Terror in a railway: case study of South-Moluccan terrorism in the Netherlands 1975–1977
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34767/SIIP.2022.01.09Keywords:
terrorism, nationalism, diaspora, hijacking, railwayAbstract
The paper examines incidents of train hijacking terrorists in the Netherlands in the 70s in the broader context of terrorism of the South Moluccan diaspora. Author’s goal is the analysis of these terrorist acts in order to evaluate the vulnerability of a rail transport in context of terrorist attacks. The method is analysis and critics of literature and media reports. The hypothesis of the paper is concludes
high security vulnerability of rail transport (especially in the case of feign hostage situation).
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