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Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was assassinated in HM Prison Maze by members of the Irish National Liberation Army.
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Former Ulster loyalist paramilitary group
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Northern Irish loyalist (1960–1997)
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Irish National Liberation Army
Irish republican paramilitary group formed in 1974
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