This is a timeline of incidents in 1971 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator | Part of |
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January 2 | Grenade | 2 | 2 | Gaza Strip, Palestine/ Occupied territories | Members of the Palestine Liberation Organization threw a grenade into a random car in the Gaza Strip, killing two children. | PLO | Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
January 8 | Kidnapping | 0 | 1 | Montevideo, Uruguay | Kidnapping of the British ambassador Geoffrey Jackson. [1] | Tupamaros | |
March 9 | Bombing | 3 | 0 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Three off-duty Scottish soldiers (John McCaig, Joseph McCaig and Dougald McCaughey) were shot dead by the IRA after being lured from a pub in Belfast. | Provisional IRA | The Troubles |
April 7 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | Stockholm, Sweden | Miro Baresic and another Ustasa-supporter takes the Yugoslavian ambassador hostage at the embassy in Stockholm. They tie a rope to his neck around a chair, fire shots against his head and body until he bleeds and chokes to death. First terror act on Swedish soil by foreigners made this deed become very big in the media. | Miro Baresic | |
May 17 | Kidnapping, Assassination | 1 | 0 | Ankara , Turkey | On May 17, 1971, Efraim Elrom, the Israeli consul-general in Turkey was kidnapped in Ankara and murdered by the Turkish People's Liberation Army. | People's Liberation Army of Turkey | |
June 8 | Assassination | 1 | 0 | Santiago, Chile | The group Vanguardia Organizada del Pueblo, an ultra-left movement, whose members were formerly pardoned by President Allende, murdered former Interior Minister Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, in retaliation for the responsibility attributed to him by the so-called " Massacre of Port Mountt". [2] | Vanguardia Organizada del Pueblo | |
June 14 | Bombing | 10 | 20+ | Krasnodar , Russia | The Krasnodar bus bombing was a bombing that occurred on a bus in Krasnodar, June 14, 1971, when a homemade suitcase bomb placed near the gas tank by mentally ill Peter Volynsky exploded, killing 10 persons and wounding 20–90 others. | Peter Kuzmich Volynsky | |
August 21 | Bombing | 9 | 95 | Manila, Philippines | Plaza Miranda bombing kills nine at a rally of the Liberal Party in Manilla. | ||
November 2 | Bombing | 3 | 26 | Belfast, United Kingdom | Red Lion Pub bombing - the Provisional IRA exploded a bomb inside a pub on the Shankill Road, Belfast. The blast killed three Protestant civilians and around 30 other people were injured, some seriously. There was also a bombing in drapery shop at the same time right beside the pub which injured several more people. | Provisional IRA | The Troubles |
December 4 | Bombing | 15 | 17 | Belfast, United Kingdom | The Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force bomb McGurk's bar in Belfast, in a Catholic neighbourhood, killing 15 and injuring 17. | Ulster Volunteer Force | The Troubles |
December 11 | Bombing | 4 | 19 | Belfast, United Kingdom | To retaliate for the McGurk's bar bombing, the Provisional IRA set off a bomb in front of a furniture showroom in the mainly Protestant Shankill Road area, killing 4 and injuring 19. | Provisional IRA | The Troubles |
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