Difference Between Terrorists and Criminal Elements
Check out @ Benjamin Chukwuka response to someone who tries to differentiate between Terrorists and criminals:
WHO IS PLAYING THIS DANGEROUS GAME
By Ben Chukwuka
This write up below in circulation discussing the difference between terrorists and criminal group is the most ridiculous judgement and rationalization of herdsmen activities I have ever read. How on earth can you ever compare herdsmen with armed robbers or kidnappers? No, they are not even close and one clear, indisputable difference is that the hallmark of herdsmen attack is trail of deaths and they don't attack individuals but a community. How dare you compare communal terrorist to a person or group that is only concerned about all they get from you and not necessarily your life as a target? Did I hear you say they are not organized? They are the most organized otherwise I don't see how they keep evading the eyes of our security men after each attack and how they manage to hold a whole community or village hostage without their knowledge, how do they get their arms to attack a whole community and you say they are unorganized? Finally, the lame argument that they don't have a leader or chain of command. Please who can tell me the leader of the most dreaded terrorist group in the world, ISIS or their command structure? The answer is that ISIS has no known leader thus making herdsmen a prototype of ISIS.
Please my fellow Nigerians everything must not be politicized. Armed Fulani herdsmen have taken thousands of lives already and destroyed so many properties almost as much as Boko Haram. Boko Haram is limited to a region in Nigeria but herdsmen have attacked the whole geopolitical zones in the country which singles them out as far more dangerous than Boko Haram.
The government and military should wait no further and declare them as terrorist group because that is exactly what they are.
DIFFRENCE BETWEEN TERRORISTS AND CRIMINAL ELEMENTS..
Immediately # IPOB was declared a terrorist group, some people started asking how come
# Herdsmen are not declared a terrorist organisation.
Let me tell you the difference using different illustrations...
Armed robbery has been going on in Nigeria for over 50 years, how come armed robbers are not categorized as terrorists? Even though they carry weapons? The simple reason is because armed robbers are not a unified group.
■ They do not have a command hierarchy
■ They do not have political aims
■ Same applies to kidnappers...They are also criminal elements of our society but you cannot brand them as terrorists
The characteristics of a terrorist group are:
1. They have a group
2. They have a supreme leader
3. They have a leadership hierarchy
4. They have a base
5. They have a command centre
6. They have a recognized logo
7. They terrorize civilians
8. They have a militant wing
9. They have a political aim
The good thing is that Armed robbers, criminal herdsmen and kiddnerpers are not rewarded for their activities...The full wrath of the law is visited on them when they are caught.
We have punitive laws for those categories of criminal elements...They are simply criminal elements in the society.
Same applies to the criminal herdsmen, they are a minority criminal elements in our society that carry out criminal acts such as armed robbery, kidnapping, killing and arson.
Terrorism is when you form a group, arm the group and unleash terror on innocent citizens using the name of group, with a command hierarchy in the pursuit of political aims, that is standard definition of # terrorism .
A # terrorist group are people who willingly join a group and actively participate in terror activities like the ETA, Al-Queda, ISIS and now #IPOB under one umbrella with supreme leaders, a political and militant wing with the aim of using violence and intimidation for pursuit of political aims.
But how do you brand armed robbers a terrorist group? Is it by the number of tribes involved in armed robbery?
The fact that the total armed robbers in the country comprise of 90% of a single tribe doesn't mean the whole tribe are armed robbers.
The fact that 90% of the people engaged in drug trafficking are members of a particular tribe doesn't mean the whole tribe are drug pushers.
The fact that majority of kidnappers are 90% members of a particular tribe doesn't mean the innocent members of the tribe should be tagged kiddnapers.
Same way you can't brand all herdsmen terrorists because most of them are law abiding citizens who go about their daily activities peacefully.
#Herdsmen are cattle rearers, and among them we have criminal elements.
So it will be unfair to tag the whole herdsmen terrorists because of the activities of a minority.
I so submit
WHO IS PLAYING THIS DANGEROUS GAME
By Ben Chukwuka
This write up below in circulation discussing the difference between terrorists and criminal group is the most ridiculous judgement and rationalization of herdsmen activities I have ever read. How on earth can you ever compare herdsmen with armed robbers or kidnappers? No, they are not even close and one clear, indisputable difference is that the hallmark of herdsmen attack is trail of deaths and they don't attack individuals but a community. How dare you compare communal terrorist to a person or group that is only concerned about all they get from you and not necessarily your life as a target? Did I hear you say they are not organized? They are the most organized otherwise I don't see how they keep evading the eyes of our security men after each attack and how they manage to hold a whole community or village hostage without their knowledge, how do they get their arms to attack a whole community and you say they are unorganized? Finally, the lame argument that they don't have a leader or chain of command. Please who can tell me the leader of the most dreaded terrorist group in the world, ISIS or their command structure? The answer is that ISIS has no known leader thus making herdsmen a prototype of ISIS.
Please my fellow Nigerians everything must not be politicized. Armed Fulani herdsmen have taken thousands of lives already and destroyed so many properties almost as much as Boko Haram. Boko Haram is limited to a region in Nigeria but herdsmen have attacked the whole geopolitical zones in the country which singles them out as far more dangerous than Boko Haram.
The government and military should wait no further and declare them as terrorist group because that is exactly what they are.
DIFFRENCE BETWEEN TERRORISTS AND CRIMINAL ELEMENTS..
Immediately # IPOB was declared a terrorist group, some people started asking how come
# Herdsmen are not declared a terrorist organisation.
Let me tell you the difference using different illustrations...
Armed robbery has been going on in Nigeria for over 50 years, how come armed robbers are not categorized as terrorists? Even though they carry weapons? The simple reason is because armed robbers are not a unified group.
■ They do not have a command hierarchy
■ They do not have political aims
■ Same applies to kidnappers...They are also criminal elements of our society but you cannot brand them as terrorists
The characteristics of a terrorist group are:
1. They have a group
2. They have a supreme leader
3. They have a leadership hierarchy
4. They have a base
5. They have a command centre
6. They have a recognized logo
7. They terrorize civilians
8. They have a militant wing
9. They have a political aim
The good thing is that Armed robbers, criminal herdsmen and kiddnerpers are not rewarded for their activities...The full wrath of the law is visited on them when they are caught.
We have punitive laws for those categories of criminal elements...They are simply criminal elements in the society.
Same applies to the criminal herdsmen, they are a minority criminal elements in our society that carry out criminal acts such as armed robbery, kidnapping, killing and arson.
Terrorism is when you form a group, arm the group and unleash terror on innocent citizens using the name of group, with a command hierarchy in the pursuit of political aims, that is standard definition of # terrorism .
A # terrorist group are people who willingly join a group and actively participate in terror activities like the ETA, Al-Queda, ISIS and now #IPOB under one umbrella with supreme leaders, a political and militant wing with the aim of using violence and intimidation for pursuit of political aims.
But how do you brand armed robbers a terrorist group? Is it by the number of tribes involved in armed robbery?
The fact that the total armed robbers in the country comprise of 90% of a single tribe doesn't mean the whole tribe are armed robbers.
The fact that 90% of the people engaged in drug trafficking are members of a particular tribe doesn't mean the whole tribe are drug pushers.
The fact that majority of kidnappers are 90% members of a particular tribe doesn't mean the innocent members of the tribe should be tagged kiddnapers.
Same way you can't brand all herdsmen terrorists because most of them are law abiding citizens who go about their daily activities peacefully.
#Herdsmen are cattle rearers, and among them we have criminal elements.
So it will be unfair to tag the whole herdsmen terrorists because of the activities of a minority.
I so submit
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