List of assassinations in Asia

This is a list of assassinations which took place on the continent of Asia.

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.

Afghanistan

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
February 20, 1919	Habibullah Khan, emir of Afghanistan
November 8, 1933	Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan[1]	Abdul Khaliq Hazara
April 28, 1978	Mohammed Daoud Khan, president of Afghanistan		Killed in communist coup
February 14, 1979	Adolph Dubs, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan[2]
September 14, 1979	Nur Mohammad Taraki, communist president		Said to have been smothered to death with a pillow on the orders of Hafizullah Amin
December 27, 1979	Hafizullah Amin, communist Prime Minister of Afghanistan		Killed by Soviet forces in the early stages of the Soviet–Afghan War
February 4, 1987	Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
September 27, 1996	Mohammed Najibullah, president of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992		Killed by the Taliban during the capture of Kabul
September 9, 2001	Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance
October 26, 2001	Abdul Haq, Afghan Northern Alliance commander		Killed by remnants of the Taliban
November 2001	Mohammed Atef, alleged military chief of al-Qaeda		Killed in a U.S. drone strike
2001	Juma Namangani, co-founder of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
July 6, 2002	Abdul Qadir, vice-president of Afghanistan[2]
February 14, 2002	Abdul Rahman, Afghan Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism[2]
May 12, 2007	Dadullah, Taliban's senior military commander
May 3, 2007	Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan
August 27, 2009	Tohir Yo'ldosh, co-founder of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan		Killed in a U.S. drone strike
September 20, 2011	Burhanuddin Rabbani, former President of Afghanistan		Assassinated, possibly members of the Taliban or the Haqqani network, while leading peace negotiations between the internationally recognized Afghan government of Hamid Karzai and the Taliban
July 12, 2011	Ahmed Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai	Sardar Mohammad	Shot twice in the head and chest by his security guard as he was coming out of his bathroom

Armenia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
October 27, 1999	Vazgen Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia[2]	Nairi Hunanyan	Sargsyan was shot dead in an attack on the Armenian National Assembly by a group of armed men who claimed to be staging a coup d'état. According to the attackers, Sargsyan was their only target, and the seven other deaths had been unintentional.[3]

Azerbaijan

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
April 1993	Eduard Huseynov, Azerbaijani counter admiral		Assassinated near his home in Baku.[4]
September 29, 1994	Afiyaddin Jalilov, deputy speaker of Azerbaijani parliament		Assassinated near his home in Baku.[4]
September 29, 1994	Shamsi Rahimov, intelligence and national security chief		Assassinated near his home in Baku.[4]
March 17, 1995	Rovshan Javadov, the chief of the Special Purpose Police Detachment of Azerbaijan.		Killed in Azeri coup d'état attempt in 1995.
May 28, 1996	Ali Ansukhski, member of Azerbaijani parliament	Mahir Ahmadov	Assassinated near his home in Baku.[4]
February 21, 1997	Ziya Bunyadov, Azerbaijani historian	Unknown, presumed to be Hezbollah	Assassinated near his home in Baku.[4]
March 13, 2002	Rovshan Aliyev, criminalist	Haji Mammadov
June 14, 2004	Fatulla Huseynov, colonel, the vice president of AFFA	Haji Mammadov	Assassinated near his home in Baku.[4]
March 25, 2005	Elmar Huseynov, Azerbaijani journalist	Unknown, though believed to be figures within the government of Azerbaijan	Shot to death at his home in Baku.[5]
February 11, 2009	Rail Rzayev, commander of the Azerbaijani Air Force		Assassinated near his home in Baku.[6]

Bangladesh

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
August 15, 1975	Mujibur Rahman, father of the nation and founder President of Bangladesh[2]	Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad and coup	The coup was planned by disgruntled Awami League colleagues and military officers who were led by Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, and they targeted to exterminate his entire family.
November 3, 1975	Muhammad Mansur Ali, Prime Minister of Bangladesh		Killed by military officers in Dhaka Central Jail, having been arrested in the aftermath of the August coup.
November 3, 1975	Tajuddin Ahmad, former Prime Minister		Killed by military officers in Dhaka Central Jail, having been arrested in the aftermath of the August coup.
November 3, 1975	Syed Nazrul Islam, former President		Killed by military officers in Dhaka Central Jail, having been arrested in the aftermath of the August coup.
November 3, 1975	A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, former government minister		Killed by military officers in Dhaka Central Jail, having been arrested in the aftermath of the August coup.
November 7, 1975	Khaled Mosharraf, Bangladeshi general		Mosharraf seized power from Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (who had overthrown Mujibur Rahman in August), but was killed by mutinous army personnel four days later.
May 30, 1981	Ziaur Rahman, President	Group of army officers	Plotted by a faction of officers of Bangladesh Army led by General Abul Monjur.

