Noting that there were a large number of democracies that differed from each other in many respects, he wanted to make clear that the task of catching or preventing acts of terrorism was the task of forces of security and law and order and the intelligence services. It was a task which required lots of discipline but which must be carried out within the framework of the rule of law — 'no matter how evil you may think terrorists are they have as many freedoms as anyone else…it must not be presumed that a terrorist, just because he's going to kill people, has no human rights.'
Lord Desai said that terrorism had to be seen as a political programme, an ideology; a political programme to capture power. 'Power should be in the hands of the ethnicity that the terrorist represents and their legitimate grievances and claims are such that ordinary procedures should be set aside, with power ceded to the terrorist group.'
Many of the terrorist incidents of the last 50 years have arisen from a grievance that a certain group thinks they deserve power and somehow they have been thwarted from achieving it for one reason or another. Often they have a national perspective and nationalist programme.
http://newageislam.com/combating-terrorism--is-democracy-the-answer?-/war-on-terror/d/1801
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