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Alex Kerr is a Northern Irish former loyalist paramilitary. Kerr was a brigadier in the Ulster Defence Association (UDA)'s South Belfast Brigade before becoming one of the two founders of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF).〔("Billy Wright: Dying by the Sword". Politico''. 1 February 1998 ) Retrieved 18 February 2015〕〔Mitchell, Thomas G. (2000). ''Native Vs. Settler: Ethnic Conflict in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa''. Greenwood Publishing Group: Westport, Ct: p.188〕〔English, Richard; Townshend, Charles (1999). ''The State: Historical and Political Dimension''.London: Routledge. p.209〕 He is no longer active in loyalism. ==Ulster Defence Association== According to Henry McDonald, Kerr told him he was the son of a County Donegal-born mother whose hobby was Irish dancing, traditionally associated with Irish nationalists. Kerr made his home on the Taughmonagh estate in southwest Belfast.〔David Lister & Hugh Jordan, ''Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C' Company'', Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2004, p. 127〕 From this centre of Ulster Defence Association activity, Kerr established his power base as South Belfast brigadier. The position had been held by John McMichael until he was assassinated by the Provisional IRA in 1987. Jackie McDonald was chosen as McMichael's replacement by Andy Tyrie, but he was not trusted by the rest of the leadership and was removed less than a year later following his arrest for extortion, allowing Kerr to become the new brigadier.〔Henry McDonald & Jim Cusack, ''UDA - Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror'', Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2004, p. 160〕 Kerr was on good terms with West Belfast commander Johnny Adair, and in July 1992 he provided a bolt-hole in Taughmonagh from which Adair and his men were to launch an attack on IRA commander Brian Gillen's Finaghy Road North home. The attack did not take place as the C Company unit had been observed by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) leaving the Shankill Road and were all subsequently arrested.〔 From the time of its establishment in 1971 until August 1992, the UDA was a legal loyalist paramilitary organisation; it was also the largest. In the spring of 1991, a year and a half before its proscription, the UDA aligned with the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and its subsidiary group, the Red Hand Commando to establish the Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC). This was a group designed to co-ordinate military activity and hold ''ad hoc'' discussions about political strategy. Liaison officers were appointed to the new body by each of the three groups and Kerr was chosen as the UDA's military representative.〔Jim Cusack & Henry McDonald, ''UVF'', Dublin: Poolbeg, 1997, p. 275〕 Each group also appointed a political liaison officer with Kerr joined by Ray Smallwoods in this function.〔McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2004, p. 190〕 In early 1994 the UDA's Inner Council was made up of its six brigadiers - Kerr for South Belfast, Adair for the UDA West Belfast Brigade, Tom Reid for North Belfast, Gary Matthews for East Belfast, Billy McFarland for County Londonderry and north County Antrim, and Joe English for the UDA South East Antrim Brigade. At the time English was attempting to build support for a ceasefire declaration by the CLMC. In this endeavour he was supported by Reid and Matthews but opposed vehemently by Adair. Along with McFarland, Kerr represented a middle group who demonstrated general agreement with English but also expressed sympathy for Adair's position that a recent upturn in UDA activity was winning the struggle against the IRA for them.〔Lister & Jordan, ''Mad Dog'', pp. 209-12〕 For his part Kerr was sympathetic to the adoption of a "doomsday" scenario in which Ireland would be repartitioned, with Catholics sent west of the River Bann and possibly also to an enclave in West Belfast, with both areas given over to the Republic of Ireland. The remainder of Northern Ireland would become an autonomous region within the United Kingdom.〔McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', pp. 263-64〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Kerr (loyalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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