31.   But when the guerrillas broke the truce in November with renewed attacks, the government declared a state of emergency and deployed the army.

32.   Chechen commanders accused the Russians of breaking the truce.

33.   Each side accused the other of firing the first shot to break the truce.

34.   The Tigers pulled out of that ceasefire by attacking two navy gunboats at a nortrh-eastern port and both sides accused each other for breaking the truce.

35.   Unlike the IRA, which broke its truce with a series of mainland bomb attacks beginning in February, the loyalists have not resumed violence.

36.   Western diplomats noted that the message came after the US led a Western condemnation of the Tigers for breaking the truce.

37.   Rose cited incidents in which one or the other side had broken the truce.

38.   The government and the rebels entered a ceasefire in July, but three rounds of peace talks yielded little progress and the Maoists broke the truce in late November.

39.   The IRA broke the truce in February.

40.   The latest bout of bloodshed, which erupted in early April, broke a truce signed last August that had ended three years of fighting.