Incident Date:
October 18, 1971
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Canadian Hungarian Freedom Fighters
Event Type: Unarmed Assault
Weapon Type(s): Primitive/Melee (Hands, Feet, Fists)
Organization Type: Leftist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Government(Politicians/Political Parties/Political Movements/Political Party Meetings/Rallies)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "10/18/1971: Gaza Matrai, a member of the Canadian Hungarian Freedom Fighters association assaulted Soviet Premier Aleksi Kosygin in Ottawa on Parliament Hill. Kosygin was ruffled up but not hurt. Matrai was arrested. He was found guilty of common assault. Apparently 30 Burkers had attended the demonstration."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. (1980). Trasnational Terrorism: Chronology of Events, 1968-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p^. 284."
2) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 77"
3) RWVIC p. 47
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