List of terrorist incidents, 1989

The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1989.

*flagicon|Mozambique February 18: A passenger train from South Africa, where attacked by Mozambique National Resistance guerrillas in Movene, Mozambique, killing eight and injuring fifty.
*flagicon|Colombia May 30: A bomb kills four and injures 37 on an assassination attempt against Miguel Maza Marquez head of the Colombian Secret Service. [The Washington Post, May 31, 1989]
*flagicon|Colombia July 5: A car bomb kills six, including the governor of Antioquia, Antonio Roldan Betancur. No claim is made for the attack. [NYT: [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE0DB173AF936A35754C0A96F948260 Bomb kills 6 in Colombia] , July 5, 1989]
*flagicon|Saudi Arabia July 9: Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
*flagicon|Colombia August 18: The Medellín Cartel declares "total and absolute war" against the Colombian government. The offices of the two main political parties were bombed and the homes of two local politicians were burned. [The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 25, 1989, Page A01]
*flagicon|Colombia August 31: A bomb in a bicycle cart injures 13 in Medellín. [The Charlotte Observer, September 1, 1989, Page3A]
*flagicon|Colombia September 2: A bomb partially destroys the headquarters of El Espectador, a Colombian newspaper, leaving 84 wounded. Bomb is blamed on Pablo Escobar
*flagicon|Colombia September 4: A bomb detonates in front of the Intercontinental Hotel in Medellín. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w042087&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Untitled] , September 4, 1989]
*flagicon|Colombia September 4: An unidentified man opens fire at the Medellín airport, killing one and wounding 14, before being gunned down by the police. [The Dallas Morning News, September 5, 1989]
*flagicon|USSR September 16: A bomb explodes on a bus bound from Tbilisi to Baku, USSR when it passes near Yevlakh, Azerbaijan, killing five people and wounding 27.
*flagicon|Colombia September 18: Five bombs kill twelve people in Medellín during the ongoing war the Medellín Cartel declared on the Colombia government. On the same day, the Pablo Escobar has liberal leader Pablo Pelaez Gonzalez assassinated. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w042235&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Colombia: Drug War Deaths] , September 18, 1989]
*flagicon|Colombia September 18: Three bombs explode in Cali killing one person. [St. Louis Post Dispatch, September 18, 1989, Page 8A]
*flagicon|France September 19: Suitcase-bomb destroys UTA Flight UT-772 en route to Paris, killing all 171 passengers and crew. Libyan intelligence involved.
*flagicon|Colombia September 21: The Medellín Cartel claims responsibility for the car bomb attack to the Colombian Liberal Party's offices in downtown Bogotá
*flagicon|United Kingdom September 22: Deal barracks bombing: Eleven Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent, is bombed by the IRA.
*flagicon|Colombia September 25: A bomb kills two and injures one at the Hilton hotel in Cartagena. [Chicago Sun-Times, September 26, 1989, Page 2A]
*flagicon|Greece September 26: Liberal Greek politician Pavlos Bakoyannis who was well known for his broadcasts against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 on Deutsche Welle radio, was shot and killed in the front entrance of his office in by members of the Marxist terrorist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
*flagicon|Colombia September 28: A bomb kills two at a suburban gas station in Bogotá. The dead are believed to be terrorists. [San Jose Mercury News, September 28, 1989, Page 15A]
*flagicon|Colombia September 29: A bomb injures one at the parking garage of the Intercontinental Hotel in Bogotá. The attack was blamed on the Medellín Cartel. [The Charlotte Observer, September 30, 1989, Page 7A]
*flagicon|Colombia October 8: A fire bomb kills seven and injures seven in a bus in Bogotá. The action is blamed on the Medellín Cartel. [Lexington Herald-Reader, October 9, 1989, Page A22]
*flagicon|Colombia October 9: Ten bombs go off in two Colombian cities, injuring 32. The bombs coincide with the visit of a senior US Army officer on talks about drug control. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w045657&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Colombia's murderous drug barons bid to silence press] , October 16, 1989]
*flagicon|Colombia October 16: A car bomb against the Vanguardia Liberal newspaper kills four in Bucaramanga. [Dallas Morning News, October 17, 1989]
*flagicon|Colombia October 18: A bomb explodes prematurely outside the Colombian Congress, injuring one. [Washington Post, October 19, 1989, A Section]
*flagicon|Colombia October 21: A car bomb in front of a hotel in Barranquilla leaves six injured. [St Louis Post Dispatch, October 21, 1989, Page 10A]
*flagicon|Colombia October 30: A bomb hidden beneath a bus kills five police officer and injures 15 more in Medellín. The drug lords are believed responsible. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w045809&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Untitled] , October 10, 1989]
*flagicon|Colombia November 27: Avianca Flight 203 bombed over Colombia; 110 victims. Medellín drug cartel claimed responsibility.
*flagicon|Colombia December 6: Truck bomb kills 52 and injures 1,000 outside the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) building near downtown Bogotá, Colombia; blast is blamed on drug lord Pablo Escobar and it's widely believed to be an assassination attempt on the director of DAS, Miguel Maza Marquez.
*flagicon|Canada December 6: Anti-feminist Marc Lépine shoots 26 people, killing 14 women, at the École Polytechnique de Montréal - the event is dubbed the Montreal massacre.
*flagicon|United Kingdom December 13: Two British soldiers are killed near Rosslea, County Fermanagh when an IRA unit burns them alive with a flamethrower.

ee also

*List of terrorist incidents

References