ASSASSINS

The 1972 Munich Olympics were supposed to be the games that showed the world a new, open Germany. Instead, it became the backdrop for one of the most watched acts of terrorism in history.

Nine days after a massacre at an Israeli airport, Mossad assassinates one of the Arab world's most celebrated writers in Beirut. Ghassan Kanafani never carried a gun. But his words had power and influence, and he was a...

UPDATE: On August 31st 2026, Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis was found guilty of orchestrating the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Prosecutors argued that Davis supplied the weapon, and ordered the shooting – but did not pull the...

Cabramatta was the epicentre of Australia's worst heroin epidemic. It was also the electorate of John Newman, the state MP gunned down outside his own home in 1994. This week we look beyond the assassination and into...

John Newman, the Australian politician, was shot dead in his driveway while he was still in office. The gunman has never been found. Newman was the State MP for the south-western Sydney electorate of Cabramatta. At the...

When Anwar al-Awlaki joined Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, he knew he could be jailed or killed by the US government. What he didn’t know was that his death would come at the hands of a person he trusted with his...

It was the first killing of an American citizen by his own government, without a trial, on foreign soil. And it was President Barack Obama who approved the order.

The Viceroy of India was considered the most powerful man in Britian’s most valuable colony. An untouchable figure representing the crown with all its power. And yet, he was killed in an unlikely place, by an unlikely...

Yalkun Uluyol has not seen or spoken to his father since 2018 — until recently he wasn't even sure if his father was still alive. That's because his father had disappeared into a Chinese re-education and training camp...

Juma Tayir was an ethnic Uyghur. He was also the Chief Imam of China's largest mosque. In 2014, during a security crackdown by the Chinese Government, Tayir was brutally assassinated outside the mosque. But who wanted...

In the early 2000’s Pim Fortuyn was one of the most famous gay politicians in the world. Determined to protect the tradition of progressive Dutch values, Fortuyn was also anti-immigration, and a fierce critic of Islam...

You might know L-FRESH The LION from tracks like 1 in 100,000 or his Like A Version performance of Survive on triple j. As a Sikh Punjabi-Australian artist, he’s built his career around questions of identity and culture...

Chamkila, the so-called 'Elvis of Punjab', famously outraged religious leaders with his 'vulgar' music. But what was so taboo about his songs that he was forced to fold his hands and apologise? And in the end, that...

July 2022. Drake, the famous and at times controversial musician, takes to the stage in his home city of Toronto, Canada. That evening, Drake performs in a sweatshirt emblazoned with the face of a turbaned Punjabi man...

During the middle Ages, the shrine of Thomas Becket was one of the most popular destinations for Christian pilgrims. Aslan talks to Mary McGilivray about the cult of St Thomas, the pilgrims who went to see the place he...