Editing Assassination (section)

===Cold War and beyond===
{{See also|Cold War|War on terror}}
[[File:IndiraGandhi-SareeAtTimeOfDeath.JPG|thumb|[[Indira Gandhi]]'s blood-stained [[sari]] and belongings at the time of her assassination. She was the [[Prime Minister of India]].]]

Most major powers repudiated Cold War assassination tactics, but many allege that was merely a smokescreen for political benefit and that covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U.S., [[Argentina]], Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused of engaging in such operations.<ref>John Dingles (2004). ''The Condor Years''. {{ISBN|978-1-56584-764-4}}.</ref> After the [[Iranian Revolution]] of 1979, the new Islamic government of Iran began an international campaign of assassination that lasted into the 1990s. At least 162 killings in 19 countries have been linked to the senior leadership of the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/English/pdfs/Reports/No-Safe-Haven_May08.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100902192858/http://www.iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/English/pdfs/Reports/No-Safe-Haven_May08.pdf | archive-date=September 2, 2010| title=English front cover – No Safe Haven | access-date=June 2, 2010 | page=100}}</ref> The campaign came to an end after the [[Mykonos restaurant assassinations]] because a German court publicly implicated senior members of the government and issued arrest warrants for [[Ali Fallahian]], the head of Iranian intelligence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/English/pdfs/Reports/Murder-at-Mykonos_Mar07.pdf |title=Mykonos front cover |access-date=May 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100902192942/http://www.iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/English/pdfs/Reports/Murder-at-Mykonos_Mar07.pdf |archive-date=September 2, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Evidence indicates that Fallahian's personal involvement and individual responsibility for the murders were far more pervasive than his current indictment record represents.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/English/pdfs/Reports/Condemned-by-Law_Nov08.pdf |title=Condemned by Law – Report 11-10-08.doc |access-date=May 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100307043035/http://www.iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/English/pdfs/Reports/Condemned-by-Law_Nov08.pdf |archive-date=March 7, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In India, Prime Ministers [[Indira Gandhi]] and her son [[Rajiv Gandhi]] (neither of whom was related to [[Mahatma Gandhi]], who had himself been assassinated in 1948), were assassinated in 1984 and 1991 in what were linked to [[separatist]] movements in [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] and northern [[Sri Lanka]], respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |title=India: Extremism & Terrorism |url=https://www.counterextremism.com/countries/india-extremism-and-terrorism |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=Counter Extremism Project |language=en}}</ref>

In 1994, the [[assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira]] during the [[Rwandan Civil War]] sparked the [[Rwandan genocide]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Jacquemin |first=Céline A. |title=Hegemony and Counterhegemony |date=2015 |url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137555007_6 |work=The Roots of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: From Grievance to Violence |pages=93–123 |editor-last=Nasong'o |editor-first=Wanjala S. |access-date=2023-08-14 |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137555007_6 |isbn=978-1-137-55500-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter=Opportunity II: Death of the Nation's Father |date=2021 |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/path-to-genocide-in-rwanda/opportunity-ii-death-of-the-nations-father/C7E379604EFF1D0CE0CAA512F67198D8 |title=The Path to Genocide in Rwanda: Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State |pages=178–247 |editor-last=McDoom |editor-first=Omar Shahabudin |access-date=2023-08-14 |series=African Studies |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/9781108868839.005 |isbn=978-1-108-49146-4|s2cid=235502691 }}</ref>

In Israel, Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] was assassinated on November 4, 1995, by [[Yigal Amir]], who opposed the [[Oslo Accords]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-assassination-of-yitzhak-rabin |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=Jewish Virtual Library}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Milestones: 1993–2000 |publisher=Office of the Historian, US State Department |url=https://history.state.gov/milestones/1993-2000/oslo |access-date=2023-12-31}}</ref> In [[Lebanon]], the assassination of former Prime Minister [[Rafik Hariri]] on February 14, 2005, prompted an investigation by the United Nations. The suggestion in the resulting ''[[Mehlis report]]'' that there was involvement by [[Syria]] prompted the [[Cedar Revolution]], which drove Syrian troops out of Lebanon.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

On 2 September 2022, a 35 year old Brazilian national attempted to assassinate the then vice-president of Argentina, [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]]. However, the attempt was unsuccessful because the assassin's gun jammed.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Binley |first1=Alex |last2=Murphy |first2=Matt |title=Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: Gun jams during bid to kill Argentina vice-president |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62762421 |access-date=22 May 2024 |work=BBC News |date=2 September 2022}}</ref>

==== United States government killing of citizens ====
In 2012, ''[[The New York Times]]'' revealed that the Obama administration maintained a "kill list" containing terrorism suspects.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Becker |first1=Jo |last2=Shane |first2=Scott |date=May 29, 2012 |title=Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html |access-date=September 21, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The list is sometimes referred to as a "disposition matrix", and President Obama made a final decision on whether anyone listed would be killed, without court oversight and without trial.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-06-13 |title=How Obama's 'Disposition Matrix' Kill List Could Be Used on U.S. Soil |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna52192630 |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> In September 2011, American citizens [[Anwar Al-Awlaki]] and [[Samir Khan]] were assassinated in [[Yemen]] by the United States government via drone strikes. Two weeks later, Awlaki's 16-year-old son, also an American citizen, was killed in a strike targeting [[Ibrahim al-Banna]], a senior operative in [[Al-Qaeda]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Whitlock |first=Craig |date=October 22, 2011 |title=U.S. airstrike that killed American teen in Yemen raises legal, ethical questions |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-airstrike-that-killed-american-teen-in-yemen-raises-legal-ethical-questions/2011/10/20/gIQAdvUY7L_story.html |access-date=September 21, 2024 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Greenwald |first=Glenn |date=5 February 2013 |title=Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-memo |access-date=8 July 2023 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> Al-Banna was not killed in the strike.<ref name=":0" />