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Article: SERBIA: PRIME MINISTER'S ASSASSINS FACE 40 YEARS IN PRISON.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- May 24, 2007
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by Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, May 23, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- The most-watched criminal trial in modern Serbian history ended Wednesday, as the mastermind behind the assassination of reform-oriented Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and the shooter himself received 40-year prison terms.
Milorad Ulemek, a former commander of the notorious Special Police Unit under then-President Slobodan Milosevic, was pronounced guilty by a Special Court for Organized Crime in Belgrade for plotting and carrying out the assassination of Djindjic on March 12, 2003.
Ulemek's deputy, Zvezdan Jovanovic, who killed the prime minister with a single sniper ...