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November 23, 1995 | From Times Wire Reports
Gunmen killed the leader of a party seeking independence for the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for killing Abdul Razak Mir, a former state lawmaker of the Muslim United Front. Gunmen reportedly abducted Mir from his home, and his body was found not long afterward.
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September 3, 1995 | JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
To the booming of guns and the trill of army bugles, the mangled remains of Punjab's chief minister were burned on a funeral pyre with full state honors Saturday as Indians wondered whether a new round of bloodshed is beginning in a state just getting used to civil peace.
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December 20, 1992 | Associated Press
A leader of a Hindu fundamentalist party was shot dead Saturday by suspected Muslim militants in possible retaliation for the razing of a mosque by Hindus. Santosh Thakur, the regional general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party, was killed by unidentified gunmen in Jammu-Kashmir state, where Islamic guerrillas are fighting for independence from mostly Hindu India.
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May 21, 1992 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Government investigators charged the leader of a Sri Lankan guerrilla group with masterminding the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Concluding a yearlong investigation, they said Vellupillai Prabhakaran, head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam, directed the killing of Gandhi because Gandhi had sent Indian troops to Sri Lanka in 1987 to enforce a peace accord between Sri Lanka's government and the rebels.
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August 20, 1991 | From Reuters
The Sri Lankan Tamil militant believed to have masterminded the assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was found dead after a siege of his hideout, top police officials said today. The one-eyed man identified as Sivarasan and six others, one an alleged woman accomplice, committed suicide by swallowing cyanide, they said. Sivarasan also had a bullet wound in the head.
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August 4, 1991 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A string of suicides by key suspects in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is frustrating investigators in the case, officials said. Three suspects have poisoned themselves with cyanide minutes before they could be arrested, and a fourth hanged himself while in police custody. In the most recent incident, a Sri Lankan militant died Friday after taking cyanide in Bangalore, India. Gandhi was killed by a woman suicide bomber at a rally in Madras on May 21.