Bhutan

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
April 6, 1964	Jigme Palden Dorji, Prime Minister of Bhutan[7]

Cambodia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
January 14, 1950	Ieu Koeus, briefly prime minister of Cambodia in 1949

China

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
221	Zhang Fei, military general of Shu Han	Fan Qiang, Zhang Da
July 13, 815	Wu Yuanheng, Chancellor under Emperor Xianzong
September 4, 1323	Sidibala, grand-khan of the Mongol Empire, Emperor of Yuan China
August 22, 1849	João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, Portuguese Governor of Macau
August 22, 1870	Ma Xinyi, governor	Zhang Wenxiang
October 26, 1909	Ito Hirobumi, Japanese Resident-General of Korea and former Prime Minister of Japan	An Jung-geun	Killed in Manchuria
March 22, 1913	Song Jiaoren, Xinhai revolutionary		Killed in Shanghai
May 18, 1916	Chen Qimei, revolutionary activist		Killed on the orders of Yuan Shikai, probably by Yuan's general Zhang Zongchang
August 20, 1925	Liao Zhongkai, prominent member of the Kuomintang party
June 4, 1928	Zhang Zuolin, Manchurian warlord		Killed by officers of the Japanese Guandong Army
December 1941	Fang Zhenwu, military officer		Assassinated by Kuomintang agents
July 15, 1946	Wen Yiduo, Chinese poet and scholar	Tang Shiliang, Li Wenshan

Georgia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
June 19, 1920	Fatali Khan Khoyski, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan	Aram Yerganian	Killed by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation as part of Operation Nemesis
July 21, 1922	Cemal Pasha, former Ottoman Navy Minister		Killed by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation as part of Operation Nemesis
December 3, 1994	Giorgi Chanturia, Georgian opposition leader

India

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
185 BC	Brihadratha Maurya, last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty	Pushyamitra Shunga
August 12, 1602	Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar	Vir Singh Deo	Killed in a plot orchestrated by Prince Salim, because Abu'l-Farzl opposed Salim's accession to the throne
February 8, 1872	Richard Bourke, Viceroy of India	Sher Ali Afridi	Stabbed while inspecting prisons in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
January 30, 1948	Mahatma Gandhi, independence leader and key proponent of non-violence	Nathuram Godse	See Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
October 31, 1984	Indira Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister	Satwant Singh and Beant Singh	Assassinated by personal bodyguards. See Assassination of Indira Gandhi.
August 10, 1986	Arun Shridhar Vaidya, Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army from 1983 to 1986	Sukhdev Singh Sukha and Harjinder Singh Jinda
March 8, 1988	Amar Singh Chamkila, controversial Punjabi singer/songwriter
May 21, 1991	Rajiv Gandhi, former Indian prime minister	Thenmuli Rajaratnam	Killed in an explosion triggered by a LTTE suicide bomber. First politician to be killed by a suicide bomber. See Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
August 31, 1995	Beant Singh, chief minister of Punjab	Dilawar Singh Jaisinghvala
July 25, 2001	Phoolan Devi, bandit queen turned politician	Sher Singh Rana
May 21, 2002	Abdul Ghani Lone, moderate Kashmiri Muslim separatist leader

Indonesia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
October 1, 1965	Achmad Yani, Lieutenant General		Killed as part of the 30 September Movement
October 1, 1965	Soeprapto, Major General		Killed as part of the 30 September Movement
October 1, 1965	M. T. Haryono, Major General		Killed as part of the 30 September Movement
October 1, 1965	Siswondo Parman, Major General		Killed as part of the 30 September Movement
October 1, 1965	Donald Izacus Panjaitan, Brigadier General		Killed as part of the 30 September Movement
October 1, 1965	Sutoyo Siswomiharjo, Brigadier General		Killed as part of the 30 September Movement
November 22, 1965	Dipa Nusantara Aidit, leader of the Communist Party of Indonesia
September 7, 2004	Munir Said Thalib, a human rights and anti-corruption activist	Pollycarpus Priyanto	Poisoned with arsenic while flying from Jakarta to Amsterdam

Iran

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
465 BC	Xerxes I, Persian king	Artabanus, commander of the royal bodyguard
423 BC	Xerxes II, Persian king	Sogdianus, Xerxes' half-brother
423 BC	Sogdianus, Persian king	Darius II, Sogdianus' half-brother
October 14, 1092	Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuk Turks
June 20, 1747	Nader Shah, Shah of Persia	Army officers led by Salah Bey, captain of the guards	Nadar was attacked in his sleep, but was able to kill two of the assassins before dying.
May 1, 1896	Nasser-al-Din Shah, Shah of Persia	Mirza Reza Kermani	Assassinated on the day of his fiftieth kingship ceremony.
October 3, 1933	Abdolhossein Teymourtash, Iranian statesman		Died in Qasr Prison, possibly assassinated by the doctor Ahmad Ahmadi
1937	Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian III, Iranian diplomat and politician
March 31, 1947	Qazi Muhammad, dissident Kurdish Iranian political leader		Killed in Mahabad
March 7, 1951	Ali Razmara, Prime Minister of Iran	Khalil Tahmasebi	Shot in a mosque.
January 22, 1965	Hassan Ali Mansur, Prime Minister of Iran[8]	Mohammad Bokharaei, a member of Fada'iyan-e Islam	Died in hospital on January 27
June 28, 1981	Mohammad Beheshti		Killed along with 72 others in the Hafte Tir bombing
August 30, 1981	Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran	Massoud Keshmiri, an operative of the People's Mujahedin of Iran
August 30, 1981	Mohammad Javad Bahonar, Prime Minister of Iran	Massoud Keshmiri, an operative of the People's Mujahedin of Iran
January 11, 2012	Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, nuclear scientist and university professor		Killed by a bomber from a motorcycle

