been plagued by violence in the ongoing Orange Order Protests. A nearby house on Westland Drive was also attacked moments later in a similar fashion. The window was smashed but the bomb exploded in the garden and the residents a woman, a young girl and a baby escaped unhurt. A Belfast home was also attacked but the device did not explode, and another home in Hilltown, Co Down, was bombed but the bomb exploded in the garden, breaking the window with the blast, but the occupants, a man and several children were not injured. The son of Mrs. O Neil said this "If a seven-minute walk down the road done this to my mother, is it worth that, is it worth it? How many more innocent people are going to suffer like this ?" ( quote from RM_news) BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_361000/361502.stm Electronic Telegraph http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,56239,00.html Irish Times http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/1999/0605/break9.htm

06/07/99
St Mary's primary school was attacked in Ballymena, Antrim. Antrim, the stronghold of Ian Paisley, has been the scene of some of the most intense sectarian violence this year. 120 students ages 4 -12 had to be evacuated when a pipe bomb similar to the one that killed a Portadown grandmother 2 days earlier was found on the grounds by school staff. ABC news http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/Reuters19990607_1887.html Irish Times http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/1999/0607/break12.htm

06/11/99
Loyalist marchers wearing t shirts with slogans like "KAT - Kill all Taigs" attacked bars in Kilkeel with stones and bottles on Newry St in Kilkeels town centre. The RUC responded by beating a CAtholic woman with a baton as she exited a bar. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/17kilk.html June 12th Orange marches and Rallies effectively blockade Portadown's Nationalist community. Rallies were held at Park Road/ Garvaghy Road; Woodhouse Street; Charles Street, close to Craigwell Avenue; and at Dungannon Road/Drumcree. The blockade prevented an elderly woman from seeking hospital treatment after a fall. Supporters of the Orange Order rioted at Drumcree, and attacked and beat a photographer. Eleven RUC men were also injured as loyalist attackers threw petrol bombs, stones etc.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_367000/367648.stm http://members.aol.com/garvaghy/dossier.html

06/16/99
A suspected explosives device was found at ST MAry's School in Newtownbutler, Co Armagh. http://www.iais.or

06/19/99
orth Belfast homes were attacked hours after an Orange march. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/June24/22nb.html

06/19/99
A group of loyalists armed with bricks and golf clubs and claiming to be Shankhill UVF, smashed car windows in Adroyne and the attempted to abduct a Nationalist man. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/June24/22abd.html

06/26/99
Loyalists set up a private vehicle checkpoint demanding to see ID of drivers whose cars they stopped. Not only did the RUC refuse to intervene in this illegal chekpoint, but they pursued and stopped a taxi driver who had driven through the checkpoint. The driver asked why the RUC was alloeing the checkpoint and was told the loyalists were protecting thier district. Also A N Belfast Catholic man was harrassed by the RUC for driving through a red light to escape from a loyalist gange who had picked up a brick, believing he was about to be attacked. The RUC did not question the crowds behavior http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/08chec.html

06/29/99
A pipe bomb exploded in a North Belfast home. The occupants a woman and her 6 year old son escaped uninjured. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/01bomb.html

06/29/99
A car with three armed and masked men pulled up in front of Mater Hospital. An RUC patrol sitting nearby took no action. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/08chec.html

06/99
A Catholic woman teaching in a Proetestant school had shots fired into her classroom. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/01sch.html

07/02/99
RUC officers firs pulled down tri colours and then assaulted Nationalist protesters who were protesting the erection of an Orange arch in the predominately Nationalist town of Crumlin. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/July08/08crum.html

07/03/99
An american observer was attacked and beaten by at least one Orangeman and Orange supporters. The Orange marcher beat her with a flag pole. She suffered a broken wrist and large cut on her head as well as a number of cuts and heavey bruising. The quick action of women who pulled her to safety prevented further injury. RMD NEWS 07/07/99 http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/08gar4.html http://www.irishnews.com/k_archive/050799/nnews6.html

07/03/99
Saturday night Mass at St John's in Portadown had to be halted as Loyalists band marched 8 times around teh roundabout directly in front of the church playing "The Sash". There has been a loyalist parade to this church every Sunday this year with the marchers shouting chants an insults to people attending Mass. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/1999/0708/north6.htm Orange bands stopped to play Orange songs outside the Catholic church, residents reported being threatened by bandsmen, and a woman was injured by a misile thrown by Orange Supporters Orange Watch - http://www.iowc.org/1999/news/july1-3_99.html

07/04/99
Loyalists desecrated the Catholic graveyard where murder victim Robert Hamill is buried. ( Hamill was brutally kicked to death while armed police officers looked on 2 years ago) Human excremet and prophalactic devices were thrown in the graveyard as a loyalist mob attempted to force there way through. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/1999/0708/north6.htm

