Terrorism

History

According to sociologists and experts on terrorism the French Revolution provided the first use of the words terrorist and terrorism. Using the word terrorism began in 1795 with reference to the terror initiated by the revolutionary government in France during the French Revolution. Agents of the State Security Committee and the National Assembly that enforced policy of Terror were referred to as terrorists. "The French Revolution provided an example for future states in oppressing their populations (White 566). It also inspired a reaction in the royalists and other opponents of the revolution, employed terrorist tactics such as assassination and intimidation in resistance to the revolutionary agents. The systematic use of terror as a policy is first recorded in England in 1798.  Words terrorism and terrorist were first used as political terms to describe atrocities of the occupying establishment - say colonial government.

Studies done on the history of terrorism shows that the "terrorist" in the modern sense date in 1947, particularly in relation to Jewish tactics against the British in Palestine - while earlier it was used for extremist revolutionaries in Russia in 1866 (White 564). The tendency of terrorism one of the parties is called a foreign guerilla war or fight for freedom was noted in connection with the anti-British actions in India (1857), Cyprus (1956) and the war in Rhodesia (1973). The word terrorist has been applied, at least retroactively, to the resistance of the Marquis in occupied France during World War II.

Britain first used the terms 'terrorism and terrorist' to describe anti-establishment forces or those who used hit-and-run practices against British colonialism.



Definition of Terrorism

The word "terrorism" is politically and emotionally, and this greatly compounds the difficulties of ensuring accurate determination. Only a general description of the general agreement on what terrorism is the use of violence ...