The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) is a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed by Billy Wright in 1996 when he and the Portadown unit of the Ulster Volunteer Force's Mid-Ulster Brigade (UVF) was stood down by the UVF leadership. He had been the commander of the Mid-Ulster Brigade. The LVF is thus a UVF splinter group. It is outlawed as a terrorist organisation in the UK and Republic of Ireland. The United States has also designated it a terrorist organisation. The LVF have killed 18 people: 13 of whom were civilians, 1 was a former Provisional IRA member, and 3 were UVF volunteers. The LVF has also killed one of its own members.
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