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Terrorism questioned

One of the categories for this page is 2009 terrorism. Does this really qualify as terrorism? Is it proven that this was a deliberate strike? And if it was, would it be classified as terrorism, or as a war crime or genocide? Terrorism is usually defined as targeting civilians to make a political point or to bring attention to a political cause. The Sri Lanken military didn't shoot these civilians to bring attention to anything. If they did it deliberately, it was solely to kill, and that isn't terrorism, but pure genocide. 99.231.211.103 (talk) 08:06, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An interesting point, but the Sri Lankan government repeatedly denied these allegations, so if the incidents did happen, and there is evidence that they did, see the State Dept. 2009 report, they the perpetrators could be said to have had no governmental sanction and hence they were acts of terrorism, perhaps by rougue units of the GSL. On the other hand, people sometimes refer to "state terrorism" or "state sponsored terrorism" particularly in reference to the former Libyan administration, so maybe, if true, that is what this was. Genocide is an abused term. --Bejnar (talk) 00:05, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]