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See: cessation, conciliation, halt, interruption, interval, lull, pause, peace, treaty TRUCE, intern. law. An agreement between belligerent parties, by which they
mutually engage to forbear all acts of hostility against each other for some
time, the war still continuing. Burlamaqui's N. & P. Law, part 4, c. 11,
Sec. 1.
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A huge pall of smoke rose over Barajas Airport's Terminal Four after the explosion which appeared to end a ceasefire declared by ETA in March after four decades of armed struggle for independence of the Basque Country. mandated ceasefire, AI estimated that 1,000 Lebanese and 40 Israeli civilians had been killed in the conflict. The best-case outcome at this point is for a negotiated ceasefire in which the Sunni insurgency--not just the elected Sunni political leadership in Baghdad, but the insurgents and their armed leadership in the field--agrees to peace in exchange for concessions that would surely have to include a broad-based amnesty and a role for former insurgents in the government security apparatus, among other requirements. |
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