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<A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:515124">Assassination spreads fear in
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Subject: Assassination spreads fear in Belgrade
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Xjr3000)
Date: Fri, Apr 16, 1999 3:40 AM
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Just last week, a Yugoslav journalist called Slavko Curuvija to ask if he'd
been having any problems since the start of the NATO bombing. "I'm just
waiting," Curuvija answered. Five months earlier, Curuvija, the editor of
Dnevni Telegraf, or Daily Telegraph, had been sentenced to five months in
prison. He'd been convicted under Yugoslavia's draconian Information Law over
an article he'd published concerning a scandal involving the Yugoslav United
Front, an organization associated with Mijiana Markovic, wife of the Yugoslav
president Slobodan Milosevic. He had yet to begin serving his sentence.
But instead of a prison cell, Curuvija received several bullets in the back
-- gunned down in front of his house Sunday evening by masked youths. His
companion, the historian Branka Prpa, was beaten. The assailants left 17 empty
bullet casings on the street and a widespread climate of fear throughout
Belgrade.
"The killing of Curuvija is a message for people in the inner circle who
might plot against Milosevic," said one Belgrade human rights activist. "Now
they are all trembling."
Curuvija's death may be considered the first political assassination of the
war in Serbia proper (excluding Kosovo). It may well presage a crackdown on
any
opposition to the regime -- whether among opposition politicians, human-rights
activists and the independent media or any potential plotters amid the ruling
circle itself. It continues the campaign against the press which has been
under
way since last fall when the Belgrade regime imposed its Information Law.
Curuvija himself had been one of its first victims. In the days preceding the
October agreement on Kosovo between Milosevic and U.S. envoy Richard
Holbrooke,
Curuvija published a scathing attack on the regime's ten years in
power in his monthly magazine European. "Serbia," he wrote, "is dead already."
He was fined $240,000.
-Anthony Borden, _Global Beat_ news, April 14, 1999
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