ASSASSINATIONS TOP 5

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1. Mohandas Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India, 1948

Assassin: Nathuram Godse
Motive: Godse was angry over India's decision to give 420 million rupees to Pakistan. He believed India had been weakened when Pakistan gained independence.
What happened next: Godse was a Brahmin so in the days following the assassination, massive anti-Brahmin riots took place. The Indian government was harshly criticized for not protecting Gandhi well enough, despite multiple assassination attempts, though Gandhi was known to refuse to cooperate with security

Assassin: Lee Harvey Oswald
Motive: The Warren Commission failed to assign a specific motive.
What happened next: Conspiracy theories; a general stunned reaction from American citizens, who reported feeling ill and angry; and the murder of brother Robert eight years later by the mentally disturbed anti-Zionist Christian Sirhan Sirhan.

Assassin: Gavrilo Princip
Motive: Princip was one of seven members of Young Bosnia, a Bosnian Serb terrorist organization; wanted to eliminate Ferdinand and ruling powers to gain independence from Austria-Hungary and to be part Serbia.
What happened next: World War I

Assassin: Rome's Senate, led by Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus
Motive: To overthrow Caesar
What happened next: The end of Roman Republic after middle and lower classes in Rome were so enraged that a group of aristocrats had killed Caesar. This led to another civil war, and eventually Caesar's adopted heir Octavian ascended to Roman Emperor.

Assassin: John Wilkes Booth
Motive: Booth had been a member of the confederacy
What happened next: Attacks in cities against those who showed support for Booth; theater was forced to close.