226. Date: December 5, 1993
Target: Mayor Helmut Zilk
Location: Vienna, Austria
Details: Zilk was seriously injured when he opened a letter bomb addressed to him. Three other bombs mailed to officials were defused. Another exploded, injuring a legal secretary, making ten letter bomb incidents in four days.
227. Date: December 20, 1993
Target: Politburo Member Antoine Baaklini
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Details: A car bomb, parked outside the headquarters of the Christian Party, exploded. Baaklini and two others were killed, and 130 were wounded. The car contained a 440-pound remote-controlled bomb.
228. Date: January 29, 1994
Target: Jordanian Diplomat Naeb Imran Maaytah
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Details: A gunman fired a 9mm pistol through Maaytah's car window as he pulled out of a parking lot at his home. He was struck in the head and neck, and killed.
229. Date: March 23, 1994
Target: Presidential Candidate Donaldo Colosio
Location: Tijuana, Mexico
Details: Colosio was walking through a crowd of 4,000 people at a political rally. Mario Aburto Martinez approached Colosio, then raised a .38 revolver and shot him in the head and abdomen, killing him. Security guards grabbed Martinez. Colosio had insisted on little security so he could be "close to the people."
230. Date: March 28, 1994
Target: Foreign Minister Belkacem Touati
Location: Algiers, Algeria
Details: Touati was shot and killed by three Islamic militants outside his home. His wife was wounded.
231. Date: April 1, 1994
Target: Judge E. Gonzalez Dubon
Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala
Details: Several gunmen fired automatic weapons into Dubon's car, killing him and his wife. They were returning home late at night.
232. Date: April 6, 1994
Target: President Habyarimana (Rwanda) and President Ntaryamira (Burundi)
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Details: Both presidents and two cabinet ministers were killed when their Falcon 50 jet was shot down by a missile near the airport. Heavy fighting broke out in both countries, eventually killing nearly 1 million people.
233. Date: April 26, 1994
Target: Parliament Member Andrei Aizderdzis
Location: Moscow, Russia
Details: Aizderdzis was shot in the throat with a shotgun on the doorstep of his home. He had published the names of 266 mafia figures in his newspaper.
234. Date: April 28, 1994
Target: Police Chief Jose Benitez Lopez
Location: Tijuana, Mexico
Details: Two men with assault rifles killed Lopez with his bodyguard as they were leaving the city airport after investigating a bomb hoax.
235. Date: June 18, 1994
Target: Human Rights President Yousef Fathallah
Location: Algiers, Algeria
Details: Several men entered Fathallah's office and killed him with a silenced pistol. He had been a critic of political violence.
236. Date: June 28, 1994
Target: Police Inspector Bhadur Ali
Location: Karachi, Pakistan
Details: Gunmen in two cars pulled alongside a van carrying Ali and opened fire with AK-47s. Ali was killed with five other officers. He had received death threats and escaped several attempts to kill him.
237. Date: August 9, 1994
Target: Senator Manuel Cepeda
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Details: While en route to work, Cepeda was shot and killed by four gunmen firing from a van and motorcycle. His bodyguard returned fire, but they escaped.
238. Date: September 5, 1994
Target: Legislator John Newman
Location: Cabramatta, Australia
Details: Newman was shot and killed in his front yard by gunmen in a car with tinted windows. He had crusaded against gang violence. In 1991, a shot was fired through his office window.
239. Date: September 19, 1994
Target: Congressman Arlen Uribe Marquez
Location: Medellin, Colombia
Details: Leftist guerrillas threw a grenade at Marquez and his driver as they were walking to their car at work. The gunmen then opened fire, killing both men.
240. Date: September 28, 1994
Target: Secretary General Jose Ruiz Massieu
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Details: Massieu was shot through the neck and killed by a gunman with a Tec-9 assault weapon. He had just waved off his bodyguards and gotten into his car in front of a hotel. A man was arrested and told police he was paid $15,000 in pesos. Several others were later arrested. Their plans included killing a governor and a congressman.
