Dharma/Others Truce

Psychedelic

The season 5 blu-ray has a Dharma/Others Truce as a special feature. Got the text from here:
http://www.approachinglost.com/2009/12/11/full-text-of-the-dharmaothers-truce/

LETTER OF TRUCE

(Alpert notes 8/15/73)

RESOLUTION OF 15 AUGUST 1973
The DHARMA Iniative and the indigenous island inhabitants,
Desiring to bring about cessation of hostilities on the island without prejudice to the rights, claims and position of the the indigenous island inhabitants or DHARMA Iniative recruits and employees, Goodspeed, is the “legal” language necessary?
1. Call upon all authorities and leaders concerned to order a cessation of all actions of armed force in perpetuity going forward from this date; Fix Period – Finite
2. Call upon all authorities and leaders concerned to refrain from introducing fighting personnel into the DHARMA Iniative or the indigenous inhabitants’ camps during the cease-fire;
3. Call upon all authorities and leaders concerned to refrain from mobilizing or submitting a military army for training during the cease-fire; We’re not the ones with uniforms
4. Call upon all authorities and leaders concerned to refrain from importing or exporting war materials into the DHARMA Iniative or the indigenous inhabitant’s camps during the cease-fire; Please define “war materials”
5. Urge all authorities and leaders concerned to take every possible precaution for the protection of the island, including all shrines and sanctuaries used for whatever purposes by those who have an established right to visit them; I’ve included more specific on this in our counters
6. Call upon all authorities and leaders concerned to respect the established boundaries of the DHARMA Initiative and the indigenous inhabitants’ camps and a zone of five kilometers surrounding each camp, and to not infiltrate or attack these areas during the cease-fire;
7. Urge all authorities and leaders concerned to respect the established right of the citizens of each camp to live freely within their community and to not fear attack during the cease-fire; Redundant – we get it.
8. Instruct the DHARMA Iniative and the indigenous inhabitants to create security teams, in concert with a mediator, to supervise the observance of above provisions, and provide them with a sufficient number of security observers;
9. Instruct the mediators to make contact with all parties as soon as the cease-fire is in force with a view to carrying out his functions; I will be our mediator, you will be Dharma’s
10. Instruct the mediators to make periodic reports to each party as mutually decided upon during the cease-fire; Is this necessary? Our willingness to allow your presence should not be mistaken as continued opportunities for diplomacy
11. Invite the mediators of the DHARMA Iniative and the indigenous inhabitants to communicate their acceptance of the resolution not later than sundown on 16 August 1973;
12. Decide that if the present resolution is rejected by either party or by both, or if, having been accepted, it is subsequently repudiated or violated, the situation on the island will be reconsidered wirh a view to military action and swift reprisal;
13. Call upon all authorities and leaders concerned to take all possible steps to assist in the implementation of this resolution.
Adopted this day. 16 August 1973. Agreed and accepted to. See my counters/addendums on back. -RA

On the back of the Truce document are additional points by Richard Alpert:

- If the DHARMA Iniative enters or violates any preexisting ruins on the island, the truce is violated.
- If the DHARMA Iniative digs or drills any more than ten meters into the ground, even in their designated territory, the truce is violated.
- The DHARMA Iniative pledges its term of residency will last no longer than fifteen years. At the end of this term all facilities and personnel are to leave the island.
- The D.I. can only maximum population of D.I. members cannot exceed 216 at any one time on the island.

cooker3

Interesting that the DI was supposed to leave in 1988. I wonder did them not leaving lead to the purge.

Sad Professor

Yeah, that seems to be the implication alright. Although I always assumed that the "purge" was Dharma's idea, as in they attempted to purge the Others. But then Ben betrayed them, told the Others what they were planning and helped them to purge Dharma instead.