How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Answer 1

be at level 6

Answer 2

Assassination and murder are one and the same.In case celebrities like Presidents,Priministers,Kings ,Religious Personalities of mass popularity are killed they are called 'assassinated".There is standard or rule made use of the word.When ordinary people of no social or political importance are killed they are called"murder".
There will be normally a "plot"or "conspiracy"involving many people in the case of political assasination.

Answer 3

the context and definition is historical.
an assasin is a killer of usually a religious or political person.
and (not my words) any of a group of muslim fanatics sent on murder missions in the time of the crusades.
the word itself has french origins /assassin/ or via medievel latin /assassinus/ from arabic hasisi 'hashish-eater'
murder, whilst it encompasses assassinate, its derived from old english /morthor/ and old french(gernamic) /murdre/.
so in answer to ur question the person would have to be a world political or religious leader or icon to be assassinated rather than murdered. also if they were the only ones killed it usually is called an assassination.

Answer 4

When their death has the effect of shake the fabric of the ruling power.

Diana's a good example. Everybody asks 'was she murdered?' (never assassinated!) That's because, although she had power, she did not hold 'absolute power'.

Assassins usually remove obstacles, so that others may acheive their ends.

Answer 5

In order to be assassinated someone has to represent a cause or movement or organization. They just have to be important enough that someone will murder them because of their affiliation.

Answer 6

Murder is killing .a person deliberately and illegally. Assassinate is killing an important or famous person for political purpose

Answer 7

he is thought to be assinated when he/she is famous becuase of the many wondrful things he/she has made..
assasinated when he/she has been through a lot of helpin the development and enhanecemnet of many people lives and has indulge in many conspiracy that a person might join in and making a difference out of it to help lives and has put the lives of the vilain to worst and rage.... usually killed in public places!
he/she is considered to be murdered when he/she is kiled at homes, killed because of work jealousy or improper relationship with a person..

Answer 8

In this country regardless the ordinary man does not count unless you are of course of royal blood, the son or daughter of the prime minister or are upper class. The more status one holds the likelyhood of it being an assination or execution.

Answer 9

High positions in government usually starting from mayors to president and religious leaders from priests to pope.

Answer 10

usually a person who is assassinated is in a political setting, whether it's a mayor, governor, president, senator.