Terrorism
Beginning of paper
JUNE 1914: a young man in Sarajevo steps up to a carriage and fires his pistol.
The Archduke Ferdinand dies. Within weeks, the first world war has begun. The
1940s: the French resistance kill occupying troops when and how they can. June
1944: at Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France, German SS troop ....
Middle of paper
.... is fundamentally a political act. Terrorists act to advance a cause
they mean to create tyranny, either directly or indirectly, so that the
political order that they prefer can take the place of the current one.
Terrorists can be either rebels seeking to overthrow a state or states seeking
to overthrow the international order or states seeking to maintain privilege for
rulers and stifle dissent among the people. In every case the motivation for
terrorism is explicitly without an except ....
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