Examples of modern martyrs?

-I've got Gandhi and Martin Luther King Junior already.It's hard to answer that without a definition of "modern" and "martyrs".



Lmartyrse the 20th and 21st centuries as the time line for "modern."



1. Wikipeadia lists 91 pages for "20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:20鈥?/a>



2. Betty Ann Olsen, the daughter of a missionary-couple in Africa, arrived in war-torn Vietnam in 1964 as a missionary nurse at the age of thirty. She is one of several dozen Christians of various denominations mentioned on a page of "20th Century Martyrs" (Some are Catholic, but many are not) http://20thcenturymartyrs.blogspot.com/



3. Ten 20th century Christian martyrs have been commemorated with statues at Westminster Abbey in London. Among the martyrs represented in stone are: Saint Elizabeth of Russia, killed in Russia in 1918 by the Bolsheviks, Archbishop Oscar Romero, of El Salvador, and baptist preacher Martin Luther King, both of whom were assassinated.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/12958鈥?/a>



4. I would add Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian who set himself on fire in order to protest against his government, and who started the so-called "Arab Spring." Also the four students slain at Kent State University in Ohio in 1969. Medgar Evars, African American civil rights worker slain in 1963. 69 people killed in the Sharpeville Massacre (South Africa) in 1960. Alos the thousands killed during the Tiananmen Square protests of June 4, 1989.



Like I say, you need to define your terms. I could add to number four, but I'll let you do some of the work.
The most notable recent person who could be considered a martyr is Mohamed Bouazizi. His protest/self-immotation began the Tunisian Revolution and subsequently the Arab Spring. Technically, his martyrdom has brought democracy to Tunisia and Egypt.