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History of Terrorism
Definition :
"(any action) intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatans with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act."
Terrorism is usually used only to describe the violence of non-governmental organisations. In general, acts of policy by a government taken against civilians are considered either war crimes (if during wartime) or crimes against humanity (peacetime) and not terrorism. An exception is state-sponsored terrorism, which is where a government assists an NGO which commits the terrorism.
Underground resistance groups are almost always branded terrorist by the authorities they oppose.
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