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Article: The tremors of Balkan history; Serbia's prime minister assassinated.(The assassination of Serbia's prime minister brings up the ghosts of history)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 15, 2003
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The murder of Zoran Djindjic has jangled nerves but should not shatter the country's or the region's edgy peace
POLITICAL murders in the Balkans have had a habit of breaking up countries and starting wars--witness, most infamously, the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo in 1914, which triggered the first world war. So Serbia's fragile democracy, re-established only three years ago after the fall of a tyrant, Slobodan Milosevic, has been shaken to the core by the assassination of the country's abrasively reform-minded prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, gunned down outside the main government building in Belgrade, the capital, on ...