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NORTHERN IRELAND: THE PARAMILITARIES THAT ‘NEVER GO AWAY’ It starts with drugs, says John. Paramilitaries in his working-class area near Belfast control the trade. Young teenagers go to them for weed and cocaine, but soon they are hooked and have racked up a “strap”, or debt. They struggle to pay because they can’t get a job until they are 16, so they are given two choices, he says: “Take a puni..