List of assassinations
This is a list of assassinations, sorted by location.
For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.
Africa
Algeria
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 117 BC | Hiempsal, co-ruler of Numidia | Hiempsal's death was ordered by his cousin, Jugurtha. | |
| December 24, 1942 | François Darlan, senior figure of Vichy France | Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle | |
| March 10, 1957 | Larbi Ben M'Hidi, Algerian nationalist and FLN leader | Hanged by French Army officers under Paul Aussaresses; at the time, his death was passed off as a suicide. | |
| March 23, 1957 | Ali Boumendjel, Algerian lawyer | Thrown from a building by French Army officers under Paul Aussaresses; at the time, his death was passed off as a suicide. | |
| April 1957 | Larbi Tbessi, Nationalist and Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema president | ||
| June 21, 1957 | Maurice Audin, Pied-noir and PC millitant | ||
| February 1960 | Esther John, Pakistani Christian nurse | She was found murdered in her bed. | |
| 1962 | Mouloud Feraoun, writer | Organisation de l'armée secrète | |
| February 3, 1987 | Mustafa Bouyali, Islamic fundamentalist | Ambushed by Algerian security services. | |
| June 29, 1992 | Mohamed Boudiaf, Chairman of High Council of State | Lembarek Boumaârafi | Shot at Annaba.[1] |
| June 2, 1993 | Tahar Djaout, journalist, poet and author | Killed by the Armed Islamic Group. | |
| August 21, 1993 | Kasdi Merbah, former Prime Minister of Algeria | ||
| March 10, 1994 | Abdelkader Alloula, playwright | Killed by two members of the Islamic Front for Armed Jihad. | |
| September 29, 1994 | Cheb Hasni, singer | ||
| September 28, 1995 | Aboubakr Belkaid, politician | ||
| May 21, 1996 | Seven Trappist monks of Tibérine | The monks were kidnapped by the Armed Islamic Group in March 1996, and reportedly executed on May 21; others claim that the monks were accidentally killed by the Algerian army. See Assassination of the monks of Tibhirine. | |
| August 1, 1996 | Pierre Lucien Claverie, Catholic bishop of Oran | ||
| December 3, 1994 | Saïd Mekbel, journalist | Assassinated with a car bomb in Aïn Bénian. | |
| 1997 | Abdelhak Benhamouda, trade unionist | ||
| June 25, 1998 | Lounès Matoub, Berberist singer | ||
| November 22, 1999 | Abdelkader Hachani, Islamic fundamentalist | Fouad Boulemia, a member of the Armed Islamic Group, was convicted for Hachani's murder and sentenced to death, but was later released. |
Angola
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 2, 1992 | Jeremias Chitunda, Vice President of UNITA | Killed by government troops as part of the Halloween Massacre. | |
| November 2, 1992 | Elias Salupeto Pena, UNITA senior advisor | Killed by government troops as part of the Halloween Massacre. |
Benin
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Michel Aikpé, government minister |
Burkina Faso
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 15, 1987 | Thomas Sankara, Head of State of Burkina Faso | Killed in a coup d'état organised by Blaise Compaoré. | |
| December 13, 1998 | Norbert Zongo, journalist |
Burundi
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 13, 1961 | Louis Rwagasore, Prime Minister of Burundi | Georges Kageorgis | |
| January 15, 1965 | Pierre Ngendandumwe, Prime Minister of Burundi[2] | ||
| September 30, 1965 | Joseph Bamina, Prime Minister of Burundi | ||
| 1972 | Ntare V Ndizeye, deposed King of Burundi | ||
| October 21, 1993 | Melchior Ndadaye, President of Burundi, founder of the Burundi Workers' Party | Overthrown and killed in a military coup. | |
| 1995 | Ernest Kabushemeye, government minister | ||
| 1996 | Joachim Ruhuna, Roman Catholic archbishop of Gitega | ||
| November 20, 2001 | Kassi Manlan, World Health Organisation representative | Murdered in a conspiracy after discovering that aid money was being diverted into private accounts. |
Cameroon
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 13, 1958 | Ruben Um Nyobé, leader of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon |
Central African Republic
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Christophe Grelombe, government minister |
Chad
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 13, 1975 | François Tombalbaye, President of Chad | ||
| 1993 | Abbas Koty, rebel leader |
Comoros
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1978 | Ali Soilih, former President of Comoros | ||
| November 26, 1989 | Ahmed Abdallah, President of Comoros | Overthrown in a coup. | |
| June 13, 2010 | Combo Ayouba, army chief of staff and former interim head of state |
Congo (Brazzaville)
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 18, 1977 | Marien Ngouabi, President of the Congo | Barthélemy Kikadidi and others | Shot in Brazzaville.[3] |
| 1977 | Émile Cardinal Biayenda, Roman Catholic archbishop of Brazzaville | ||
| 2004 | Angèle Bandou, former presidential candidate |
Congo (Kinshasa)
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 17, 1961 | Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Congo[4] | Executed by firing squad. | |
| January 17, 1961 | Maurice Mpolo, former Minister of Interior, and associate of Lumumba[3] | ||
| January 17, 1961 | Joseph Okito, Senate Vice-President and associate of Lumumba[4] | ||
| 1997 | Mahele Lieko Bokungu, military figure | ||
| January 16, 2001 | Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo[3] | Rashidi Muzele, one of Kabila's bodyguards |
Côte d'Ivoire
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Émile Boga Doudou, government minister |
Egypt
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 BC | Pompey the Great, Roman general and politician | Achillas, Lucius Septimius and Salvius | |
| 1121 | Al-Afdal Shahanshah, vizier of Fatimid Egypt | ||
| 1130 | Al-Amir bi-Ahkami l-Lah, Fatimid Caliph | ||
| October 24, 1260 | Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt | ||