07/06/99
Minor Loyalist rioting near Drumcree 6 RUC officers were injured when a mob of loyalists tried to push through police lines. Police recovered catapults and ball bearings. Loyalists also used pesticide canisters disperesed with a smoke bomb. One police officer was hospitalized from pesticide exposure. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/1999/0707/north6.htm

07/07/99
A ban on an Orange march on the lower Ormeau rd unleashed a string of sectarian attacks on Catholics. Nationalist homes in the Markets area of Belfast were attacked, two arson attacks in Carrickfergus, a unexploded pipe bomb was found outside a Ballycastle home, and Bricks and rocks were thrown at homes near the Ormeau rd., http://www.irishnews.com/k_archive/080799/nnews1.html

07/07/99
The Irish News has reported that Lurgan's Collingwood housing estate is becoming a ghost town with so many of its families fleeing to escape loyalist attacks, related to the standoffs at Drumcree. 33 families have applied to have their homes purchased under the housing executive program which purchases abandoned or evacuated homes (SPED). 22 have been accepted to date at a cost of over 1 million pounds. http://www.irishnews.com/k_archive/070799/topstory.html

07/11/99
Two Catholic churches were attacked by Loyalist arsonists. St Patrick's chucrh in Co Antrim suffered minor damages. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/15chur.html

07/12/99
Orange supporters hurled insults and missiles at Nationalist protestors on Sprigfield rd. As usual the RUC ignored Orange attacks and turned to face teh Nationalsit protesters. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/15spri.html

07/12/99
Approximately 150 loyalists, many of them wearing UDA T-shirts attempted to gain access to St Matthew's chrch in East Belfast. A standoff developed between residents and the loayalists. The RUC arrived but made no effort to disperse teh loyalist mob. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/15chu2.html

07/18/99
RUC attacked Nationalist protestors at an Orange parade. According to the Sunday Business post, who watched to videos of tthe incident there was no sign of any provocation for the RUC Baton charge. Among the injured was a 24 yr old man who described laying on the ground while a group of RUC men kicked him and beat him with batons. He had to have 6 staples to close the wound to his head. Another man is passing blood after a severe beating with batons in the kidney area. A house wife was also beaten and told how she begged the police not to hit her again as she lay on the ground, but they struck her again. http://www.sbpost.ie/news/fourRUC.html

07/24/99
A 22 year old man was severly beaten, stripped and left for dead outside outside Woodbourne RUC barracks. The attackers shouted sectarian abuse before attacking him. RMD Mon/Tues 2/3 August

07/31/99
A drunken Loyalist carrying an AK47 machine gun and a hand gun was apprehended by Nationalist residents on Craigwell Ave. Confrontations broke out between residents and the RUC after the RUC officer making the arrest commented that the gunmen, a known loyalist activist, would be out by tea time. Contrary to RUC stories there were no clashes between Loyalists and nationalist prior to the incident that day. Pat Finucane Centre PFC news update

07/99
Another Catholic family has been driven out of Dunmurray. The family had applied for re housing after threats and having their ar smashed a month before, but fled immediatly after a brick attack covered their 4 year old child with shateered glass. Fortunately the child was unhurt. UDA believed responsible. RMD Mon/Tues 2/3 August

08/09/99
Two petrol bombs were thrown at the home of a 49 year old Larne Catholic man. He slept through the attack and was awakened by fire fighters called in to put out the flames. It is the 2nd attack on the same home in recent months. http://www.serve.com/pfc/attaug.html RMD Monday 9 August -----Reprisal attacks Protestant church hall outside Rathfriland and two other halls. SF called for an end to such reprisals.

08/13/99
RUC fire up to 8 plastic bullets at a Nationalist protest of a Loyalist march in Lurgan. RMD Wednesday/Thursday, 17/18 August, 1999

08/13/99
A petrol bomb was thrown through the window of a 6 year old child in Liogoniel but did not ignite. http://www.serve.com/pfc/attaug.html

08/14/99
A 21 year old catholic woman was brutaly beaten by a loyalist mob in Kilkeel. She sustained head injuries and adominal injuries which required surgery. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/26kilk.html

08/14/99
A teenage boy was attacked by masked loyalists in Limavady. http://www.serve.com/pfc/attaug.html

08/14/99
An independent observer was injured when the RUC charged a Nationalist demonstration on the Lower. Ormeau Rd. Éamonn Ó Dochartaigh, an observer from an Irish based human rights group suffered a broken nose, and injuries to his neck and hands. His video camera, with which he had been filming the RUC beating of a demonstrator was destroyed. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/1999/0817/north5.htm

08/14/99
Two pub goers were assualted by the RUC in full veiw of journalists and cameramen, who caught the incident on film. The victims was attempting to leave a pub when RUC officers told him to go back inside, but the door had been closed and they could not get back in. The man told the officers he wanted to go home. The RUC responede by pushing both the man and woman, and one RUC officer was seen trying to kick the man in the knees. He then head butted the man, while wearing his helmet and arrested him. Journalists protested to a senior officer, who took no action other then telling them they could file a report at the station. http://www.irishnews.com/k_archive/160899/nnews4.html

