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 By placing and remotely detonating a bomb in his fishing boat, the Irish Republican Army murdered Lord Mountbatten, a military strategist and tutor for Prince Carlos. Three others were killed by the blast. By placing and remotely detonating a bomb in his fishing boat, the Irish Republican Army murdered Lord Mountbatten, a military strategist and tutor for Prince Carlos. Three others were killed by the blast.
 The murder was supposed to indicate that even the peak of British society was not safe from IRA, because the army sought to remove Northern Ireland's British control. [([[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/dead-dead-dead-the-day-lord-mountbatten-two-boys-one-woman-and-18-soldiers-died-1.3991952|Irish Times]])] The murder was supposed to indicate that even the peak of British society was not safe from IRA, because the army sought to remove Northern Ireland's British control. [([[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/dead-dead-dead-the-day-lord-mountbatten-two-boys-one-woman-and-18-soldiers-died-1.3991952|Irish Times]])]
 +
 +===== South Korean President Park Chung-hee =====
 +
 +His buddy Kim Jae Kyu, the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agent, shot President Park Chung-hee in the restaurant.
 +After a military coup in 1961, because Park had taken over the country, he ruled with a "iron hand." Kim told South Korea that the president was killed to bring democracy back. [([[https://abcnews.go.com/International/south-korean-president-park-chung-hee-assassinated-35/story?id=26433094|ABC News]])]
 +
 +===== Egyptian President Anwar Sadat =====
 +
 +Assassins pretending to be soldiers shot Sadat as he was in Cairo on Victory Day.
 +Steden Cook, who published a book called "The struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square," telled NPR how many were ambivalent about his position as a politician, while the country was shocked by his passing.
 +This was due to several of his term choices. Egypt changed its leadership. He pulled out of Russia and moved closer to the United States. Then few years later, he also began a war with Israel. [([[https://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141103841/egypt-30-years-after-anwar-sadats-death|NPR]])]
 +
 +===== Indira Gandhi =====
 +
 +Two of her Sikh bodyguards shot Gandhi who was the country's leader for 15 years.
 +It was in response to Gandhi's killing that the army had raided the Golden Temple, the most sacred Sikh sanctuary, to dispel the Sikh separatists inside.
 +Gandhi's death triggered widespread violence. Within days the mobs murdered thousands of Sikhs, and the violence was not stopped and instigated by many police and governmental officials. [([[https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/17/asia/sajjan-kumar-verdict-intl/index.html|CNN]])]
 +
 +===== Rajiv Gandhi =====
 +
 +Gandhi became prime minister after his mother's death, but a Tamil Tigers suicide bomber murdered him in southern India. He was not in office at the time and ran to be prime minister once more.
 +After sending hundreds of troops to help Sri Lanka battle the Tigers four years earlier, Gandhi had become an adversary of the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist organisation from Sri Lanka. [([[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-24-mn-2181-story.html|LATimes]])]
 +
 +===== Yitzhak Rabin =====
 +
 +Rabin was fired at by Yigal Amir, a Jewish right-wing law student.
 +Rabin has tried to achieve Israel-Palestine peace. When he met Palestine two years earlier, he moved things to attempt to build a route for Palestine to become independent.
 +But Amir did not want Palestine to be peaceful and his Rabin murder succeeded in this aspect. [([[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/26/shot-in-the-heart?verso=true|New Yorker]])]
 +
 +===== Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko =====
 +
 +A tea lapped with a radioactive toxin called Polonium was used to assassinate Litvinenko. It was the only time this type of murder was reported.
 +Following official investigations, the former KGB guard of body Andrei Lugovoi and a complicity were administered the poison, and Russian President Vladimir Putin "maybe" ordered that the killing be carried out. Litvinenko had been a goal since in a Spanish inquiry he was going to testify regarding Putin's regime. [([[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11381789/The-assassination-of-Alexander-Litvinenko-20-things-about-his-death-we-have-learned-this-week.html|Telegraph]])]
 +
 +===== Benazir Bhutto =====
 +
 +After the gathering, a 15-year-old suicide bomber murdered Bhutto, Pakistan's first female prime minister. The exact reason has been disputed, since her party's members stated that she died before the explosion from bullets wounds. After spending eight years outside the nation, she had just returned to Pakistan a few months before her appointment as a prime minister. The demonstrations passed across the cities immediately following her death, and people set fire to trains. [([[https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/12/27/the-day-benazir-bhutto-was-killed/|Aljazeera]])]
 +
 +===== Osama Bin Laden =====
 +
 +At former President Barack Obama's command, US Special Forces shot Bin Laden, accountable for September 11 terrorist attacks.
 +This was one of the most effective murders in the US, considering it was a terrorist commander and not an official state. [([[https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/iranian-general-s-death-latest-assassination-political-aims-they-re-ncna1112146|NBC News]])]
 +
 +===== Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi =====
 +
 +Baghdadi has also been murdered by US soldiers.
 +ISIS's death was a blow, but it wasn't paralyzed. Brookings said the terrorist organization had been put to death by Baghdadi, which meant that the group was not to do additional terrorist activities, but had to focus on its survival. This was another effective killing, considering Baghdadi had no relations with a known state, like Osama bin Laden had. [([[https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/iranian-general-s-death-latest-assassination-political-aims-they-re-ncna1112146|NBC News]])]
 +
 +===== Qassem Soleimani =====
 +
 +The killing by Drone assault of Soleimani near Baghdad airport was authorized by President Donald Trump.
 +Soleimani was the Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander and reported the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader. While in the United States he was considered to be a terrorist, he was praised in Iran.
 +Following his death, tensions reached a height of fever between the two countries. Iran pledged vengeance. The aim was to get America to abandon the Near East, Khamenei stated. It started an air raid in Iraq on two American bases, but no one was wounded. [([[https://www.businessinsider.com/iran-airstrike-qassem-soleimani-how-iran-could-take-revenge-2020-1?IR=T|Business Insider]])]
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