List of assassinations in Asia
Date Victim ( s ) Notes
November 2 , 1875 James Wheeler Woodford Birch , a British Resident Minister in the State of Perak Speared to death by followers of Malay chief Lela Pandak Lam , while in the bath-house of his boat at Pasir Salak
December 10 , 1949 Duncan Stewart , Second Governor of Sarawak , a British Crown Colony ( 1946-1963 ) Stabbed to death during his arrival at Sibu
October 6 , 1951 Henry Gurney , British High Commissioner in Malaya ( 1948-1951 ) Shot to death by a guerilla unit from the Malayan Communist Party at Fraser 's Hill
7 June 1974 Abdul Rahman Hashim , Inspector-General of Police from 1 February 1973 to 7 June 1974 Shot dead by the communist subversive who the one leader of Royal Malaysian Police at Mountbatten Road ( now Jalan Tun Perak ) and Weld Road ( now Jalan Raja Chulan ) , Kuala Lumpur
18 October 2006 Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa , a Mongolian national Murdered by C-4 explosives or was somehow killed first and her remains destroyed with C-4 on 18 October 2006 in a deserted area in Shah Alam , Malaysia near Kuala Lumpur
January 11 , 2008 S. Krishnasamy , state assemblyman for the Tenggaroh constituency , Malaysia ( 2003-2008 )
July 29 , 2013 Hussain Najadi , banker , AmBank founder Shot twice at close range by an unidentified assailant
February 13 , 2017 Kim Jong-nam , brother of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un Poisoned with VX nerve agent by two women at Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Malaysia
This is a list of assassinations which took place on the continent of Asia. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.