List of terrorist incidents in 1983

This is a timeline of incidents in 1983 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).

April

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
3 April	Massacre	69		Lucanamarca, Peru	Members of the communist group Shining Path massacre 69 peasants in the village of Lucanamarca. Most of the victims were hacked with axes and machetes though some were shot.	Shining Path	Internal conflict in Peru
18 April	Suicide bombing	63 (+1 attacker)	120	/ Beirut, Lebanon	1983 United States Embassy bombing takes place. A suicide car bomber stole a van carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives and slammed into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing 63 people including 18 Americans.[1]	Islamic Jihad Organization	Lebanese civil war

May

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
20 May	Car bombing	19	217	Pretoria, South Africa	Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress bombs the headquarters of the South African Air Force	Umkhonto we Sizwe

July

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
15 July	Bombing	8	55	Paris, France	Members of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia bomb the Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport	ASALA
14 July	Assassination	1	0	Brussels, Belgium	Turkish diplomat Dursun Aksoy by an unknown member of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia and Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide	ASALA JCAG
23 July	Ambush	13	2	Jaffna, Sri Lanka	13 government soldiers are killed in an LTTE ambush in Jaffna.[2] This incident sparked the Black July riots in country and is considered to be the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War.[3]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war
27 July	Shooting, suicide bombing	2 (+5 attackers)	2	Lisbon, Portugal	Five militants belonging to the Armenian Revolutionary Army attack the Turkish embassy in Lisbon, killing the wife of a Turkish diplomat and a Portuguese police officer before killing themselves with a bomb	Armenian Revolutionary Army

September

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
23 September	Bombing	112	0	Near Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates	Gulf Air Flight 771, a flight from Karachi, Pakistan to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is destroyed by a bomb near Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates, killing everyone on board. The bomb was likely planted by the Abu Nidal Organization in an attempt to extort money from Saudi Arabia.	Abu Nidal Organization	Israel-Palestine conflict

October

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
9 October	Bombing, attempted assassination	21	46	Rangoon, Burma	A bomb targeting a visit by South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan explodes and kills 21 people, though Chun escaped injury as his car had been delayed. North Korea was found to have coordinated the attack.	North Korea	Division of Korea
23 October	Suicide bombings	305 (+2 attackers)	75	// Beirut, Lebanon	Marine Barracks Bombing occurs. A suicide car bomber in a truck carrying 2500 pounds of explosives crashed through the gates of a US Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon killing 241 American servicemen and wounding 81. 58 French troops from the multinational force are also killed in a separate attack.[4]	Islamic Jihad Organization	Lebanese civil war

November

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
7 November	Bombing	0	0	Washington, United States	The "Resistance Conspiracy" faction of the May 19th Communist Organization detonate a bomb in the United States Capitol building, though no one is injured.	May 19th Communist Organization
18-19 November	Hijacking	5 (+3 attackers)	Several	Tbilisi, USSR	7 Georgians hijack Aeroflot Flight 6833 in hopes of escaping the Soviet Union. The siege ended with USSR forces storming the plane and resulting in the deaths of 3 passengers, 2 crew members and 3 hijackers. The remaining hijackers were executed.	7 Georgians

December

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
8 December	Torture murder	1	0	Sakhnin, Israel	Israeli teenager Danny Katz is kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered by 5 Palestinian militants.	5 Palestinians	Israel-Palestine conflict
10 December	Bombing	0	5	London, United Kingdom	Provisional IRA bombing targeting the Royal Artillery Barracks	Provisional IRA	The Troubles
12 December	Suicide bombings	6	86	Kuwait City, Kuwait	A series of bombings target the American and French embassies, Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait's main oil refinery, an electricity control center and building housing American employees of Raytheon. The bombings caused extensive damage, but relatively few casualties as many of the bombs failed to properly detonate. Had all the bombings succeeded, the attacks would have been among the worst terror attacks in history. The perpetrators have never been identified but are believed to be connected to Iran and committed the bombings due to America's, France's and Kuwait's support of Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war.	Unknown	Iran-Iraq war
17 December	Car bombing	6	90	London, United Kingdom	The Provisional IRA detonate a time bomb at the Harrods department store in central London, killing 3 civilians and 3 police officers.	Provisional IRA	The Troubles

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References