| June 14, 1800 | Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general | Suleiman al-Halabi | |
| February 20, 1910 | Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt | Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani | |
| November 19, 1924 | Sir Lee Stack, Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | ||
| November 6, 1944 | Walter Edward Guinness, Lord Moyne, the UK's Minister Resident in the Middle East | Eliyahu Hakim, a member of Zionist group Lehi | |
| February 24, 1945 | Ahmed Maher Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt[5] | Mustafa Essawy | |
| December 28, 1948 | Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi, Prime Minister of Egypt[6] | Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan | |
| February 12, 1949 | Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood | ||
| November 28, 1971 | Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan | Shot by members of Black September during a visit to Cairo.[3] | |
| October 6, 1981 | Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt | Khalid Islambouli | Shot while reviewing a military parade;[3] see Assassination of Anwar El Sadat. |
| October 13, 1990 | Rifaat al-Mahgoub, speaker of Egyptian parliament | ||
| June 8, 1992 | Farag Foda, Egyptian politician and intellectual | Islamist movement al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya claimed responsibility for the attack. |
Equatorial Guinea
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Gustavo de Sostoa y Sthamer, Spanish governor |
Ethiopia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Ras Abebe Aragai, Prime Minister |
The Gambia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 16, 2004 | Deyda Hydara, journalist |
Ghana
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Emmanuel Kotoka, military figure |
Guinea
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 20, 1973 | Amílcar Cabral, Pan-African intellectual | Inocêncio Kani | Killed in Conakry. |
Guinea-Bissau
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 1, 2009 | Batista Tagme Na Waie, chief of staff of the army | ||
| March 2, 2009 | João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea Bissau | Shot by soldiers during armed attack on his residence in Bissau. | |
| June 5, 2009 | Baciro Dabó, government minister and independent presidential candidate | ||
| June 5, 2009 | Helder Proença, former government minister |
Kenya
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 25, 1965 | Pio Gama Pinto, socialist politician | ||
| July 5, 1969 | Tom Mboya, Kenyan Minister of Economic Planning and politician[7] | ||
| 1975 | Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician | ||
| 1980 | Joy Adamson, conservationist | ||
| 1989 | George Adamson, conservationist | ||
| February 1990 | Robert Ouko, Foreign Minister of Kenya | Disappeared on February 12–13; found dead on February 16.[8] | |
| May 16, 1998 | Seth Sendashonga, former interior minister of Rwanda | ||
| 2000 | John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest | ||
| March 5, 2009 | Oscar Kamau Kingara, human rights activist | ||
| March 5, 2009 | John Paul Oulo, human rights activist |
Liberia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 12, 1980 | William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia | Killed in military coup.[3] | |
| September 1990 | Samuel Doe, President of Liberia | Tortured and killed on the orders of Prince Johnson. |
Libya
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 28, 2011 | Abdul Fatah Younis, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Libyan Republic | Perpetrators unknown, possibly security guards or members of the Obaida Ibn Jarrah Brigade | |
| October 20, 2011 | Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's de facto head of state from 1969 to 2011 | See Death of Muammar Gaddafi | |
| September 12, 2012 | J. Christopher Stevens, United States Ambassador |
Madagascar
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 1863 | Radama II, King of Madagascar | After Radama passed a controversial law allowing disputes to be settled by duelling, his palace was besieged on the orders of the Prime Minister, Rainivoninahitriniony. Radama was captured by soldiers and strangled with a silk sash; some historians believe he may have survived this attack and lived out the rest of his days in obscurity. | |
| February 11, 1975 | Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar | Shot six days after taking power in military coup.[3] |
Malawi
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 3, 1915 | John Chilembwe, anti-colonial leader |
Mauritania
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 | Xavier Coppolani, French governor |
Morocco
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Ahmed Bahnini, former prime minister | ||
| 1972 | Mohamed Oufkir, government minister | ||
| 1975 | Omar Benjelloun, socialist politician | Chabiba islamia |
Mozambique
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 3, 1969 | Eduardo Mondlane, leader of the independence FRELIMO movement | ||
| 1982 | Ruth First, South African communist | ||
| November 22, 2000 | Carlos Cardoso, Mozambican journalist | Shot while investigating allegations of corruption in Mozambique's largest bank. Nyimpine Chissano and Anibal dos Santos were charged with orchestrating the murder. |
Namibia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 27, 1978 | Clemens Kapuuo, Herero chief and politician | ||
| September 12, 1989 | Anton Lubowski, leading white SWAPO activist | Shot in front of his home in central Windhoek, allegedly by members of the government's Civilian Co-Operation Bureau. |
Niger
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 9, 1999 | Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger | Ambushed by soldiers.[3] |
Nigeria
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 15, 1966 | Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria | Killed in a military coup. | |
