State terrorism and the United States
Subtitle: from counterinsurgency to the war on terrorism
By: by    Frederick H. Gareau.
Publisher: Clarity Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: State-sponsored terrorism; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Human rights; Counterinsurgency; Intervention (International law); United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-; United States -- Military relations
Description: This study exposes the support that administrations in Washington have given right-wing dictatorships that committed terrorism especially during the cold war and war on terrorism. It rejects the narrow definition of terrorism insisted on by Washington that exempts terrorism committed by governments (state terrorism) from the definition, and for political reasons restricts the term solely to the private terrorism committed by private individuals or non-governmental organizations. Every one of the six truth commission reports used in the studyone each for El Salvador, Chile, Argentina, and South Africa and two with remarkably similar conclusions for Guatemala-- found that the governments were responsible for the great preponderance of terrorism and other acts of repression that occurred in their respective countries, much more so than the guerrillas. [publisher web site].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.