In December 1945, Albanians elected a new People's Assembly, but only candidates from the Democratic Front ( previously the National Liberation Movement then the National Liberation Front ) appeared on the electoral lists, and the communists used propaganda and terror tactics to gag the opposition.

During the revolution, Lenin advocated mass action and that the revolution " accept mass terror in its tactics ".

Michael Stohl argues, " The use of terror tactics is common in international relations and the state has been and remains a more likely employer of terrorism within the international system than insurgents.

He used white terror tactics and various military campaigns to destroy the CPC, and the police and military apparatus were freely used to attack dissenters.

He argues that “ the use of terror tactics is common in international relations and the state has been and remains a more likely employer of terrorism within the international system than insurgents.

Both sides resorted to terror tactics.

The AK also conducted retaliatory operations to assassinate prominent Nazi collaborators and Gestapo officials in response to Nazi terror tactics imposed on the civilian population of Poland ( notable individuals assassinated by AK include Igo Sym and Franz Kutschera ).

The political tactics are terror, extortion, and assassination.

Not all insurgents use terror as a tactic, and some choose not to use it because other tactics work better for them in a particular context.

The Mongols also employed other gruesome terror tactics to weaken the will to resist.

She was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia together with Momčilo Krajišnik and Radovan Karadžić for the " creation of impossible conditions of life, persecution and terror tactics in order to encourage non-Serbs to leave the area, deportation of those reluctant to leave, and the liquidation of others ".

The French soon learned that the only effective way to deal with the revolt was to implement terror tactics originally employed by Reynier.

He left the Irgun in 1942 after becoming disenchanted with their tactics, stating in a 2003 interview that, " I didn't like the methods of terror applied by the Irgun at the time ", noting he did not back killing people in retaliation for similar acts by the Arabs.

At the same time, LTTE used terror tactics to scare Sinhalese and Muslim farmers away from the North and East of the island, and swiftly took control of a significant portion of the land.

Gayoom's opponents and international human rights groups have accused him of employing terror tactics against dissident, such as arbitrary arrests, detention without trial, employing torture, forcing confessions and politically motivated killings.

By all accounts, at the height of the conflict in Peru, both the Shining Path and the Peruvian government used terror tactics against the civilian population, especially in the countryside.

The Chetniks used terror tactics against the Croats in areas where Serbs and Croats were intermixed, against the Muslim population in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Sandžak, and against the Partisans and their supporters in all areas.

These terror tactics took various forms, including killing of the civilian population, burning of villages, assassinations and destruction of property.

While fighting the guerrilla in the jungle and mountains, Vilas concentrated on uprooting the ERP support network in the towns, using state terror tactics later adopted nation-wide during the " Dirty War ", as well as a civic action campaign.

Parma ( who was well aware of the counter-productivity of Alba's terror tactics ) treated the inhabitants leniently, but many Protestants nevertheless migrated to the northern provinces, swelling the stream of often wealthy merchants and skilled laborers with a Protestant background that sought refuge there in this period.

Their covert wing carries out attacks on military forces with tactics such as raids and ambushes, as well as acts of terror such as attacks that cause deliberate civilian casualties.

She went on to say that protecting British citizens would be impossible if the security services were restricted to talking only to those with shared values and cited examples where people once deemed terrorists were now part of the political establishment: " Look at Northern Ireland, where former terrorists are in government ... look at Mandela and the ANC which used terror tactics when it was in exile.

Blitzkrieg as used by Germany had considerable psychological, or as some writers call, " terror " elements, such as the noise-making sirens on the Junkers Ju 87 dive-bombers to affect the morale of enemy forces.

They frequently used unexpected strategies, engaging in what modern generals would call psychological warfare — waiting for the enemy to be paralyzed with terror and then attacking them suddenly ; distracting the enemy with a small group of soldiers, etc.

Both the Reds and Whites used political terror as a military weapon during the conflict.

Extremism: Extremists have used the Quran and their own particular version of sharia to justify acts of war and terror against Western individuals and governments, and also against other Muslims believed to have Western sympathies.

The terror of the villains against their defenseless victims became just as ruthless as in A Fistful of Dollars, or more, and their brutalization of the hero when his treachery is disclosed became just as merciless, or more – just like the cunning used to secure the latter's retribution.

And the resources that actually went all the way to the front line was used on civilian targets in bloody, meaningless acts of terror.

During the reign of terror a regime or system of terrorism was used as an instrument of governance, wielded by a recently established revolutionary state against the enemies of the people.

The concept of terrorism may itself be controversial as it is often used by state authorities ( and individuals with access to state support ) to delegitimize political or other opponents, and potentially legitimize the state's own use of armed force against opponents ( such use of force may itself be described as " terror " by opponents of the state ).

One common theory posits that Charlemagne " used force and terror to Christianise all pagans ", leading to " baptism, converting or death by iron and blood ", and as a result " Vikings and other pagans wanted to avenge ".

Although the deployment of nuclear weapons from aircraft falls into the category of strategic bombing, and likely represents the ultimate form of both strategic and terror bombing, the term strategic bombing is generally used in reference to the release of non-nuclear air-ground ordnance from strategic aircraft.

the former they know to be impossible ( at least at present ) & by the latter if I understand them right, they mean no Laws & no Government whatsoever-in the mean time it may be truly said that Gen. Carleton had taken an ill measure of the influence of the seigneurs & Clergy over the lower order of people whose Principle of conduct founded in fear & the sharpness of authority over them now no longer exercised, is unrestrained, & breaks out in every shape of contempt or detestation of those whom they used to behold with terror & who gave them I believe too many occasions to express it.

Gallicized into ' Huguenot ', often used deprecatingly, the word became, during two and a half centuries of terror and triumph, a badge of enduring honor and courage.

As an alternative language, hand-signals, symbols, and slurs in speech, graffiti, print, music, or other mediums communicate specific informational cues used to threaten, disparage, taunt, harass, intimidate, alarm, influence, or exact specific responses including obedience, submission, fear, or terror.

The bombs they were planning to make would have had more explosive power than those used in the Madrid and London terror attacks.

The Japanese terror cult Aum Shinrikyo, which used nerve gas to attack a Tokyo subway in 1995, has also tried to acquire nuclear weapons.

In the West, the term is sometimes used negatively, connotating repression, often by means of secret police or state terror, in Arab countries.

In People v. Goetz, 68 N. Y. 2d 96 ( N. Y. 1986 ), Bernhard Goetz, a white man, used the defense of a subjective state of terror and fear to justify the shooting of four black teenagers on a New York City subway.

This concept called universal jurisdiction, or universal competence, was recently used in Germany to indict high-ranking US officials for their involvement in prisoner abuse in the war on terror under the command responsibility.

Tarak Zidan had been recruited to Hamas, and during 1997 he researched the use of Chlorine and other Nerve agents to be used in terror attacks.