List of killed ambassadors
This is a list of ambassadors and similar diplomats who were killed during their active careers.
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Alexander Griboyedov , Russian Ambassador to Iran
Clemens von Ketteler , German diplomat in China
Wilhelm von Mirbach , German Ambassador to Russia
Pyotr Voykow , Soviet Ambassador to Poland
Site of the murder of Richard Sykes at Westeinde in The Hague.
Arnold Lewis Raphel , United States Ambassador to Pakistan
J. Christopher Stevens , United States Ambassador to Libya, died in the Benghazi attack
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diplomat | Post | place | Country | date | circumstances |
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Antonio Rincon | French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire | Rivoli | Republic of Venice | July 3, 1541 | presumably killed by imperial troops |
Alexander Griboyedov | Russian ambassador to Persia | Tehran | Persia | February 11, 1829 | killed by Iranian insurgents |
Clemens von Ketteler | German ambassador to China | Beijing | Empire of China | June 20, 1900 | killed during the Boxer Rebellion |
Grigoriy Shterbina | Russian diplomat to Turkey | Vilayet Kosovo | Ottoman Empire | April 10, 1903 | killed by Albanian sergeant |
Wilhelm von Mirbach | German ambassador to Russia | Moscow | RSFSR | June 6, 1918 | killed by left SRs |
Pyotr Wojkov | Soviet ambassador to Poland | Warsaw | Second Polish Republic | June 7, 1927 | killed by Boris Kowerda |
Henry Gurney | United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaya | Fraser's Hill (Sankarakhiri ) | Federation of Malaya | October 6, 1951 | killed by supporters of the Malay Communist Party |
John Mein | United States Ambassador to Guatemala | Guatemala City | Guatemala | August 28, 1968 | killed by the FAR |
Karl von Spreti | German ambassador to Guatemala | Guatemala City | Guatemala | May 4th 1970 | killed by the FAR |
Vladimir Rolović | Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden | Stockholm | Sweden | April 15, 1971 | killed by the Hrvatski narodni otpor |
Joaquin Zenteno Anaya | Bolivian Ambassador to France | Paris | France | April 15, 1971 | killed by the regime of Hugo Banzer |
Germain Mba | Gabonese ambassador to Japan | Libreville | Gabon | 5th November 1971 | killed by African mercenaries, led by Bob Denard |
Cleo Noel | United States Ambassador to Sudan | Khartoum | Sudan | 3rd February 1973 | killed by Black September |
Rodger Davies | United States Ambassador to Cyprus | Nicosia | Cyprus | 19th August 1974 | killed by EOKA-B |
İsmail Erez | Turkish ambassador to France | Paris | France | October 24, 1975 | killed by the Armenian secret army for the liberation of Armenia |
Daniş Tunalıgil | Turkish ambassador to Austria | Vienna | Austria | October 11, 1975 | killed by the justice squads of the Armenian genocide |
Christopher Ewart-Biggs | UK Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland | Dublin | Ireland | June 21, 1976 | killed by the IRA |
Carlos Abdala | Uruguayan Ambassador to Paraguay | Asunción | Paraguay | 5th November 1976 | killed by the Hrvatsko revolucionarno bratstvo |
Francis Meloy | United States Ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | Lebanon | June 16, 1976 | killed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
Taha Carim | Turkish Ambassador to the Holy See | Rome | Italy | June 9, 1977 | killed by the justice squads of the Armenian genocide |
Adolph Dubs | United States Ambassador to Afghanistan | Kabul | Afghanistan | February 14, 1979 | killed by the Settam e Melli movement |
Richard Sykes | Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Netherlands | The hague | Netherlands | March 22, 1979 | killed by the IRA |
Archibald Gardner Dunn | South African Ambassador to El Salvador | San Salvador | El Salvador | October 8, 1980 | killed by forerunners of the FMLN |
Louis Delamare | French ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | Lebanon | 5th September 1981 | killed by pro-Iranian hitmen |
Shlomo Argov | Israel Ambassador to the United Kingdom | London | United Kingdom | 3rd June 1982 | Attack by the Abu Nidal organization , Argov died in 2003 of the long-term consequences |
Galip Balkar | Turkish ambassador to Yugoslavia | Belgrade | Yugoslavia | March 9, 1983 | killed by the justice squads of the Armenian genocide |
Lee Gye-cheol | South Korean Ambassador to Burma | Rangoon | Burma | October 9, 1983 | killed by North Korean agents |
Saleh Mehdi Amash | Iraqi Ambassador to Finland | Helsinki | Finland | January 30, 1985 | killed by agents of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party |
Arnold Raphel | United States Ambassador to Pakistan | Bahawalpur | Pakistan | 17th August 1988 | Plane crash (controversial) |
Pedro Manuel de Aristegui | Spanish ambassador to Lebanon | Beirut | Lebanon | April 16, 1989 | killed by rocket fire |
Alfredo Enrique Vargas-Hirsch | Venezuelan Ambassador to Jamaica | Kingston | Jamaica | November 6, 1997 | shot in his apartment |
Michael Courtney | Apostolic Nuncio in Burundi | Bujumbura | Burundi | December 29, 2003 | killed by Forces Nationales de Liberation |
J. Christopher Stevens | United States Ambassador to Libya | Benghazi | Libya | September 11, 2012 | killed by Ansar al-Sharia |
Jamal al-Jamal | Palestinian Ambassador to the Czech Republic | Prague | Czech Republic | 1st of January 2014 | killed by bomb attack |
Andrei Karlov | Russian ambassador to Turkey | Ankara | Turkey | 19th December 2016 | killed by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş |
Kyriakos Amiridis | Greek ambassador to Brazil | Nova Iguaçu | Brazil | December 26, 2016 | killed by Sérgio Moreira |
Individual evidence
- ↑ US Ambassadors Killed in the Line of Duty . In: Associated Press , September 12, 2012.
- ↑ How many US Ambassadors have been killed by militants? . Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs United States Department of State.
- ↑ Venezuelan Ambassador Killed . In: Associated Press , November 6, 1997. Retrieved January 3, 2020.