Word: djindjic
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...would be better off with the new powers than prey to hired hit teams on the streets of Belgrade. He remains the only ex-official to have been charged but not yet jailed. There are other canaries that may be ready to sing. Last week, Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic said that Rade Markovic, former chief of the security services arrested in February, was cooperating with investigators...
...couple of days at the start of last weekend, it looked as if even jail might be out of the question. The quandary of whether to arrest Milosevic, 59, had been haunting the new Serbian government of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and President Vojislav Kostunica. Their arrival in power last fall, spurred by a popular revolt against Milosevic's final attempt to steal a presidential election, was not a complete clean slate. Both men are reluctant to send Milosevic and other indicted war criminals to the Hague. Both men too had troubling records of their own. Kostunica, hailed...
...after World War II, the postwar transition in Serbia has taken place gradually. There was no purge of officials associated with the war effort, only of those linked directly to Milosevic. In fact, the new government has shown few pangs of conscience about Serbia's wartime past. Prime Minister Djindjic recently appointed to the critical post of chief of public security Sreten Lukic, the man who presided over Serbian police during massacres in Kosovo prior to the NATO bombing. Now Lukic, among his new responsibilities, is obliged to arrest and extradite two relatives, Milan and Sredoje Lukic, wanted...
...Djindjic has publicly declared that he will not send anyone to be tried for war crimes in the Hague simply because they commanded units that did the dirty work in the Balkan wars, an apparent reference to Simatovic. That reflects a deeper ambivalence among ordinary Serbs about wartime officials. While the vast majority of Serbs (80% in a recent poll) agree that Milosevic should be jailed, most still want him tried at home for crimes against the Serbian people. Less prominent figures, meanwhile, especially those whose alleged crimes were committed elsewhere, are attracting little attention...
...losing Western aid. At the same time, the perils of even local prosecution are becoming clear. Not long ago, gunmen fired (unsuccessfully) at the vehicle carrying the new Interior Minister; earlier, the driver of the new head of state security was shot as he waited for his boss outside Djindjic's office...