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Red Hand Defenders  

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  • Relatively little is known about the Red Hand Defenders (RHD), a Northern Irish terrorist organization that has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks on Roman Catholics beginning in 1998. Since the late 1960s, Northern Ireland has seen war between the province's Catholics, who want Northern Ireland to become part of the Republic of Ireland, and the province's Protestants, who want it to continue as part of the United Kingdom. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Red Hand Defenders]

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