these men and women made powerful
enemies welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 assassinations
ordered by the government the
assassination plot that avenged the
Armenian Genocide
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at murders allegedly committed
at the behest of national governments
around the world we’re taking into
consideration the targets significance
the consequences and the plan itself
number 10 Alexander Litvinenko a Russian
spy turned whistleblower Alexander
Litvinenko was poisoned by radioactive
polonium-210 slipped into a cup of tea
once an officer in the Russian Secret
Service listened Yenko fled to London
after accusing his superiors of a plot
to murder russian tycoon boris
berezovsky
he also claimed the Secret Service had
staged bombings that left almost 300
dead in order to justify the second
chechen war and bring vladimir putin to
power a british inquiry concluded that
putin had probably approved the killing
but russia refused to extradite the
probable poisoners Andrey Lugovoy now a
politician in Russian parliament and
Dmitry Kelton number nine the chain
murders of Iran from 1988 on
intellectuals critical of the Iranian
government began to die
one after the other at least 80 writers
translators and others supporting
democratic reform were axed strangled
suffocated stabbed or otherwise killed
in one incident the driver of a bus
transporting 21 writers tried to steer
the vehicle over a cliff supreme leader
Ayatollah hamana he blamed foreign
enemies but the government later claimed
that deputy minister of intelligence
Saeed a mummy had orchestrated the
killings conveniently a mommy had
allegedly already killed himself in
prison a year later the newspaper editor
who helped uncover the murders syed
hassan jaan was shot in the face and
left permanently paralyzed number 8 gay
AutoKey markov after speaking out
against the Bulgarian government writer
Georg in Markov was killed
by a mysterious assassin wielding an
umbrella gun back in the late 70s
Reisen was used to assassinate a
bulgarian journalist Markov a successful
author in his home country had relocated
to London where he worked as a
journalist for BBC World Service his
vitriolic criticism of the communist
regime in Bulgaria made him the target
of several assassination attempts in
1978 he was shot in the streets with a
pellet containing ricin fired from an
umbrella gun and died a few days
afterward it was later revealed that the
assassination was arranged by the
Bulgarian Secret Service with assistance
from the KGB number seven operation
wrath of God wait yes after the Munich
Massacre Israel wanted to send a message
in 1970 to the Palestinian terrorist
group Black September had killed 11
Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics
in response Israel’s National
Intelligence Agency the Mossad launched
an operation to kill anyone suspected of
involvement every civilisation finds it
necessary to negotiate compromises with
its own values over 20 years
the assassins worked through their kill
list some victims were gunned down
others were murdered using bombs and
cars or hotels one man was pushed under
a bus and before each target was killed
his family received flowers with a card
it read quote a reminder we do not
forget we do not forgive number 6
operation anthropoid reinhard heydrich
was a figure so ruthless even Hitler
called him the man with the iron heart
he helped plan the Holocaust and headed
the Intelligence Agency tasked with
rooting out resistance to not be rule
together British forces and the
Czechoslovakian government in exile
decided to take him out they sent two
soldiers josef gabcik and yan Kubik to
ambush his car in prague when god cheats
machine gun jammed
kuba SH reacted quickly throwing an
anti-tank grenade at Heydrich scar
and causing Heydrich fatal injuries
while God cheese dashed to safety kobish
made a hasty getaway by bicycle
operation anthropoid was the only
successful assassination of a Nazi
officials during the war
number 5 Kim jong-nam once the heir
apparent of North Korean leader Kim
jong-il Kim jong-nam was the dictators
eldest son
but after supporting the idea of reform
and being caught using a fake passport
to visit Tokyo Disneyland
his popularity reportedly waned he
survived several assassination attempts
and even wrote to his half-brother North
Korean leader Kim jong-un begging for
his life in 2017 he was killed by two
women who smothered his face with a VX
nerve agent the women claimed they
believed it was all part of a reality
television show although North Korea
denies it many believe the killing was
ordered by the government
number four operation condor a massive
widespread campaign of state terror
against left-leaning individuals and
dissidents operation condor involved at
