Keywords
terrorism, ASALA, Armenian terrorism, military actions
Abstract
In order to analyze the character of Armenian Secret Army for Liberalization of Armenia and understand if actions implemented by them can be defined as terroristic attacks, political actions or just crimes, it is necessary to point out the aim of ASALA, its motivation and reasons given by them for actions that took place from 1975 to 1990. ASALA was active until 1990, and this organization does not operate nowadays. The main aim of this article is to analyze its motivation and the reasons of its creation and explanations given for their actions and to define terroristic character of the organization.
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