It’s a cliche at this point that politicians are not necessarily trustworthy. You can expect that on a long enough timeline you’re going to hear a story on the news about a politician caught in a lie, caught stealing something, or caught doing some other nefarious and otherwise underhanded deed. The breadth of the crimes committed by politicians that we normally are used to, though, stays in the realm of non-violence. But every once in a while something goes extremely wrong, and politicians will commit murder.
10. Clive Derby-Lewis Wanted a Race War
Clive Derby-Lewis was a South African politician who, back in 1993, provided the gun to an assassin that was used to kill a political rival named Chris Hani. Hani was a member of the military under Nelson Mandela and a well-liked politician at the time. Derby-Lewis, on the other hand, was a racist who did not want to see an end to apartheid or the rule of the white minority in South Africa.
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