Iraq

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
681 BC	Sennacherib, Assyrian king	Arda Mulissi	Stabbed to death while at prayer in a temple, or possibly crushed under a winged child angelica.[9]
February 20, 244	Gordian III, Roman emperor		Possibly killed near Circesium by his troops
661	Ali ibn Abi Talib	Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam
July 14, 1958	Faisal II, King of Iraq[8]		Killed during the 14 July Revolution
July 15, 1958	Nuri Pasha as-Said, Prime Minister of Iraq[7]		Killed during the 14 July Revolution
April 9, 1980	Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, former Grand Ayatollah		Killed by Saddam Hussein along with his sister, Bint al-Huda
1980	Bint al-Huda, Iraqi educator and political activist		Killed by Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr
January 24, 1988	Mahdi al-Hakim, prominent figure in the Iraqi opposition		Assassinated in the lobby of the Hilton in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. His companion Halim Abd-alWahhab was wounded in the leg.[10]
February 19, 1999	Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, former Grand Ayatollah		Killed in the Iraqi city of Najaf along with two of his sons
August 19, 2003	Sérgio Vieira de Mello, UN Special Representative in Iraq		Killed in the Canal Hotel bombing
August 29, 2003	Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, highly influential Shi'ite ayatollah		Killed in the Imam Ali Mosque bombing
September 25, 2003	Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi Governing Council member
April 10, 2003	Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, Shia cleric
October 28, 2003	Ahmad Shawkat, Iraqi journalist
May 7, 2004	Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist
May 17, 2004	Ezzedine Salim, acting chairman of the Iraqi Governing Council, Iraqi MP		Killed by members of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
November 1, 2004	Hatem Kamil, deputy governor of Baghdad Province
January 4, 2005	Ali al-Haidari, governor of Baghdad Province
January 4, 2005	Hadi Saleh, Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions
April 27, 2005	Lamiya Abed Khadawi, Iraqi MP
June 28, 2005	Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, Iraqi MP		Killed by members of al-Qaeda in Iraq
July 2005	Ihab al-Sherif, Egyptian envoy to Iraq		Abducted on July 3 by al-Qaeda in Iraq; his death was confirmed on July 7
February 22, 2006	Atwar Bahjat, Iraqi journalist	Yasser al-Takhi
April 27, 2006	Maysoon al-Hashemi, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party women's department
May 31, 2006	Ali Jaafar, Iraqi journalist
June 7, 2006	Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq		Killed in a U.S. airstrike
April 12, 2007	Mohammed Awad, Iraqi MP		Killed in the 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing
June 25, 2007	Fasal al Gaood, former governor of Al Anbar Province
August 11, 2007	Khalil Jalil Hamza, governor of Al-Qādisiyyah Province
August 20, 2007	Mohammed Ali al-Hasani, governor of Muthanna Province
September 13, 2007	Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, Sunni tribal leader		Killed by al-Qaeda in Iraq
October 5, 2008	Mohamed Moumou, Number 2 leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and senior leader in Northern Iraq		Killed by U.S. military
2008	Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul		Kidnapped on February 29, 2008; his body was discovered on March 13
June 12, 2009	Harith al-Obeidi, Iraqi MP
December 22, 2009	Riad Abdel Majid, Brigadier General in the Iraqi Army[11]
April 18, 2010	Abu Ayyub al-Masri, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)		Killed by U.S. and Iraqi forces
January 15, 2013	Ayfan Sadoun al-Essawi, prominent Sunni MP[12]

Israel

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
582/1 BCE	Gedaliah, governor of Yehud
1134	Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa		Attacked by a Breton knight, and died of his wounds shortly after.
October 1174	Miles of Plancy, regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
April 28, 1192	Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem, leader in the Third Crusade		Killed by Hashshashin
June 30, 1924	Jacob Israël de Haan, pro-Orthodox Jewish diplomat		Killed by members of Haganah
June 16, 1933	Haim Arlosoroff, Zionist leader in the British Mandate of Palestine
August 26, 1939	Ralph Cairns, commander of the Palestine Police CID's Jewish Section in Jerusalem		Assassinated by Irgun under orders from Hanoch Kalai
May 28, 1948	Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul General in Jerusalem
September 17, 1948	Folke Bernadotte, Middle East peace mediator		Assassinated by Lehi[7]
March 15, 1957	Rudolf Kastner, Hungarian Zionist leader, negotiated the Kasztner train with the Nazis	Ze'ev Eckstein, a member of Lehi
January 12, 1981	Hamad Abu Rabia, member of the Knesset		Killed by the sons of Jabr Muadi
November 4, 1995	Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize recipient[2]	Yigal Amir	Attack carried out by Israeli opposed to Oslo Accords. See Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
December 31, 2000	Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, son of Meir David Kahane, leader of Kahane Chai, Zionist
October 17, 2001	Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli general and politician	Hamdi Quran, Basel al-Asmar, Majdi Rahima Rimawi, and Ahad Olma, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Japan

