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assassination

Murder, usually of a political, royal, or public person. The term derives from the order of the Assassins, a Muslim sect that, in the 11th and 12th centuries, murdered officials to further its political ends.



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Torture in custody and extrajudicial executions are a major problem across South Asia", says Rineeta Naik of the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre.
Alas: Some institution is responsible for all the censorship and extrajudicial executions that Amnesty International keeps complaining about, and it sure looks like a state.
The Independent has published the most detailed reports of Algerian police torture and of the extrajudicial executions of women as well as men.
 
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