Operation Yatenthoa
Operation Yatenthoa | |
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Diagram of the assassination attempt. | |
Location | Hegediyos St., Kedal Suburb, A-Y Rep. |
Date | 18 June, 1972 |
Target | Kaila Gatil and her cabinet |
Attack type | Political assassination |
Weapons | Explosive device |
Deaths | 13 |
Non-fatal injuries | 82 |
Notable victims |
Deaths: Tajain Esiliran (foreign affairs), Adarin Helire (speaker of the Adborthosi) |
Perpetrators | Jan Yadom Osenthos, Sorilin Ejom, Hekarin Deabara Ilinek, Adborthos-Yolatho Armed Forces (alleged) |
Motive | Anger over the Military Reforms of 1971. |
Operation Yatenthoa (Drakona: ɷɝ̆ʊ̆ɾɛȷ̆ ɩɔɾʅ̆ɾ̆ɔ; Drakona pronunciation: i/ˈɔːˌpoʊ.rɑt.siːw ˌjɑˈtɛn.θoʊ.ɑ/; Oporatsio Yatenthoa lit. Operation Light Time) took place at around mid-day on 18 June, 1972, when a Yolathosi extremist, Jan Yadom Osenthos, chucked a large hand grenade at the passing motorcade of Kaila Gatil and her cabinet, killing 13 people and injuring 82 others.
Perpetrated over the passing of the military-restricting Military Reforms of 1971, the attack killed several high profile government officials (specifically Foreign Affairs minister Tajain Esiliran and then Speaker of the Adborthosi Adarin Helire) and injured several more, including Gatil herself. Osenthos was quickly subdued -- in the process being injured by the police -- and taken into protective custody before an angry mob could take him.
The subsequent investigation into the attack quickly revealed that the operation was not the work of a lone wolf, but rather, the product of precise planning by a small cell of Yolathosi extremists over the course of almost a year. At around the same time that Osenthos was to undergo trial for his part in Yatenthoa (12 July), his co-conspirators -- Sorilin Ejom and Hekarin Deabara -- were arrested in Ratinethos and tried with him. Not long after, the trial of the three conspirators came to be called the Trial of the Yatenthoa Teh.
All three members of the so called Yatenthoa Teh were found guilty on charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism and thirteen counts of capital murder on 29 December, 1972. All three were sentenced to death, and all three were executed on 12 January, 1973.