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
456	Emperor Ankō, Emperor of Japan	Prince Mayowa no Ōkimi
592	Emperor Sushun, Emperor of Japan	Yamato no Aya no Ataikoma	The assassination was ordered by Soga no Umako
645	Soga no Iruka, son of influential statesman Soga no Emishi		Killed on the orders of Nakatomi no Kamatari and Prince Naka no Ōe
February 11, 1160	Minamoto no Yoshitomo, head of Minamoto clan, father of Minamoto no Yoritomo
February 13, 1219	Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate	Kugyō, Sanetomo's nephew
July 12, 1441	Ashikaga Yoshinori, the sixth shogun of the Ashikaga Shogunate		Killed on the orders of Akamatsu Mitsusuke
August 25, 1486	Ōta Dōkan, samurai, architect and builder of Edo Castle
August 1, 1507	Hosokawa Masamoto, shugo daimyo of Ashikaga Shogunate	Kosai Motonaga and Hosokawa Sumiyuki
1535	Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan
September 30, 1551	Ōuchi Yoshitaka, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan
November 22, 1557	Oda Nobuyuki, Japanese samurai, younger brother of Oda Nobunaga
June 17, 1565	Ashikaga Yoshiteru, shogun, feudal leader in Japan
February 24, 1566	Mimura Iechika, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan	Endō Matajirō and Yoshijirō	Killed on the orders of Ukita Naoie
August 20, 1578	Yamanaka Shikanosuke, Japanese samurai		Killed by soldiers of the Mōri clan
June 21, 1582	Oda Nobunaga, samurai warlord	Akechi Mitsuhide
1669	Shakushain, Ainu chieftain
January 30, 1703	Kira Yoshinaka, master of ceremonies		Killed by a group known as the Forty-seven Ronin
March 24, 1860	Ii Naosuke, Japanese politician
October 27, 1863	Serizawa Kamo, a chief of Shinsen-gumi
August 12, 1864	Sakuma Shozan, Japanese politician	Kawakami Gensai, samurai
December 10, 1867	Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese author
December 7, 1869	Ōmura Masujirō, military leader and theorist
February 15, 1869	Yokoi Shōnan, scholar and politician
May 14, 1878	Okubo Toshimichi, Home Minister of Japan, briefly most powerful man in Japan	Shimada Ichirō
February 12, 1889	Mori Arinori, First Education Minister
October 26, 1909	Hirobumi Itō, former Prime Minister of Japan	An Jung-geun, Korean independence activist
September 28, 1921	Yasuda Zenjirō, entrepreneur who founded Yasuda zaibatsu, great-grand father of Yoko Ono
November 4, 1921	Hara Takashi, Prime Minister of Japan	Nakaoka Kon'ichi, a right-wing railroad switchman
August 26, 1931	Osachi Hamaguchi, Prime Minister of Japan	Tomeo Sagoya, a member of the Aikoku-sha ultranationalist secret society
February 9, 1932	Junnosuke Inoue, businessman	Sho Onuma	Part of the League of Blood Incident
March 5, 1932	Dan Takuma, zaibatsu leader	Goro Hishinuma, right-wing nationalist	Part of the League of Blood Incident
May 15, 1932	Inukai Tsuyoshi, Prime Minister of Japan		Killed by naval officers in the May 15 Incident
May 26, 1932	Yoshinori Shirakawa, general of the Imperial Japanese Army	Yun Bong-gil, Korean independence activist
August 12, 1935	Tetsuzan Nagata, general of the Imperial Japanese Army	Saburo Aizawa, army officer
February 26, 1936	Saitō Makoto, admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy		Killed in the February 26 Incident.
February 26, 1936	Takahashi Korekiyo, Prime Minister of Japan		Killed in the February 26 Incident.
February 26, 1936	Jōtarō Watanabe, Inspector General of Military Training		Killed in the February 26 Incident.
October 12, 1960	Inejiro Asanuma, Socialist Party of Japan chairman	Otoya Yamaguchi	While Asanuma spoke from the lectern at Tokyo's Hibiya Hall during a televised debate, Yamaguchi rushed onstage and ran his wakizashi (a type of traditional Japanese sword) through Asanuma's abdomen, killing him.
June 18, 1985	Kazuo Nagano, Japanese chairman	Masakazu Yano and Atsuo Iida
July 12, 1991	Hitoshi Igarashi, translated The Satanic Verses into Japanese
April 23, 1995	Hideo Murai, one of the leading members of Aum Shinrikyo	Hiroyuki Jo, member of the Yamaguchi-gumi
October 25, 2002	Koki Ishii, Japanese politician	Ito Hakusui, member of the Yamaguchi-gumi
April 18, 2007	Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki	Tetsuya Shiroo, member of the Yamaguchi-gumi
2013	Masayuki Daito, business chairman of Osho Food Service

