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The use or threat of violence against civilian targets for political ends, including its use by states themselves. Terrorism spreads fear more widely by appearing to operate randomly.
The somewhat narrower definition employed by the US State Department: ‘premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against non-combatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.’
Political violence committed by those of whom one disapproves - ‘one man\'s terrorist is another man\'s freedom fighter’.
As representatives of states, diplomats and diplomatic premises became particular targets for terrorists (senses 1 and 2) in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Despite the special obligation to give them physical protection which is placed on receiving states by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961), not all of their governments have had either the will or the capacity to provide it. See also compound; diplomatic protection (sense 2); hostage; Inman standards. |
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