| January 15, 1966 | Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Northern Nigeria | Killed in a military coup. | |
| January 15, 1966 | Samuel Akintola, Premier of Western Nigeria | Killed in a military coup. | |
| 1966 | Festus Okotie-Eboh, government minister | ||
| July 29, 1966 | Adekunle Fajuyi, Military Governor of Western Nigeria | Killed in a coup led by Theophilus Danjuma. | |
| July 29, 1966 | Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Head of State of Nigeria | Killed in a coup led by Theophilus Danjuma. | |
| February 13, 1976 | Murtala Mohammed, Head of State of Nigeria[3] | Killed in an attempted coup led by Buka Suka Dimka. | |
| October 19, 1986 | Dele Giwa, journalist | ||
| 1996 | Kudirat Abiola | ||
| December 23, 2001 | Bola Ige, justice minister of Nigeria | ||
| October 16, 2011 | Modu Bintube, Borno state legislator | Suspected to have been killed by Boko Haram militants.[9] |
Rwanda
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | King Mibambwe IV Rutarindwa | ||
| December 1985 | Dian Fossey, primatologist | ||
| April 6, 1994 | Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi | Plane carrying the two leaders shot down by unknown attackers with a surface-to-air missile. The attack was the catalyst for the Rwandan Genocide.[3] See Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira. | |
| April 7, 1994 | Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda | Killed one day after the Rwandan Genocide began. |
Senegal
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 3, 1967 | Demba Diop, government minister and mayor | Abdou N'Daffa Faye |
Somalia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 15, 1969 | Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, President of Somalia | Shot by one of his bodyguards, possibly for personal – rather than political – reasons. | |
| 1989 | Salvatore Colombo, Roman Catholic bishop of Mogadishu | ||
| July 28, 2006 | Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, former acting President of Somalia | ||
| June 17, 2009 | Ali Said, Mogadishu police chief | ||
| June 18, 2009 | Omar Hashi Aden, security minister | Killed in the 2009 Beledweyne bombing, for which Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility. | |
| June 10, 2011 | Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan Farah, interior minister | Haboon Abdulkadir Hersi Qaaf, Farah's teenage niece | Killed in a suicide bomb attack; Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility. |
South Africa
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1828 | Shaka, king of the Zulus | Dingane and Mhlangana, Shaka's half-brothers | |
| September 6, 1966 | Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa[3] | Dimitri Tsafendas | Tsafendas, a parliamentary messenger, stabbed Verwoerd to death with a dagger in the House of Assembly due to his opposition to Verwoerd's policy of apartheid. |
| 1977 | Robert Smit | ||
| August 17, 1982 | Ruth First, anti-apartheid scholar and wife of Communist party leader Joe Slovo | Killed by a letter bomb; her death was ordered by Craig Williamson, pro-apartheid "Koevoet" leader. | |
| May 21, 1985 | Vernon Nkadimeng, South African dissident | ||
| March 29, 1988 | Dulcie September, head of the African National Congress in Paris | ||
| 1989 | David Webster, anthropologist | Civil Cooperation Bureau | |
| April 10, 1993 | Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party | Janusz Walus | Anti-Communist killing. |
| November 5, 1994 | Johan Heyns, prominent leader in the Dutch Reformed Church | ||
| January 22, 2009 | Mbongeleni Zondi, South African politician |
Sudan
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2, 1973 | Cleo A. Noel, Jr., US Chief of Mission, George Curtis Moore, Deputy Chief of Mission, and Guy Eid, Belgian chargé d'affaires[3] | Taken hostage and assassinated by members of Black September; see Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum. | |
| January 1, 2008 | John Granville, diplomat for the United States Agency for International Development |
Swaziland
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 1, 2008 | Gabriel Mkhumane, political opposition leader |
Tanzania
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Eduardo Mondlane, founder of FRELIMO | ||
| April 7, 1972 | Abeid Karume, 1st President of Zanzibar and 1st Vice President of Tanzania | ||
| 1979 | David Sibeko, black nationalist |
Togo
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 13, 1963 | Sylvanus Olympio, first president of independent Togo | Killed in the 1963 Togolese coup d'état.[4] | |
| July 29, 1992 | Tavio Amorin, socialist leader | Shot in Lomé on July 23, later died in a Paris hospital. |
Tunisia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 16, 1988 | Khalil al-Wazir, military leader of the PLO | Shot by Israeli commandos in Tunis.[3] | |
| January 14, 1991 | Salah Khalaf, deputy leader of the PLO | Killed in Tunis. | |
| February 6, 2013 | Chokri Belaid, Tunisian opposition leader | ||
| July 25, 2013 | Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian opposition leader |
Uganda
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 22, 1972 | Benedicto Kiwanuka, Chief Justice of Uganda | ||
| February 17, 1977 | Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire from 1974 until 1977 |
Western Sahara
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Mohamed Bassiri, Sahrawi leader and journalist | "Disappeared" in June 1970, in El Aaiún; reportedly executed by the Spanish Legion. |
Zambia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 18, 1975 | Herbert Chitepo, Zimbabwean nationalist leader | Hugh Hind |
Zimbabwe
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | Mlimo, the Ndebele religious leader | Frederick Russell Burnham, British Army scout | Mlimo's death effectively ended the Second Matabele War.[10] |
