List of assassinated serving ambassadors
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This is a list of assassinated serving ambassadors.[1][2]
List
Photo | Ambassador | Post | Place | Country | Date of death | Killed by |
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Envoys of Xerxes I | Persian envoys to Sparta | Sparta | Sparta | 481 B.C. | Leonidas I | |
Gaius Fulcinius | Roman envoys to Fidenae | Fidenae | Roman Republic | 438 B.C. | On orders of Lars Tolumnius | |
Lucius Roscius | ||||||
Spurius Antius | ||||||
Tullus Cloelius | ||||||
Ambassadors of Genghis Khan | Mongol ambassadors to the Khwarezmian Empire | Otrar/Urgench | Khwarezmian Empire | 1218 | A Mongolian trade caravan including ambassadors was massacred by Inalchuq. Later on, a Muslim ambassador was beheaded on orders of Sultan Muhammad II | |
Ambassadors of Hulagu Khan | Mongol ambassadors to the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanate | Mayyafariqin | ![]() | 1260 | A Jacobite priest was crucified on the orders of Ayyubid emir Al-Kamil Muhammad[3] | |
Egypt | ![]() Mamluk Sultanate | Sultan Qutuz[4] | ||||
Ambassador of Timur | Timurid ambassador to the Mamluk Sultanate | Damascus | ![]() | 1400 | On orders of Mamluk viceroy, Sudun | |
Antonio Rincon | French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire | Rivoli | ![]() | July 3, 1541 | Venetian Imperial Guard | |
![]() | Alexander Griboyedov | Russian Ambassador to Persia | Tehran | ![]() | February 11, 1829 | Iranian mob |
![]() | Clemens von Ketteler | German Ambassador to China | Beijing | ![]() | June 20, 1900 | Boxer rebel |
![]() | Wilhelm von Mirbach | German Ambassador to Russia | Moscow | ![]() | June 6, 1918 | Left Socialist Revolutionaries |
![]() | Vatslav Vorovsky | Soviet Representative to Italy | Lausanne | ![]() | May 10, 1923 | Maurice Conradi |
![]() | Rayko Daskalov | Bulgarian Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia | Prague | ![]() | August 23, 1923 | Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization |
![]() | Pyotr Voykov | Soviet Ambassador to Poland | Warsaw | ![]() | June 7, 1927 | Boris Kowerda |
![]() | Ceno bej Kryeziu | Albanian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia | Prague | ![]() | July 26, 1927 | Alkibijad Bebi |
![]() | Henry Gurney | United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaya | Fraser's Hill | ![]() | October 6, 1951 | Members of the Malayan Communist Party |
Kokkat Sankara Pillai | First Secretary in High Commission of India in Ottawa, Canada | Ottawa | ![]() | April 19, 1961 | Killed by a mentally unstable Yugoslav immigrant to Canada | |
![]() | John Gordon Mein | United States Ambassador to Guatemala | Guatemala City | ![]() | August 28, 1968 | Rebel Armed Forces |
Karl von Spreti | West German Ambassador to Guatemala | Guatemala City | ![]() | May 4, 1970 | Rebel Armed Forces | |
Vladimir Rolović | Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden | Stockholm | ![]() | April 15, 1971 | Croatian National Resistance | |
Joaquin Zenteno Anaya | Bolivian Ambassador to France | Paris | ![]() | April 15, 1971 | Hugo Banzer regime[citation needed] | |
Marcel Dupret | Belgian Ambassador to Morocco | Skhirat | ![]() | July 10, 1971 | Army rebels during a coup d'état attempt against King Hassan II[5] | |
![]() | Germain Mba | Gabonese Ambassador to Japan | Libreville | ![]() | November 5, 1971 | African mercenaries led by Bob Denard[citation needed] |
Cleo A. Noel, Jr. | United States Ambassador to Sudan | Khartoum | ![]() | March 2, 1973 | Black September | |
Rodger Davies | United States Ambassador to Cyprus | Nicosia | ![]() | August 19, 1974 | EOKA B | |
Daniş Tunalıgil | Turkish Ambassador to Austria | Vienna | ![]() | October 11, 1975 | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide | |
İsmail Erez | Turkish Ambassador to France | Paris | ![]() | October 24, 1975 | Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia | |
Christopher Ewart-Biggs | United Kingdom Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland | Dublin | ![]() | June 21, 1976 | Provisional Irish Republican Army | |
Carlos Abdala | Uruguayan Ambassador to Paraguay | Asunción | ![]() | November 5, 1976 | Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood | |
Francis E. Meloy, Jr. | United States Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | ![]() | June 16, 1976 | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | |
Taha Carım | Turkish Ambassador to Holy See | Rome | ![]() | June 9, 1977 | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide | |
