Silenced voices

• POSTED ON: 18 Aug, 2018
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• POSTED BY: Madhuvanti S. Krishnan
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A bomb intended for one kills many, someone is shot dead at point-blank range… these assassinations have far reaching consequences, even changing the course of history.

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Fallen stalwarts
Throughout history, several greats have been assassinated — American Presidents Abraham Lincoln (1865) and John F. Kennedy (1963) and, Nigerian journalist, Dele Giwa (1986), and closer home, in India, Mahatma Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, to name a few.
And finally, who can forget the dying declaration, “Et tu, Brutus?” by legendary emperor Julius Caesar,who was stabbed to death in the hallowed halls of the Senate. It is said that the unforeseen result of the assassination was the precipitation of the end of the Roman Republic.