| 1983 | Attati Mpakati, Malawian dissident | ||
| May 2008 | Tonderai Ndira, member of the Movement for Democratic Change |
The Americas
Antigua and Barbuda
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1710 | Daniel Parke, British governor of the Leeward Islands |
Argentina
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1870 | Justo José de Urquiza, former president of Argentina | ||
| 1909 | Ramón Falcón, chief of the National Police | Assassinated by anarchists as a retaliation for his brutal repression of workers. | |
| 1970 | Pedro Aramburu, former de facto president of Argentina | Executed by the peronist guerrilla Montoneros in revenge for the abduction of Evita's body and for the execution of those implicated in a failed uprising fifteen years before, during Aramburu's dictatorship. | |
| 1974 | Carlos Prats, Chilean general, former Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army | Killed by the secret service of the Pinochet dictatorship, during his exile in Argentina. | |
| 1976 | Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan senator, founder of the Broad Front | Exiled in Argentina as a result of the 1973 Uruguayan coup, he was killed after the 1976 Argentine coup, under the Operation Condor, which involved the collaboration between military dictatorships in the Southern Cone. | |
| 1976 | Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, former speaker of the Uruguayan House of Representatives | Killed alongside Zelmar Michelini, while exiled in Argentina. | |
| 1976 | Juan José Torres, former military President of Bolivia | Exiled in Argentina after his overthrow by Hugo Banzer. He was killed after the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, under the Operation Condor, which involved the collaboration between military dictatorships in the Southern Cone. |
Bermuda
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda | Erskine "Buck" Burrows and Larry Tacklyn | Shot outside Bermuda's Government House. Sharples' aide-de-camp Captain Hugh Sayers was also killed. |
Bolivia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1829 | Pedro Blanco Soto, President of Bolivia | ||
| 1865 | Manuel Isidoro Belzu, President of Bolivia | ||
| 1946 | Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia | ||
| 1989 | Elders Jeffrey Brent Ball and Todd Ray Wilson, LDS Missionaries |
Brazil
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | Pinheiro Machado, Brazilian politician | ||
| 1930 | João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque | ||
| 1964 | Adib Shishakli, Syrian military dictator | ||
| 1975 | Vladimir Herzog, journalist | ||
| 1976 | Zuzu Angel, Brazilian activist | ||
| 1988 | Chico Mendes, Brazilian environmental activist | ||
| 1996 | Paulo César Farias, Collor de Mello's campaign treasurer | ||
| 2001 | Antonio da Costa Santos, Mayor of Campinas | ||
| 2002 | Celso Daniel, Mayor of Santo André | ||
| 2005 | Dorothy Stang, American nun | Killed by business interests |
Canada
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 | George Brown, Father of Canadian Confederation | George Bennett | |
| 1868 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Father of Canadian Confederation | Patrick J. Whelan | |
| 1914 | William C. Hopkinson, immigration officer, British intelligence agent | Mewa Singh, Ghadarite sympathizer | |
| 1970 | Pierre Laporte, Vice Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec | Bernard Lortie, Paul Rose, Jacques Rose, Francis Simard[11] | Kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ. |
| 1982 | Atilla Altıkat, Turkish diplomat | Assassinated by Armenian nationalists in Ottawa |
Chile
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1818 | Luis Carrera and his brother Juan José Carrera, both independence war heroes | attributed to the head of the government, Bernardo O'Higgins | |
| 1818 | Manuel Rodriguez, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile | attributed to the head of the government, Bernardo O'Higgins | |
| 1837 | Diego Portales, As a minister of president José Joaquín Prieto Diego Portales played a pivotal role in shaping the state and government politics in the 19th century, delivering with the Constitution of 1833 the framework of the Chilean state for almost a century. | Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre | |
| 1970 | René Schneider, Chilean general, Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army | After several attempts, he was kidnapped and killed by far-right paramilitary squads, due to his opposition to any intervention of the armed forces to block the election of left-wing candidate Salvador Allende in 1970. | |
| 1971 | Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, Chilean ex Secretary of Interior Affairs | ||
| 1973 | Victor Jara, Chilean left-wing singer | Killed after the coup of 1973. | |
| 1982 | Eduardo Frei Montalva, former President of Chile and opponent of the Pinochet dictatorship | Though he officially died by septicemia after a low-risk surgery, recent research suggests he was poisoned by the secret service of Pinochet. However, there isn't an absolute certainty about the real causes of his death.[12] | |
| 1982 | Tucapel Jiménez, Chilean trade-unionist | Killed by the military dictatorship of Pinochet.[13] | |
| 1991 | Jaime Guzmán, Chilean pinochetist Senator | Killed by far-left guerrillas after the return of democracy. |
Colombia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1830 | Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan politician, statesman, soldier | ||
| 1914 | Rafael Uribe Uribe, lawyer, journalist, diplomat, soldier | ||
| 1948 | Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Liberal Party leader | ||
| 1984 | Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Minister of Justice | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel | |
| 1985 | Tulio Manuel Castro Gil, Judge who had indicted Pablo Escobar | ||
