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The Freedom Fighter - A Terrorist's Own Story (Hardcover)
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The Freedom Fighter - A Terrorist's Own Story (Hardcover)
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The ability of terrorist groups to inflict death and destruction
has markedly increased with technological advances in the areas of
communication, transportation, and weapon capability. Using these
new tools and networks, terrorists now seek to inflict mass
casualties worldwide. Given these realities, it is essential to
research the factors that underlie a terrorist group's origins,
grievances, and demands. Such insights might help others respond
more effectively to insurgencies, especially when military
campaigns to capture or kill every terrorist have proven
unsuccessful. The Freedom Fighter: A Terrorist's Own Story explores
why so many Kurdish people-especially young adults-join the
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and conduct terrorist acts. Inspired
by the ground-breaking classic, The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy's
Own Story, by Clifford R. Shaw, the author explores the issue of
radicalization into terrorist organizations through the
life-history method, enabling a PKK terrorist-or "freedom
fighter"-to tell his story. Over a five-month period, the author
interviewed "Deniz," a high-level PKK terrorist in a Turkish
prison, who during his time in the PKK rose from the lowest level
to near the top in terms of terrorist operations. This riveting
life history, told in Deniz's own words, provides unique insights
into why someone becomes a "freedom fighter" and what such a life
entails. The account provides extensive information on the PKK,
including the group's recruitment, ideological and military
training, armed strategies, internal structures and code of ethics,
treatment of women, and goals for peace. Deniz's story not only
explains why more Kurdish "freedom fighters" will be recruited to
engage in terrorist acts, but also facilitates understanding of how
"normal people" can become involved in conflict and organizations
that are designated as "terrorist groups." A foreword by renowned
criminologist Francis T. Cullen helps contextualize the material.
This book will interest students of criminology,
terrorism/counterterrorism, political violence, and security.
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