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Article: Milosevic inquiry looks at string of deaths
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- April 5, 2001
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Milosevic inquiry looks at string of deaths
Officials investigate his alleged role in several killings
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
Associated Press
Thursday, April 5, 2001
Belgrade, Yugoslavia -- Branka Prpa will always remember the night
a hail of bullets struck her companion, an outspoken critic of
Slobodan Milosevic.
"The bullets were hitting all around us," she said. "His hand just
slipped from mine, and he didn't utter a sound."
Such were the dying moments of Serb publisher Slavko Curuvija, who
fell in a spray of automatic-weapons fire as he and Prpa walked
toward their Belgrade apartment on April 11, 1999.
The killing of Curuvija amid NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia
was among more than a ...