| 1985 | Alfonso Reyes Echandia, Head of the Supreme Court. | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Fabio Calderon Botero, Supreme Court Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Pedro Elias Serrano Abadia, Supreme Court Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Dario Velasquez Gaviria, Supreme Court Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Jose Eduardo Gnecco Correa, Supreme Court Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Ricardo Medina Moyano, Supreme Court Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Alfonso Patiño Rosselli, Supreme Court Justice. | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Carlos Medellin Forero, Supreme Court Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Fanny Gonzalez Franco, Supreme Court Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Dante Luis Fiorillo Porras, Supreme Court Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Manuel Gaona Cruz, Supreme Court Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Horacio Montoya Gil, Supreme Court Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Carlos Horacio Uran Rojas, State Council Assistant Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Lizandro Juan Romero Barrios, State Council Assistant Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Emiro Sandoval Huertas, State Council Assistant Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Julio Cesar Andrade Andrade, State Council Assistant Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1985 | Jorge A Correa Echeverry, State Council Assistant Justice | Killed during the Palace of Justice Siege. | |
| 1986 | Guillermo Cano Isaza, Director of El Espectador newspaper | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel | |
| 1987 | Jaime Pardo Leal, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party | ||
| 1987 | Carlos Mauro Hoyos, Attorney General of Colombia | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel. | |
| August 18, 1989 | Luis Carlos Galán, Presidential candidate, leader of the Colombian Liberal Party | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel. | |
| 1989 | Jorge Enrique Pulido, journalist, Director of Mundovision | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel | |
| March 22, 1990 | Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, Presidential candidate, leader of the Patriotic Union party[3] | ||
| Waldemar Franklin Quintero, Commander of the Police of Antioquia | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel | ||
| 1990 | Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, Presidential candidate, leader of the M-19 party | ||
| 1991 | Enrique Low Murtra, former Colombian Ambassador to Switzerland | The assassination was ordered by the Medellin Cartel | |
| 1991 | Diana Turbay, journalist and daughter of former Colombian president Julio César Turbay Ayala | Assassinated after a kidnapping by the Medellin Cartel | |
| 1994 | Andrés Escobar, international footballer | ||
| 1994 | Manuel Cepeda Vargas, Senator, leader of the Patriotic Union party | ||
| 1995 | Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, former presidential candidate and director of El Nuevo Siglo newspaper | ||
| 1999 | Jaime Garzón, journalist and satirist | ||
| 2000 | Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones, Colombian Army General | Assassinated by members of FARC | |
| 2003 | Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Governor of Antioquia |
Cuba
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Antonio Guiteras, Revolutionary Socialist leader |
Curaçao
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2013 | Helmin Wiels |
Dominican Republic
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | Ulises Heureaux, president of the Dominican Republic | ||
| May 30, 1961 | Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, Dominican Republic dictator | Shot in ambush | |
| 1973 | Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó |
Ecuador
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1875 | Gabriel García Moreno, President of Ecuador | Faustino Rayo | Shot outside Quito Cathedral, owing to his pro-religious views. |
| 1999 | Jaime Hurtado and Pablo Tapia, communist legislators | Killed in Quito |
El Salvador
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | Manuel Enrique Araujo, President of El Salvador | ||
| 1932 | Farabundo Martí, communist leader and peasant revolt organizer | ||
| 1975 | Roque Dalton, poet and revolutionary | ||
| 1977 | Rutilio Grande García, S.J., Roman Catholic priest | ||
| 1977 | Alfonso Navarro Oviedo, Roman Catholic priest | ||
| 1978 | Ernesto Barrera, Roman Catholic priest | ||
| 1979 | Octavio Ortiz Luna, Roman Catholic priest | ||
| 1979 | Rafael Palacios, Roman Catholic priest | ||
| 1979 | Alirio Napoleón Macías, Roman Catholic priest | ||
| 1980 | Óscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador | Killed by right-wing death squad | |
| 1980 | Enrique Álvarez Córdova and five other leaders of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Front ("FDR," for its Spanish initials) | Captured and killed by government aligned security forces. | |
| 1980 | Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan, Roman Catholic nuns | Killed by the National Guard of El Salvador. | |
| 1983 | Albert Schaufelberger, senior U.S. Naval representative | ||
| 1989 | Ignacio Ellacuría, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest | Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army | |
| 1989 | Ignacio Martin-Baro, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest | Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army | |
| 1989 | Segundo Montes, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest | Killed by Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army | |
| 1989 | María Cristina Gómez, teacher and community leader |
Grenada
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada |
