Extrajudicial killings

Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A pan-Islamist, bin Laden organized and funded numerous jihadist or anti-Western militants and terrorist attacks worldwide. Al-Qaeda's attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001 (9/11) directly killed 2,977 victims, causing the global war on terror.

Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)

Lee Harvey Oswald was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.

series of anti-communist, anti-dissent campaigns in South America

Grand Duchess of Russia (1864–1918)

African-American activist (1948-1969)

Spanish political theorist, journalist, and literary critic (1874–1936)

Armenian Catholic archbishop, martyr and saint

intentional and unlawful killings of individuals by state actors without judicial process

Haitian-American soccer player (1924-1964)

Argentine politician

extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or dissatisfaction with judicial punishment

Soviet euphemism for extrajudicial punishment

Palestinian militant, teacher and lawyer (1937–2010)

Irish republican (1883-1922)

Chilean politician (1785-1818)

Russian general (1853–1918)

Irish suffragist, pacifist and writer

Russian journalist (1971-2008)

Turkish military leader (1883–1923)

Spanish political martyr (1912-1937)

illegitimate punishment carried out outside the ordinary legal system

English noble and Earl of Devon (died 1469)

Romanian writer (1926-1985)

Joint commando unit in the Afghanistan War

naval engagements of the First World War, involving the Royal Navy Q-ship HMS Baralong and two German U-boats

(Spanish for "Black Shadow") a vigilante group in El Salvador

Algerian Chenouas intelligence operative

PLO terrorist

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