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Canonical ID: NK-HV94QLpwkT3JWF7y8bWWAJ · Entity type: Organization (reference)
| Property | Value | Lang | Source dataset | Source ID | First seen | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LegalEntity:address | Northern Ireland | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:addressEntity | addr-f890775e650a595f2cda3739ef1ac2131baacd6f | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:alias | Orange Volunteer Force | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:alias | OV | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:alias | OVF | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:country | gb-nir | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:createdAt | 2025-09-13 | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:id | 6cc87582216c6dc9dcc20d0637b8aa023cdd77c7 | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:name | ORANGE VOLUNTEERS | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:notes | The original ‘Orange Volunteers’ (OV) was a loyalist paramilitary group, which formed in the early 1970s and was associated with the ‘Orange Order’ (one of the unionist Protestant fraternal societies in Northern Ireland). During the 1980s the Orange Order disbanded. In 1998, a loyalist paramilitary group using the name ‘Orange Volunteers’, claimed responsibility for a number of attacks. | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:notes | The original “Orange Volunteers” was a loyalist paramilitary group formed in the early 1970s. In 1998, the Orange Volunteers name was resurrected, with the group carrying out a number of attacks to destabilise the Northern Ireland peace process. | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:programId | UN-SC1373 | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||
LegalEntity:topics | sanction | au_dfat_sanctions | au-dfat-304-orange-volunteers | ||||