Borealis looks at serious acts of violence, including ‘suicide bombings’, that are not terrorist in nature.
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Global Terrorism Index 2020
In 2019, deaths from terrorism fell for the fifth consecutive year, after peaking in 2014.
On this day in 2004 nine people were killed and 32 injured when a bomb exploded during a New Year’s Eve music concert in Indonesia’s Aceh province
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Annual Nigerian presidential claims that terrorism is on the descendant are invariably wrong: the exact opposite is true.
On this day in December 1987 LTTE terrorists slaughtered 30 Muslim civilians in a village in the Batticloa region.
The recent explosion in Nashville has been deemed a ‘suicide bombing’. Was it?
On this day in 2000 six explosions in central Manila killed 22 and wounded 100 in an attack eventually blamed on Jemaah Islamiya.
In this episode, Borealis is joined by Mustafa Akyol to look at the nuances of Muslim leaders calling for boycotts of French goods.
On this day in 1992 Al Qaeda was behind the bombing of a Movenpick Hotel in Aden, Yemen that killed a tourist and an employee.