Essay On State Terrorism

Governments are known to use violence discreetly to have control of their state. It can turn the population into creating resistance movements and turns into chaos and can cause terror attacks against their own government like we have seen several in todays history such as Egypt and Libya. There are different types of terrorism in this world the government tends to use. State terrorism, state sponsored terrorism and nationalist terrorism are one of the main types that will be discussed.

State terrorism, also named ‘terrorism from above’ originated from the French revolutionary’s states in 1793 right (Danis, Module 5, slide 4). It is a very violent, cruel and violates every human right (Danis, Module 5, slide 5). State terrorism could either have a

Some countries do not want to be seen as the aggressors so they would turn terrorism into an well-organized distinct weapon. The example mentioned in the study material, where the Arab countries would not provoke a war with Israel but they would go discretely and sponsor a terrorist group to do their job for them (Danis, Module 5, slide 15). When this kind of attack happens it usually done secretly and would leave no evidence behind and therefore who ever was targeted will not know how to respond to this kind of attack (Danis, Module 5, slide 15). According to Gus Martin, state terrorism is not expensive and therefore rich or poor nations can carry out an attack. State terrorism has partial consequences by being extremely smart and erasing all sorts of evidence that would lead to the attack. Last but not least state terrorism can be successful by sponsoring a terrorist act for doing the job for the aggressor state without a trace. (Danis, Module 5, slide