On this day 21 years ago the democratic PM of Serbia, Zoran Đinđić, was assassinated.

by Technical-Key-93

21 comments
  1. Fucking depressing, we were on the right path after Milošević

  2. Funny how the current government claims to be his successor but is doing everything opposite. Djindjic must be rotating in his grave when he sees who the current PM is/was XD

    To be fair, Djindjic was probably the most important politician we’ve had in the last 30 years, but he had some very questionable and bad people around him, many of whom are in the current government.

  3. They murder him but keep Putin alive.

    He was quite a handsome Serb too.

    RIP

  4. What is the public opinion about this guy? The way he was murdered seems incredible. It seems that he either wasn’t protected enough or the assasins had some inside info. 

  5. >As reported by Reuters on 18 March 2003, according to Carla Del Ponte, Đinđić had predicted his own assassination on 17 February just weeks before it happened.

    Despite Koštunica’s accusations of Đinđić being close to organised crime, the latter always insisted that he was determined to clean Serbia, and created the “Special Tribunal” with a witness protection program.This alarmed organized crime leaders who were intertwined with elements of the Serbian secret police which remained loyal to the ousted Milošević.

    >Under orders from Milorad “Legija” Ulemek, the former commander of the Special Operations Unit of Yugoslavia’s secret police, Đinđić was assassinated by Ulemek’s soldier Zvezdan Jovanović in Belgrade on 12 March 2003.

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    >Jovanović shot him from the building across from the main Serbian government building at 12:23 PM, hitting him once in the chest. The high-power bullet of a Heckler & Koch G3 battle rifle penetrated his heart and killed him almost instantly.

    >He was rushed to a hospital where he was treated, but pronounced dead one hour later.

    >Ulemek was blamed as the mastermind of the crime. He was one of the leading persons in the Zemun clan, a leading organized crime group in Serbia.

  6. And with him died the last hope of Serbia ever becoming anything other than a total joke.

  7. He was also an intellectual. I remember he once participated in Who Wants to be a Millionaire, the charity edition. He reached the 14th question, didn’t know the answer and gave up.

  8. Everytime they want to start a war they assassinate a serb…

  9. Thank god, you were on a way to become normal country and than we wouldnt be able to laugh at you. /s

  10. Looking how brainwashed r/europe redditors think that Russia is behind this is so funny. There is more sense that western intelligence had something with this because there is theory that he promised Kosovo for EU, but didn’t want to fulfill it.

    But the truth is probably that he was killed by Serbian mafia and nobody else outside Serbia had anything to do with that.

  11. This guy had the crazy idea to make Serbia a democratic pro western state. That didn’t sit well with anybody, including the west, never mind the Balkan mafia and Russia/China.

  12. He died that day, and I was born. The news didn’t get to us (Romania), but I learned about it in school when talking about my birthday.

    R.I.P

  13. Even from subjective perspective my life went downward from that year. Enormous downfall for whole country from my opinion.

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