Article: SERBIA: PRIME MINISTER'S ASSASSINS FACE 40 YEARS IN PRISON.

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 ...

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