![]() | Héctor Hidalgo Solá | Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela | Buenos Aires | ![]() | July 17, 1977 (disappearance) | unknown |
Mario García Incháustegui | Cuban Ambassador to Japan | Kuala Lumpur | ![]() | December 4, 1977 | killed in the deliberate crash of Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 | |
Said Hammami | Palestinian Liberation Organization Representative to the United Kingdom | London | ![]() | January 4, 1978 | Abu Nidal Organization (alleged) | |
Adolph Dubs | United States Ambassador to Afghanistan | Kabul | ![]() | February 14, 1979 | Settam-e-Melli (alleged) | |
Richard Sykes | United Kingdom Ambassador to the Netherlands | The Hague | ![]() | March 22, 1979 | Provisional Irish Republican Army | |
Gottfried Lessing | East German Ambassador to Uganda | Kampala | ![]() | April 11, 1979 | Uganda National Liberation Front | |
Archibald Gardner Dunn | South African Ambassador to El Salvador | San Salvador | ![]() | October 8, 1980 | Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí[citation needed] | |
Louis Delamare | French Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | ![]() | September 5, 1981 | Pro-Syrian militants[citation needed] | |
Domingo Garcia Rodriguez | Cuban Ambassador to Egypt | Cairo | ![]() | October 6, 1981 | Rogue military gunmen during the Assassination of Anwar Sadat [citation needed] | |
Abdul Razzak Lafta | Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | ![]() | December 15, 1981 | killed in an embassy bombing by the Islamic Dawa Party | |
Shlomo Argov | Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom | London | ![]() | February 24, 2003 (shot on June 3, 1982) | Abu Nidal Organization | |
Galip Balkar | Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia | Belgrade | ![]() | March 9, 1983 | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide | |
Lee Gye-cheol | South Korean Ambassador to Burma | Rangoon | ![]() | October 9, 1983 | North Korean agents as part of an assassination plot against visiting South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan | |
Khalifa Ahmad Mubarak | Emirati Ambassador to France | Paris | ![]() | February 8, 1984 | Abu Nidal Organization | |
Salih Mahdi Ammash | Iraqi Ambassador to Finland | Helsinki | ![]() | January 30, 1985 | Baathist Iraqi agents[citation needed] | |
Pedro Manuel de Aristegui | Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | ![]() | April 16, 1989 | killed by a rocket[citation needed] | |
Philippe Bernard | French Ambassador to Zaire | Kinshasa | ![]() | January 28, 1993 | killed by a stray bullet during a looting rampage by local soldiers[6] | |
Alfredo Enrique Vargas-Hirsch | Venezuelan Ambassador to Jamaica | Kingston | ![]() | November 6, 1997 | unknown[7] | |
Michael Courtney | Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi | Bujumbura | ![]() | December 29, 2003 | National Forces of Liberation | |
Ihab el-Sherif | Egyptian ambassador to Iraq | Baghdad | ![]() | July 7, 2005 | kidnapped and killed by al-Qaeda in Iraq | |
![]() | J. Christopher Stevens | United States Ambassador to Libya | Benghazi | ![]() | September 11, 2012 | Ansar al-Sharia |
Jamal al-Jamal | Palestinian Ambassador to Czechia | Prague | ![]() | January 1, 2014 | killed by a bomb | |
![]() | Andrei Karlov | Russian Ambassador to Turkey | Ankara | ![]() | December 19, 2016 | Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş |
![]() | Kyriakos Amiridis | Greek Ambassador to Brazil | Nova Iguaçu | ![]() | December 26, 2016 | Sérgio Moreira |
![]() | Luca Attanasio | Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Goma | ![]() | February 22, 2021 | unknown attackers during a kidnapping attempt |
References
- ^ "US Ambassadors Killed in the Line of Duty". Associated Press. 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
- ^ "How many U.S. Ambassadors have been killed by militants?". Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs United States Department of State. Archived from the original on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2017-04-22.
- ^ Runciman 1987, p. 305.
- ^ Runciman 1987, p. 311.
- ^ "The World: Morocco: Bloody Birthday". Time. 19 July 1971. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
- ^ "French Envoy to Zaire Killed in a Shooting". The New York Times. Associated Press. 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ^ "Venezuelan Ambassador Killed". Associated Press. 1997-11-06. Retrieved 2020-01-03.
Bibliography
- Runciman, Steven (1987). A History of the Crusades: Volume 3, The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521347723.