India – The Forgotten Terror Victim

Below are excerpts from a news story titled “India was the second largest terror victim in 2004”, published in The Times of India’s Mumbai edition [coincidentally] on July 7th 2005:

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Using the new definition of terrorism, the National Counterterrorism Center in the US determined there were 3,192 terror attacks worldwide in 2004, affecting 28,433 victims.

GRAPH:Countries or regions with the greatest number of terror attacks in 2004:

Iraq: 866
India: 358
Nepal: 318
Gaza strip: 248
Russia: 162

Graph and news item credited to AP

Note that the definition was broadened to include attacks that are politically motivated violence carried out by extremist groups within a country, often aimed at changing their own government’s policies.
The previous definition focused on international terrorism and required that the terrorist victimise at least one citizen of another country.