"Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities," he said at the time.
In 1999 the compliant parliament voted for Niyazov to become president for life, and in 2002, he used an alleged assassination attempt to legitimise a far-reaching crackdown on political opponents.
Man Booker prize-winning author Hilary Mantel delivered a spirited attack on her critics after the BBC was condemned over plans to broadcast her "mischievous" short story on the imagined assassination of Margaret Thatcher.
On Tuesday, Hamas's spokesman in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, said: "Hamas praises the role martyrs Abu Aisha and Qawasmeh played in chasing down Israeli settlers and we stress that their assassination will not weaken the resistance".
The Hebron governor said: "We condemn this crime, this assassination, as deliberate and premeditated murder".
HSBC, Straw and Rifkind, the girls who ran off to Syria, Putin and the assassination, Ukraine, Syriza, and the election, all still hanging.
De Rougemont was a close friend of Saint-Exupéry, helping him create The Little Prince, and yet he seems to have collaborated in the writing of these 275 pages of character assassination.
In HHhH, his novel about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Laurent Binet is positively disgusted by the prospect of committing any form of embellishment or factual inaccuracy.
Gormley said he was alarmed over reports that the Police Service of Northern Ireland had warned Martin McGuinness that dissident republicans were targeting him for assassination.
This gripping story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942 has a highly original narrative, in which the author seems to share with the reader his cogitations on what to include in the story.
I was bemused when Lord Bell suggested the police should interest themselves in the case of a fictional assassination of a person who was already dead.
