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April 17, 2016: Killing of peacekeeper in the CAR

On April 17, 2016 a peacekeeper with the UN’s MINUSCA was killed in an attack carried out by the Lord’s Resistance Army in the Central African Republic

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April 7, 1971: Two men murder Yugoslav ambassador in Sweden

On April 7, 1971 two men took the Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden hostage and soon killed him as police moved in.

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March 21, 1997: Terrorists murder Hindu villagers in Kashmir

On March 21, 1997 gunmen suspected of being Islamist terrorists burst into homes of Hindu villagers in northern India, took away seven men and killed them.

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January 28, 2018: Former terrorist found murdered in the Philippines

On this day in 2018, a former member of the terrorist group New People’s Army was found headless in the Philippines.

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January 12, 2018: Discovery of man killed by Paraguayan leftists

On this day in 2018, the body of a Mennonite farmer was discovered in a mass grave in the northern Paraguayan province of San Pedro.

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December 17, 1996: Killings in Chechen hospital

On December 17, 1996 Chechen terrorists attacked a hospital run by the ICRC in Novye Atagi, Chechnya and killed six expatriate workers.

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October 20, 1981: Attempted robbery of an armoured car in New York

On October 20, 1981 ‘black nationalists’ tried to rob a Brinks armoured car in Nanuet, New York, killing one guard and injuring another.

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June 19, 2018: Maoist terrorists murder police informant in India

On June 19, 2018 Maoists in the eastern Indian state of Jharkand abducted a trader and slit his throat because they believed he was a police informant

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June 11, 2016: Skinning alive of man in Afghanistan

On June 11, 2016 the Afghan Taliban skinned a man alive before throwing him off a cliff to his death.

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May 22, 2013: Terrorists murder soldier in UK

On May 22, 2013 two jihadis ran over a UK veteran of the Afghan War in Woolwich and tried to decapitate him.