Tuesday, November 9, 2010

International terrorism

Relating to Cuba

  • September 22, 1966 - A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa, Ontario is made.
  • October 5, 1966 - Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
  • May 31, 1967: A small bomb explodes at the Cuba Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. The attack is attributed to Cuban Nationalist Action.
  • October 15, 1967: A bomb explodes at the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Montreal, Quebec.
  • May 29, 1969: A bomb is placed in the doorway of the Cuban consulate in Montreal, it fails to go off.
  • July 12, 1971: A small bomb goes off at the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Montreal, Quebec.
  • April 4, 1972: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal, Quebec.
  • January 21, 1974: A bomb explodes at the Cuban embassy in Ottawa. It is attributed to Orlando Bosch.
  • September 22, 1976: An explosive device is thrown from a car at the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
  • January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.

Relating to militant Sikh aspirations for Khalistan

  • June 23, 1985 - Air India flight 182 leaving Montreal, Quebec's Mirabel International Airport is blown up mid-flight to London, England.
  • May 26, 1986 - An attempt is made in Vancouver, British Columbia to assassinate Malkiat Singh Sidhu, a cabinet minister in the Indian province of Punjab
  • August 28, 1988 - Indo-Canadian Times editor Tara Singh Hayer is shot and partially paralyzed
  • November 18, 1998 - Newspaper editor Tara Singh Hayer is assassinated for his strident opposition to Sikh militants.

Relating to Turkey

  • April 8, 1982 - Turkish Commercial Counselor to Canada Kani Güngör is paralyzed after an attack by Armenian nationalists at his Ottawa, Ontario apartment.
  • August 23, 1982 - Turkish military attaché to Canada, Col. Atilla Altıkat, is assassinated by Armenian militants in Ottawa while sitting in his vehicle at a traffic light.
  • March 12, 1985 - A group of Armenians seize the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Ottawa, killing a Canadian security guard.

Other incidents

  • April 7, 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa, Ontario by an alleged Irish nationalist or Fenian rebel sympathizer named Patrick Whelan.
  • November 25, 1965 - Croatian nationalists bomb the Yugoslavian consulate in Toronto, Ontario.
  • January 29, 1967 - The Yugoslavian embassy in Ottawa and the consulate in Toronto, Ontario are among six Yugoslavian offices bombed in North America.
  • September 3, 1984 - Montreal, Quebec's Central Station is bombed, killing 3 people and wounding more than 30. Thomas Bernard Brigham, an elderly retired American armed forces officer, claims to have been protesting Pope John Paul II's visit to Canada.
  • April 9, 1989 - Charles Yacoub hijacks a bus and drives it to Parliament Hill to protest the Syrian invasion of Lebanon
  • April 5, 1992 - The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported left-wing group.

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