Editing Red Hand Commando (section)

=====1990s=====
*11 March 1990: RHC members assaulted a full-time UDR soldier (Samuel McChesney) with a hatchet at his home in [[Dundonald, County Down|Dundonald]] on the outskirts of Belfast. He died of his injuries the following day.<ref>''Belfast Telegraph'', 24 May 1990</ref>  
*17 April 1991: The RHC shot dead a Catholic taxi driver (John O'Hara) on Dunluce Avenue, off the Lisburn Road, Belfast. The attack was claimed by the [[Ulster Freedom Fighters]], but in 2016 former RHC leader Winkie Rea was charged with the murder.<ref name=bbc2016/> 
*10 August 1991: The "Loyalist Retaliation and Defence Group" (believed to be linked to the RHC) shot dead a Catholic civilian (James Carson) at his shop on Donegall Road, Belfast. It was targeted for selling [[Irish republicanism|republican]] newsletter ''[[An Phoblacht]]''.
*28 September 1991: The Loyalist Retaliation and Defence Group shot dead a Catholic civilian (Larry Murchan) at his shop on St James Road, Belfast. It was targeted for selling ''An Phoblacht''.
*28 September 1992: The "Red Branch Knights" (believed to be linked to the RHC) claimed responsibility for six [[Incendiary bomb|incendiary devices]] left in a shopping centre in [[Newtownabbey]]. Three bombs were defused. Earlier, a [[blast bomb]] left outside a [[Dublin]]-based bank nearby was also defused. Statements were sent to the media threatening action against anyone with political or economic links with the [[Republic of Ireland]], and several companies and individuals received death threats accompanied by bullets through the post.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/organ/rorgan.htm |title=Conflict Archive in Northern Ireland |access-date=22 November 2008 |archive-date=6 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206180554/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/organ/rorgan.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>''Aberdeen Press and Journal'', 29 September 1992</ref> 
*9 October 1992: The RHC shot dead a Protestant civilian (Michael Anderson) at his workplace on Mersey Street, Belfast. It claimed he was an informer.
*6 November 1992: The RHC claimed responsibility for shooting and wounding a security guard at the Mater Hospital in North Belfast. The UFF also claimed responsibility.<ref>''Liverpool Echo'', 7 November 1992</ref>
*1 January 1993: The RHC claimed responsibility for shooting two Catholic civilians on Manor Street, Belfast. The two men were cleaning a car when they were shot at from a passing vehicle. The RHC claimed it was retaliation for the killing of a British soldier in the area two days before.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kelsey |first=Tim |author-link=Tim Kelsey |date=2 January 1993 |title=Loyalists claim more victims than IRA |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/loyalists-claim-more-victims-than-ira-1476005.html |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |access-date=28 April 2018 |archive-date=29 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429025114/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/loyalists-claim-more-victims-than-ira-1476005.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*11 January 1993: The RHC claimed responsibility for an arson attack on a fast food store in Belfast.<ref>''Irish Independent'', 12 January 1993</ref>
*17 February 1993: The RHC claimed responsibility for shooting into the home of a Catholic man in [[Newtownabbey]]. There were no injuries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?Itemid=200&id=56434&option=com_content&task=view |title=The Irish Emigrant – The Irish Emigrant – February 22, 1993 |publisher=Emigrant.ie |date=2008-03-07 |access-date=2012-08-11 |archive-date=12 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312035051/http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?Itemid=200&id=56434&option=com_content&task=view |url-status=live }}</ref>
*5 April 1993: The RHC was alleged to be responsible for shooting dead a former UDA member (William Killen) at his flat in Portavogie, County Down. Security sources suggested it was a punishment shooting gone wrong.<ref>''Sunday Life'', 11 April 1993</ref>
*7 May 1993: The RHC carried out an arson attack on a GAA club at Ballycran, County Down.<ref name="heathwood93">[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/heathwood/static/1993.html Peter Heathwood Collection of television programs: 1993] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608062207/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/heathwood/static/1993.html |date=8 June 2011 }}. [[Conflict Archive on the Internet]] (CAIN).</ref>
*30 May 1993: The RHC shot dead a Catholic civilian (Edward McHugh) at his home in [[Dundonald, County Down|Dundonald]], County Down.
