Abstract
The question that was touched upon by many speakers [during the symposium on the OHCHR] is that Mary Robinson used to refer as “the T question”, non-state terrorism. One could hardly have imagined two years ago that one would be grateful for the predictability of state terrorism, which was relatively comprehensible. One could hardly have imagined how bewildered, how impotent, we were to feel since September 2001, in dealing with this new and horrific form of international criminality. Its crimes have taken forms that are unrecognizably contrary to state terror because state terror, so to speak, can be contained. Non-state terrorism is not containable in the same way. And certainly not through some of the means that are being used to contain it. I will come back to this point later. If you look at recent acts of non-state terrorism, people 1. UN High Commissioner for
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