Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Volume 12 Issue 1 Article 11 Winter 2005 Terrorism: The International Response of the Courts (The Institute for Advanced Study Branigin Lecture) Michael D. Kirby High Court of Australia,
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[email protected]. Terrorism: The International Response of the Courts* THE HONORABLE JUSTICE MICHAEL KIRBY AC CMG** I. A CENTURY OF TERRORISM The events of September 11, 2001 in the United States, of October 12, 2002 in Bali, and during 2004 in Madrid, Breslan, and Jakarta, have brought home to the world the challenge that acts of terrorism present when combined with new means of causing destruction and of enlivening the capacity of the global media to cover the suffering. However, terrorism is not new. The last century was a century of terrorism. It was not always so perceived. Yet from the early days-from the anarchists and communists in 1901 through the colonial unrest that followed, right up to the new century we have entered-that was the reality.