http://www.metafilter.com/tags/NoTagsPlease Posts tagged with 'NoTagsPlease' at MetaFilter. Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:42:57 -0800 Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:42:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/44540/Political%2Dkilling%2Din%2Dthe%2Dcold%2Dwar%2Dand%2Dthereafter <small>Modern history is replete with assassinations that have a dramatic impact on national and international politics: the killing of Alexander II by anarchists in 1881 unleashed repression and anti-semitism in the Russian empire; the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in June 1914 in Sarajevo sparked the "great war" that drowned Europe in blood and inaugurated what Eric Hobsbawm calls "the short 20th century"; the assassination of the liberal Colombian politician <a href="http://www.unitedfruit.org/gaitan.html">Jorge Gaitan</a> in 1948 (a day after he had met a Latin American youth delegation that included the 21-year-old Fidel Castro) helped spark a civil war – the violencia – that continues to this day and the shooting down on 6 April 1994 of the plane carrying Rwanda's and Burundi's presidents, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal_Habyarimana">Juvenal Habyarimana</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprien_Ntaryamira">Cyprien Ntaryamira</a> precipitated the Rwandan genocide.</small><br><br> <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/ViewPopUpArticle.jsp?id=6&articleId=2753" title="The victims of the 1945-89 era in global history include those felled by assassination, covert killing, state and judicial execution. Fred Halliday recalls the incidents that marked an era and resonate in the next. ">Political killing in the cold war [& thereafter]</a> provides an outline of the aftereffects of assassinations, covert killings, state and judicial executions. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.44540 Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:42:57 -0800 assassinations coldwar covertactions executions history IHateTags IHateYourTags MYOBButtinski NoTagsPlease StopAddingTags YourTagsSuck y2karl