Jordan

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1200 BC	Eglon, Moabite king	Ehud	Stabbed to death in his throne room (Judges 3:12-30).
July 17, 1951	Riad Al Solh, former Prime Minister of Lebanon		Shot at Amman Airport during visit to Jordan.
July 20, 1951	Abdullah I, King of Jordan	Mustafa Ashi, a Palestinian from the al-Husayni clan	Shot when entering the Al Aqsa Mosque.[2]
August 29, 1960	Hazza al-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan		Killed with 10 others by time bomb in office[7]
October 28, 2002	Laurence Foley, USAID official		Killed by Al-Qaeda operatives

Korea

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
304	King Bunseo of Baekje, King of Baekje	Assassinated by an unknown boy, later recalled as "Hwang-Chang-Lang"(黃昌郞,황창랑).
October 8, 1895	Queen Min, the first official wife of King Gojong, the twenty-sixth king of the Joseon dynasty of Korea		Killed by Japanese agents under Miura Goro, with the aid of the "Hullyeondae", a Japanese trained Regiment of the Royal Guards
July 19, 1947	Lyuh Woon-Hyung, former head of People's Republic of Korea	Han Chigeun, a refugee from North Korea
October 26, 1979	Park Chung-Hee, President of South Korea[2]	Kim Jae-kyu	See Park Chung-hee assassination.

Kuwait

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
March 30, 1971	Hardan al-Tikriti, former Iraqi defense minister and vice president

Laos

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
April 1, 1963	Quinim Pholsena, foreign minister of Laos	Chy Kong, a soldier assigned to guard Pholsena's villa

Lebanon

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1152	Raymond II of Tripoli, count of Tripoli		Killed by Hashshashin
April 28, 1192	Conrad of Montferrat		Killed by Hashshashin
August 17, 1270	Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre		Killed by Hashshashin
October 31, 1950	Sami al-Hinnawi, Syrian head of state	Hersho al-Barazi	Hersho al-Barazi was a cousin of former Prime Minister Muhsin al-Barazi, who al-Hinnawi had executed following a coup.
June 16, 1976	Francis E. Meloy, Jr., US Ambassador to Lebanon		Killed by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
June 16, 1976	Robert O. Waring, US Economic Counselor to Lebanon		Killed by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
March 16, 1977	Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese Druze leader
June 13, 1978	Tony Frangieh, Lebanese Christian leader		Killed by Phalangists led by Elie Hobeika and Samir Geagea
September 14, 1982	Bachir Gemayel, president-elect of Lebanon	Habib Tanious Shartouni	Bomb explosion in the Phalange's Beirut headquarters.[2]
June 1, 1987	Rashid Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon		Killed by bomb aboard helicopter, planted by the Lebanese Forces.[2]
November 22, 1989	René Moawad, President of Lebanon
October 21, 1990	Dany Chamoun, son of late president Camille Chamoun
January 24, 2002	Elie Hobeika, Lebanese militia leader
February 14, 2005	Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon and billionaire		Assassination via car bomb in Beirut
June 2, 2005	Samir Kassir, columnist at Lebanese newspaper "An Nahar", and fierce critic of Syria
June 21, 2005	George Hawi, former chief of Lebanese Communist Party
December 12, 2005	Gibran Tueni, Editor in Chief of Lebanese newspaper "An Nahar"
November 21, 2006	Pierre Gemayel, Minister of Industry of Lebanon
June 13, 2007	Walid Eido, member of the National Assembly
September 19, 2007	Antoine Ghanim, member of the National Assembly
December 12, 2007	François al-Hajj, Lebanese Military General
January 25, 2008	Wissam Eid, National Security, Information Sector
December 27, 2013	Mohamad Chatah, former finance minister, ambassador to the United States, and advisor to Saad Hariri		Assassination via car bomb in Beirut. Presumed to be because Chatah was mentioned as a potential candidate for prime minister. Saad Hariri hinted that he believed the assassinators to be from Hezbollah or Israel.

