10 Civil Liberties CHAPTER 3 A] Human Rights in Areas of Terrorism and Insurgency 3.1 In its Annual Report for the year 1998-99, the Commission observed that 'India's often lonely fight against terrorism has grown less lonely as the realisation has gradually spread, since the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights and as a result of more recent events, that "The acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations are activities aimed at the destruction ofhuman rights".' 3.2 This report is being written in the shadow of yet more recent events: massive acts of terrorism have convulsed the world and left no doubt as to the global reach and net-working of the perpetrators of such violence. No longer is India alone in arguing that such acts can never be justified, that they are hostile to human rights despite arguments to the contrary, and that those who perpetrate them are the mortal enemies of such rights. Indeed, ever since the 1993 World Conference and the subsequent adoption of the 1994 United Nations Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, the international community has, with repeated and increasing severity, asserted that: 'Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstances injustifiable, whatever the NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION