assassinations

Afghan women’s rights activist shot dead by gunmen days after she condemned wave of assassinations

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Top Afghan women’s rights activist, 29, is shot dead by motorbike-riding gunmen days after she condemned wave of assassinations in the country Freshta Kohistani is the second activist to be killed in Kabul in two days Her brother was also killed in the drive-by attack which took place near her home Freshta was outspoken about women’s … Read more

Dying to change the world? History is littered with brutal political assassinations

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HISTORY  ON ASSASSINATIONS   by Kenneth Baker (Unicorn £20, 256pp) Too close for comfort and too often — that is Tory grandee Lord (Kenneth) Baker’s personal experience of assassinations. In 1979, he was in the library of the House of Commons when he heard the bang and felt the shock as, just yards away, a bomb … Read more