State terrorism
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| "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets" --Voltaire [...]
"Today, however, we have to say that a state is that human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory - the 'territory' belongs to the definition."--Politics as a Vocation (1919) by Max Weber |
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State terrorism refers to acts of terrorism conducted by a state against a foreign state or people or its own people.
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See also
- Monopoly on violence
- Political repression
- State-sponsored terrorism
- State sponsors of terrorism
- War crimes
- Sociology of revolution
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