least six South American countries
including Chile Argentina and Brazil
where military hunters had seized power
in the late 1970s thousands of people
disappeared to be tortured executed and
buried in mass graves the u.s. which had
supported some of the coup d’etat that
brought the Quinta’s to power provided
assistance throughout the terms of
multiple American president the victims
are estimated to number a staggering 60
to 80 thousand number three drone
strikes in Pakistan in some towns in
northwest Pakistan there are children
who’ve grown up with the buzzing of
drones overhead their whole lives
starting in 2004 the u.s. used unmanned
aerial vehicles there to perform
thousands of targeted killings a
euphemism for extrajudicial
assassination they’ll call it a Hellfire
for nothing the program is controversial
due to the number of civilian casualties
116 according to the US but many more
according to nongovernmental
organizations and unfortunately drone
strikes have proved a useful recruiting
tool for terrorists enemies of the US
number two Leon Trotsky one of the
masterminds of the Russian Revolution of
1917 Trotsky played a key role in
founding the Soviet Union but his
opposition to fellow revolutionary
Joseph Stalin led to his demise expelled
from the Communist Party in 1927
Trotsky’s sought refuge first in Turkey
then France and Norway before continuing
his exile in Mexico where he continued
to criticize Stalin’s regime his voice
was silenced forever when an assassin
and Soviet secret police agent hit him
over the head with an ice axe he
survived to help subdue his killer but
died the following day number one
operation Neptune spear tonight I can
report to the American people and to the
world the United States has conducted an
operation that killed Osama bin Laden
the hunt for Osama bin Laden actually
began before 9/11 he was wanted by the
FBI for the 1998 United States embassy
bombings and survived several
assassination attempts after the twin
towers fell the u.s. intensified their
efforts invading Afghanistan where bin
Laden was holed up he later crossed the
border over into Pakistan and in 2011 US
Navy SEALs raided bin Laden’s compound
in Abbottabad and shot bin Laden in the
head and chest after a manhunt of over a
decade the leader of the terrorist
organization al Qaeda was dead got in
country Geronimo
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enemies welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 assassinations
ordered by the government the
assassination plot that avenged the
Armenian Genocide
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at murders allegedly committed
at the behest of national governments
around the world we’re taking into
consideration the targets significance
the consequences and the plan itself
number 10 Alexander Litvinenko a Russian
spy turned whistleblower Alexander
Litvinenko was poisoned by radioactive
polonium-210 slipped into a cup of tea
once an officer in the Russian Secret
Service listened Yenko fled to London
after accusing his superiors of a plot
to murder russian tycoon boris
berezovsky
he also claimed the Secret Service had
staged bombings that left almost 300
dead in order to justify the second
chechen war and bring vladimir putin to
power a british inquiry concluded that
putin had probably approved the killing
but russia refused to extradite the
probable poisoners Andrey Lugovoy now a
politician in Russian parliament and
Dmitry Kelton number nine the chain
murders of Iran from 1988 on
intellectuals critical of the Iranian
government began to die
one after the other at least 80 writers
translators and others supporting
democratic reform were axed strangled
suffocated stabbed or otherwise killed
in one incident the driver of a bus
transporting 21 writers tried to steer
the vehicle over a cliff supreme leader
Ayatollah hamana he blamed foreign
enemies but the government later claimed
that deputy minister of intelligence
Saeed a mummy had orchestrated the
killings conveniently a mommy had
allegedly already killed himself in
prison a year later the newspaper editor
who helped uncover the murders syed
hassan jaan was shot in the face and
left permanently paralyzed number 8 gay
AutoKey markov after speaking out
against the Bulgarian government writer
Georg in Markov was killed
by a mysterious assassin wielding an
umbrella gun back in the late 70s
Reisen was used to assassinate a
bulgarian journalist Markov a successful
author in his home country had relocated
to London where he worked as a
journalist for BBC World Service his
vitriolic criticism of the communist
regime in Bulgaria made him the target
of several assassination attempts in
1978 he was shot in the streets with a
pellet containing ricin fired from an
umbrella gun and died a few days
