At the present time, the way people live their lives is said to be changing from old to new. As technology continues to blossom, which makes the life for people is worth the living. It is enough to say that people are on the time where the way of living is modern. Due to globalization, strong international relations between different countries across the world have developed to a high standard. These strong connections between different countries around the globe had allowed growth in - economy, international relationship and world peace for the betterment of people.
Aside from the positive effects of modernization and globalization, terrorism has become a major global problem, which is in need of global anti-terrorism campaign to prevent further deterioration of the problem with terrorism. Terrorist is a word that has been widely used in present time. A terrorist is often defined as a person who tries to frighten people or governments by using violence to achieve a personal goal that is either political or religious.Terrorism has been a long time problem in both ancient and contemporary civilization. During the ancient years, acts of terrorism are already in existence. Barbary and pirates are the common terrorists that had threatened the lives of the ancient people.
In ancient time the usual acts of terrorism relates with barbaric acts and piracy, which are the major problem that the early civilization had faced. Different methods had been implemented in able to fight the growing problem of terrorism.Leaders of the early civilization had decided that the only way to resolve the problem of terrorism is to declare all out war with the terrorists in able to eradicate the roots of terrorists. With this, all the captured terrorists will be executed and will suffer dungeon slavery.
(Archiving Early America) At time when modernization and globalization is the focus of most country, acts of terrorism had evolved to more violent that caused hundreds and thousands of death all over the world. It is in deed that terrorism is global problem that is in need of corresponding solution.Most of the terrorist acts in modern civilization are in the form of bombing, which are car bombing and suicide bombing. These acts of terror caused negative effect in the society, which implicated death of people and major damages to infrastructure from different cities around the world. One of the most horrible terror attacks in the history of modern time is the September 11, 2001 world trade center incident at New York City, which thousands of lives recorded death after the two commercial planes intentionally hit the twin tower that caused the building to collapse.This terror attack on the United States is believed to be made by the most notorious group of terrorist in present time the al-Qaeda, which was headed by their leader Osama Bin laden.
Due to this unforgivable terror attack, the United States of America had declared war against the al-Qaeda with the goal to capture all the responsible terrorists in the September 11, 2001 world trade center terror attack and let the terrorist be tried in court. (September11 News. com) With the deteriorating problem of terrorism, a big question had took place as to where the terrorist should be tried?Although, the act of terrorism had been part of almost every generation so far there is no firm decision on the issue of the appropriate court to tried the terrorists. It is clear that acts of terrorism is inhuman, which causes panic, scare and even death in the society. As a juridical person, every human is capable of the right of justice.
Therefore, even notorious terrorists have also the right of justice to defend themselves in the court. Furthermore, a terrorist has the right to defend themselves and look for an attorney to undergo fair trial of the court for committing terror acts.On the other hand, terrorists are also considered as the most notorious criminals in present time. With the various incidents of terror attacks, hundreds and thousands of lives had been claimed from all over the world, which also carries negative impact on the nation of civilization causing panic and spreading scare among the people. Therefore, terrorist differ from the usual law offenders, which usually tried under the normal civil criminal court.
On the case of terrorism, terrorists should not undergo the normal criminal law to defend themselves.Military Tribunal is a special court that can be used as an appropriate place to the terrorists to be tried on committing unlawful acts. With this the terrorists will undergo military trial and not with the usual criminal law. Two months after the September 11, 2001 world trade center attack, United States President George W.
Bush signed a military order to try the responsible terrorists on the 911 attack under military court. However, this military order of President George W.Bush did not get effective in an instant and had been through a long debate in the United States congress. It was in the year 2002 when both United States senate and house of representative enacted the law, which they called “military tribunal authorization act 2002” giving the authority to military tribunal to tried suspected terrorists.
(2002 Congressional debate) This act will serve the terrorists responsible to the 911 world trade center attack and other related terror incidents against the United States.The approval of this act is an indication that military tribunal is the most proper way to tried terrorist of committing unlawful act. According to the military tribunal act 2002, military court is the most appropriate way to protect the safety of the public involved in the prosecution and investigation. Furthermore, military court guarantee the fairness abiding the international law to tried the terrorists. Also, through military tribunal the custody of the terrorist is guaranteed and will not give the possibility of escaped on the suspected terrorist. 2002 Congressional Debate)In the end, Terrorist must be tried through military tribunal to ensure the safety of the public upon actual trial of suspected terrorist.
Military court is the appropriate place to try the terrorist of committing unlawful act to ensure fairness of trial and give the proper punishment if proven guilty. Nevertheless, terrorists must be tried under the military tribunal for it is the safest and the fastest way to punish the terrorist on committing unlawful act.Referenceshttps://www.varsitytutors.com/earlyamerica/early-america-review/volume-6/terrorism-early-americahttp://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s1941.html
