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Assassinations in former Yugoslavia
BELGRADE, Serbia (Reuters) -- Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was assassinated on Wednesday, gunned down outside the main government building in Belgrade. Following are details of some other recent high-profile killings in the former Yugoslavia: January 15, 2000 -- Zeljko "Arkan" Raznatovic, feared Serbian warlord indicted by U.N. court for war crimes during the 1991-95 Croatian and Bosnian wars, was shot dead in a Belgrade hotel. February 7, 2000 -- Yugoslav Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic was shot dead by an unidentified attacker in a Belgrade restaurant. April 25, 2000 -- Zika Petrovic, director of Yugoslav airlines, JAT, was shot dead outside his Belgrade home. May 13, 2000 -- Bosko Perosevic, head of the provincial government of Yugoslavia's Vojvodina province, was shot and killed in Novi Sad. May 31, 2000 -- Goran Zugic, security adviser to Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic and one of his closest allies, was shot dead by an unknown gunman near his apartment in Podgorica. June 10, 2002 -- Serbian Interior Ministry official and former Belgrade police chief Bosko Buha was shot dead by an unknown gunman as he left a Belgrade restaurant. November 27, 2002 -- Nenad Batocanin, a high-ranking officer of the Federal Interior Ministry, was killed in a hail of bullets in central Belgrade. March 12, 2003 -- Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was gunned down outside the main government building in Belgrade. Copyright 2003 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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