ZAGREB, March 12 (Hina) - The assassination of Serbia's Premier Zoran Djindjic on Wednesday in Belgrade is the latest in a series of murders that have shaken Serbia in the past few years.
ZAGREB, March 12 (Hina) - The assassination of Serbia's Premier
Zoran Djindjic on Wednesday in Belgrade is the latest in a series of
murders that have shaken Serbia in the past few years. #L#
A number of public figures and politicians in Serbia and
Montenegro, from reporter Slavko Curuvija to the former chief of
Slobodan Milosevic's security, Nenad Batocanin, were killed by
unknown perpetrators.
On November 27 last year, Nenad Batocanin, a high ranking official
in the federal interior ministry, was killed in downtown Belgrade.
Last June, a former Belgrade police chief and interior ministry
official, Bosko Buha, was shot in the head as he was leaving a
Belgrade restaurant.
A security advisor to Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, Goran
Zugic, was killed in the vicinity of his home in Podgorica in May
2001.
Bosko Perosevic, head of the Vojvodina government, was killed a
year earlier in Novi Sad.
The director of Yugoslavia's JAT airlines, Zika Petrovic, was shot
dead outside his Belgrade home in April 2000.
Yugoslav Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic was killed in a Belgrade
restaurant in February 2000, while a month earlier the notorious
Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan, indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal,
was killed in a Belgrade hotel.
In April 1999, the owner and editor-in-chief of the "Dnevni
Telegraf" daily and "Europljanin" magazine, Slavko Curuvija, was
gunned down in front of a building in downtown Belgrade.
The abduction of former Serbian communist leader Ivan Stambolic, a
mentor to Milosevic, has remained a mystery to date. Stambolic went
missing in August 2000 and is considered dead.
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