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    IRA Splinter Group to Renounce Violence  Oct 12, 2009
    The last major INLA killing was the December 1997 assassination in Northern Ireland's main prison of Billy "King Rat" Wright, the commander of an anti-Catholic paramilitary group called the Loyalist Volunteer Force. Protestant extremists responded to Wright's murder by INLA prisoners using two smuggled handguns by slaying nearly a dozen Catholic civilians across Northern Ireland. (CBS News)

    Who are the dissidents?  Mar 11, 2009
    Its most high profile murder was that of Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright, who was shot dead in the Maze prison in 1997. Oglaigh na hEireann. (BBC News -- Europe)

    Annesley to attend Wright Inquiry  Mar 9, 2009
    The inquiry, which opened in 2007, is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the former Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) leader. Wright was shot dead in the Maze prison by members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) in 1997. (BBC News -- UK)




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