Title:SCENES IN AND AROUND THE SHANKILL ROAD AREA, BELFAST, AUGUST 2000 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFU 23
Other titles:RAF ALDERGROVE VIDEO COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Aerial views of various events in the Shankill Road area, west Belfast, August 2000. Includes the funeral procession of Samuel Rocket, and the arson attack on his former home two days after his funeral. (In 2000 tensions between the UDA and UVF eventually erupted into a full blown feud over the UDA's alleged support for the UVF splinter group, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, or LVF. During the violence, Samuel, also known as Sam, Rocket was killed in reprisal for the shooting of a UDA man by the UVF earlier in the same week. Rocket was a member of the Young Citizen Volunteers (YCV) the youth wing of the UVF, although it is uncertain how active he was in the group. When he was shot, it was at his girlfriend's house on Summer Street in the Lower Oldpark in North Belfast, an area controlled by the UDA which was the likely reason he was targeted.
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Alternative Title:RAF ALDERGROVE VIDEO COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
