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Death of Milosevic's nemesis leaves country without top elected official
BELGRADE Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, a reformer who had helped overthrow Slobodan Milosevic and send him to face an international war crimes tribunal, was assassinated Wednesday outside his office here.
Djindjic, who had many political enemies, was shot in the back and the stomach next to his armored car. The police said he was felled by two rifle shots fired by a sniper who fled. Djindjic, 50, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Quoting officials it did not identify, the Serbian news agency Beta reported that three people had been arrested. Some officials suggested that the killing was the work of gangsters angered by Djindjic’s reform efforts.
Djindjic’s death leaves Serbia with neither a prime minister nor an elected president as it struggles to rebuild from a decade of wars that made the country an international pariah.
Western governments had pinned their hopes on Djindjic to steer his country through reforms, and none of the politicians likely to succeed him enjoys the same international support.
The Serbian government, an unwieldy coalition that relies on Milosevic’s old party for a majority in Parliament, immediately declared a state of emergency and appointed the deputy prime minister, Nebojsa Covic, as Djindjic’s temporary replacement.
Death of Milosevic's nemesis leaves country without top elected official
BELGRADE Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, a reformer who had helped overthrow Slobodan Milosevic and send him to face an international war crimes tribunal, was assassinated Wednesday outside his office here.
Djindjic, who had many political enemies, was shot in the back and the stomach next to his armored car. The police said he was felled by two rifle shots fired by a sniper who fled. Djindjic, 50, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Quoting officials it did not identify, the Serbian news agency Beta reported that three people had been arrested. Some officials suggested that the killing was the work of gangsters angered by Djindjic’s reform efforts.
Djindjic’s death leaves Serbia with neither a prime minister nor an elected president as it struggles to rebuild from a decade of wars that made the country an international pariah.
Western governments had pinned their hopes on Djindjic to steer his country through reforms, and none of the politicians likely to succeed him enjoys the same international support.
The Serbian government, an unwieldy coalition that relies on Milosevic’s old party for a majority in Parliament, immediately declared a state of emergency and appointed the deputy prime minister, Nebojsa Covic, as Djindjic’s temporary replacement.
