The effectiveness
of terrorism lays in its ability in bringing about social and political
change when their goals have been specific,
and they won the support of the people they claimed to represent.
The following
patter won acclaim in case of anti-colonial terrorism in the 1940s and 1950s. The
next wing of terrorism, though, significantly differed, it represented
left-wing, anti-capitalist violence, that spread throughout Europe, North and South America during 1960s and 1970s. It came together
with the demonstration against war in Vietnam
The invasion
in Southeast Asia was perceived by some as an
act of imperialism, a form of colonialism, an attempt of economic domination. Some
radical students set up their own organization by means of which they expressed
their point of view. For most of people, the terrorists do not appeared as
liberators or freedom fighters but fanatics and criminals.
West Germany,
Frankfurt, a former sociology student Andreas Baader and three of his accomplices
set fire to a department store. It was 1968. Their act of terror was explained
in the following way: they were lightening a ‘torch against the capitalistic
terror of consumerism’. The pack was arrested and sentenced to four years in
prison.
Baader
while serving his sentence was allowed to collaborate with a journalist Ulrike
Meinhof, she took part in his great escape from prison on 14th of
May 1970. Needless to say, she left her two children and a husband to join
Baader to form a terrorist group called the Red Army Fraction (RAF).
They had
many allies they most fruitful cooperation was let with Middle East terrorist organizations,
they organized the training camps in Jordan Munich Germany
A group of
intellectuals formed the Red Brigades in Milan
The Red
Brigades generated the anxiety and fear, continued their violent attacks to
include murders. The most spectacular
act of terror was kidnapping and assassinating the leader of the Christian
Democrat Party – Aldo Moro on 16th of March 1978.
The organization
was strong and sufficient enough to sustain and continue their act of terrors until 1981.
In many countries
the struggle to stop the terrorism is ongoing, the torrent of violence seem to
swipe from right to left with no end. The
roaming mobs of bandits extorting money and forming alliances with drug cartels
are not (un)stoppable. There are governments that try to stop their illegal
operations.
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