But Mr Karzai astutely chose as a running mate the brother of Ahmad Shah Masoud, the assassinated Northern Alliance hero.
Etyen Mahcupyan, who succeeded Hrant Dink the assassinated editor of Agos, said foreign pressure would fuel extreme nationalism.
Yet, with the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Palestinian leader was the co-architect of the Oslo peace accords in the early to mid-Nineties.
The tomb of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the assassinated Defense Minister of the Northern Alliance, is in a shallow cave burrowed into a hill in the Panjshir Valley.
"Arafat going to the summit is like Barak going to Clinton," said Tahseen Bashir, a former Egyptian diplomat and aide to Anwar el-Sadat, the assassinated president.
In its place stands a stone marker that pays homage to the assassinated President.
In July 1944, the assassinated the brother of Léon Degrelle, head of the collaborationist Rexist Party and leading Belgian fascist.
He staged a brief nomination run in the 1968 presidential election as a stand-in for the assassinated Robert F. Kennedy.
Intended as a memorial to the assassinated President John F. Kennedy, it was authorized by Congress just over a month after his death.
Poet Walt Whitman composed When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd to eulogize Lincoln, one of four poems he wrote about the assassinated president.
Back in Guerrero, Berta Nava, mother of one of the assassinated Ayotzinapa students, Julio Cesar Ramirez Nava, said the movement's protests will not diminish after the election.
