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Last Updated: Monday, 17 September 2007, 12:38 GMT 13:38 UK
IMC urges loyalist leaders to act
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The IMC has urged the UDA to change
The Independent Monitoring Commission has questioned whether UDA leaders are really committed to moving it away from violence and crime.

Publishing its 16th report on Monday, the paramilitary watchdog said there had been "amazing progress" in the past four years.

However, its view on the UDA was very different.

It said the organisation would soon be viewed simply as a criminal group unless it acted quickly to change.

In April, the IMC found that UDA and UVF members were still involved in crime.

At that stage, the IMC said it was time for the UVF leadership to show courage to point it in a new direction.




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