List of assassinated serving ambassadors
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This is a list of assassinated serving ambassadors.[1][2]
List
| 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 | Urgench
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Khwarezmian Empire
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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 | Ayyubid Sultanate
|
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 | Mamluk Sultanate
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1400 | On orders of Mamluk viceroy, Sudun |
 Antonio Rincon |
French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire | Rivoli |  Venice
|
July 3, 1541 | Venetian Imperial Guard |
 Alexander Griboyedov |
Russian Ambassador to Persia | Tehran |  Persia
|
February 11, 1829 | Iranian mob |
 Clemens von Ketteler |
German Ambassador to China
|
Beijing |  China
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June 20, 1900 | Boxer rebel |
 Wilhelm von Mirbach |
German Ambassador to Russia | Moscow |  Russian SFSR
|
June 6, 1918 | Left Socialist Revolutionaries
|
 Vatslav Vorovsky |
Soviet Representative to Italy | Lausanne |  Switzerland
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May 10, 1923 | Maurice Conradi |
 Rayko Daskalov |
Bulgarian Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia | Prague |  Czechoslovakia
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August 23, 1923 | Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization |
 Pyotr Voykov |
Soviet Ambassador to Poland | Warsaw |  Poland
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June 7, 1927 | Boris Kowerda |
Ceno bej Kryeziu
|
Albanian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia | Prague | Czechoslovakia
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July 26, 1927 | Alkibijad Bebi |
 Henry Gurney |
United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaya
|
Fraser's Hill |  Malaya
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October 6, 1951 | Members of the Malayan Communist Party |
| Kokkat Sankara Pillai | First Secretary in High Commission of India in Ottawa, Canada | Ottawa |  Canada
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April 19, 1961 | Killed by a mentally unstable Yugoslav immigrant to Canada |
 John Mein |
United States Ambassador to Guatemala
|
Guatemala City |  Guatemala
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August 28, 1968 | Rebel Armed Forces |
| Karl von Spreti | West German Ambassador to Guatemala | Guatemala City | Guatemala
|
May 4, 1970 | Rebel Armed Forces |
| Vladimir Rolović | Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden | Stockholm |  Sweden |
April 15, 1971 | Croatian National Resistance |
| Joaquin Zenteno Anaya | Bolivian Ambassador to France | Paris |  France |
April 15, 1971 | Hugo Banzer regime[citation needed] |
| Marcel Dupret | Belgian Ambassador to Morocco | Skhirat |  Morocco |
July 10, 1971 | Army rebels during a Hassan II[5]
|
 Germain Mba |
Gabonese Ambassador to Japan | Libreville |  Gabon |
November 5, 1971 | African mercenaries led by Bob Denard[citation needed] |
Cleo A. Noel, Jr. |
United States Ambassador to Sudan
|
Khartoum |  Sudan
|
March 2, 1973 | Black September |
| Rodger Davies | United States Ambassador to Cyprus |
Nicosia |  Cyprus |
August 19, 1974 | EOKA B |
Daniş Tunalıgil |
Turkish Ambassador to Austria |
Vienna |  Austria |
October 11, 1975 | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide |
| İsmail Erez | Turkish Ambassador to France |
Paris | France |
October 24, 1975 | Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia |
| Christopher Ewart-Biggs | United Kingdom Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland | Dublin |  Ireland |
June 21, 1976 | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
| Carlos Abdala | Uruguayan Ambassador to Paraguay | Asunción |  Paraguay |
November 5, 1976 | Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood |
Francis E. Meloy, Jr. |
United States Ambassador to Lebanon
|
Beirut |  Lebanon
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June 16, 1976 | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| Taha Carım | Turkish Ambassador to Holy See | Rome |  Italy |
June 9, 1977 | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide |
 Héctor Hidalgo Solá |
Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela | Buenos Aires |  Argentina |
July 17, 1977 (disappearance) | unknown |
| Mario García Incháustegui | Cuban Ambassador to Japan | Kuala Lumpur |  Malaysia |
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 |  United Kingdom |
January 4, 1978 | Abu Nidal Organization (alleged) |
Adolph Dubs |
United States Ambassador to Afghanistan |
Kabul |  Afghanistan |
February 14, 1979 | Settam-e-Melli (alleged) |
| Richard Sykes | United Kingdom Ambassador to the Netherlands |
The Hague |  Netherlands |
March 22, 1979 | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
| Gottfried Lessing | East German Ambassador to Uganda | Kampala |  Uganda |
April 11, 1979 | Uganda National Liberation Front |
| Archibald Gardner Dunn | South African Ambassador to El Salvador | San Salvador |  El Salvador
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October 8, 1980 | Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí[citation needed ]
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| Louis Delamare | French Ambassador to Lebanon
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Beirut | Lebanon
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September 5, 1981 | Pro-Syrian militants[citation needed] |
| Domingo Garcia Rodriguez | Cuban Ambassador to Egypt | Cairo |  Egypt
|
October 6, 1981 | Rogue military gunmen during the Assassination of Anwar Sadat [citation needed] |
| Abdul Razzak Lafta | Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | Lebanon
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December 15, 1981 | killed in an embassy bombing by the Islamic Dawa Party
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| Shlomo Argov | Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom |
London | United Kingdom |
February 24, 2003 (shot on June 3, 1982) |
Abu Nidal Organization |
| Galip Balkar | Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia |
Belgrade |  Yugoslavia |
March 9, 1983 | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide |
| Lee Gye-cheol | South Korean Ambassador to Burma | Rangoon |  Burma
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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 |  United Arab Emirates
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February 8, 1984 | Abu Nidal Organization |
| Salih Mahdi Ammash | Iraqi Ambassador to Finland | Helsinki |  Finland
|
January 30, 1985 | Baathist Iraqi agents[citation needed ]
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| Pedro Manuel de Aristegui | Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | Lebanon
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April 16, 1989 | killed by a rocket[citation needed] |
| Philippe Bernard | French Ambassador to Zaire | Kinshasa |  Zaire
|
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 |  Jamaica
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November 6, 1997 | unknown[7] |
| Michael Courtney | Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi
|
Bujumbura |  Burundi
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December 29, 2003 | National Forces of Liberation |
| Ihab el-Sherif | Egyptian ambassador to Iraq | Baghdad |  Iraq
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July 7, 2005 | kidnapped and killed by al-Qaeda in Iraq |
 J. Christopher Stevens |
United States Ambassador to Libya |
Benghazi |  Libya |
September 11, 2012 | Ansar al-Sharia |
| Jamal al-Jamal | Palestinian Ambassador to Czechia | Prague | Czechia
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January 1, 2014 | killed by a bomb |
 Andrei Karlov |
Russian Ambassador to Turkey |
Ankara |  Turkey |
December 19, 2016 | Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş
|
.jpg) Kyriakos Amiridis |
Greek Ambassador to Brazil | Nova Iguaçu |  Brazil |
December 26, 2016 | Sérgio Moreira |
Luca Attanasio |
Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Goma |  Democratic Republic of the Congo |
February 22, 2021 | unknown attackers during a kidnapping attempt
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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.