12 Convicted in Assassination of Serbian Prime Minister
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Slobodan Milosevic’s paramilitary commander and 11 other people were convicted Wednesday of assassinating Serbia’s first democratically elected prime minister, Zoran Djindjic.
The Special Court in Belgrade said Milorad Ulemek – former head of the elite Red Berets paramilitary unit set up by former President Milosevic during the wars in Bosnia and Croatia in the 1990s – organized the March 12, 2003, killing in front of Serbian government headquarters. Judges sentenced him to 40 years in jail.
Zvezdan Jovanovic, convicted of pulling the trigger in the sniper attack, also received the maximum sentence envisaged by the Serbian law. Judges were to announce the sentences for the other defendants later Wednesday.
