List of assassinated people

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This is an incomplete list of persons who were assassinated; that is, important people who were murdered, usually for ideological or political reasons.

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[edit] Assassinations in Africa

[edit] Algeria

[edit] Angola

[edit] Burkina Faso

[edit] Burundi

[edit] Cameroon

[edit] Chad

[edit] Comoros

[edit] Congo (Brazzaville)

[edit] Congo (Kinshasa)

  • Kabongo Boniface Kalowa, (1960),
  • Patrice Lumumba, (1961), former Prime Minister of the Congo
  • Maurice Mpolo, (1961), Lumumba associate
  • Joseph Okito, (1961), Lumumba associate
  • Ferdinand Kabange Numbi, (1964),
  • André Lubaya, (1968),
  • Laurent Kabila, (2001), President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

[edit] Ivory Coast

  • Robert Guéi, (2002), former President of Côte d'Ivoire
  • Émile Boga Doudou, (2002), interior minister
  • Muhammad Ahmad alRashid, (2003), Saudi ambassador

[edit] Egypt

[edit] Equatorial Guinea

[edit] Ethiopia

[edit] The Gambia

[edit] Guinea

[edit] Kenya

[edit] Liberia

[edit] Madagascar

[edit] Mozambique

[edit] Niger

[edit] Nigeria

[edit] Rwanda

[edit] Somalia

[edit] South Africa

[edit] Sudan

[edit] Tanzania

[edit] Togo

[edit] Tunisia

  • Khalil Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), (1988), military leader of the PLO, in Tunis
  • Salah Khalaf ("Abu Iyad"), (1991), deputy leader of the PLO killed by Abu Nidal terrorists in Tunis, Tunisia

[edit] Uganda

[edit] Zambia

[edit] Zimbabwe

[edit] Assassinations in the Americas

[edit] Antigua and Barbuda

[edit] Argentina

[edit] Bermuda

[edit] Bolivia

[edit] Brazil

[edit] Canada

[edit] Chile

[edit] Colombia

[edit] Cuba

[edit] Dominican Republic

[edit] Ecuador

[edit] El Salvador

[edit] Guatemala

[edit] Guyana

  • Michael Forde, (1964), PPP activist killed when a bomb he was removing from the party's bookstore exploded
  • Leo J. Ryan, (1978), US Congressman (D) from San Mateo, California; killed while investigating religious cult led by American Jim Jones
  • Walter Rodney, (1980), Guyanese historian and political figure
  • Satyadeow Sawh, (2006), Agriculture Minister was murdered along with his brother and sister, a security guard by masked gunmen dressed in military fatigues

[edit] Haiti

[edit] Honduras

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Nicaragua

[edit] Panama

[edit] Paraguay

[edit] Peru

[edit] Suriname

[edit] United States

[edit] Uruguay

  • Bernardo P. Berro, (1868), Uruguayan president
  • Venancio Flores, (1868), Uruguayan president (on the same day as Berro, though in completely separate incidents)
  • Juan Idiarte Borda, (1897), Uruguayan president

[edit] Venezuela

[edit] Assassinations in Asia

[edit] Afghanistan

[edit] Bangladesh

[edit] Bhutan

[edit] Cambodia

[edit] China

[edit] Georgia

[edit] India

[edit] Iran

[edit] Iraq

[edit] Israel

[edit] Japan

[edit] Jordan

[edit] Korea

[edit] Lebanon

[edit] Myanmar/Burma

[edit] Nepal

  • Birendra, (2001), King of Nepal (along with Queen Aiswary and 9 other members of the royal family)

[edit] Pakistan

[edit] Palestinian Territories

[edit] Philippines

[edit] Qatar

[edit] Saudi Arabia

[edit] Sri Lanka

[edit] Syria

[edit] Vietnam

[edit] Yemen

[edit] Assassinations in Australia and Oceania

[edit] Australia

[edit] New Caledonia

  • Pierre Declercq, (1981), Kanak independence leader
  • Éloi Machoro, (1985), Kanak independence leader
  • Marcel Nonaro, (1985), Kanak independence leader
  • Jean-Marie Tjibaou, (1989), Kanak independence leader
  • Yéiwene Yéiwene, (1989), Kanak independence leader

[edit] Samoa

[edit] Palau

[edit] Assassinations in Europe

[edit] Austria

[edit] Belgium

[edit] Bulgaria

  • Stefan Stambolov, (1895), Prime Minister of Bulgaria
  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski, (1923), Prime Minister of Bulgaria
  • Lambo Kyuchukov, (1995), ex-Minister of education
  • Vasil Iliev, (1995), insurance boss, owner of "VIS-2"
  • Andrey Lukanov, (1996), former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
  • Ivo Karamanski, (1998), insurance tycoon
  • Lyubomir Georgiev Penev, (1999), majoritary owner of Nova Televizia TV
  • Velichko Todorov, (2000), leader of the People's Party in Pleven
  • Georgi Valkov Georgiev, (2001), European champion, karate
  • Nikolai Kolev, (2002), Supreme Court of Cassation prosecutor
  • Todor Matov, (2003), international wrestling referee
  • Iliya Pavlov, (2003), president of Multigroup corporation, the wealthiest man in Bulgaria
  • Stoil Slavov, (2004), "Interpetroleum and Partners" associate
  • Martin Elandzhiev, (2004), national kick-box champion
  • Shinka Manova, (2005), director of Customs Control
  • Emil Kyulev, (2005), banker, voted Mr. Economics in Bulgaria for 2002
  • Georgi Stoyanov Vasilev, (2005), Sofia city counsellor
  • Ivan "Doktora" Todorov, (2006), businessman alleged of smuggling

[edit] Cyprus

  • Youssef El-Sebai, (1979), Egyptian writer, in Cyprus
  • Youcef Essalhi, (2001), 19 years old French fundamentalist shot dead in Cyprus by unknown gunman

[edit] Czech Republic

[edit] Denmark

[edit] Finland

[edit] France

[edit] Germany

[edit] Greece

[edit] Hungary

[edit] Ireland

[edit] Italy (and former Roman Empire)

[edit] Malta

[edit] Netherlands

[edit] Norway

[edit] Ottoman Empire

[edit] Poland

[edit] Portugal

[edit] Romania

[edit] Slovakia

  • Ján Ducký, (1999)

[edit] Spain

Tomb of José Canalejas in the Panteón de Hombres Ilustres, Madrid.
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Tomb of José Canalejas in the Panteón de Hombres Ilustres, Madrid.

[edit] Sweden

[edit] Switzerland

[edit] Turkey

See also: List of assasinated Turks

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] Yugoslavia (and successor states)

[edit] Assassinations in the former Soviet Union

[edit] Deaths under suspicious circumstances

[edit] Related articles and lists

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