Malaysia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
November 2, 1875	James Wheeler Woodford Birch, a British Resident Minister in the State of Perak		Speared to death by followers of Malay chief Lela Pandak Lam, while in the bath-house of his boat at Pasir Salak
December 10, 1949	Duncan Stewart, Second Governor of Sarawak, a British Crown Colony (1946–1963)	Rukun 13 members Rosli Dhobie, Morshidi Sidek, Awang Ramli Mohd Deli, and Bujang Suntong	Stabbed to death during his arrival at Sibu
October 6, 1951	Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner in Malaya (1948–1951)		Shot to death by a guerilla unit from the Malayan Communist Party at Fraser's Hill
7 June 1974	Abdul Rahman Hashim, Inspector-General of Police from 1 February 1973 to 7 June 1974.		Shot dead by the communist subversive who the one leader of Royal Malaysian Police at Mounbatten Road (now Jalan Tun Perak) and Weld Road (now Jalan Raja Chulan), Kuala Lumpur.
18 October, 2006	Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa, a Mongolian national,		Murdered by C-4 explosives or was somehow killed first and her remains destroyed with C-4 on 18 October 2006 in a deserted area in Shah Alam, Malaysia near Kuala Lumpur.[13]
January 11, 2008	S. Krishnasamy, state assemblyman for the Tenggaroh constituency, Malaysia (2003-2008)
July 29, 2013	Hussain Najadi, banker, AmBank founder		Shot twice at close range by an unidentified assailant

Maldives

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
October 2, 2012	Afrasheem Ali, legislator and Islamic scholar

Mongolia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
October 2, 1998	Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, politician and democratic activist		Stabbed to death in his apartment

Myanmar (Burma)

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
c. 1168	Alaungsithu, King of Pagan Kingdom	Narathu, his son
1550	Tabinshwehti, King of Taungoo Dynasty		Assassinated by Mon revival
1628	Anaukpetlun, King of Nyaungyan Dynasty
August 2, 1866	Crown Prince Ka Naung, son of King Tharrawaddy and younger brother of King Mindon
July 19, 1947	Aung San, Burmese nationalist leader, founder of Thirty Comrades
July 19, 1947	U Ba Win

Nepal

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
June 1, 2001	Birendra, King of Nepal, along with Queen Aiswary and 9 other members of the royal family[2]	Dipendra	See Nepalese royal massacre.

Pakistan

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
October 16, 1951	Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan[2]
February 8, 1975	Hayat Sherpao, former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province		Killed by Afghan extremist
August 17, 1988	Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 10-year President of Pakistan and 12-year Chief of Army Staff		Killed in a mysterious aircraft accident which seemed to be a bomb blast (traced to a crate of mangoes placed into his aircraft).
November 24, 1989	Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, militant Islamist		Killed near Peshawar
October 3, 1991	Fazle Haq, former governor of the Northwest Frontier province, Pakistan, from 1978 to 1985
September 1993	Ghulam Haider Wyne, former Chief Minister of Punjab
April 16, 1995	Iqbal Masih, 13-year-old anti-child labor activist		Killed in Rakh Baoli
October 17, 1998	Hakim Said, founder of Hamdard Foundation and Hamdard University, Karachi; former Governor of Sindh
2001	Siddiq Khan Kanju, former foreign minister of Pakistan from 1991 to 1993
December 27, 2007	Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (first and only lady Prime minister of Pakistan)	Unknown, widely believed to be Islamic militants	Killed while entering a vehicle upon leaving a political rally for the Pakistan People's Party in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. See Assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
August 5, 2009	Baitullah Mehsud, leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
May 2, 2011	Osama bin Laden, head and status symbol of al-Quaeda, held responsible for the attacks on 9/11	Members of the US Navy Seals	Killed in a raid in his residence in Abbottabad, the order for the raid and execution came from US president Barack Obama
January 4, 2011	Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab	Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri	Killed by one of his security guards due to Taseer's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws
March 2, 2011	Shahbaz Bhatti, Minorities Minister	Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan	Killed due to his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws
June 4, 2012	Abu Yahya al-Libi, high-ranking al-Qaeda member, alleged member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, former detainee at the Parwan Detention Facility, from where he escaped in 2005
January 2, 2013	Maulvi Nazir, high-ranking Pakistani Taliban member in South Waziristan
August 16, 2015	Shuja Khanzada, Home Minister of Punjab		Killed in the 2015 Attock bombing

Palestine

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1996	Yahya Ayyash, Hamas' explosives expert
2001	Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of PFLP
2002	Salah Shahade, leader of Hamas' military wing
2003	Ibrahim al-Makadmeh, co-founder of Hamas
2003	Mekled Hameid, Islamic Jihad Movement commander
2004	Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader and founder of Hamas
2004	Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, leader of Hamas
2004	Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas operative
2004	Adnan al-Ghoul, Hamas' explosives expert
2009	Nizar Rayan, Senior Hamas leader
2009	Said Seyam, Senior Hamas leader
2009	Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, Senior Hamas military wing commander