08/16/99
Bomb hoax Craigwell Ave Wednesday/Thursday, 17/18 August, 1999 http://www.serve.com/pfc/attaug.html

08/17/99
Loyalists attack Craigwell homes Wednesday/Thursday, 17/18 August, 1999 http://www.serve.com/pfc/attaug.html

08/99
Two more families have been forced out of their homes on Craigwell Ave, Portadown, bringing the toatl number to 20 families who have lost their homes over Drumcree. RMD News http://www.irishnews.com/k_archive/190899/nnews10.html

08/22/99
Loyalists vandalise BT Target Sports Club in co. Down. http://www.serve.com/pfc/attaug.html

08/26/99
A 16 year old boy from the Lower Ormeau Rd was beaten by loyalists. http://www.serve.com/pfc/attaug.html

08/28/99
The Larne home of Danny O'Connor, SDLP assembly member for east Antrim was petrol bombed. O Connor believes the UDA was responsible and has questioned RUC behavior as well. O Connor condemned the RUC behavior saying "it's the whole approach that sees uniformed police officers laughing and joking with people believed to be linked to loyalist groups in the area" Two cars were also burned in Larne in separate attacks. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/September02/02fron.html http://www.iais.org/

08/28/99
A woman, 7 1/2 months pregnant, was physically assaulted by a Loyalist marcher during a Royal Black institution parade in Belfast. She was attempting to cross a street to get to work. RMD Mon/Tue 30/31 August

08/29/99
Arson attack on St Mary's GAA hall in Ahoghill. "North Antrim UDA/UVF ceasefire over" was painted on the walls A pipe bomb was found on the grounds of a Lisburn Catholic church, St Peter the Rock. RMD Mon/Tue 30/31 August

08/30/99
The home of Kevin O Connor, brother of Daniel O Connor was pipe bombed. Another Catholic home was also pipebombed. The family was petrol bombed out of their Antiville home last year, and has had two petrol bombs and a sympathy card placed on their windowsill. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/September02/02fron.html

09/99
An 11-year-old boy was beaten by a loyalist gang after a bus driver ordered him off a bus on Crumlin Road, in N Belfast. His Catholic school uniform made him an obvious target. He had mistakenly boarded the wrong bus after his second day of school and although he had a bus pass, the driver refused to allow him to remain on board. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/September09/09busd.html ***

09/16/99
An Phoblcht reports illegal arms find in Scots Guards barracks in in Ballykinlar Camp in County Down The arms cache is reported to include several working AK 47's and a rocket smuggled in from the Gulf War. There have been previous allegations of collusion between soldiers at the Ballykinlar base and Loyalist death squads. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/September16/17arms.html

09/08/99
13-year-old girl was beaten with baseball bats and shot in the stomach with a pellet gun by 3 loyalists. One of the men placed the pellet gun to her head and the child thought she was going to be killed but they lowered it to her stomach before firing. The attack place on the Serpentine Road in North Belfast ( Whitewell area). It represents just one more incident ina long list of sectarian attacks in the area which include a young boy bieng stabbed and another beaten, and a papergirl being attacked in the last for weeks alone. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/September16/17whit.html

09/99
North Belfast residents are demanding that the RUC close the gate on the Serpentine Road `peace wall´ after two more homes were attacked, one twice in the same week. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/23whit.html

09/15/99
Bomb attack on a catholic owned furniture store in Ballycastle. The building was severely damaged, the 5 people living above the shop escaped injury. In the same week another bomb was discovered at a Ballycastle off license, and a third at Ballymoney's Credit Union. Both bombs were safely removed. Graffitti declaring an end to the UVF and UDA ceasefires was painted on a wall during one of the attacks. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/23nort.html

09/17/99
Two homes and one car were petroled bombed in Derry's Waterside area. The targets were people involved in mixed faith relationships. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/23derr.html

09/99
Seven Nationalists, five of whom were elected officials recieved Christmas cards from the LVF with the warning "Belated greetings. We're watching you. We haven't gone away" inside, and a red hand with theletters LVF on the front. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/23lvft.html

09/20/99
Loyalists smashed the window of a Catholic home on Springfield Road and then fled into nearby Shankhill. A 3 month old child sleeping in her pram beside the window was uninjured, but the mother fears that the next attack may be a petrol or pipe bomb. The house comes under frequent attack because it is the last house on the Nationalist Springfield road before reaching Lanark Way, which connects to Shankhill Rd. Her car has been damaged and she reports brick and bottle attacks are an almost nightly occurence which has led to her children being to frightened to sleep alone. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/23baby.html

09/99
A 15 year old paper boy was assaulted by two grown men in the Finaghy area of South Belfast. This is the second attack on this boy. http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/current/news/23teen.html