IRA orders end to armed campaign
·All units to dump arms
.Volunteers told to cease activity
·Blair hails historic statement
Matthew Tempest and agenciesThursday July 28, 2005 -
The IRA today announced its 36-year armed campaign was over, and that it would resume disarmament.
Tony Blair welcomed the statement describing it as of "unparalleled magnitude" and said it could "create the circumstances" to revive the power-sharing assembly in Belfast...
The Guardian
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