*29 July 1993: The RHC shot and seriously injured a Catholic man and a teenage boy after their car broke down on the M2 Motorway outside Belfast.<ref name="Saoirse93">{{Cite web|url=https://ulib.iupuidigital.org/digital/collection/IrishNews/id/2774|title=Issue 077, Saoirse: Irish Freedom (September, 1993)|access-date=19 January 2021|archive-date=26 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926144938/https://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/IrishNews/id/2774|url-status=live}}</ref>
*8 August 1993: The RHC carried out an arson attack on a GAA club at Portaferry, County Down. On 23 August the RHC threatened to attack workmen repairing the premises.<ref name="heathwood93"/><ref name="Saoirse93"/><ref>''Sunday Life'', 24 August 1993</ref>
*25 August 1993: The RHC announced that it would attack bars or hotels where [[Irish folk music]] is played, following a claim of responsibility for an attempted bombing on a pub in Newtownards, County Down.<ref name="Saoirse93"/> Following widespread criticism the RHC withdrew the threat a day later.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch93.htm |title=CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1993 |access-date=12 May 2020 |archive-date=6 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706133920/https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch93.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*1 September 1993: The RHC claimed responsibility for shooting two Catholic civilians in Shore Crescent, Belfast.<ref name="heathwood93"/>
*13 September 1993: The RHC shot dead a former RHC leader (Vernon Bailie) outside his girlfriend's home in [[Carrowdore]], County Down. Internal dispute.<ref name="Sunday Life, 19 September 1993"/>
*17 February 1994: The RHC shot dead a Catholic civilian (Sean McParland) in his relatives' home on Skegoneill Avenue, Belfast.
*7 April 1994: A Protestant woman (Margaret Wright) was found dead at the back of an abandoned house on Donegall Avenue, Belfast. She had been beaten and then shot by a group of UVF/RHC members, who assumed she was a Catholic.
*23 August 1994: The RHC shot and seriously injured a Protestant workman, mistaken for a Catholic, in Rathcoole in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.<ref name="heathwood94">[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/heathwood/static/1994.html Peter Heathwood Collection of television programs: 1994] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608185314/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/heathwood/static/1994.html |date=8 June 2011 }}. [[Conflict Archive on the Internet]] (CAIN).</ref><ref>''Sunday Life'', 28 August 1994</ref>
*28 September 1995: The RHC shot dead one of its own members Billy Elliot in [[Bangor, County Down|Bangor]], County Down for the killing of a Protestant Woman in April 1994.
*30 March 1997: The RHC was linked to a {{convert|90|lb|abbr=on}} bomb left in a hijacked taxi outside a Sinn Féin office in the New Lodge area of Belfast. After security forces evacuated nearby families from the area, British Army engineers successfully neutralised the bomb via a controlled detonation.<ref>{{cite news|title=Attack on SF offices blames on Red Hand Commando|author=Carmel Robinson|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/attack-on-sf-offices-blames-on-red-hand-commando-1.57360|date=31 March 1997|access-date=16 February 2021|archive-date=10 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410125921/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/attack-on-sf-offices-blames-on-red-hand-commando-1.57360|url-status=live}}</ref>
*17 March 1999: The UVF shot dead an expelled member of the RHC ([[Frankie Curry]]) as he walked over waste ground off Malvern Way, Belfast, in an internal dispute.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1999.html |title=CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths |publisher=Cain.ulst.ac.uk |access-date=2012-08-11 |archive-date=14 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514143646/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1999.html |url-status=live }}</ref>