2. Increment in Terrorism
There has also been a sharp increase in the number of terrorist attacks, with almost 10,000 occurring in
2013. However, the report also showed that around 50 percent of terrorist attacks did not claim any lives.
“The majority of terrorist groups ended by joining the political process, or were destroyed by policing and
intelligence agencies breaking up the group and either arresting or killing key members. Military force in of
itself was rarely responsible for ending terrorist groups,” the report, published in the General Terrorism
Index (GTI), stated.
However, terrorist groups are now targeting police and security forces with even greater frequency, thus
making it much harder to try and manage the problem, according to Killelea. He added that this can lead
to rights abuses against the civilian population, which can sometimes inflame an already-volatile situation
even further.
Terrorist incidents have increased significantly in Iraq during 2013 with the number of deaths rising by 162
percent from 2012. Bombings are the tactics almost exclusively used by terrorist groups, with this method
accounting for 87 percent of deaths and 97 percent of injuries. Suicide attacks also continue to be used,
with a very high cost to human life - an average of over seven deaths per suicide attack.
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“Terrorism as a tactic of sustained mass destruction on a large scale is mostly ineffective. However, large
scale explosions and mass deaths cause large, unpredictable and unintended consequences, whereas
individual deaths have much smaller flow-on effects,” the report added.
Although terrorist attacks are constantly in the news,40 times more people are murdered around the globe
every year, in comparison to those losing their lives as a consequence of terrorist activities.
Cathie Moris- Manager at http://egoseoservices.com