241. Date: September 29, 1994
Target: Vice Speaker Afiyaddin Dzhalilov
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
Details: Dzhalilov was walking from his car to his brother's house when he was gunned down. His bodyguard and driver were also killed.
242. Date: October 23, 1994
Target: Presidential Candidate Gamini Dissanayake
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Details: Dissanayake was killed with 50 others at a political rally by a suicide bomber. He had finished a speech and was leaving the stage.
243. Date: December 3, 1994
Target: Democratic Leader Georgy Chanturia
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
Details: At least five gunmen in two cars opened fire on Chanturia as he was leaving his home, killing him and wounding his wife, the driver, and a bodyguard.
244. Date: March 11, 1995
Target: Cabinet Minister E. Kabushemeye
Location: Bujumbura, Burundi
Details: As he walked from a store to his car, Kabushemeye was shot and killed with his bodyguard. The gunmen fled on foot.
245. Date: March 28, 1995
Target: Opposition Leader Mireille Bertin
Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Details: Bertin was machine gunned to death on a busy street by gunmen in a taxi three days before President Clinton's visit.
246. Date: August 29, 1995
Target: Parliament Chairman Eduard Shevardnadze
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
Details: Shevardnadze was cut by flying glass in his armored car when a bomb exploded alongside his motorcade as he was heading toward an announced public appearance. Two of his bodyguards and his physician were seriously wounded from the blast. They were traveling in a different vehicle. The blast occurred at 6:30 p.m. as he was leaving his office building. Video of the scene showed the leader sitting in a chair, his undershirt and face specked with blood, and he appeared dazed. Several other cars were also heavily damaged, their windows blown out and their roofs and fenders buckled and burned. Georgian prosecutors charged 14 people in connection with the attack. Shevardnadze survived several assassination attempts as Georgia's Communist leader from 1972 to 1985. (2-STARS: Protective Strategies or Resources at the scene favorably influenced safety/survival.)
247. Date: August 31, 1995
Target: Chief Minister Beant Singh
Location: Chandigarh, India
Details: A bomb planted in Singh's bullet-resistant car exploded outside his heavily guarded government building, killing him and 15 members of his staff. A Sikh separatist group was blamed.
248. Date: September 27, 1995
Target: Presidential Counsel Antonio Cancino
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Details: Gunmen wounded Cancino and killed two of his bodyguards while he was on his way to an interview at a radio station.
249. Date: October 3, 1995
Target: President Kiro Gligorov
Location: Skopje, Macedonia
Details: A remote-controlled car bomb exploded as Gligorov's armored Mercedes drove by, ripping it apart and killing his driver. Though injured, Gligorov
and his bodyguard survived the attack. His route to his office was well known and his car often slowed at the location of the bomb. (2-STARS: Protective Strategies or Resources at the scene favorably influenced safety/survival.)
250. Date: November 2, 1995
Target: Former Presidential Candidate Alvaro G. Hurtado
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Details: Two gunmen attacked and killed Hurtado and his aide on the grounds of the university that he had founded. Hurtado was shot four times, and a bodyguard and street vendor were wounded.
251. Date: November 4, 1995
Target: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Details: Rabin addressed a peace rally of about 250,000 people. Afterwards, he walked from the stage to his car. As he reached his limousine, Yigal Amir approached from the rear and shot Rabin in the back twice with a 9mm Beretta. He fired a third shot that wounded one of Rabin's bodyguards. The wounded guard pushed Rabin into the car and they sped him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Amir was overpowered and arrested. He had made three unsuccessful attempts to kill Rabin over a two-year period, but could not get close enough during those attempts.
252. Date: November 20, 1995
Target: Chechen Leader Doku Zavgayev
Location: Grozny, Russia
Details: A bomb exploded as Zavgayev's motorcade went by and bullets sprayed down from rooftops. Zavgayev suffered glass cuts to the face and several bodyguards were wounded.
