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UFF redirects here, they are also the initials of the United Freedom Front, a radical left-wing organisation in the US. The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is a loyalist paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland, outlawed as a terrorist group in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, and which is perceived by its supporters as defending the loyalist community from Republican terrorism. Its main objective has been to reject Northern Irish amalgamation with the Republic of Ireland seeking to do so through either Ulster independence or maintenance of the Act of Union. It has also operated under the name Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). Its main activities were the killing of Roman Catholic civilians and to a lesser extent, Irish nationalist politicians. The UDA/UFF has also killed at least three Irish republican paramilitary members.[1][2]