Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
The assassination of the former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi
Witness History: Archive 2014 · BBC World Service
May 21, 20149m 10s
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Show Notes
In 1991 the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. The grandson of the founder of modern India, Jawaharlal Nehru, was blown up by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels while campaigning for the general election. We hear from a journalist who was with him just moments before the attack.
(Photo: Funeral procession of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 24 May 1991. Credit: Douglas E. Curran/AFP/Getty Images)