Assassination in Global Politics

Politics is a ruthless job, and anyone can agree. Politicians can go to any length to achieve their goals. This includes:

• Waging wars
• Killing key government and royal family members
• Making derogatory statements
• Creating fear
• Crushing riots and agitations
• Making stringent laws
• Creating separate laws for different communities
• Capturing land of other countries
• Starting or ending business ties

The list of political activities is long and impossible to cover in a blog. You may read my blog “The Ways in Which Politics is Played.” Today, we will discuss the most controversial topic: “Assassination in Global Politics.” We will see:

• Does killing really happen in politics?
• Is killing justified?
• Is it good, and should we support it?

Undoubtedly, killing takes place in politics. Several examples justify that. For example:

• The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, triggered World War 1.
• Someone poisoned Bruce Lee; some say his wife, others say his enemies used his wife as a pawn.
• A country blew up the airplane of Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha, an Indian nuclear scientist, on his way to a conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

Above examples are of good people, but below examples are of cruel or terrorists.

• Adolf Hitler, Germany’s ex-chancellor, who committed suicide in 1945, was another name for cruelty. He hunted down and killed Jews across Europe and beyond. He used gas chambers and other mass destruction weapons. His troops used rape as another weapon. When Russian forces cornered Hitler, he committed suicide in a Fuhrerbunker.
• United States of America hung Saddam Hussain, a former president of Iraq, for executing terrorist activities, supporting terrorist organisation Al-qaeda. He carried weapons of mass destruction, conducted ‘Special Tribunal for the Dujail’ massacre (148 people were killed). Saddam started and continued first Gulf-war, Iran-Iraq war for eight years (1980-88). Reasons behind this war were many; including fear of losing presidentship in own country. Because he believed that revolution in Iran would bring Shia majority in Iraq and he would lose the election. This war was actually between Shia and Sunni sub-caste in Muslim community, where Iraqi government was Sunni govt. but Iraq had Shia majority.
• The USA killed Osama Bin Laden for the Twin Tower attacks in New York, killing and injuring thousands of people. Two airplanes crashed the towers. He created Al-qaeda and carried terrorist activities in Afghanistan. Finally, USA found him hiding behind one of his wives in a specially protected house, in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
• Gaddafi was killed brutally. Few people who consider themselves as an eye witness say, that Gaddafi was injured badly in a grenade attack by NATO and NTC forces and when he hid himself in a drainage pipe, he was pulled out and brutally shot in his abdomen killing him on the spot. He ruled Libya from 1969 to 2011, nearly 42 years.

Many examples are there, where you can make out it is a political assassination. Comment down below, which other significant assassination you know.

This depends on personal thought processes or study. Some assassinations were required; others were purely political or personal. Let’s look at “much-needed assassinations” and “politically motivated assassinations.”

Much Needed Assassination

• All examples of cruel or terrorist figures above are justified. They were demons who killed, tortured, and raped thousands. Human rights feared non-existence where they operated. It took efforts to assassinate them because they had political, leadership, and motivational powers. They hypnotized people to be loyal, work, and die for them. They insisted people to follow them and believe their ideology. Of course, few were just executing the orders fearing death penalty or torture or throwing from the jobs etc.
• Demons who torture and use people for their political motives should be assassinated. But who will decide if the person is really a demon? Please read my blog “Propaganda in Politics.” It explains how some demons show themselves as blessings but are curses. Propaganda plays this card well.
• The examples I gave was of individuals who were assassinated. Many terrorists exist in Pakistan; who will kill them? Who can assassinate the entire leadership of countries involved in demon-like activities, like Somalia, Pakistan, or the Houthi rebels of Yemen?
• Negative propaganda can make someone look like a demon, demanding assassination or stepping down.
• Everyone agrees that terrorism should be eradicated. But some countries support terrorism in other regions. They want victim countries to remain unstable and never progress. Who will assassinate such leadership?
• Now, Pakistan is a terror state but no one want to declare it as so. It has provided nuclear war head techniques to North Korea. Now North Korea is being headache to the world especially to South Korea, Japan and USA.

Many agree on “much-needed assassinations,” but it remains a subjective topic. No one knows to whom politics should assassinated or who the propagandists are.

Politically Motivated Assassination

Some assassinations are politically intended. In this, the assassinated generally never involves himself in a demon-like activities. Let’s examine further. It is only that they were growing their country or themselves. Let’s examine it further.

• Who killed Bruce Lee? No one knows clearly. He was a Chinese martial artist and actor, never involved in destructive activities, someone assassinated him. Is it purely political or personal? No one knows. We should not support such assassinations.
• Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha was a nuclear scientist working on uranium enrichment for India. Many countries stopped providing uranium, used in nuclear power plants. He and his team believed India had abundant thorium in monazite in southern beach sand. This would make India self-reliant for radioactive material. This news spread quickly in the West.
• On January 24, 1966, he boarded Air India flight Boeing 707 to Geneva for a conference. The airplane reached the Alps Mountain range at Mont Blanc in France. Some say the plane crashed because the pilots lost contact with Geneva airport and strayed off course.
• A book called “Conversation with the Crow” by Gregory Douglas interviewed former CIA Officer Robert T. Crowley. In this interview, Robert heartlessly mentioned the CIA “nailed down” India’s former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri after India’s victory over Pakistan and after the Tashkent agreement for a ceasefire. He also mentioned that they could have blown up Homi Bhabha’s airplane in Vienna, but they did it in the Alps Mountain range. When asked how many passengers were on the plane, Robert heartlessly answered, “Who knows and who cares?”
• This incident killed Scientist Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha along with all the 117 passengers.
• The USA was worried about India’s nuclear program. The American intelligence agency did not want India to produce a nuclear bomb. When the CIA learned that Dr. Homi Bhabha found monazite and his team was extracting it, they planned to assassinate him.
• Robert Crowley mentioned that India started a nuclear bomb program, with Russia helping Indian scientists, which worried the USA. So, CIA planned this assassination.
• Only one piece of evidence supports these stories, comments by former CIA officer Robert T. Crowley. If a CIA officer says it, what more proof does the world need? However, I am not stating this as fact; I am here to explain how an assassination could be politically motivated.

Both examples show the personal and political motives behind assassination. Unfortunately, no one can prove such assassinations. They are well planned, with all escape routes ready. These plans use misguidance, propaganda, misleading information, and smart ways of cleaning up proof.

Such assassinations are good for one party and injustice for another. Every party acts selfishly. It is up to the reader how they view such assassinations.

Whether it is good and should we support this, is an individual’s choice. If my country’s politics kills someone favorable to my country, I may support it. If another country does it to my countryman, I may protest against it.

My personal opinion is, instead of killing anyone (who is not a demon-like personality), politicians can try talks, pressure, sanctions, etc. Let me know your opinion about assassination in global politics. Do you think it is okay or bad? Do like and share my blog.