Two Justifications for Terrorism a Moral Legal Response

Ignatieff Michael , ‘Human Rights, the Laws of War, and Terrorism’ (2002) 69 Social Research 1137, 1147.

Fanon Franz , The Wretched of the Earth (trans Farrington C , Grove Press, NY, 1963), 93.

Walzer Michael , Just and Unjust Wars (3rd ed, Basic Books, NY, 2000), 199; Honoré Tony , ‘The Right to Rebel’ (1988) 8 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 34; 37; see, eg, Agence France Press, ‘Hitler's would-be assassin receives belated honours’, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 May 2003.

Walzer , above n 3, 198–199.

See, eg, Watin v Ministère Public Federal , Swiss Federal Tribunal (1964), 72 ILR 614, 617.

Walzer , above n 3, 199–200.

Ibid, 145–146.

Lauterpacht Hersch (ed), Oppenheim's International Law: Vol II (8th ed, Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1955), 338.

Honderich Ted , After the Terror (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2003) 159; Rodin David , War and Self-Defense (Clarendon, Oxford, 2002), 84.

Walzer , above n 3, 200, 203.

Falk Richard , The Great Terror War (Arris Books, Gloucestershire, 2003), 43; Walzer , above n 3, 193, 200.

McGeough Paul , ‘Inside the mind of a suicide bomber’, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 Apr 2002.

See, eg, 1949 Geneva Conventions, common art 3; 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, articles 27, 147; 1977 Protocol I, articles 51, 75, 85; 1977 Protocol II, articles 4, 13.

Honderich , above n 9, 151, 162, 170, 184–185.

International Law Commission, Articles on State Responsibility (2000) article 25.

Wilkinson Paul , Terrorism and the Liberal State (Macmillan, London, 1977) 186.

Alexander Yonah , ‘Democracy and Terrorism: Threats and Responses’ (1996) 26 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 253, 264, 257.

Meron Theodore , ‘The Humanization of Humanitarian Law’ (2000) 94 American Journal of International Law 239, 240.

Walzer , above n 3, 261, 263–268; Glover Jonathan , Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century (Jonathan Cape, London, 1999), 83, 89–112.

Glover , ibid, 109.

Horder Jeremy , ‘Self-Defence, Necessity and Duress: Understanding the Relationship’ (1998) XI Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 143, 156.

Glover , above n 19, 85.

(1954-I) International Law Commission Yearbook 141.