Loyalist Ceasefire Announced

Details

Location

Belfast

Year

1994

Date

Production 13/10/1994

Length

03min 35sec

Audio

sound

Format

Betacam

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the BFI Heritage 2022 project.

Courtesy

British Film Institute, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

A UTV Live report on the announcement of a ceasefire by loyalist terror groups. The report begins with grainy footage of UVF members shooting into the air ahead of their announcement the night before. The piece also includes archive footage from the year before of an anonymous voice from within loyalism stating that the way to peace was for the IRA to lay down its arms which would then in turn be met with a reciprocal end to violence from loyalism, so that dialogue and discussion could take place. The report makes clear that the anonymous voice is now known to be David Ervine of the PUP, who represented the views of the UVF.

The report shows the announcement of the ceasefire by Gusty Spence, a former UVF commander who was now in the PUP, who states that the ceasefire would last as long as the IRA one did. While the report didn't make it clear, this ceasefire was from all loyalist paramilitary organisations under the umbrella of the Combined Loyalist Military Command and it now meant that most of the terror groups within Northern Ireland were on ceasefire at the same time.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.
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