In the Kurdish Workers Partyy case a terrorist organisation which was on ceasefire was refused deproscription because it was said to "retain the capacity for terrorism".
Any member of a terror group recognised to be on ceasefire, and who committed an offence in the UK before April 10 1998, qualified.
The new Labour government soon gave up and imposed direct rule from London.This time, the paramilitaries on both sides are on ceasefire and pledged to the agreement signed on Good Friday.
Seán Hartnett (not his real name), who has just published a book about his part in the secret counterterrorism war, said republicans were "still gathering intelligence on the security forces in the early 2000s despite being on ceasefire, so we did the same on them".
In line with the British and Irish governments' proposals after the Weston Park talks in July, the secretary of state also confirmed that there would be an amnesty for paramilitaries on the run, for offences committed before the Good Friday agreement was signed, if their organisations were on ceasefire.
The IRA never admitted involvement and was supposed to be on ceasefire at the time.
Not to mention the media's primary focus has been on Syrian government ceasefire violations with little attention paid to opposition transgressions.
In truth, the INLA ceasefire has been on the cards for some years.
"We've been very clear that when it comes to the UVF, we firmly believe that they are not on ceasefire," the federation's chairman, Terry Spence, said.
Organized by the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center, the response is part of a new effort to fight gun violence in Crown Heights called Save our Streets, or S.O.S., that is modeled on CeaseFire, the antigun violence program developed at the University of Illinois in the 1990s.
