ASSIGNMENT

Submitted By : REMYA RAJ

B Ed.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Submitted To :

ANUPAMA MISS

(LECTURER IN SOCIAL SCIENCE)

TOPIC

“ terrorism ”

INDEX

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Introduction

Content

Conclusion

Reference

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INTRODUCTION

There is and academic nor an international legal consensus regarding the definition of

the term terrorism. Various legal systems and government agencies use different definitions.

Moreover, governments have been reluctant to formulate an agreed upon, legally binding

definition. These difficulties arise from the fact that the term is politically and emotionally

charged.

Angus Martyn in a briefing paper for the Australian Parliament has started that “the

international communityhas never succeeded in developing an accepted comprehensive

definition of terrorism.

As Bruce Hoffman has noted “terrorism is a pejorative term. It is a word with

intrinsically negative connotations that is generally applied to one’s enemies an opponent’s,

or to those with whom one disagrees and would otherwise prefer to ignore.

A 2003 study by Jeffrey Record for the W S Army quoted a sources that counted 109

definitions of terrorism that covered a total of 22 different definitional elements. Record

continued, “Terrorism expert Walter Lacquers also has counted over 100 definitions and

concludes that the only general characteristic generally agreed upon is that terrorism involves

violence and the threat of violence. Yet terrorism is hardly the only enterprise involving

violence and the threat of violence. So does war, cursive diplomacy, and bar room brawls”.

Mumbai has been the most preferred target for most terrorist organizations, many

operating with a base from Pakistan. Over the past few years these have been a series of

attacks, including explosions in local trains in July 2006, and the most recent and

unprecedented attack of 26 November 2008, when two of the Prime hotels, a landmark train

station and a Jewish Cha bad house, in South Mumbai, were attacked and sieged.

TERRORIST ATTACK IN MUMBAI INCLUDE

12 March 1993 - 13 bombs Killed 257.

6 December 2002 - Bus Bomb in Ghatko par, Killed 2

27 January 2003 - Bicycle Bomb in Vile Parle, Killed 1

28 July 2003 - Bus Bomb in Ghat Kopar, Killed 4

11 July 2006 - Seven Train Bombs Killed 209

13 July 2011 - Bomb explosions at three location, Killed 26.

Andhra Pradesh is one of the few Southern States affected by terrorism. The terrorism in

Andhra Pradesh Stems from the people’s war group (PWG), Popularly known as ‘Naxalites’.

The PWG has been operating in India for over two decades, with most of its operation in the

Telangana rigion in Andhra Pradesh. The group is also active in Odisha and Bihar, PWG is a

Maoist terrorist organization and communism is one of its primary goals. PWG has also

targeted senior government officials, including the attempted assassination of former Andhra

Pradesh Chief Minister ‘Chandrababu Naidu”.

The most recent 2013 Hyderabad blasts occurred around 19:00 IST. The two blasts

occurred in Indian city of Hyderabad’s Dilrukhanagar.

Tamilnadu had LTTE (liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) militants operating in the

Tamilnadu State up until the assassination of formser prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Meenambakkam Bomb blast was an explosion that occurred in August 2, 1984 at

Meenambakkam Inernational Airport at Chennai, Tamilnadu.

CONCLUSION

In the meantime, the international community adopted a series of sectorial

conventions that define and criminalize various types of terrorist activities. In addition, since

1994, the United Nations, General Assembly has condemned terrorist acts using the

following political description of terrorism. “Criminal acts intended to provoke a state of

terror in the general public, a group of persons for political purposes are in any circumstance

unjustifiable, whatever the consideration of political, Philosophical or any other nature that

may be involved to justify them.

REFERENCE

www.targeticse.co.on

simple.wikipedia.org/wiki.

Corrected by

Anupama M R

Lr . in Social Science