PHIL 2429 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Tutsi, Safe Havens
26 Dec 2016
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Unlike murderers, terrorists have a political agenda that their attacks are intended to further. Terrorist attacks are not ends in themselves, they are part of a broader plan. The effectiveness of the initial attacks in conveying the terrorists goal are not from preventing the targs from committing their goals, but from the wider political effects. Not about killing people, but about getting people to behave in ways that further the terrorists goals. Rwandan genocide want to spread fear or to manipulate the tutsi population but it was to achieve the goal of ethnic purity. Thus it was an end in itself. This is why we don"t describe such as terrorism even though they are politically motivated. There"s a difference between trying to exert illicit influence on a political system and trying to influence the nonpolitical behaviour of a small group of individuals. Many take the undermining or threatening to undermine the sovereignty of the state to be terrorism.
