The UVF was last night accused of attempting to "ratchet up tensions" in south Belfast as more banners depicting republican attacks from the Troubles went up on the lower Ravenhill Road.
Similar banners were put up by loyalists at nearby Cantrell Close and Global Crescent at the weekend.
They refer to republican attacks during the Troubles resulting in multiple deaths, including the 1993 Shankill bomb which killed nine Protestants and one IRA man.
None of the banners make any reference to attacks carried out by loyalist paramilitary groups.
SDLP MLA Claire Hanna described the move as a "classic coat-trailing episode by UVF cheerleaders".
"The same people who up these banners earlier this week put UVF flags up all over the area in a bid to ratchet up tensions – many residents who have contacted me are genuinely in fear of these gangsters might do next," she said.
"Undoubtedly the atrocities depicted on these banners were unjustifiable and sectarian, but victims deserve more than point scoring on lampposts by apologists for perpetrators of other equally sectarian and unjustifiable murders."
Flags were removed from Ravenhill Avenue, near Global Crescent, last month by a group calling itself East Belfast Community Initiative, which later published an agreed flags protocol.
