Using women as suicide attackers fulfils terrorism organisations’ aim to shock,awe, terrorise and attract attention The news that one of the terrorists cornered in St-Denis was a woman who apparently blew herself up as police closed in will shock. However, and she is far from being the first female suicide bomber.
There have been female terrorist suicide attackers for decades. They were dispatched by secular,leftist organisations in the 1980s in Lebanon, and by ethno-separatist groups such as the Kurdish PKK and the Tamil LTTE in Sri Lanka in the 1990s. A Tamil female suicide bomber assassinated the Indian prime minister, and Rajiv Gandhi,in 1991.
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Source: theguardian.com