BELGRADE, June 10 (Hina) - Serbian Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic said on Monday for Radio B92 the police would "leave no stone unturned in the search for the killers of Major-General Bosko Buha", deputy head of the Ministry's
public security department, while politicians speculated about the motive for the murder.
BELGRADE, June 10 (Hina) - Serbian Interior Minister Dusan
Mihajlovic said on Monday for Radio B92 the police would "leave no
stone unturned in the search for the killers of Major-General Bosko
Buha", deputy head of the Ministry's public security department,
while politicians speculated about the motive for the murder. #L#
Buha was killed in the night between Sunday and Monday at a hotel
parking lot in Belgrade while entering his car.
Mihajlovic said the police would "turn every known criminal nest
and interrogate every known criminal".
Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic requested that the police
state the actual motive for the murder. Buha's murder is a major
test for the police, and it will show if changes in the police are
necessary, he said.
The government will request progress reports every two to three
days, he warned.
Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic believes that Buha's
assassination is not politically motivated, but that it is an act of
"the mob settling accounts with the man who once held high positions
in the police".
The chairman of the Serbian parliament Committee on Security,
Dragan Jocic, believes that the murder of the police general was an
"attack on the state". "This is a tragic and painful event which
takes the citizens back to the time before October 5, 2000, (the
Milosevic regime)," said Jocic.
An attorney and former head of the Belgrade police, Marko Nicovic,
says Buha might have been killed for several reasons, one of them
being the fact that he was a witness to events which are
compromising for someone in the authorities, to possible revenge
for not activating his police brigade on October 5, 2000, when the
regime of former President Slobodan Milosevic was falling.
Buha was born in 1959 in Virovitica, Croatia. He graduated in
defence studies from Zagreb's Faculty of Political Sciences and in
1991 came to Belgrade, where he was appointed head of police at
Sopot outside Belgrade.
He was appointed commander of the Interior Ministry's police
brigade in 1998. He spent one year in Kosovo, during NATO's air
raids in 1999, when he was wounded. The new authorities appointed
him head of the Belgrade police on January 6, 2001. After eleven
months at the post, he was appointed deputy head of the public
security department.
In late 2001, the weekly "Reporter" mentioned his name among the
names of people the Hague war crimes tribunal was interested in.
Buha said at the time the Bosko Buha the tribunal was interested in
was his namesake.
(hina) rml