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List of militant organizations

  

List of militant organizations

A terrorist organisation is an organisation that engages in terrorist tactics, they are also (perhaps more neutrally) referred to as militant organisations.

The following groups are considered to be terrorist by a significant number of observers, though opinion is not uniform.

At least two features make objective assessment of which organisations are terrorist difficult:

  • the definition of terrorism is disputed and
  • the facts about the actions and motives of these groups are disputed.

    The cliché, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" has some relevance as, while Terrorism can technically be defined as politically motivated violence against non-combatants, use of the term is uneven and dependent on the observer's political perspective and moral judgement. Use of the term often carries moral weight beyond its technical use. "Militant" is a more neutral term to describe so-called "terrorist" groups. Militant groups themselves rarely claim to be committing terrorism and often justify their acts as defence against state oppression or terrorism by opposing groups.

    This list does not include government actions that could be labelled terrorism; instead, see state terrorism. The U.S. State Department maintains a list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, groups that the U.S. government considers terrorist, but these designations are far from universally accepted.

    Religious Terrorists

    Christian

  • Nagaland Rebels (1948-present) Active in predominately Christian state in Hindu India. Involved in several bombings in 2004. Goal: Independence from Hindu India after annexing parts of neighboring Indian states and Burma if it has Christian majority.
  • Ku Klux Klan A racist Protestant Christian organization with a history of violence against Afro-Americans, Jews, and Catholics.
  • Anti-Abortion Terrorism Activities include bombing abortion clinics, killing doctors and nurses. A member, Eric Robert Rudolph was charged with Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the Olympics and a health clinic in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • Irish Republican Army (IRA) (1916-present) **
  • Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) (1969-present)
  • * Splinter group of the 'Official' IRA.
  • * Supporters of the PIRA split from 'Official' Sinn Féin to form Provisional Sinn Féin. Provisional Sinn Féin was later known simply as Sinn Féin (while 'Official' Sinn Féin eventually became the Workers' Party).
  • * Under ceasefire since the Good Friday Agreement of 1997
  • * Splinter groups:
  • ** Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) (1986-present)
  • *** Also known as the "Continuity Army Council" and "Óglaigh na hÉireann (Gaelic for 'Volunteers of Ireland')
  • ** Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) (1997-present) *
  • *** Also known as the True IRA and Óglaigh na hÉireann (Gaelic for Volunteers of Ireland).
  • *** Does not recognize Belfast Agreement.
  • Irish National Liberation Army
  • Operation Rescue


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