Sabotage facts for kids
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening, obstructing, disrupting, or destructing something.
Someone who engages in sabotage is a saboteur.
Saboteurs try to conceal their identities because of the consequences of their actions.
Examples of sabotage in warfare might be secretly putting holes in a boat so the boat sinks with the opposition army in it, or blowing up a bridge before opposition forces can cross it.
Images for kids
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Unauthorized stencil urging sabotage and picketing
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Japanese experts inspect the scene of the "railway sabotage" on the South Manchurian Railway in 1931. The "railroad sabotage" was one of the events that led to the Mukden Incident and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria.
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Palestine Railway's K class 2-8-4T steam locomotive and freight train on the Jaffa and Jerusalem line after being sabotaged by Jewish paramilitary forces in 1946.
See also
In Spanish: Sabotaje para niños
