A car appears on the Shankill Road and leaflets are thrown from it naming many dissenting republicans, it happens at the junction of Lanark Way leading into Republican West Belfast.
These leaflets are subsequently posted on lampposts and walls across loyalist areas. They give names of numerous people described as dissident republicans, CIRA, RIRA, criminals etc.
Some suggest the names may have been gathered by a ‘republican’ group and delivered direct to loyalists in the crudist of fashions.
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