Guatemala
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1898 | José María Reina Barrios, President of Guatemala | ||
| 1957 | Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, killed by bodyguard[4] | ||
| 1970 | Karl von Spreti, German ambassador in Guatemala | ||
| 1979 | Alberto Fuentes Mohr, Social Democratic Party leader | ||
| 1979 | Manuel Colom Argueta, Mayor of Guatemala City | ||
| 1993 | Jorge Carpio Nicolle, Liberal politician and journalist | ||
| 1998 | Juan José Gerardi, Roman Catholic bishop | ||
| 2012 | Valentín Leal, legislator | ||
| 2013 | Carlos Castillo Medrano, Mayor of Jutiapa |
Guyana
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 18, 1978 | Leo Ryan, Member of the US House of Representatives | Members of the People's Temple in Jonestown | Was shot to death in Guyana while investigating human rights violations by members of the People's Temple. |
| 1980 | Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure | ||
| 2006 | Satyadeow Sawh, Agriculture Minister | Murdered along with his brother and sister, a security guard by masked gunmen dressed in military fatigues |
Haiti
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1806 | Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti | ||
| 1993 | Antoine Izméry, businessman and Lavalas supporter | ||
| 1993 | Guy Malary, minister of justice | ||
| 2000 | Jean Dominique, journalist | ||
| 2005 | Jacques Roche, journalist |
Honduras
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, president of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944 | ||
| 2008 | Mario Fernando Hernández, deputy speaker of Congress for the Liberal Party |
Mexico
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1520 | Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl, Mexicano Bitchie Emperor | ||
| February 22, 1913 | Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico, Nov 6, 1911 to Feb 19, 1913.[4] | ||
| March 7, 1913 | Abraham González, revolutionary, governor of Chihuahua and mentor to Pancho Villa | ||
| 1919 | Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary | Officers under Colonel Jesús Guajardo | Shot at his hacienda San Juan, Chinameca in Mexico. |
| May 20, 1920 | Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico[4] | Officers under General Rodolfo Herrero. | |
| July 20, 1923 | Doroteo Arango a.k.a. Pancho Villa, revolutionary[14] | Unknown | Shot while being driven in an open car at Parral in Mexico. His bodyguards Rafael Madreno and Claro Huertado were also killed. |
| 1924 | Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatán | ||
| July 17, 1928 | Álvaro Obregón, President-elect[14] | José de León Toral | |
| 1929 | Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary | ||
| August 20, 1940 | Leon Trotsky, Russian communist leader[14] | Ramón Mercader | Killed by penetrating head injury from an ice axe. |
| 1985 | Enrique Camarena, policeman | ||
| 1986 | Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, journalist and State governor | ||
| 1993 | Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Roman Catholic Cardinal of Guadalajara | Unknown | Assassinated at the Guadalajara Airport, among 6 other people, by cocaine drug gang Tijuana Cartel using Logan Heights (San Diego, CA) street gang, either as a mistaken attack on another cartel leader (Sinaloa Cartel) or to silence Ocampo regarding possible corrupt connections between government and drug cartels; some more recent speculation that an anti-church group was involved. |
| March 23, 1994 | Luis Donaldo Colosio, Presidential candidate[3] | Mario Aburto | Assassinated rally at campaign in Tijuana. |
| September 28, 1994 | José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Secretary-General of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional | ||
| 1999 | Paco Stanley, comedian | ||
| 2001 | Digna Ochoa, human rights lawyer | ||
| 2004 | Francisco Ortiz Franco, contributing editor to Zeta | ||
| 2010 | Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, Mayor of Guadalupe | ||
| 2010 | Rodolfo Torre Cantú, politician |
Nicaragua
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary | ||
| September 21, 1956 | Anastasio Somoza García, President of Nicaragua[3] | Rigoberto López Pérez | |
| 1978 | Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, newspaper editor, Nicaraguan Somoza opposition | ||
| September 17, 1980 | Anastasio Somoza Debayle, former President | Ambushed in Paraguay[3] | |
| 1991 | Enrique Bermúdez, founder and former top commander of the Nicaraguan Contras |
Panama
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2, 1955 | José Antonio Remón Cantera, President of Panama | Killed at racetrack by machine gun[4] | |
| July 31, 1981 | Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera, Governor Head of Panama | Killed at an Aircraft accident by a radio detonated bomb |
Paraguay
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1877 | Juan Bautista Gill, President of Paraguay | ||
| 1980 | Anastasio Somoza Debayle, former President of Nicaragua | ||
| March 23, 1999 | Luis María Argaña, vice president of Paraguay | Ambushed[3] |
Peru
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1541 | Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador | ||
| 1872 | Jose Balta, President of Peru | ||
| 1933 | Luis M. Sánchez Cerro, president of Peru | ||
| 1992 | María Elena Moyano, a community organizer in Villa El Salvador |
Suriname
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist | Victim of the December murders |
United States
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 15, 1865 | Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States | John Wilkes Booth | Was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin in the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. Lincoln died the next morning across the street in a boarding house. Booth and accomplice David Herold hid in a barn in Virginia. Harold surrendered while troops set the barn on fire and shot and killed Booth. |
