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Originally Posted by Confed999
Strange, I don't remember either of those places voting in a government with a policy of terrorism.
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during the 60s and 70s the african national congress committed acts of terrorism against the apartheid government.at that time, nelson mandela(sitting in jail) was the leader of the ANC. now everyone in the world sees mandela and members of the ANC as respectable people who took part in a historic struggle and not as former terrorists. on the other hand, looking at India during the early part of the 20th century,Gandhi may have been a nice little man who advocated non-violent civil disobedience, but there were paople within indias independence movement who engaged in acts of terrorism against the british. two individuals who committed terrorist acts were Bhagat Singh, and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. i think these two lived during the 1920s or 30s. I don't think most people in modern India see them as terrorists, but as great patriots(just like Ghandi) who took part in the struggle to free India from British rule.