Can terrorism ever be justified?

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1. In their own eyes and in the eyes of their supporters, they are heroes with a mission to save their people.
2. Another known terrorist group are the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers.
3. This conviction remains strong despite world opinion to the contrary.
4. In order to obtain this, they are willing to go to war. However, their brand of war is terrorism against innocent
villagers who do not even know what the fighting is all about.
5. They believe that they should have a separate state carved out of existing Sri Lanka.
6. The terrorists are convinced that they are the wronged party and that they are justified in doing anything to get what
they want.
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1. They always pick on those who are too weak to defend themselves. Such acts can never be justified under any
circumstances.
2. The world generally feels, and rightly too, that violence against innocents for whatever reason can never be justified.
3. However, it is the mark of all terrorists that they avoid meeting organized forces.
4. If the terrorists had gone to war against soldiers, at least there would have been the chances of a fair fight.
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1. The terrorists conduct their deeds claiming that they are at war with the authorities and that since they are too weak to
take on the governments that are their real enemies, so they turn their wrath on the people.
2. Terrorism is the act by which armed persons attack and kill or injure others, often innocent people, as a means of
correcting perceived wrongs against themselves (terrorists).
3. The ultimate hope is that the people too will turn against the governments and bring them down.
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1. Governments are not likely to give way to terrorist demands.
2. Hence, many countries supported the Palestinian claim to their homelands but, not their terrorist activities.
3. However, the path they have taken, more often than not, seals all doors of their ever getting what they want.
4. On top of that the world is likely to divorce itself from people who would kill innocents.
5. It is easy to justify anything that a person strongly believes in. In the case of the terrorists, they are convinced that they
are justified in taking innocent lives.
6. But when the terrorists try to combat the government through terrorism, the people who may be sympathetic usually
turn away from the terrorists as well and the government too takes a harder stand.
7. Since almost all terrorism takes place in democratic countries, the people who are unhappy with the government have
recourse to the ballot to remove the government.
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1. In the past terrorism was usually practised by communist insurgents, who want democracies to be brought down and
communism installed.
2. Can anything like this ever be justified?
3. They laid mines in playground which killed children, they exploded bombs in crowded places and killed dozens of
people, they assassinated prominent figures and set fires to villages.
4. Singapore and Malaysia had a taste of this form of terrorism in the 1950s.
5. Their aim was to disrupt the government and make it look weak and the cause for all the people's suffering, and when
the people have lost faith in the government, the communists system will be an attractive alternative.
6. The insurgents used various ways to terrorize the people.
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1. To get back their homeland?
2. The terrorists who adopt this method of furthering their cause certainly think that they are justified.
3. Every Palestinian terrorist considers himself a hero and a lighter of wrongs and is ready to die for his cause. In his or
her mind, the cause is justified.
4. The Palestinians who were driven out by the Israelis are convinced that every Israeli young or old, man, woman or
child is an enemy and every Israeli killed is an enemy killed. Why are they doing this?