| July 2, 1881 | James A. Garfield, President of the United States | Charles J. Guiteau | Shot by Guiteau while waiting for a train at a Washington train station. Didn't die until September 19. |
| April 3, 1882 | Jesse James, outlaw | Robert Ford | |
| 1890 | David Hennessy, Police Chief of New Orleans | ||
| September 6, 1901 | William McKinley, President of the United States | Leon Czolgosz | Czolgosz shot McKinley while he was shaking hands at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Didn't die until September 14. |
| 1926 | Don Mellett, newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime | ||
| September 8, 1935 | Huey Long, U.S Senator from Louisiana | Carl Weiss | Long attended the State Capital building to help pass "House Bill Number One". Long was able to help get the bill to pass. After the meeting, Carl Weiss, the son-in-law of Long's long-time opponent, Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy, confronted Long, pulled out a handgun and shot Long in the abdomen. Weiss was shot and killed by Long's bodyguards. Long died two days later. An alternative version of events, not generally accepted by historians, is that Long was hit by one of his own bodyguard's bullets as they fired at Weiss. |
| December 9, 1935 | Walter Liggett, Minnesota newspaper editor | ||
| 1943 | Carlo Tresca, anarchist organizer | ||
| 1955 | Curtis Chillingworth, a Florida judge | ||
| June 12, 1963 | Medgar Evers, U.S. civil rights activist.[3] | Byron De La Beckwith | Evers, an African American activist and NAACP leader, was shot by De La Beckwith, a Ku Klux Klan member, who was convicted in 1994. |
| November 22, 1963 | John F. Kennedy, President of the United States | Lee Harvey Oswald | While traveling in a motorcade in Dallas,Texas, 3 shots rang out when the car was in front of the Texas School Book Depository. Texas governor John Connally was also wounded. Kennedy is the most recent President of the United States to be assassinated. |
| November 24, 1963 | Lee Harvey Oswald | Jack Ruby | Shot and killed in basement garage of Dallas Police Headquarters. First murder seen live on US television. |
| February 21, 1965 | Malcolm X, black Muslim leader | Norman 3X Butler, Thomas 15X Johnson, Talmadge Hayer | Killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech. |
| August 25, 1967 | George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party | John Patler, a former aide | Shot in the chest as he was leaving a laundromat. |
| April 4, 1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. civil rights activist.[3] | Uncertain, believed to be James Earl Ray or Loyd Jowers | Ray pled guilty but later recanted, while a 1999 civil trial convicted Jowers and 'unknown others', while also noting that 'governmental agencies were parties' to the plot.[15] See Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| June 5, 1968 | Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, who served as a United States Senator for New York and leading Democratic presidential candidate in 1968. | Sirhan Sirhan | Shot after giving a speech after winning the California primary. Sirhan was convicted on April 17, 1969 and less than a week later was sentenced to death.[16] The sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 after the California Supreme Court, in its decision in California v. Anderson, invalidated all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972. |
| 1969 | Fred Hampton, Deputy Chair of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party | Shot and killed by Chicago police with alleged FBI involvement. Tensions with the Police and American Government. | |
| 1970 | Dan Mitrione, former policeman & FBI agent | Went to South America to teach military regimes techniques of "advanced counterinsurgency techniques" (e.g., electric shock torture) assassinated by members of the guerrilla movement Tupamaros. | |
| 1973 | Marcus Foster School District Superintendent in Oakland, CA | Killed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army | |
| June 30, 1974 | Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr. | Marcus Chenault | Killed while her husband was preaching. |
| 1975 | Anna Mae Aquash, a Mi'kmaq activist from Nova Scotia, Canada who became the highest-ranking woman in the American Indian Movement | ||
| June 13, 1976 | Don Bolles, investigative reporter for Arizona Republic | Killed by car bomb, Max Dunlap and James Robison convicted, alleged Mafia ties. | |
| September 21, 1976 | Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the United States for the administration of Chile's democratically-elected President Salvador Allende | Killed along with his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb placed by Chilean DINA agents. | |
| November 27, 1978 | Harvey Milk, San Francisco Supervisor, first openly gay elected official in the US, and gay rights activist, and George Moscone, mayor of San Francisco | Dan White, former San Francisco Supervisor who opposed Milk's advocacy | See Moscone–Milk assassinations |
| December 8, 1980 | John Lennon, British musician, member of The Beatles | Mark David Chapman | See Assassination of John Lennon. |
| June 18, 1984 | Alan Berg, radio talk-show host | Killed by neo-Nazis | |
| October 15, 1984 | Henry Liu, Taiwanese-American writer | Allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents | |
| 1985 | Alex Odeh, Arab anti-discrimination group leader | Killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office | |
| 1986 | Alejandro González Malavé, undercover policeman | Killed in Bayamón | |
| August 22, 1989 | Huey Newton, founder of Black Panther Party | Killed by member of Black Guerrilla Army (BGA). | |
