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 One.
·
John F.
Kennedy: The legendary American president who steers the United States of
America away from nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union, and saves
humanity in the process, supposedly falls from the bullets of Lee Harvey Oswald
who fancies himself a Marxist.
·
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 from 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 for abolishing slavery and leading his country through a tragic civil
war but for not completing his agenda because, in 1865, John Wilkes Booth
killed him hardly half a year into his second term in office.
·
Felix-Roland
Moumie: The world gets an introduction to French neo-colonialism when the SDECE
(French secret service) 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.
·
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easy-to-grasp account provides a heart-rending insight into politics,
geopolitics, wars, international conspiracies, and secret agendas.
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