Assassination
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It has been knocked back on its heels, but it is still standing, and responded swiftly to the
assassination
of three major figures, losing no time in appointing a new defense minister.
In 2015, the same establishment that now supports Macron and rails against the “alternative facts,” loony economics, and authoritarianism of Le Pen, Donald Trump, the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and others, launched a ferociously effective campaign of falsehood and character
assassination
to undermine the democratically elected Greek government in which I served.
Adrift in Trump’s New CenturyWASHINGTON, DC – The late British historian Eric Hobsbawm famously called the period between Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s
assassination
in 1914 and the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 the “short twentieth century.”
That Sharon’s stroke could be compared – in terms of political consequences – with the
assassination
of Yitzak Rabin demonstrates that his personality had become associated with hope and security.
Pakistan’s Iranian ShadowAs the future of both Pakistan and its president, Pervez Musharraf, wallow in uncertainty in the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, parallels are being drawn to the 1979 fall of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
The current “ceasefire” with Israel is violated by the daily of salvos of missiles fired from Gaza, while ceasefires among Palestinians have typically been broken by gunfire and
assassination
attempts within a few hours.
And, in Central Asia, India has projects at Ayni Air Base near Dushanbe in Tajikistan, including a functioning field hospital (where the late Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of Afghanistan’s anti-Soviet war, died following an
assassination
attempt on September 9, 2001).
Only a few months after Rabin’s murder his Labor Party, badly crippled by the assassination, lost the 1996 elections.
The Making of a Murder in PakistanThe
assassination
of Benazir Bhutto, the first Muslim woman to lead a Muslim country, is a serious blow to Pakistan’s prospects for democracy and, indeed, its viability as a state.
In the wake of the Iraq war and the
assassination
of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, Turkey provided diplomatic cover to the besieged Baath regime.
Throughout his career, he was known to play all sides, at times threatening his resignation, only to stay on – or accusing enemies of
assassination
plots, only to stay alive.
The downing in eastern Ukraine of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 echoed the 1914
assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in its recklessness, not to mention the failure of governments and citizens to recognize that diplomatic rivalry can quickly give way to violence.
The recent
assassination
of former Deputy Prime Minister and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov reinforces this assumption.
But Zardari retained the mantle of the PPP’s co-chairman that he acquired following the
assassination
of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, in December 2007, and even held all formal and informal party meetings in presidential properties.
Instead, the
assassination
of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, set in motion a chain of bloodletting that killed nearly 100 million people by 1945 and caused human suffering on a previously unimaginable scale.
After the
assassination
of President John F. Kennedy, stock prices fell less than 3%, and recovered the next day.
During the Republican primary, he linked his opponent Senator Ted Cruz’s father to John F. Kennedy’s
assassination.
Until his assassination, Fortuyn's rise was conspicuous because he flaunted his wealth in the land of "the embarrassment of riches."
When he became Prime Minister in elections six months after the
assassination
of General Rabin, Mr. Netanyahu continued in this strategy of exclusion and confrontation.
However, while Pakistan's progressives oppose militarism and violence in principle, religious fundamentalists have no compunction in resorting to violence to reinforce their point of view - thus posing a threat not just to General Musharraf, who has survived at least two
assassination
attempts, but also to human rights workers.
January 30 marked the 68th anniversary of the
assassination
of Mahatma Gandhi, who fought not merely for independence, but also for a more just, equal, and moral India.
It is this page that has been probably fully closed with the
assassination
of Politkovskaya.
As the Bosnian war was winding down in 1995, Gligorov was the target of an
assassination
attempt, a car bombing that killed his driver.
The unprecedented demonstrations against Syria’s occupation of Lebanon following the
assassination
of its former prime minister, Rafiq al-Hariri, show no signs of abating.
Moreover, US officials claim that the regime mounted a clandestine cyber attack on Sony Pictures, allegedly over objections to “The Interview,” a slapstick movie premised on an
assassination
attempt against North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
Most significantly, in the face of martial law and political assassination, Pakistanis have not given up their dream of democracy.
In response to such extortionary practices, King Abdullah II decried “character assassination” by online news media and demanded that the government establish a regulatory framework for this unruly new sector.
The potential charges are serious: conspiring to destabilize the government that was elected last February, unlawfully removing the country’s top judges in November 2007, and failing to provide adequate security to Benazir Bhutto before her
assassination
last December.
Syria’s stance is complicated by an ongoing United Nations investigation that accuses it of involvement in the February 14, 2005,
assassination
of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
Barring a major event – say, an
assassination
of a major figure, a large-scale military attack, or a significant split within the political elite or the FARC leadership – the negotiations are likely to continue.
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