Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) has again warned that it will take "immediate and direct action" against drug dealers in Derry.
The organisation insists the “onus” is on dealers to “come forward” and admit their involvement in “this death trade”.
If this doesn’t happen, warns the group, it will take what it describes as “immediate and direct action.”
In a statement, RAA
D said: “We have noticed that it is only after we are onto the dealers that alot of them want to take up the offer of our amnesty. This is not acceptable. From now on, the onus is on the dealers to give up their death trade and come forward to us.”
The group insists its "amnesty" in relation to those who continue to sell drugs within the local community remains in place.
In its statement, the organisation also claimed responsibilty for the shooting of a man in the Creggan area of Derry on Tuesday night last.
In its latest report, the Independent Monitoring Commission referred to the "growth of vigilante organisations which claim to want to 'clean-up' (their term) anti-social behaviour".
The IMC said these groups - which included RAAD - were "a factor behind the increase in the number of attacks in some nationalist areas".
It is believed the group has been behind almost a dozen similar attacks in the city over the past year.
