Essay On Terrorism In India

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for freedom, justified by human rights, can only win if it exists from human right as a moral system.4 “Terrorism" comes from the French word terrorisme, and originally referred specifically to state terrorism as practiced by the French government during the 1793–1794 Reigns Of Terror. The French word terrorisme in turn derives from the Latin verb terreō meaning "I frighten". The terror cimbricus was a panic and state of emergency in Rome in response to the approach of warriors of the Cimbri tribe in 105 BC. A common definition of terrorism is the systematic use or threatened use of violence to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious, or ideological change. Terrorism in India, according to the Home Ministry, poses a significant threat to the state. Terrorism in India is basically two types external and internal, external terrorism emerge from neighbouring countries and internal terrorism emulates from religious or communal violence and Naxalite–Maoist insurgency. Terror activities involve either Indian or foreign citizens. Terrorist activity is a form of violence and terrorism is theoretical philosophisation of such violence.…show more content…
It would include ordinary criminal offences of extortion and robbery, both of which may involve putting somebody in fear. Much criminal conduct involves scaring people, but it is unhelpful to define all such activity as terrorism. The second part of the definition, “especially as a means of affecting political conduct”, is more helpful. In historical contexts, terrorism describes a certain way of making people bow to the political will of the

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