Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Montenegro

Suspect In Djindjic Assassination Surrenders

3 May 2001 -- Serbian police say the suspected mastermind of last year's assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has surrendered to authorities in Belgrade.

TEXT SIZE - +

May 03, 2004

Serbian public-security chief Miroslav Milosevic said at a news conference in Belgrade last night that "tonight, around 21:00 local time, Milorad Lukovic [aka] Legija, accused of the assassination of Zoran Djindjic, has surrendered himself to members of the Serbian police." Milosevic added that "Lukovic is now in custody and further investigations are taking place."

Interior Minister Dragan Jocic said Lukovic gave himself up outside his home in Belgrade.

Lukovic had been on the run from authorities since Djindjic, a pro-Western reformist, was gunned down by a sniper outside government offices in Belgrade on 12 March 2003.

Lukovic has been on trial in absentia since December, along with other paramilitary and gang figures suspected of involvement in the assassination.

Lukovic, said to be in his late 30s, served in the French Foreign Legion and later led a Serbian paramilitary unit in the wars of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He also led an elite Serbian police unit and is suspected of having led a criminal gang called the "Zemun clan."

(Reuters/AP/AFP/dpa)

'Outsider' Jolie Puts Bosnia's War Story On World Stage

Angelina Jolie's new film about the Bosnian war, "In the Land of Blood and Honey" was screened in Sarajevo on February 14 before thousands of local residents and war survivors. Afterward, Jolie said she was "terrified" while making the film because the war was such a "painful" time in Bosnia's history. More

"The main impression...after being 15 minutes in her presence is that she is not frightened," a colleague says of Natasa Kandic (above).

The Truth-Teller: Natasa Kandic, Urging Serbs To Face The Past

More than a decade has passed since the end of the Balkan wars, where international observers say ethnic Serb fighters were responsible for the bulk of atrocities in the region, particularly Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. But despite the handover of major war-crimes suspects like Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, Belgrade remains reluctant to face the sins of the past. Lawyer Natasa Kandic has built an unpopular and often dangerous career out of pushing her country to face the truth about its history. More

Zoran Laketa lost his father and brother in the war

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, One Family, Three Armies, And A Lost Generation

Zoran Laketa knows what it's like to fire a gun and wonder if the soldier on the other side of the front line just might be his brother. Or his father. More