List of terrorist incidents in 1999

This is a timeline of incidents in 1999 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).

February

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
16 February	Car bombings	16	120	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Six car bombs targeting government buildings and Uzbek president Islam Karimov explode over the course of an hour and a half in Tashkent.	IMU

March

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
13/14 March	Bombings, arson	13	2	Istanbul, Turkey	Two bombings at a shopping centre and one of a truck kill 13 and wound two others in Istanbul. PKK is blamed.	PKK	Turkey-PKK conflict
19 March	Bombing	62	Hundreds	Vladikavkaz, Russia	Four young Chechen men detonated a bomb in a crowded market, killing 62 people. They also committed two other bombings of Russian military housing complex and a train station and also kidnapped four Russian soldiers later in 1999.	CRI

April

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
17-30 April	Bombings	3	140	London, United Kingdom	Neo-Nazi David Copeland detonated three nail bombs in London in April 1999. The first bombing occurred on 17 April in Brixton and targeted blacks. 48 people were injured. The second bombing, on April 24, targeted Bengalis on Brick Lane and wounded 13. The final bombing occurred on 30 April in Soho at a gay bar called the Admiral Duncan. 3 people, including a pregnant woman, were killed and 79 were injured. Copeland told police he hoped the bombings would spark a race war.	David Copeland
20 April	School shooting, attempted bombing	13 (+2 attackers)	24	Columbine, Colorado, United States	Two seniors at Columbine High School, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire on the school, killing 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide. The two had planned blowing up the school cafeteria and then detonating two bombs they had hidden in their cars but opened fire on the school once the bombs failed to detonate. The two had written about being bullied at school and wanting to terrorize and get revenge on American society in general.	Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
26 April	Bombing	0	11	Moscow, Russia	An explosion inside an elevator at the Intourist hotel in Moscow injured eleven people.[1]	Unknown

July

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
23 July	Massacre	14	0	Lipljan, Yugoslavia	14 Kosovo Serb farmers are executed by the Kosovo Liberation Army	KLA	Kosovo war
30 July	Car bombing	9	38	Medellín, Colombia	A car bomb kills nine and injures 38 at a military base in Medellín. Authorities blame leftist guerrillas for the attack.[2]	FARC	Colombian conflict

August

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
10 August	Shooting	1	5	Los Angeles, United States	Aryan Nations member Buford O. Furrow opened fire on a Jewish community center, wounding an elderly secretary, a teenage counselor and three young boys. After fleeing Furrow murdered a Filipino-American mail carrier and than to a Taxi to Las Vegas where he surrendered to authorities.	Buford Furrow Aryan Nations
30 August	Bombing	1	40	Moscow, Russia	A bomb exploded at a mall in Moscow, killing one person and injuring 40 others.	Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan	War of Dagestan

September

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
4-16 September	Bombings	293	1,000+	Russia	A series of bombings at apartment buildings occurred in Russia during September 1999. The first occurred on 4 September in Buynaksk, Dagestan, the next bombings occurred in Moscow on the 9th and 13th. The final bombing occurred on the 16th in Volgodonsk. Overall, 293 people were killed and over 1,000 more were wounded. The Russian government blamed the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria for the blasts, however, many Chechen separatists as well several Russian journalists have accused the Federal Security Service of Russia of staging these bombings as a false flag in order in bring Vladimir Putin into power and garner support for the Second Chechen War which had just commenced.	Disputed	Second Chechen War
18 September	Massacre	54		Ampara, Sri Lanka	LTTE cadres massacre at least 50 Sinhalese civilians in three villages in Ampara District.[3][4]	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war

October

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
7 October	Hostage-taking	0	0	Bangkok, Thailand	A group of militants from the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors took 89 people hostage at the Burmese embassy in Bangkok. The attackers released all of the hostages and escaped without bloodshed.	VBSW	Internal conflict in Myanmar

November

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
12 November	Bombing	7	Dozens	Bogotá, Colombia	Seven die and dozens are injured when a bomb explodes in Bogotá. No claim for responsibility is made.[5]	Unknown

December

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
18 December	Suicide bombing	12 (+1 attacker)	7	Ja-Ela, Sri Lanka	12 people, including former Sri Lankan army Chief of Staff Lakshman Algama, are killed by an LTTE.	LTTE	Sri Lankan civil war

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References