Terrorism
By: Maximus Sauceda
About Terrorism
Terrorism can be defined as Innocent people getting killed for no reason. Terrorists are killing random people and putting bombs in random places like buses and public places. The people who are being affected by terrorism are the people in Iraq and this is a problem because innocent people are getting killed for no reason. Terrorism violates article 4 from The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Freedom from slavery, and
article 5: freedom from torture. Degrading treatment.
What are the terrorist goals.
10 different terrorist group commits acts of violence to -
- To make wide spread fear.
- Obtain worldwide, national, or local recognition for their cause by attracting the attention of the media.
- Harass, weaken, or embarrass government security forces so that the the government overreacts and appears repressive.
- Steal or extort money and equipment, especially weapons and ammunition vital to the operation of their group.
- Destroy facilities or disrupt lines of communication in order to create doubt that the government can provide for and protect its citizens.
- Discourage foreign investments, tourism, or assistance programs that can affect the target country’s economy and support of the government in power.
- Influence government decisions, legislation, or other critical decisions.
- Free prisoners.
- Satisfy vengeance.
- Turn the tide in a guerrilla war by forcing government security forces to concentrate their efforts in urban areas. This allows the terrorist group to establish itself among the local populace in rural areas.
The History of terrorism
- 1795. "Government intimidation during the Reign of Terror in France." The general sense of "systematic use of terror as a policy" was first recorded in English in 1798.[8]
- 1916. Gustave LeBon: “Terrorization has always been employed by revolutionaries no less than by kings, as a means of impressing their enemies, and as an example to those who were doubtful about submitting to them...." [9]
- 1937. League of Nations convention language: "All criminal acts directed against a State and intended or calculated to create a state of terror in the minds of particular persons or a group of persons or the general public."[10]
- 1987. A definition proposed by Iran at an international Islamic conference on terrorism: “Terrorism is an act carried out to achieve an inhuman and corrupt (mufsid) objective, and involving [a] threat to security of any kind, and violation of rights acknowledged by religion and mankind.” [11]
- 1988. A proposed academic consensus definition: "Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi-) clandestine individual, group or state actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal or political reasons, whereby - in contrast to assassination - the direct targets of violence are not the main targets. The immediate human victims of violence are generally chosen randomly (targets of opportunity) or selectively (representative or symbolic targets) from a target population, and serve as message generators."[12]
- 1989. United States: premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by sub-national groups or clandestine agents.[13]
- 1992. A definition proposed by Alex P. Schmid to the United Nations Crime Branch: "Act of Terrorism = Peacetime Equivalent of War Crime."[14]
- 2002. European Union: ". . . given their nature or context, [acts which] may seriously damage a country or an international organisation where committed with the aim of seriously intimidating a population."[15]
- 2003. India: Referencing Schmid's 1992 proposal, the Supreme Court of India described terrorist acts as the "peacetime equivalents of war crimes."[16]
- 2005. United Nations General Assembly's statement with relation to terrorism: "Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them." [1]
- 2008. Carsten Bockstette, a German military officer serving at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies, proposed the following definition: “political violence in an asymmetrical conflict that is designed to induce terror and psychic fear (sometimes indiscriminate) through the violent victimization and destruction of noncombatant targets (sometimes iconic symbols)."[17]
- 2014. Contained in a Saudi Arabia terrorism law taking effect 1 February 2014, the following definition has been criticized by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch for being overly broad: "Any act carried out by an offender in furtherance of an individual or collective project, directly or indirectly, intended to disturb the public order of the state, or to shake the security of society, or the stability of the state, or to expose its national unity to danger, or to suspend the basic law of governance or some of its articles, or to insult the reputation of the state or its position, or to inflict damage upon one of its public utilities or its natural resources, or to attempt to force a governmental authority to carry out or prevent it from carrying out an action, or to threaten to carry out acts that lead to the named purposes or incite [these acts]."
Why does terrorism continue to kill innocent people
Why does the government do anything about the Isis terrorism incident no one didn't declare to make a mob against Isis more than 170,000 people (mostly Christians and Shiites) were killed in Iraq in the hands of Isis. why is nobody talking about this genocide?. They complained about Michael brown being killed by a cop who was trying to do his job and he got sent to jail for, I mean he's a cop his job is to stop criminals. and Michael brown is a criminal and god knows how many laws he broke. One man died so what, what about kidnapping going on in Budapest 300 black girls had been kidnapped,who knows what happened to them and no one complains about that. why do they stand up for what's wrong and stupid and not for the right thing to do.
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