Listing all acts of terrorism that occurred in the world last week from the 8th to the 14th of February 2021.
Search: “Thailand”
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Episode 78 – What is the role of respect for human rights in counter-terrorism?
A 1999 hostage taking by a Burmese terrorist group demanding the release of political prisoners ended peacefully when all 38 hostages were freed.
On this day in 1985, Sikh extremists perpetrated the single greatest terrorist act in history when they placed a bomb on an Air India flight, killing 329.
On this day in 1985, Islamist terrorists placed 11 bombs on the 8th century Borobudur Buddhist temple in Central Java, the oldest structure in the world.
On previous New Year’s Eve, terrorist attacks have indeed been carried out. Here is a sample.
On this day in 1975, six armed men boarded a train at the Dutch town of Assen and seized the passengers as hostages.
Terrorism is not always as ‘in your face’ as we sometimes think. Campaigns of violence, often mislabeled as the work of ‘insurgents’ or ‘militants’ can go on for years and even decades with little reverberation in the news, especially if the killing occurs in a faraway land or part of a country well off the […]
Governments often do whatever they can to control messaging that reflects poorly on their mandates. This should not be of surprise to anyone as, like ruling parties, most of us do not want information that casts us in a negative light to gain wide exposure. With states it is a little different as these are, […]
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Terrorism: plus ca change (part 2)
If you are a faithful reader of my blogs or have had the opportunity to listen to my podcasts you will know that I have been going on lately about Buddhist terrorism. Yes, I am referring to that oddly-phrased form of violent extremism which I imagine strikes most as oxymoronic (can peaceful Buddhists REALLY engage […]