253. Date: January 5, 1996
Target: Terrorist Leader Yehiya Ayyash
Location: Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip
Details: Ayyash was killed when he held a booby-trapped cellular telephone to his head and it exploded. Known as "The Engineer," he was the bomb maker for Hamas and responsible for seven bombings that killed 55 and wounded 300. Israeli intelligence agents were blamed for his death.
254. Date: February 13, 1996
Target: Lawmaker Alex Vengerovsky
Location: Moscow, Russia
Details: Vengerovsky was shot and wounded by two gunmen while he was walking his dog near his home. He was hospitalized with a wound to his kneecap.
255. Date: February 14, 1996
Target: Former Top Judge Francisco Valiente
Location: Madrid, Spain
Details: Valiente was shot three times in the head and killed while at his office. The gunmen were believed to be ETA terrorists.
256. Date: April 23, 1996
Target: Deputy Prime Minister B. Dzhamalkhanov
Location: Grozny, Russia
Details: Gunmen opened fire on Dzhamalkhanov's car as he was going to work, wounding him and killing two bodyguards.
257. Date: May 23, 1996
Target: Deputy Minister Anatoly Stepanov
Location: Moscow, Russia
Details: Stepanov was killed in his apartment. Early reports indicated he was shot, but police announced that he died from a blow to the head.
258. Date: May 24, 1996
Target: Lawyer William Rodriguez
Location: Cali, Colombia
Details: Eight gunmen opened fire as Rodriguez was having lunch in a restaurant, wounding him in the throat, arm, and leg. At least five others, including some bodyguards, were killed.
259. Date: September 20, 1996
Target: Former Prime Minister Benazir Buto
Location: Pakistan
Details: Buto was assassinated with seven of his bodyguards, during a police shoot-out and raid on his home. Some claimed that the police planned the incident in order to kill Buto's bodyguards without inflicting any harm on him. This was to be achieved by creating an incident where force and live ammunition would be used to dispose of his bodyguards illegally and without a cause.
260. Date: October 2, 1996
Target: Premier Andrei Lukanov
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Details: A gunman shot and killed Lukanov at 9:20 a.m. in front of his apartment building.
261. Date: October 21, 1996
Target: Mayor Ali Boucetta
Location: Algiers, Algeria
Details: A gun battle erupted between 13 Muslim militants and Boucetta's police entourage as his motorcade passed by. Boucetta was shot and killed.
262. Date: November 3, 1996
Target: Businessman Paul Tatum
Location: Moscow, Russia
Details: After he left his office accompanied by two bodyguards, two gunmen shot Tatum 11 times in the back of his head and neck with an AK-47 in an underground passageway outside the Kiev railway station. He had been involved in business disputes over a luxury hotel. Tatum believed he might be killed by the Mafia and was wearing body armor at the time of the attack.
263. Date: December 12, 1996
Target: Uday Hussein (President Hussein's son)
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Details: Saddam's heir apparent, Uday, was seriously injured in an ambush when his armored sports car was riddled with automatic weapons fire from two gunmen. He had left his bodyguards behind. Though injured, Uday survived the attack. Several bodyguards were reportedly executed for not providing adequate protection. (2-STARS: Protective Strategies or Resources at the scene favorably influenced safety/survival.)
264. Date: January 15, 1997
Target: Deputy Chairman Abraham Adesanya
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Details: Gunmen opened fire on Adesanya's car, but he suffered only minor injuries. He went into hiding after the attack and blamed it on the military government.
265. Date: January 18, 1997
Target: Parliament Candidate Azim Tariq
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
Details: A bomb exploded as Tariq and Zia-ul Rehman, both Sunni leaders on trial for murder, got out of their police van and were being showered with rose petals by supporters in front of the courthouse. The blast killed Rehman and 25 others, including police and journalists. Tariq and dozens more were wounded. Rival Shiite Muslims were blamed.
