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Another example of a country combining high levels of terrorism with extreme poverty is Uganda. Several groups mentioned in the US Department of State’s Patterns of Global Terrorism operate on its territory, including the Christian Lord’s Resistance Army and the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
The difference between ethnic and ideological terrorism is also emphasised by Gurr. He argues that most terrorist campaigns in democratic societies are deemed to fail, because violence offends the public, creates a backlash among potential supportive constituencies, and generates increased general support for strong counter-measures by the authorities. Over time, support for terrorist groups will only remain among distinctive minorities such as militant Catholics in Northern Ireland and Basque activists in Spain.147
However, the longevity of both ethnic and socio-revolutionary terrorist groups in Western democracies suggests that democracy is in no way an easy recipe for eliminating terrorism. This is illustrated, for example, by the continued existence of the Corsican FLNC founded in 1976, the Greek 17 November group established in 1975, the Italian Red Brigades formed in 1968, the Basque ETA founded back in 1959, and, not least, the PIRA, created as a breakaway offshoot of the old IRA in 1970 in Northern Ireland.
A prime example of this dynamic is the increased level of violence by rejectionist groups following the signing of the Oslo Accords in September 1993. Both secular and Islamist Palestinian factions vowed to launch an ‘armed Intifada’ to frustrate the Accords between the moderate PLO leadership and the dovish Israeli Labour party. The Israeli right responded in a similar manner: Kach and other militant settler groups vowed to set up their own militias to defy and shoot any Palestinian policemen in sight. The most dramatic act of violence was perpetrated by a Brooklyn-born Kach activist Baruch Goldstein, who machine-gunned and killed 29 Muslim worshippers in the Hebron mosque on 25 February 1994.
Please note that far-left terrorism is also mentioned in the article, including the PFLP. We are on topic.
The difference between ethnic and ideological terrorism is also emphasised by Gurr. He argues that most terrorist campaigns in democratic societies are deemed to fail, because violence offends the public, creates a backlash among potential supportive constituencies, and generates increased general support for strong counter-measures by the authorities. Over time, support for terrorist groups will only remain among distinctive minorities such as militant Catholics in Northern Ireland and Basque activists in Spain.147However, the longevity of both ethnic and socio-revolutionary terrorist groups in Western democracies suggests that democracy is in no way an easy recipe for eliminating terrorism. This is illustrated, for example, by the continued existence of the Corsican FLNC founded in 1976, the Greek 17 November group established in 1975, the Italian Red Brigades formed in 1968, the Basque ETA founded back in 1959, and, not least, the PIRA, created as a breakaway offshoot of the old IRA in 1970 in Northern Ireland.