Philippines

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1719	Fernando Manuel de Bustamante, Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines.		Dragged and killed by a mob instigated by friars.
1763	Diego Silang, early Ilocano rebel leader, and husband of Gabriela Silang.	Miguel Vicos Pedro Bebec	Church authorities paid the assassins. Vicos was Silang's friend
1899	Antonio Luna, general of the Filipino army during the Philippine–American War.	Kawit Battalion of the Katipunan led by Pedro Janolino	Emilio Aguinaldo is suspected to be behind the assassination.
1935	Julio Nalundasan, Congressman for Ilocos		A young Ferdinand Marcos tried but acquitted for the slaying.
April 28, 1949	Aurora Quezon y Aragón, former First Lady of the Philippines and widow of President Manuel L. Quezon.		Died with her daughter and several others in ambush believed to have been perpetrated by the Hukbalahap.
April 28, 1949	Ponciano Bernardo, Mayor of Quezon City, then the national capital		Died with Doña Quezon and several others in an ambush.
1980	Joe Lingad, former Governor of Pampanga.
April 24, 1980	Macliing Dulag, Kalinga pangat (chieftain) and indigenous peoples' rights activist.	4th Infantry Division, Philippine Army
August 21, 1983	Benigno Aquino, Jr., politician, leader of the opposition against President Ferdinand Marcos[2]	Rogelio Moreno (confirmed) AVSECOM members (accomplices)
1984	Cesar Climaco, Mayor of Zamboanga City and prominent opposition leader.
February 11, 1986	Evelio Javier, Governor of Antique and ally of 1986 presidential candidate, Corazon Aquino.
1986	Emma Henry, police officer and film actress.
1987	Lean Alejandro, prominent student activist leader.
1988	Roy Padilla, Sr., Governor of Camarines Norte, and father of action star Robin Padilla.
1989	James N. Rowe, United States military advisor.	Juanito T. Itaas (principal) Donato B. Continente (accomplice)	The New People's Army claims responsibility for the assassination
2001	Filemon 'Ka Popoy' Lagmán, founder of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP; "coalition of Filipino workers")	Two unknown assailants
October 3, 2006	Alberto Ramento, Obispo Máximo IX of the Philippine Independent Church.
November 13, 2007	Wahab Akbar, Representative of Basilan		One of several killed when the Batasan Pambansa (National Legislature building) was bombed.
January 1, 2011	Reynaldo Dagsa, Barangay captain of Maypajo, Caloocan
January 25, 2015	Zulkifli Abdhir, suspected leader of Jemaah Islamiyah	Members of the Special Action Force	See Mamasapano clash

Qatar

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
2004	Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, former President of separatist Chechnya

Saudi Arabia

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
644	Umar ibn al-Khattab, second caliph	Abu Lulu
656	Uthman Ibn Affan, third caliph
661	Ali ibn Abi-Talib, fourth caliph and first Imam of Muslims	Abdur Rehman Ibn-e-Muljim	Ambushed from back with a poisoned sword while Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib was offering Salaat-ul-Fajr (early morning prayer)
March 25, 1975	Faisal of Saudi Arabia, King of Saudi Arabia	Prince Faisal bin Musa'id	Shot by nephew at palace.[8]

Sri Lanka

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
September 25, 1959	S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Ceylonese prime minister	Talduwe Somarama, a Buddhist monk who later converted to Christianity[2]
1975	Alfred Duraiappah, Mayor of Jaffna		Killed by LTTE
1989	Vijaya Kumaranatunga, movie actor turned SLFP-SLMP politician		Killed by JVP
1989	Rohana Wijeweera, founder of JVP		Killed by Sri Lankan Armed Forces
1989	A. Amirthalingam, leader of separatist party TULF		Killed by LTTE
1991	Ranjan Wijeratne, Foreign Minister & Minister of State for Defence		Killed by LTTE
1993	Lalith Athulathmudali, former cabinet minister		Purportedly killed by LTTE
1993	Ranasinghe Premadasa, President of Sri Lanka		Killed by a suicide bomber on May Day parade. The attack was purportedly carried out by LTTE (but was possibly revenge for his own orchestrating murder of political rival Lalith Athulathmudali, to whom he feared losing election).
1994	Gamini Dissanayake, Presidential candidate, UNP Member of Parliament		Killed by LTTE
1998	Sarojini Yogeswaran, Mayor of Jaffna		Killed by LTTE
1998	Ponnudurai Sivapalan, Mayor of Jaffna		Killed by LTTE
1999	Neelan Tiruchelvam, TULF Member of Parliament		Killed by LTTE
1999	Lakshman Algama, UNP politician		Killed by LTTE
2000	C. V. Gunaratne, cabinet minister		Killed by LTTE
2005	Joseph Pararajasingham, TNA Member of Parliament		Killed by GoSL supported para-military Karuna Group
2005	Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister		Killed by LTTE
2006	Parami Kulatunga, army general		Killed by LTTE
2006	Nadarajah Raviraj, TNA Member of Parliament		Killed by GoSL paramilitary Group
2008	T. Maheswaran, UNP Member of Parliament		Killed by LTTE as revenge for having talks with the president Raajapakse
2008	D. M. Dassanayake, Nation Building Minister and SLFP Member of Parliament		Killed by LTTE
2008	K. Sivanesan, TNA Member of Parliament		Killed by Sri Lankan Army's Deep Penetration Unit
2008	Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, Minister of Highways and Road Development and SLFP Member of Parliament		Killed by LTTE
2009	Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of The Sunday Leader	Unknown

