Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a man who had been bludgeoned, Gaitán fell, face down, and bloodstains widened on the sidewalk. A lottery vendor, standing in the doorway, dropped his book, grabbed the assassin and shouted: "This is the man." A café patron ran from another door, smashed a chair over the gunman's head...
Gaitán's assassin was too battered to be identified. But whether Gaitán had been killed by a Communist or not, the Red comrades showed that they knew how to make the most of the situation. The rapidity with which the disorders spread through Bogotá and then to other Colombian cities certainly indicated skilled direction, if not considerable planning. And the result suited the party, right down to the ground. Said the New York Daily Worker: "Interruption of the Foreign Ministers' parley is a sock in the jaw to the Big Business...
First they banned the Rashtriya Sway-am Sewak Sangh (Organization for Service to the Nation), militant Hindu youth organization of which Gandhi's assassin, Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, was a member. Some 1,200 leaders and members were arrested for questioning. The secret R.S.S.S., which had mushroomed to a membership of about 2,000,000 since the communal riots began last year, drew most of its strength from the warlike Mahratta people of western India, who have always regarded the Moslems as invading interlopers...
...inroads on Hindu customs which Gandhi considered brutal, and therefore indefensible: untouchability, suttee (widow suicide), child marriages. Hindu and Sikh refugees from Moslem hate and murder, pouring into Delhi and other Indian cities, clamored for revenge. The militant Hindu organization Mahasabha (Great Society), to which Gandhi's assassin belonged, worked to make Indiaa purely Hindu state. Patel gave some encouragement to the extremists, which may partly explain why, at Gandhi's funeral, his head was bowed...
Died. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 78; by an assassin's pistol; in New Delhi (see INTERNATIONAL...