1983 mass murders

1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union

assassination attempt against Chun Doo-hwan, the fifth president of South Korea, in 1983

The Gukurahundi was a series of mass killings and genocide in Zimbabwe which were committed from 1983 until the Unity Accord in 1987. The campaign targeted mainly the Ndebele ethnic group and supporters of opposition leader Joshua Nkomo. The name derives from a Shona language term which loosely translates to "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains".

hijacking

1983 car bomb attack in Pretoria, South Africa, perpetrated by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the ANC

riot in Tunisia

June 1983 school massacre attempt in Eppstein, Hesse, West Germany

car bomb that exploded outside Harrods department store in central London on 17 December 1983

bombing in Orly airport by ASALA

terror attacks across Kuwait in 1983–1988