If you look at political assassinations, Indira Gandhi was assassinated and her son Rajiv Gandhi was too, and the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh also faced a serious assassination attempt.
Higgins made his own gesture when he bowed his head at the memorial brass in Westminster Abbey to Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the Queen's second cousin, who was assassinated by the IRA in 1979.
First was a leading figure in the anti-apartheid movement, alongside her husband Joe Slovo; she was assassinated by the South African police in 1982.
Kabila, whose father, Laurent Kabila, toppled Mobutu in 1997 and was assassinated in 2001, gained power after his father's death, when politicians rushed to make the young soldier head of state.
When the widow of Mohammad Ali Rajai, the prime minister assassinated in the early years of the revolution, went with others to seek the support of senior clerics in Qom, she was reportedly arrested.
And Marren points out the long history of the red admiral butterfly as a symbol of "evil": red represents danger in nature, and the superstitious saw its blood-red wings as a sign of foreboding when vast numbers of them appeared across Russia in 1881, when Tsar Alexander II was assassinated.
But in the four years since that plan was announced, Trumka said, 100 more Colombian trade unionists have been assassinated.
Yet he was present at the minister's speech – in honour of a Sri Lankan foreign minister assassinated in 2005 – and at the tea afterwards where he worked a room full of local politicians, diplomats and journalists.
The most violent paramilitary leader of the Croatian and Bosnian wars, Zeljko Raznatovic, known universally as Arkan, was the leader of the most violent Red Star fans, the delije, who he recruited to form the core of his paramilitary group, the Tigers, who murdered and pillaged their way across the wreckage of Yugoslavia, before Arkan was assassinated in Belgrade in 2000.
When Moqtada's two elder brothers and father were assassinated by Saddam Hussein's agents in 1999, he went underground.
A tweet from Ansar Bangla 7, a previously unknown fundamentalist group, said: "Anti-Islamic blogger US-Bengali citizen Avijit Roy is assassinated in capital #Dhaka due to his crime against #Islam".
