It was one of the most notorious acts of assassination carried out during the Cold War.Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was killed by poison dart filled with ricin and fired from an umbrella in London in 1978.Markov, a communist defector working for the BBC World Service, left his office at Bush House in the UK capital on September 11 and walked across Waterloo Bridge to take the train home to Clapham in south-west London.As he waited at a bus stop moments into his journey home, he felt a sharp jab in his thigh and saw a man picking up an umbrella.
mala nyingi hutumika kuwaondoa wale wanaokwenda kinyume na matakwa ya serikari,kwani hata markov baada ya kukimbilia UK,alikuwa ni mtetezi wa wanyonge Burgaria na mjamaa aliyekuwa kinyume na serikari ya Burgaria