Was Idi Amin's Government a Terrorist Regime?
| Autor: | Emma Leonard Boyle |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Government
Sociology and Political Science 020209 energy media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Ethnic group 050401 social sciences methods 02 engineering and technology Genocide Criminology Autocracy 0504 sociology State (polity) Political science Law Political Science and International Relations Terrorism 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Safety Risk Reliability and Quality Safety Research media_common |
| Zdroj: | Terrorism and Political Violence. 29:593-609 |
| ISSN: | 1556-1836 0954-6553 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09546553.2015.1005741 |
| Popis: | What does state terrorism look like? How do we distinguish it from other forms of mass state violence, such as repression or genocide? Based on the developing literature on state terrorism, this study presents three expectations that violence perpetrated by the state should meet if it is to be classified as state terrorism: these are (a) that the violence is perpetrated by agents of the state, (b) that the violence is visible, and (c) that state terrorism focused against a state's own citizens will be carried out by an autocratic, personalistic regime. Drawing substantially on a series of primary sources, this study demonstrates that Idi Amin's regime in Uganda from 1971 to 1979 did engage in state terrorism against its own citizens. |
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