Terrorism means use of force and threats against persons,groups or governments for political or other purposes.Terrorism is not a modern activity.Hundreds of years ago societies were not as organized as they are today with modern facilities of roads,telephone,regular police force, and so on.Then heads of strong groups of people,robbers and warriors made use of force and threats to life and property to get their aims.
Now terrorism itself is quite an organized activity.There are terrorist organizations or societies that train terrorists for their purposes.Sometimes these organizations are supported by foreign governments and huge funds and modern weapons are easily provided to them.There can be some terrorists like robbers acting personally for limited purposes.
Firstly,a regular terrorist organization usually works against the government.It tries to damage essential government buildings,offices and public places like railway stations and airports with bombs and destructive weapons.It kills people and destroys property in crowded places like market centers and bus stations.This sets the people against the government and causes public demonstrations.The bomb blasts and the resulting deaths and destruction in different parts of our country are an example of such terrorism.
A terrorist organization,operating in a country ,usually gets money and weapons from foreign governments.It also joins hands with forceful groups or parties opposed to the government inside the country.
Secondly,nations or big communities within a country use terrorist methods to gain greater freedom or independence.Thus the Sikhs in India have been committing acts of terrorism to achieve self-rule in the Punjab.The Irish people in North Ireland have been terrorizing the British government to force it to grant them independence.
Thirdly,there are internal or international terrorists like Carlos who actively hijack planes or kidnap import-ant or rich persons.They demand huge amounts of money for the release of prisoners or some political concessions for the return of the airplanes,passengers or the kidnapped persons.Air hijackings have been quite common.
Terrorism needs to be checked very carefully.The government should force all the people illegally present in the country to leave.It should force the refugees to remain in their camps all the time.It should arrange to stop the illegal flow of arms and money into the country from abroad.It should have an effective secret service which can report all kinds of terrorist plans.It may help the United Nations to establish a special anti-terrorist international force.