Syria

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
246 BC	Antiochus II Theos, Seleucid king
223 BC	Seleucus III Ceraunus, Seleucid king
176 BC	Seleucus IV Philopator, Seleucid king
146 BC	Alexander Balas, Seleucid king
138 BC	Antiochus VI Dionysus, Seleucid heir to the throne
285	Numerian, Roman emperor	Arrius Aper, his father-in-law	Killed in Emesa (modern-day Homs)
1146	Zengi, ruler of Aleppo and Mosul and founder of the Zengid Dynasty
1940	Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar, Syrian nationalist
August 1, 2008	Muhammad Suleiman, Syrian general and security adviser to president Bashar al-Assad
February 12, 2008	Imad Mughniyah, senior member of Hezbollah
July 18, 2012	Syria's Defense Minister General Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, chief of staff of the Syrian Armed Forces General Hasan Turkmani, and Intelligence and National Security Chief Hisham Ikhtiyar	Either Liwa al Islam or the Free Syrian Army (both claimed responsibility)	Killed either with a remotely detonated bomb or via suicide attack as part of the Syrian civil war. Several other leading government officials may have been injured or killed.

Thailand

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
	King Worawongsathirat, King of the Ayutthaya Kingdom
1946	King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII), the eighth monarch of Thailand under the House of Chakri
May 13, 2010	Major General Khattiya Sawasdipol		Major General Sawasdipol was an ardent supporter and the security chief of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) also known as the "reds Shirts" in their protest against the Government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva from approximately March 12, 2010 to May 20, 2010 in which 92 people were killed. He was killed by a sniper's bullet to the head on 13 May while giving an to a reporter for The New York Times about 7 p.m.

Turkey

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1913	Mahmud Şevket Pasha, prime minister
1921	Mustafa Suphi, communist leader
1930	Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay	Dervish Mehmet	Known as Menemen Incident
1979	Abdi Ipekçi, journalist, Editor-in-Chief of Milliyet newspaper	Mehmet Ali Ağca
1979	Metin Yüksel, Islamic political activist
1979	Cavit Orhan Tütengil, academician and writer
1980	Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, writer and TV producer
1980	Kemal Türkler, labor union leader		Killed by Grey Wolves in Istanbul.
1980	Nihat Erim, former Prime Minister of Turkey		Killed by a Dev Sol operative in Istanbul.
1990	Muammer Aksoy, University professor in Law		Killed in Ankara.
1990	Bahriye Üçok, University professor in Islam Studies and women's rights activist		Killed in Istanbul.
1990	Turan Dursun, Islamic scholar, author, and journalist		Killed in Ankara, unresolved.
1992	Musa Anter, dissident Kurdish activist and writer		Killed in Diyarbakır, unresolved, attributed to Turkish military intelligence (JITEM).
1993	Uğur Mumcu, a journalist of Cumhuriyet newspaper	Unknown	Killed in Ankara.
1995	Onat Kutlar, writer, poet, founder of Cinemateque Istanbul, columnist for Cumhuriyet newspaper		Killed in Istanbul.
1996	Özdemir Sabancı, prominent industrialist and member of Sabancı family
1998	Konca Kuriş, Islamic feminist author		Kidnapped and tortured to death in Mersin.
1999	Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, politician, former Minister of Culture, Ankara University professor in Political Science, Cumhuriyet newspaper columnist
2001	Üzeyir Garih, Turkish Jewish businessman and industrialist
2002	Necip Hablemitoğlu, Professor of history at Ankara University		His assassination is unresolved.
2006	Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin, High Judge at Council of State	Alparslan Arslan	Killed in Ankara.
2006	Andrea Santoro, Roman Catholic priest		Murdered in the Santa Maria Church in Trabzon.
2007	Hrant Dink, Turkish Armenian journalist, publisher of Agos newspaper	Ogün Samast	Fired three shots at Dink's head from the back at point blank range before fleeing the scene on foot. See Assassination of Hrant Dink.

United Arab Emirates

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
January 19, 2010	Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a member of Hamas	Unknown, widely believed to be Mossad agents	Exact cause unknown; possibilities include suffocation, strangulation, and electrocution. See Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

Vietnam

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
November 2, 1963	Ngo Dinh Nhu, politician[2]
November 2, 1963	Ngo Dinh Diem, first president of South Vietnam[2]	Generally believed to be Nguyen Van Nhung and Duong Hieu Nghia, on orders from Duong Van Minh	Part of the 1963 South Vietnamese coup. See Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem.

Yemen

Date	Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
1948	Imam Yahya, King of Yemen
1977	Ibrahim al-Hamadi, president of North Yemen
1978	Ahmad al-Ghashmi, president of North Yemen		Killed by bomb along with envoy from South Yemen.
2002	Jarallah Omar, deputy secretary-general of Yemeni Socialist Party
2011	Anwar al-Aulaqi, spokesman and recruiter for al-Qaeda, leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula		Killed in a US drone strike
2013	Said Ali al-Shihri, deputy leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula		Killed in a US drone strike. Numerous earlier reports of his death had been previously proven wrong.[14]

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