Countries, continents,
and the world at large experience jolts that move them away from their
evolutionary, if not reformatory paths, resulting in seismic changes that
transform them fundamentally. Assassinations are one of the potent catalysts for
these changes as they lead to wars, political changes, and even economic
transformations. Below is an insight into far-reaching political assassinations
that are still haunting the world today:
· Franz
Ferdinand: Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb nationalist, kills
the Archduke and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, thereby sparking off
World War I.
· John
F. Kennedy: The legendary American president who steers the
United States of America away from nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union,
saving humanity in the process, dies, supposedly, from the bullets of the
Marxist enthusiast Lee Harvey Oswald.
· Patrice
Lumumba: The liquidation of the first democratically elected
leader of the infant nation of Congo (the former Belgian Congo), plunges the
country into a chaos that claims more than ten million lives, derails it, and
sets it on a trajectory that it is yet to recover from six decades after
Lumumba’s death.
· Mahatma
Gandhi: The preeminent leader of the Indian independence
movement leads India to its independence from British rule but falls victim to
an assassin’s bullet as he tries to heal the country following the partition of
the subcontinent. However, he wins recognition as the father of nonviolent
civil disobedience, and his legacy has been inspiring movements for civil
rights and freedom across the world ever since.
· Abraham
Lincoln: The United States of America’s greatest president
owes his prominence not only to abolishing slavery and leading his country through
a tragic civil war, but also to not completing
his political agenda because John Wilkes Booth killed him in 1865, less
than half a year into his second term in office.
· Felix-Roland
Moumie: The world gets an introduction to French neo-colonialism
when the French Secret Service (SDECE) uses one of its top agents to end the
life of the leader of the Cameroonian liberation movement by poisoning him in
Geneva, Switzerland, with thallium.
· Alexander
II:
The assassination of the Russian Emperor, known as the "Tsar
Liberator", derailed the reformation of the Russian Empire, which ultimately
led to the Russian Revolution of 1917 that brought communists to power, and served
as a catalyst to World War II and then the Cold War that lasted until the
demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.
· Thomas
Sankara: France’s orchestration of the assassination of the
bright-eyed Burkinabe president laid bare its political mafia in Africa called FrancAfrique
(FrancAfrique), which Sankara’s disciples undermine a generation later by
liberating Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger from France’s compradors.
· The
more than a dozen other accounts deal with the USA, India, Israel, Pakistan,
Egypt, Nicaragua, Libya, and the Dominican Republic!
No comments:
Post a Comment