BELGRADE, Feb 6 (Hina) - A private TV station in Belgrade, 'BK Telecom, reported on Tuesday evening that a former Serbian and federal Yugoslav Interior Minister and one of Slobodan Milosevic's closest aides, Zoran Sokolovic, was
killed. The state-run Television broadcast this information later in the evening citing the private BK Telecom station, and on Tuesday night the incumbent Yugoslav Interior Minister, Zoran Zivkovic, officially confirmed Zivkovic's death. According to a brief report published on the private television, the corpse of Sokolovic was found in a Lada Niva car in the town of Knjazevac, some 200 kilometres south-east of Belgrade. Minister Zivkovic was quoted by a local Belgrade radio station B-92 that an investigation should establish whether he was killed or he committed suicide. Sokolovic stood behind former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, since the very beginning of
BELGRADE, Feb 6 (Hina) - A private TV station in Belgrade, 'BK
Telecom, reported on Tuesday evening that a former Serbian and
federal Yugoslav Interior Minister and one of Slobodan Milosevic's
closest aides, Zoran Sokolovic, was killed.
The state-run Television broadcast this information later in the
evening citing the private BK Telecom station, and on Tuesday night
the incumbent Yugoslav Interior Minister, Zoran Zivkovic,
officially confirmed Zivkovic's death.
According to a brief report published on the private television,
the corpse of Sokolovic was found in a Lada Niva car in the town of
Knjazevac, some 200 kilometres south-east of Belgrade.
Minister Zivkovic was quoted by a local Belgrade radio station B-92
that an investigation should establish whether he was killed or he
committed suicide.
Sokolovic stood behind former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic, since the very beginning of his political career. He was
all the time loyal to this autocrat, who is now on the list of
indictees of the UN war crimes court (ICTY).
During the Milosevic rule, Sokolovic was regarded as a very strong
man of that regime. He very seldom appeared in the public and never
gave an interview to the media.
A few months after he took office of Yugoslav Interior Minister, his
successor to the post of Serbian Interior Minister, Radovan
Stojicic alias Badza was assassinated in a pizzeria in the downtown
Belgrade. Stojicic's murder has not yet been clarified.
Exactly one year ago, another senior official of the Milosevic
regime, Yugoslav Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic, was
assassinated while having a dinner in another restaurant in the
downtown Belgrade. Police are still searching for the minister's
assassin who shot him dead from the street.
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