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    Class conflict, state terrorism and the Pakistani military: the Okara Military Farms dispute

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    Authors
    Murphy, Eamon
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Murphy, Eamon. 2013. Class conflict, state terrorism and the Pakistani military: the Okara Military Farms dispute. Critical Studies on Terrorism. 6 (2): pp. 299-311.
    Source Title
    Critical Studies on Terrorism
    DOI
    10.1080/17539153.2012.748481
    ISSN
    1753-9153
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14485
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    Abstract

    In their dispute with their tenants, in what is known as the Okara Military Farms dispute, army landlords in the Punjab province of Pakistan resorted to state terrorism conducted by paramilitary troops, in alliance with other state agencies, in an unsuccessful attempt to break farmer resistance to attempts to remove their security of tenure. Analysis of the dispute provides strong support for the argument that state violence can, in some instances, be categorised as a specific form of terrorism. The article, therefore, aims to contribute to the growing literature on state terrorism which has been neglected as a legitimate and important topic for scholarly inquiry.

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