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4. 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
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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
