List of assassinated serving ambassadors

This is a list of assassinated serving ambassadors.[1][2]

List

Photo Ambassador Post Place Country Date of death Killed by
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 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 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 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 May 10, 1923 Maurice Conradi
Rayko Daskalov Bulgarian Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia Prague Czechoslovakia August 23, 1923 Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Pyotr Voykov Soviet Ambassador to Poland Warsaw Poland June 7, 1927 Boris Kowerda
Ceno bej Kryeziu Albanian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Prague Czechoslovakia July 26, 1927 Alkibijad Bebi
Henry Gurney United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaya Fraser's Hill Malaya October 6, 1951 Members of the Malayan Communist Party
Kokkat Sankara Pillai First Secretary in High Commission of India in Ottawa, Canada Ottawa Canada April 19, 1961 Killed by a mentally unstable Yugoslav immigrant to Canada
John Gordon Mein United States Ambassador to Guatemala Guatemala City Guatemala 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
Marcel Dupret Belgian Ambassador to Morocco Skhirat Morocco July 10, 1971 Army rebels during a coup d'état attempt against King Hassan II[5]
Germain Mba Gabonese Ambassador to Japan Libreville Gabon November 5, 1971 African mercenaries led by Bob Denard
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 22, 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 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 October 8, 1980 Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí
Louis Delamare French Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut Lebanon September 5, 1981 Pro-Syrian militants
Domingo Garcia Rodriguez Cuban Ambassador to Egypt Cairo Egypt October 6, 1981 Rogue military gunmen during the Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Abdul Razzak Lafta Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut Lebanon December 15, 1981 killed in an embassy bombing by the Islamic Dawa Party
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 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 February 8, 1984 Abu Nidal Organization
Salih Mahdi Ammash Iraqi Ambassador to Finland Helsinki Finland January 30, 1985 Baathist Iraqi agents
Pedro Manuel de Aristegui Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon Beirut Lebanon April 16, 1989 killed by a rocket
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 November 6, 1997 unknown[7]
Michael Courtney Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi Bujumbura Burundi December 29, 2003 National Forces of Liberation
Ihab el-Sherif Egyptian ambassador to Iraq Baghdad Iraq 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 January 1, 2014 killed by a bomb
Andrei Karlov Russian Ambassador to Turkey Ankara Turkey December 19, 2016 Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş
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

References

  1. ^ "US Ambassadors Killed in the Line of Duty". Associated Press. 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ Runciman 1987, p. 305.
  4. ^ Runciman 1987, p. 311.
  5. ^ "The World: Morocco: Bloody Birthday". Time. 19 July 1971. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  6. ^ "French Envoy to Zaire Killed in a Shooting". The New York Times. Associated Press. 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  7. ^ "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.
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