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Effects of terrorism on the economics of America
Title: Effects of terrorism on the economics of America
Category: Law & Government / Military
Details: Words: 561 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Effects of terrorism on the economics of America
Terrorism
JUNE 1914: a young man in Sarajevo steps up to a carriage and fires his pistol. The Archduke Ferdinand dies. Within weeks, the first world war has begun. The 1940s: the French resistance kill occupying troops when and how they can. June 1944: at Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France, German SS troops take revenge, massacring 642 villagers. August 1945: the United States Air Force drops the world's first nuclear weapons. Some 190,000 Japanese die, nearly all of them civilians. Within …showed first 75 words of 561 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 561 total…II, most terrorists adhered to a set of rules for moral behavior that excluded the killing, capture, or torture of civilians who were not also government officials. In other words they respected the rights of non-combatants as defined by various treaties that set the rules for armed conflict (such as the Geneva and Hague Conventions). Since the with the rise of terrorist groups and revolutionary guerrilla movements around the world, such rules have been discarded.
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