afterward it was later revealed that the
assassination was arranged by the
Bulgarian Secret Service with assistance
from the KGB number seven operation
wrath of God wait yes after the Munich
Massacre Israel wanted to send a message
in 1970 to the Palestinian terrorist
group Black September had killed 11
Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics
in response Israel’s National
Intelligence Agency the Mossad launched
an operation to kill anyone suspected of
involvement every civilisation finds it
necessary to negotiate compromises with
its own values over 20 years
the assassins worked through their kill
list some victims were gunned down
others were murdered using bombs and
cars or hotels one man was pushed under
a bus and before each target was killed
his family received flowers with a card
it read quote a reminder we do not
forget we do not forgive number 6
operation anthropoid reinhard heydrich
was a figure so ruthless even Hitler
called him the man with the iron heart
he helped plan the Holocaust and headed
the Intelligence Agency tasked with
rooting out resistance to not be rule
together British forces and the
Czechoslovakian government in exile
decided to take him out they sent two
soldiers josef gabcik and yan Kubik to
ambush his car in prague when god cheats
machine gun jammed
kuba SH reacted quickly throwing an
anti-tank grenade at Heydrich scar
and causing Heydrich fatal injuries
while God cheese dashed to safety kobish
made a hasty getaway by bicycle
operation anthropoid was the only
successful assassination of a Nazi
officials during the war
number 5 Kim jong-nam once the heir
apparent of North Korean leader Kim
jong-il Kim jong-nam was the dictators
eldest son
but after supporting the idea of reform
and being caught using a fake passport
to visit Tokyo Disneyland
his popularity reportedly waned he
survived several assassination attempts
and even wrote to his half-brother North
Korean leader Kim jong-un begging for
his life in 2017 he was killed by two
women who smothered his face with a VX
nerve agent the women claimed they
believed it was all part of a reality
television show although North Korea
denies it many believe the killing was
ordered by the government
number four operation condor a massive
widespread campaign of state terror
against left-leaning individuals and
dissidents operation condor involved at
least six South American countries
including Chile Argentina and Brazil
where military hunters had seized power
in the late 1970s thousands of people
disappeared to be tortured executed and
buried in mass graves the u.s. which had
supported some of the coup d’etat that
brought the Quinta’s to power provided
assistance throughout the terms of
multiple American president the victims
are estimated to number a staggering 60
to 80 thousand number three drone
strikes in Pakistan in some towns in
northwest Pakistan there are children
who’ve grown up with the buzzing of
drones overhead their whole lives
starting in 2004 the u.s. used unmanned
aerial vehicles there to perform
thousands of targeted killings a
euphemism for extrajudicial
assassination they’ll call it a Hellfire
for nothing the program is controversial
due to the number of civilian casualties
116 according to the US but many more
according to nongovernmental
organizations and unfortunately drone
strikes have proved a useful recruiting
tool for terrorists enemies of the US
number two Leon Trotsky one of the
masterminds of the Russian Revolution of
1917 Trotsky played a key role in
founding the Soviet Union but his
opposition to fellow revolutionary
Joseph Stalin led to his demise expelled
from the Communist Party in 1927
Trotsky’s sought refuge first in Turkey
then France and Norway before continuing
his exile in Mexico where he continued
to criticize Stalin’s regime his voice
was silenced forever when an assassin
and Soviet secret police agent hit him
over the head with an ice axe he
survived to help subdue his killer but
died the following day number one
operation Neptune spear tonight I can
report to the American people and to the
world the United States has conducted an
operation that killed Osama bin Laden
the hunt for Osama bin Laden actually
began before 9/11 he was wanted by the
FBI for the 1998 United States embassy
bombings and survived several
assassination attempts after the twin
towers fell the u.s. intensified their
efforts invading Afghanistan where bin
Laden was holed up he later crossed the
border over into Pakistan and in 2011 US
Navy SEALs raided bin Laden’s compound
in Abbottabad and shot bin Laden in the
head and chest after a manhunt of over a
decade the leader of the terrorist
organization al Qaeda was dead got in
country Geronimo
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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