266. Date: January 28, 1997
Target: Union Leader Abdelhak Benhamouda
Location: Algiers, Algeria
Details: A gunman opened fire, killing Benhamouda, another union official, and a bodyguard. More than 60,000 died during five years of insurgency.
267. Date: February 4, 1997
Target: Roman Catholic Bishop Benjamin de Jesus
Location: Jolo, Philippines
Details: Two attackers shot de Jesus six times in the head and body as he walked outside his cathedral, killing him and a bystander and wounding five others.
268. Date: February 10, 1997
Target: Supreme Court Judge Rafael M. Emperador
Location: Madrid, Spain
Details: Two gunmen shot and killed Emperador outside his home. The assassination came as the court was putting pressure on Basque separatists. ETA terrorists killed almost 800 people between 1968 and 1997.
269. Date: February 10, 1997
Target: Mayor Safet Orucevic
Location: Mostar, Bosnia
Details: Croat gunmen fired on about 200 Muslims who were visiting a cemetery on a religious holiday, killing one and wounding many. Orucevic was beaten and the city's Islamic leader, Seid Smajkic, had a minor gunshot wound.
270. Date: February 11, 1997
Target: Legislator Nalanda Ellawala
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Details: Mahinda Ratnatilleke, a former opposition party mayor, gunned down Ellawal during a local election campaign. A second suspect remained at large, as of 2006.
271. Date: February 14, 1997
Target: Supreme Court Judge V. Nkezabaganwa
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Details: Three uniformed gunmen opened fire on his car as it pulled into the driveway of his home. He was killed along with his driver and a neighbor.
272. Date: March 30, 1997
Target: Opposition Leader Sam Rainsy
Locati
on: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Details: Four grenades were thrown from a passing car into a political rally in front of the National Assembly building. One grenade exploded about ten meters from Rainsy, killing one of his bodyguards. Of the 200 people in the crowd, between 16 and 20 were killed and 150 wounded, including Rainsey. A unit of heavily-armed troops in full combat assault uniforms was positioned near the KNP speech platform. According to local media reports, these soldiers made no attempt to apprehend the attackers and prevented KNP supporters from doing so.
273. Date: April 12, 1997
Target: Deputy Interior Minister Radovan Stojicic
Location: Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Details: A masked gunman shot and killed Stojicic, who oversaw public security for President Milosevic, while Stojicic was dining in a popular eating place, which he frequented. Stojicic sat with his son and a friend, who was wounded. The assassin fired seven bullets into Stojicic and only one of them missed. The gunman fired three more bullets into the window on his way out, just to make sure no one tried to stop him, but no one else was hurt. The whole incident lasted only a few seconds. Stojicic had given his bodyguards the night off.
274. Date: April 28, 1997
Target: Vice President of the House of Representatives Julio Enrique Acosta
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Details: A bomb detonated by remote control injured Acosta and killed one of his bodyguards. The rebel National Liberation Army is suspected.
275. Date: April 30, 1997
Target: President Emomali Rakhmonov
Location: Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Details: An assassin hurled a grenade at Rakmonov after he emerged from his car and was shaking hands with people outside a theater. The grenade went off near his feet, killing two and wounding 58, including Rakmonov. Two suspects were arrested.
276. Date: May 2, 1997
Target: Culture Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy
Location: Lourdes, France
Details: A man with a history of mental problems attacked Blazy with a knife, wounding him in the shoulder. The assailant then fled to a cafe, where police found him sipping a drink.
277. Date: June 15, 1997
Target: Sports Club Executive Larisa Nechayeva
Location: Moscow, Russia
Details: Gunmen killed Nechayeva, shooting her in the head and chest at her country house. It was the Russian sports world's second contract killing in three months. Organized crime groups have targeted sports organizations, seeking a cut of their lucrative profits.
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