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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 3196070, member: 22729&quot;]&quot;IPLO&quot; stands for the Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation. It was a very violent Nationalist paramilitary founded in Northern Ireland in 1986. It was made up of disaffected members of another group called INLA whose demise began after the death of three members, including prison commander Patsy O&#039;Hara, during the Maze Prison hunger strike in 1981.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even by standards of violence employed by all paramilitaries of the time, IPLO was beyond the pale. After a number of attacks on fellow Nationalists, and their involvement in the drug trade, their fate was sealed. Drug dealing was absolutely forbidden in the movement. The group was forcibly disbanded by the powerful IRA through assassination, beatings, and intimidation. By 1992 they were defunct. There areas of operation had been primarily in Belfast, Newry, Derry, and Armagh.</p><p><br /></p><p>These stamps are quite rare, but I did acquire four examples from a long time source of mine in Belfast. Along with the coins, he relayed a sad story to me concerning his family and IPLO. In 1990 his Uncle was shot to death by IPLO gunmen who entered his home on Tate&#039;s Ave in Belfast and killed him while he slept on his couch. As generally is the case with these attacks, retaliation was swift. Later the same day, two Loyalist UFF members shot a Catholic man to death in his driveway while returning home from a party in Lisburn. The cycle of violence never ends, it seems.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce</p><p>[ATTACH=full]826044[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]826046[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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