Sentence examples for assassinated in the second from inspiring English sources

In 1997, there was open fighting in the streets when the forces of Laurent Kabila entered the city from the east to topple President Mobutu, the dictator who had brought the country to its knees over three decades; riots followed in 2001 when Kabila was assassinated in the Second Congo War (the deadliest conflict since the Second World War).

In January 1963 Olympio was assassinated in the first successful army coup in postwar sub-Saharan Africa.

Asked whether he believed Syria was involved in Gemayel's assassination, Bolton said: "We need to find out all of the facts, but you can take a look at the pattern of who gets assassinated in Lebanon". The first U.N. chief investigator, Germany's Detlev Mehlis, said the killing's complexity suggested the Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services both played a role in Hariri's assassination.

We are just here to help in some way". But on Saturday, even as diplomats sought UN backing for an Arab plan to end the bloodshed, reports came from the state-run news agency that a senior army general had been assassinated in Damascus, the first killing of a military figure in the Syrian capital since the uprising began in March last year.

At the same time, the United States is leading an effort to increase sanctions on Iran, and an Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated in Tehran, the fourth such attack reported in two years.

Perhaps best to not discuss it, not remind ourselves that the second president assassinated in the 20th century was killed here.

The great socialist Jean Jaurès was even assassinated in the cafe across the road trying to stop the first world war.

Gemayel was the fifth anti-Syrian, the fourth Christian and the most prominent figure to be assassinated in the two years since Hariri's killing.

When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, leader of the secular Awami League and the country's first prime minister, was assassinated in the 1975 coup, the new military regime amended the previously secular constitution to make Islam the state religion.

Mr. Omar was the third government official in the past two months to be assassinated in the region.

More than 10 Catholic clerics were assassinated in Burundi in the first three years of the civil war.