24 Civil Liberties CHAPTER 4 A] Human Rights in Areas of Insurgency and Terrorism 4.1 Savage acts of terrorism convulsed the world in the year 2001-2002, compelling the international community to focus on ways of combating and triumphing over this evil. 4.2 Following the attacks in the United States of America on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, the Security Council of the United Nations adopted Resolution 1373 of 28 September 2001 requiring all States to take a wide range of legislative, procedural, financial, economic and other measures to prevent, prohibit and criminalize terrorist acts. 4.3 India itself, which had fought an often lonely battle against terrorism since the 1980s, continued to be the target of vicious acts of cross-border terrorism. Thus, on 1 October 2001,38 persons were killed and 60 others injured in a 'fidayeen' attack on the State Assembly in Srinagar; on 13 December 2001, a national calamity was narrowly averted when a brazen terrorist attack was thwarted within the precincts of Parliament House by the valour of the guards on duty, of whom some sacrificed their lives in the cause of the nation. NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION