{"id":19019,"date":"2016-01-23T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T08:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19019"},"modified":"2016-01-23T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T08:36:46","slug":"who-were-the-worlds-first-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19019","title":{"rendered":"Who were the world&#8217;s first terrorists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS \u2026 sadly the murderous activities of these groups follow in a long and bloody history of the use of terrorism to advance political and religious aims.<\/p>\n<p>You could make a case that the first modern terrorists were a Russian group called People&#8217;s Will. They were formed in 1879 and they assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 1881. You can learn more about People&#8217;s Will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Narodnaya_Volya\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I came across this group recently when it was mentioned in the third and last episode of the fascinating BBC4 television series<em> &#8220;Empire Of The Tsars: Romanov Russia With Lucy Worsley&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06vmlcg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We have been to St Petersburg and seen the site of the assassination of Alexander II which is now marked with an amazing church &#8211; see the account of our visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/StPetersburg.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS \u2026 sadly the murderous activities of these groups follow in a long and bloody history of the use of terrorism to advance political and religious aims. You could make a case that the first modern terrorists were a Russian group called People&#8217;s Will. They were formed in 1879 and they assassinated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19019"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19028,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions\/19028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}