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Famous assassinations in world history : an encyclopedia
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ISBN: 9781610692854 Year: 2014 Publisher: Santa Barbara ; Denver ; Oxford ABC-Clio

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General Assembly
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ISBN: 9783883963914 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin : Merve,

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Les dangers de Paris au XVIIe siècle : l'assassinat de Jacques Tardieu, lieutenant criminel au Châtelet, et sa femme : 24 août 1665
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ISBN: 2226052674 Year: 1991 Publisher: Paris Albin Michel

The assasins : a book of hours
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ISBN: 0814907679 Year: 1975 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Vanguard press


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De moord op Julien Lahaut
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ISBN: 9789085422297 Year: 2010 Publisher: Antwerpen [Amsterdam] Manteau Meulenhoff

Cruelty and death : roman historian's scenes of imperial violence from Commodus to Philippus Arabs
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ISBN: 9512918188 Year: 2000 Volume: 241 Publisher: Turku : Turun Yliopisto,

The assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil : a Frenchman between France and North Africa
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ISBN: 1134268424 1280176954 0203004965 0415350328 0415589460 1134268416 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), 'inventor' of General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leadership of liberated North and West Africa, negotiator of the Murphy-Giraud Agreements and the Anfa Memorandum with President Roosevelt (1942 and 1943), political writer on the postwar future of France in Mo


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The Lincoln assassination
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ISBN: 128358297X 9786613895424 0252091078 9780252091070 9780252033681 025203368X 9781283582971 6613895423 Year: 2009 Publisher: Urbana

Blood on the Snow
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ISBN: 0801470110 1322523517 0801470129 9780801470127 0801442117 9780801442117 0801479363 9780801479366 Year: 2015 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspices to end the Iran-Iraq war. Across Scandinavia, Palme's killing had an impact similar to that of the Kennedy assassinations in the United States-and it ignited nearly as many conspiracy theories. Interest in the Palme slaying was most recently stirred by reports of the death of Christer Pettersson, who was tried for the murder twice, convicted the first time, and then acquitted on appeal. In his investigative account of Palme's still-unsolved murder, the historian Jan Bondeson meticulously recreates the assassination and its aftermath. Like the best works of crime fiction, this book puts the victim and his death into social context. Bondeson's work, however, is noteworthy for its dispassionate treatment of police incompetence: the police did not answer a witness's phone call reporting the murder just 45 seconds after it occurred, and further time was lost as the police sought to confirm that someone had actually been shot. When the police arrived on the scene, they did not even recognize the victim as the Prime Minister. This early confusion was emblematic of the errors that were to follow. Bondeson demolishes the various conspiracy theories that have been devised to make sense of the killing, before suggesting a convincing explanation of his own. A brilliant piece of investigative journalism, Blood on the Snow includes crime-scene photographs and reconstructions that have never before been published and offers a gripping narrative of a crime that shocked a continent.


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Murder and Politics in Mexico : Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences
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ISBN: 1441980679 9786613085467 1441980687 1283085461 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,

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Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico’s liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. Mexico’s democratization process has entailed a little known, but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election violence. The majority of these crimes remain in a state of impunity: in other words, no person had been charged with the crime and/or no investigation of it had occurred. This has several consequences for Mexican politics: when the level of violence is extreme and when political killings are involved that are systematic and pervasive, this could indicate a real fracture in the democratic system. This book analyzes several dimensions regarding impunity and political crime, more specifically, the political killings of members of the PRD in the post-1988 period in Mexico. The main argument proposed in this book is that impunity for political killings is a structured system requiring one central precondition, namely the failure of the legal system to function as a system of restraint for killings. Dr Schatz’s research finds that political assassinations are indeed rational, targeted actions but they do not occur within an institutional vacuum. They are caused by multiple, interacting factors that involve the political, legal and criminal justice systems. As a form of interpersonal violence, political assassination involves direct or implied authorization from political leaders, the availability of assassins for hire and the willingness of some political leaders to utilize them against political opponents, and violent interactions between political parties combined with judicial system ineffectiveness. A corrupt legal system facilitates the use of political assassinations and explains the persistence of impunity for political murder over time. To reduce political violence in the transition to electoral democracy, specific institutional conditions, namely a structured system of impunity for murder, must be overcome.

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