Desperately seeking, Women who made history and then got assasinated ? can u help ?

Question

Am about to get accepted in a magazine to work there .. which is the dream of my life ... but they asked me to write an article about women who were of great importance to their countires and made a change but at the end they got assasinated ( like Banazeer Botto )

Can anyone help ??

Answer 1

Here's a site detailing a whole list:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Female-Victims-of-Political-Assassinations

Cut paste for you:

Benizir Bhutto (2007): Educated at Harvard and Oxford, Bhutto was the daughter of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. She was the first woman to lead a modern Muslim nation, serving as Prime Minister from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. After a long period in exile, she returned to Pakistan in 2007 in the hopes of forming a power-sharing arrangment with President Pervez Musharraf, but instead faced assassination attempts and a period of house arrest. She was shot and killed after a rally in Rawapindi, outside Islamabad, on the evening of December 27, 2007.

Anna Politkovskaya (2006): A prominent Russian journalist and activist, Politkovskaya was one of the few members of the media who would risk covering the brutal war in Chechnya and was an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. She survived a mock execution in Chechnaya and a poisoning attempt on the way to cover the Beslan school massacre, only to be shot dead in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building on October 7, 2006

Aqila al-Hashimi (2003): The longtime member of Iraq's foreign ministry under Saddam Hussein, al-Hashimi was the only former government official and one of only three women on the US-sponsored Iraqi Governing Council. She was widely expected to be appointed Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, but was shot while driving through her western Baghdad neigborhood on Septmeber 20, 2003. She died five days later.

Anna Lindh (2003): The popular Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs was taking an afternoon off from campaigning for a referundum in favor of the adoption of the Euro and shopping in a Stockholm department store when she was attacked and brutally stabbed on September 11, 2003. The attack was not politically motivated, and the mentally-distrubed assassin was sentenced to a locked psyciatric ward after his trial.

Konca Kuris (1999): A Turkish feminist leader who had renounced her membership in Hizbollah over their interpertation of the Qur'an, Kuris was abducted by the organization in 1998. Her tortured body was found in Konya, Turkey on July 20, 1999.

Agathe Uwilingiyimana (1994): The first female prime minister of Rwanda, Uwilingiyamana was also was of the first victims of the Rwandan genocide. The prominent Hutu was killed by her own guards the day after the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana.

Meena Keshwar Kamal (1987): A prominent Afghan feminist, Meena was the founder of the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Barely 30 years old, she was gunned down in Quetta, Pakistan on February 4, 1987, less than a year after the assassination of her husband, Afghanistan Liberation Organization leader Faiz Ahmad.

Indira Gandhi (1984): The Oxford-educated granddaughter of Indian independence leader Motilal Nehru, Gandhi was midway through her fourth term as Prime Minister when she was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards in the garden of her residence on October 31, 1984. Her son, Rajiv, was also killed by assassins while serving as Prime Minister in 1991.

Answer 2

Benazir Bhutto, Indira Gandhi

Answer 3

Joan of Arc, French.