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Asian politicians assassinated in the 1990s

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Yizhak Rabin
Israeli politician, statesman and general (1922–1995)
Rajiv Gandhi
Prime Minister of India (1984-1989)
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
1st President of Georgia (1991–92)
Vazgen Sargsyan
military commander, politician (1959-1999)
Abbas al-Musawi
Lebanese Shia cleric and co-founder and Secretary General of Hezbollah (1952-1992)
Meir Kahane
Rabbi, writer and far right American-Israeli politician (1932–1990)
Shapour Bakhtiar
Iranian politician
Ranasinghe Premadasa
President of Sri Lanka from 1989 to 1993
Karen Demirchyan
Soviet politician (1932-1999)
Zhiuli Shartava
Prime Minister of Abkhazia (1944-1993)
Dany Chamoun
Lebanese politician (1934-1990)
Salah Khalaf
Palestinian Fatah senior official (1933–1991)
Sanjaasürengiin Zorig
Mongolian politician
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
Turkish editor and journalist (1939–1999)
Murtaza Bhutto
Pakistani politician (1954-1996)
Muammer Aksoy
Turkish academic of law, politician, columnist and intellectual
Giorgi Chanturia
Georgian politician (1959–1994)
Dariush Forouhar
Iranian politician (1928-1998)
Qadriddin Aslonov
Tajik politician (1947–1992)
Kazem Rajavi
Iranian politician (1934-1990)
Guram Gabeskiria
Georgian politician, footballer (1947-1993)
Beant Singh
Indian National Congress politician and the Chief Minister of Punjab from 1992 to 1995
Asadollah Lajevardi
Iranian prison warden
Yuri Bakhshyan
Armenian politician (1947–1999)
Abdul Ahad Karzai
politician in Afghanistan and tribal leader of the Popalzais
Gamini Dissanayake
Sri Lankan politician
Peng Wan-ru
Taiwanese politician
Sadeq Ganji
Iranian politician
Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq
Former Mirwaiz of Kashmir (1968–1990)
Ranjan Wijeratne
Sri Lankan politician (1931–1991)
Dutta Samant
20th century Indian trade unionist and politician
Lalith Athulathmudali
Sri Lankan politician