Assassination

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An Afghan health worker gives polio vaccine drops to a child in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, 19 November 2012. EPA/Abdul Mueed

Violence against health workers damages public health efforts

By Fiona Lander, Monash University and Dev Kevat, Monash University

The Guardian recently reported the death of a female volunteer in a polio vaccination program in Kapisa province, Afghanistan, who was shot six times and later died in hospital. The shooting has rightly…
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The American government tends not to assassinate enemies. AAP

Killing Osama: the exception that proves the rule

By Timothy Lynch, University of Melbourne

The western liberal’s capacity for self-flagellation is seemingly endless. There is no enemy that the liberal west did not create. There is no inhumanity that the west did not begin. There is no crime…
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Targeted killing is assassination by another name. AAP

Why assassination seems to be the hardest word

By John Keane

Osama bin Laden is dead – assassinated a fortnight ago by bullets sprayed from the guns of special armed forces of the United States. During the wild celebrations that followed, the word “assassination…

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