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| 1951 |
| | | King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem | |
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| 1952 |
| | | An outbreak of terrorism in Kenya is orchestrated by a secret Kikuyu organization, the Mau Mau | |
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| 1954 |
| | | A radical manifesto and acts of terrorism alert the world to the emergence of the FLN, committed to independence for Algeria | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Nasser escapes an assassination attempt by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Anastasio Somoza is assassinated on a visit to Panama, but the dictatorship of Nicaragua remains in his family | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Yasser Arafat and others in Kuwait found Al-Fatah, a secret organization advocating armed resistance against Israel | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The king of Iraq, Faisal II, is murdered in Baghdad in a coup led by Abdul Karim Qassim | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Solomon Bandaranaike is assassinated by a Buddhist monk after only three years as prime minister of Sri Lanka | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Rwanda suffers the first nationwide outbreak of Hutu violence against Tutsis | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Guatemala is terrorized by government-linked death squads and emergent guerrilla groups | |
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