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Richard Kettlewell ([personal profile] ewx) wrote2005-07-29 03:49 pm

Suppressing terrorists

The question came up recently of how many examples there are of terrorist campaigns being actually defeated (as opposed to the terrorists winning, or some kind of compromise being reached, or things just carrying on indefinitely).

Everyone has their own definitions, of course. Personally I'd exclude random loonies (e.g. Unabomber) - the interesting question is of a nontrivial organization, perhaps with support from the surrounding community. (There's obvious a grey area the other side of which is full-scale civil wars, and it's hard to draw the line in there.)

Sendero Luminoso were the main example I could think of: Maoist guerillas defeated by the Peruvian state.

I'm not sure if the Werewolves were defeated as such or just gave up.

The Angry Brigade might be an example, though are clearly well in the direction of the lunatic fringe. No, I'd never heard of them before either...


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