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Political Violence In Iraq - Saddam Hussein on coming to power in 1979 silenced all political opposition and converted one party state. Over more than 20 years his regime has executed, tortured, imprisoned, raped, terrorized & repressed Iraqi people. Iraq was once rich in culture with history of intellectual and scientific achievement. Saddam silenced its scholars as well as women and children with unimaginable cruelty. Iraqi dissidents
tortured, killed or disappear in order to deter other Iraqi citizens from speaking out against government or demanding change. A system of collective punishment tortures entire families or ethnic groups for the act of one dissidents. Women were raped and often vidcotaped to blackmail their families. Citizens are publicly beheaded with unspeakable atrocifies in daily life. Why didn't Iraqis complain publicly?
Because of Saddam's decree in 2000 authorising government to amputate the tongues of citizens who criticized him or his government Saddam Hussain used chemical weapons for mass destruction against his people.
In Zimbabwe in Africa - When marxist Robert Mugabe was elected in 1980 as Prime Minister. Zimbabwe was gradually transformed into hell on earth. Thousands of white-owned commercial farms have been stolen by hordes of government sanctioned thugs. Owners were brutalized, tortured, murdered: Christians churches were bulldozed.
Burma & Sudan - are ruled by brutal militancy dictatorship & mass slaughter & genocide are normal.
China - Chinese goods may be cheap but life is even cheaper. Government imprisons. anyone who dares to criticise, has suffocating communist dictatorship. There is no free press. News organisations being largely ruined and owned by government. They even censor the internet. One child policy enforced by' mandatory sterilisation, forced abortion and infanticide.
In Russia - freedom has deteriorated in political court, rules of law, freedom of expression etc.
Most Government from East Africa to South Africa are corrupt, predatory power, hungry perfumes its tyrany with an idealistic such as communism or Islamic fundamentalism.
Terrorism is motivated by political religious or economic reasons because persecution, in-justice, or oppression. Tool of terrorist is creating Terror. They become terrorist as freedom fighters pursuing nationalistic goal. Such acts are seen in their eyes as heroic acts and they feel them as martyrs, In 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, epoch changing status
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