| 1990 | Meir David Kahane, Member of the Israeli Knesset, Founder of the JDL and the Kach Party, Zionist | El Said Nosair | Killed by an Arab gunman in a Manhattan hotel, El Said Nosair who was found guilty of conspiracy charges linking him to Sheik Abdul Rahman, "the blind sheik", Al Qaeda's point man in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Kahane's assassination was Al Qaeda's first act of terror on US soil. |
| 1991 | Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas | Killed at the University of Chicago where he taught at the Divinity School Swift Hall, allegedly because of opposition to his writings. | |
| 1993 | David Gunn, abortion provider | Michael F. Griffin | Shot outside his clinic. See Murder of David Gunn. |
| 1994 | John Britton, physician, abortion provider | Paul Jennings Hill | Shot at his clinic. |
| September 13, 1996 | Tupac Shakur, rapper | Uncertain, thought to be Orlando Anderson | Drive-by shooting in Las Vegas |
| 1998 | Barnett Slepian, physician, abortion provider | James Charles Kopp | Shot in his kitchen. |
| 2001 | Thomas C. Wales, federal prosecutor and gun control advocate | Shot while at his computer. | |
| 2007 | Chauncey Bailey, Oakland Tribune journalist | Shot on the street in Oakland. | |
| 2009 | George Tiller, late-term abortion doctor | Scott Roeder | Shot as he ushered at his church. |
Uruguay
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | Bernardo P. Berro, Uruguayan president, 1860 to 1864. | ||
| February 19, 1868 | Venancio Flores, Uruguayan president, 1865 to February 15, 1868. | ||
| 1897 | Juan Idiarte Borda, Uruguayan president | ||
| 1992 | Eugenio Berríos, Chilean chemist who worked for the DINA during the Pinochet dictatorship | Killed in Uruguay by Chilean secret services for him "knowing too much". |
Venezuela
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 13, 1950 | Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela[4] | Rafael Simón Urbina | |
| 2004 | Danilo Anderson, State prosecutor |
Asia
Main article: List of assassinations in Asia
Europe
Main article: List of assassinations in Europe
Oceania
Australia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1802 | Pemulwuy | Henry Hacking | Shot and killed by British sailor Henry Hacking under orders by Governor Phillip Gidley King |
| February 12, 1894 | William Paisley, Mayor of Burwood, NSW | ||
| July 15, 1977 | Donald Mackay, anti-drugs campaigner | ||
| December 17, 1980 | Sarik Ariyak, Turkish Consul General | ||
| 1989 | Colin Winchester, Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police | ||
| 1994 | John Newman, New South Wales state Member for Cabramatta |
New Caledonia
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Kanak independence leader |
Samoa
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Luagalau Levaula Kamu, cabinet minister |
Palau
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Haruo Remeliik, president |
West Papua
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 26, 1984 | Arnold Ap, songman and ethnomusicologist | Shot in back by Indonesian military unit upon release from prison[17] | |
| March 14, 1996 | Thomas Wainggai, Independence leader | Allegedly poisoned by Indonesian intelligence officers in Cipinang prison.[17] | |
| November 10, 2001 | Theys Eluay, West Papuan Independence movement leader | Assassinated by Kopassus officers after attending a military dinner, Jayapura, Papua[17] | |
| December 16, 2009 | Kelly Kwalik, West papuan guerrilla leader | Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Timika, West Papua[17] | |
| June 14, 2012 | Mako Tabuni, Chairman of main civil resistance independence organisation, West Papua National Committee(KNPB) | Assassinated by Detachment 88 officers in Jayapura, West Papua[18] |
See also
- List of assassinated anticolonialist leaders
- List of assassinations by car bombing
- List of Israeli assassinations
- List of Iranian assassinations
- List of people who survived assassination attempts
- List of terrorist incidents
References
- ↑ "Historic Assassinations Since 1865," The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004, p156 (World Almanac 2004)
- ↑ "Chief Political Assassinations Since 1865," The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1967, p257 (World Almanac 1967)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 World Almanac 2004, p156
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 World Almanac 1967, p257
- ↑ "Assassinations and Political Murders," 20th Century Timeline (Griesewood & Dempsey, Ltd., 1985) (Crescent Books, 1985) [20th Century Timeline] , p119
- ↑ 20th Century Timeline, p120
- ↑ "Historic Assassinations Since 1865," The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1982 (World Almanac 1982), p750
- ↑ Cohen, David William (2004). The Risks of Knowledge: Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990. Ohio University Press. p. x. ISBN 9780821415986.
- ↑ "Nigeria's Boko Haram accused of killing MP Modu Bintube". BBC News. October 17, 2011.
- ↑ "Killed the Matabele God: Burnham, the American scout, may end uprising". New York Times. June 25, 1896. ISSN 0093-1179.
- ↑ http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/history/domesticmissions/flqcrisis.htm
- ↑ "Veneno para un magnicidio". Elpais.com. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
- ↑ "Habla Mayor (R) Carlos Herrera Jimenez, procesado por el Caso Tucapel". Web.archive.org. 2008-01-17. Archived from the original on 2008-01-17. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
- 1 2 3 World Almanac 1982, p750
- ↑ Complete Transcript of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Conspiracy Trial (from The King Center website)
- ↑ "Sirhan Sirhan Kept Behind Bars". CBS. 2003-03-06. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
- 1 2 3 4 Papua, West (2012-06-18). "Papua’s Fallen Leaders – arena". Arena.org.au. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
- ↑ "7.30". ABC. 2012-08-28. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
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