Serbian Prime Minister assassinated

[Larissa]

For those of you who get their news from Che-Lives, the Irish Times is reporting that Zoran Djindjic has died of wounds sustained from sniper fire earlier this morning.

"Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic died in hospital today after he was shot in the chest in an apparent assassination.

"He's dead," the source from his Democratic Party said. Mr Djindjic (50) a reformer who played a large part in the downfall of former Yugoslav President Mr Slobodan Milosevic, was shot in the chest by two large calibre
sniper bullets fired from a distance, a police source said earlier"

http://www.ireland.com/
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-03/1.../12/328090.html (http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-03/12/328090.html)


(Edited by Larissa at 10:59 am on Mar. 12, 2003)

[oki]

jesus............another one killed by the milosevic mob..

[Dhul Fiqar]

CNN and BBC are covering it at the moment.

Actually, the fully story is more complicated than being just about Milosevic.

He was best known for cracking down on the powerful organized crime syndicates that ran his country, but he was indeed one of the many who helped oust Milosevic.

All odds are, however, that it is gang related.

--- G.

[Larissa]

A comment from another person:

"Nothing chatty about the topic, I deem.

I have heard that his bodyguards were standing beside him, did nothing to protect him or to catch the killers, but went peacefully to their car and drove away. The incident happened in front of the Serbian parliament building.

The police also did nothing to catch the shooters while
the trail was fresh, but stopped the traffic in the city
by questioning almost everybody, only two hours later.

The judges let go the perpetrators of the attempted
assessination a month or so ago. This is the third
attempt, this time successful, to kill Djindjic in the last
three months.

Yet another war in Serbia has been feared (or wished
for) for quite some time now. With restless Albanians
in the south of Serbia (not to mention Kosovo), chances
are that ultra nationalists will come to power again,
either legally or effectively.

Jokes about yet another language derived from the
late Serbo-Croatian (Montenegrin) are not funny at all.
Vojvodina has been brewing as well.

There was one state in 1991 (Yugoslavia). Already there
are 3 independent states (Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia), two protectorates (Bosnia and Kosovo) and one loose confederation (Serbia and Montenegro).

And the Macedonian-Albanian problem in Macedonia is
anything but solved.

Lipa."

[Edelweiss]

Djindjic is very pro-western, pro-european, I remember that he gave duzends of anti-Milosevic interviews in fluent German (he has studied here or something) on German TV during the Kossova war, I think he's rather unpopular in Yugulavia itself, but he was the man who was instated to please the EU and the US after Milosevic was ousted, the rest of the government is very nationalist and not very pro-western. Actually he was a quiet sympatic man, not politically, but as a person from the impression I had from him from that interviews.

[Larissa]

I've just remembered that our che-lives comrade Aleksander Nordby is servicing his 9 month Military Service in Serbia. Hope everything stays cool.

[Larissa]

More comments...

"The bodyguards (or one at least) were hurt, too. The incident has happened in the backyard of the Government building. The shots came from a 200 m distant building (two M76 snipers were found there)
and it was said that three younger men have left that building after the incident. The shooters drove away in two cars which were found a few kilometers away, empty of course.

This action started almost immediately, and the whole center of the city was blocked within half an hour. Until now the brigades have blocked all major streets and bridges and they search every single automobile.

The state of emergency is to be proclaimed any minute, the Army is going to join the police forces.

By the way, the Ministry of Police has said a few weeks ago that the mob is better equipped than the police and has a larger budget...

Aleksander Vasiljevic."

[Larissa]

Updated info.
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-03/1.../12/328094.html (http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-03/12/328094.html)

[praxis1966]

fuckin cnn... i've been watching for the past 15 minutes and if i hadn't already heard about this from Larissa i wouldn't even know that it happened...

[deimos]

man...you guys kow more about he assasination than our austrian news programme...

[Larissa]

have some "on-site" friends
:-)
Lara

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

he hadn't got a chance, as an anti-mob living in a country ruled by the mob, as a pro-westerner in a political situation anti-western, he couldn't last long.

[oki]

my bosnian friend on another boad sais that the gouv. had just frozen some funds of mladic and karazic,teh two warcriminals from the bosnian serbes.the gouv. is beeing pused to give them to the war tribunal in the Hague.
under milosevic mafia had free game in servia.and they still do.the new gouv. wars trying to reform the country,and succeeding.that's what this murder is showing.lets hope that the situation doesn't turn now,like it does so often after assasinations.(think rabin,Israel.....)

[Pete]

Wow. I did not know of this until you mentioned it. Not much coverage of Europe other then Iraq related in Canada I fear.

[Show me the Money]

Quote: from CrazyPete on 4:52 pm on Mar. 13, 2003
Wow. I did not know of this until you mentioned it. Not much coverage of Europe other then Iraq related in Canada I fear.
Iraq isn't exactly a European country, CP:biggrin:

[Pete]

I know. But we here aobut Britian, France, Germnay, and Russia's stances on iraq.

[Show me the Money]

you should read the great salon.com selection from the AP newswires, CP.. you never miss anymore important (political) news stories. (http://www.salon.com)

[Pete]

3rd last page of the star...the one before 'opinions' SERB PM DEAD

[Rastafari]

Sounds oddly (dangerously?) like Franz Ferdinand and WWI to me. Except this time, we have a mafia calling the shots instead of the black hand (or maybe it was the CIA's doing?)

[Show me the Money]

france and russia on one side... england on the other... assasination in the Middle East, i must confess.. it's very scary! SHIT..

SG

(Only maybe now, America takes the role of Germany in this conflict?)

[Show me the Money]

i hope Germany doesn't stay too neutral, tho. i mean.. when the war in Iraq has started.. i think they should act more aggressive (politically) against the US... yikes!! .. with this lunatic in office(GWB) everything could collapse, and Europe and the Middle East will take the burden for their «cowardice» behaviour.

Scotty.

(Edited by Show me the Money at 10:50 pm on Mar. 13, 2003)

[Palmares]

The assasination freaked me out. I was dumbfounded. I feel for the people of the area, what is in store for them now?

[Pete]

The rage built up inside of me is searching for a place to be depositied. I hope that America had nothing to do with this.

[Show me the Money]

i am quite confident they didn't:smile:.

[oki]

no,only the serb mafia (= old rulers) benefit.it's reforms against crime.

[commie kg]

My family in Slovenia seems to think everything will be fine.