THE CANARY IN A COAL MINE EFFECT: Recent Political Assassinations That Transformed Countries, Regions and the World

By Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Countries, continents, and the world at large experience jolts that move them away from their evolutionary if not reformatory paths, resulting in seismic changes that transform them fundamentally. Assassinations are one of the potent catalysts for these changes as they lead to wars, political changes, and even economic transformations. Below is an insight into far-reaching political assassinations that are still haunting the world today: -Franz Ferdinand: Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb nationalist kills the Archduke and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, thereby sparking off World War One.-John F. Kennedy: The legendary American president who steers the United States of America away from nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union, and saves humanity in the process, supposedly falls from the bullets of Lee Harvey Oswald who fancies himself a Marxist.-Patrice Lumumba: The liquidation of the first democratically elected leader of the infant nation of Congo (the former Belgian Congo), plunges the country into a chaos that claims more than ten million lives, derails it, and sets it on a trajectory that it is yet to recover from six decades after Lumumba's death.-Mahatma Gandhi: The preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement leads India to its independence from British rule but falls from an assassin's bullet as he tries to heal the country following the partition of the subcontinent. However, he wins recognition as the father of nonviolent civil disobedience, and his legacy has been inspiring movements for civil rights and freedom across the world ever since.-Abraham Lincoln: The United States of America's greatest president owes his prominence not only for abolishing slavery and leading his country through a tragic civil-war but for not completing his agenda because John Wilkes Booth in 1865 killed him hardly half a year into his second term in office.-Felix-Roland Moumie: The world gets an introduction to French-neo-colonialism when the SDECE (French secret service) uses one of its top agents to end the life of the leader of the Cameroonian liberation movement by poisoning him in Geneva, Switzerland with thallium.-The more than a dozen other accounts deal with Russia, the USA, India, Israel, Pakistan, Egypt, Nicaragua, Libya, Burkina Faso, and The Dominican Republic!Janvier T. Chando's easy to grasp account provides a heart-rending insight into politics, geopolitics, wars, international conspiracies, and secret agendas.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08YMGYN7T
• ISBN13: 9798719966298
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"