Freedom fighter or Terrorist

During our struggle for freedom besides peacefull movement we have some great freedom fighters who were very aggressive in terms of their actions. Long debates has been done in DM to justify their role and action against British Govt.....However if we see from British govt's perspective those freedom fighters were terrorist ... for us they are heros....

So how can we decide if some one is terrorist or a freedom fighter ..... if it is only the matter of perception from either side .

Question come up in my mind while reading comments over middle east crisis....well crisis has a long history but in modern time period started when thousands of people were expelled from their homeland with a ban to reenter by foreigners .. so if they want to do some kind of movement against it .. will it be called terrorism or freedom fight?

Here I don't want to discuss any particular sensitive issue ..just how we percieve terrorism and terrorist?

Originally posted by: sareg

Terrorism is a term used to describe violence or other harmful acts committed (or threatened) against civilians by groups or persons for whatever reasons

Now Freedom Fighters target not civilians but govt officials

Bhagat Singh shot a police officer, falls under freedom fighter --> not terrorist

Afzal Guru threatened to shoot up Indian Parliament, freedom fighter in the eyes of some, treasonous acts if you look at it from the other side --> not a terrorist

9/11 bombers attacked a bldg full of civilians --> terrorism

Resistance in Gaza that shoots at policemen, army might be freedom fighters for some, treasonous for other --> not terrorist

Palestanian Suicide bomber blowing himself/herself up in the middle of a mall --> Terrorist terrorist

Sanjay Dutt caught in the racket of distributing arms to people to shoot up civilians --> Terrorist 😉

Originally posted by: Morning_Dew

During our struggle for freedom besides peacefullnot movement we have some great freedom fighters who were very aggressive in terms of their actions. Long debates has been done in DM to justify their role and action against British Govt.....However if we see from British govt's perspective those freedom fighters were terrorist ... for us they are heros.... not true... thye didnt harm anyone without reason.. its important how the battle is fought to differentiate the two...there was guy who was willing to die than take lives....😊

So how can we decide if some one is terrorist or a freedom fighter ..... if it is only the matter of perception from either side .

Question come up in my mind while reading comments over middle east crisis....well crisis has a long history but in modern time period started when thousands of people were expelled from their homeland with a ban to reenter by foreigners .. so if they want to do some kind of movement against it .. will it be called terrorism or freedom fight? depends... on the real happening... if a common man picks up arms against aggressors thast not terrorism... if people find sophiticated RDX to blow innocent people it is...

Here I don't want to discuss any particular sensitive issue ..just how we percieve terrorism and terrorist?

Originally posted by: sareg

Terrorism is a term used to describe violence or other harmful acts committed (or threatened) against civilians by groups or persons for whatever reasons

Now Freedom Fighters target not civilians but govt officials

Bhagat Singh shot a police officer, falls under freedom fighter --> not terrorist

Afzal Guru threatened to shoot up Indian Parliament, freedom fighter in the eyes of some, treasonous acts if you look at it from the other side --> not a terrorist

9/11 bombers attacked a bldg full of civilians --> terrorism

Resistance in Gaza that shoots at policemen, army might be freedom fighters for some, treasonous for other --> not terrorist

Palestanian Suicide bomber blowing himself/herself up in the middle of a mall --> Terrorist terrorist

Sanjay Dutt caught in the racket of distributing arms to people to shoot up civilians --> Terrorist 😉

Originally posted by: sareg

Terrorism is a term used to describe violence or other harmful acts committed (or threatened) against civilians by groups or persons for whatever reasons

Now Freedom Fighters target not civilians but govt officials

Bhagat Singh shot a police officer, falls under freedom fighter --> not terrorist

Afzal Guru threatened to shoot up Indian Parliament, freedom fighter in the eyes of some, treasonous acts if you look at it from the other side --> not a terrorist

9/11 bombers attacked a bldg full of civilians --> terrorism

Resistance in Gaza that shoots at policemen, army might be freedom fighters for some, treasonous for other --> not terrorist

Palestanian Suicide bomber blowing himself/herself up in the middle of a mall --> Terrorist terrorist

Sanjay Dutt caught in the racket of distributing arms to people to shoot up civilians --> Terrorist 😉

Except for the last agree with all others.. Sanjay dutt is not a terrorist... by that logic...the whole underworld becomes terrorists....😊

Interesting topic Dewey. There was a similar thread some time back I guess. Anyways it is always nice to get fresh views😛.

I think one country's freedom fighter is another country's terrorist. We will have gazillion reasons to brand someone a terrorist but the ones who support them would still call them freedom fighters.

Now if we compare freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh then and freedom fighters/terrorists now then the approach will clear the misconception. Bhagat Singh and the rest revolted against British when they directly harmed the people through their policy and cruelty. Bomb blasts or killings were never intended for the sake of it and everything had a purpose. That is not the case now. Most of the things are done with hatred. Hatred against anyone who is not your "brother". The approach is to harm common man, impart fear and cause unrest.

Originally posted by: qwertyesque

Except for the last agree with all others.. Sanjay dutt is not a terrorist... by that logic...the whole underworld becomes terrorists....😊

not really

Varda --> smuggler

Haji Mastan --> smuggler

Dawood --> pre ISI links --> smuggler

Dawood --> post mumbai bomb blasts --> terrorist

Sanjay Dutt was caught with Ak-47's with an intent to distribute, you dont use Ak-47 to kill a single person, you use it to shoot a group(unless you are a Dharampaji in a bollywood flick😉), that too he was caught in the middle of a communal riot season, with an intent to distribute, that is a classic terrorism defination.