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...regime still operating in Serbia's security forces. Code-named Operation Sabre, the investigation into Djindjic's murder has produced truck loads of evidence for the special prosecutor's office. The conspirators, police say, were led by two men: Milorad (Legija) Lukovic, still at large, and Dusan Spasojevic, who was killed resisting arrest. Both men served with the Red Berets, which has been linked to war crimes and now to dozens of political murders under the Milosevic regime. So far, 45 conspirators have been charged in the assassination. The sweep has turned up new evidence against Milosevic and his wife...
...Those roots run deep. According to police charges made public last week, the conspirators were led by two men: Milorad "Legija" Lukovic, who is still at large, possibly overseas, and Dusan Spasojevic, who was killed resisting arrest. Both men served with the Red Berets, a special unit of Serbian state security linked to war crimes and, now, to dozens of political murders under the Milosevic regime. Legija was "a killer paid by the state," according to Kandic, and had been running a drug trafficking and extortion ring out of the tiny Belgrade suburb of Zemun. The group had infiltrated...
...Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Ilya Garger/Hong Kong Avenging Djindjic SERBIA Police rounded up - or killed - more suspects in the alleged mob hit of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. His suspected assassin, Zvezdan Jovanovic, was arrested, and two of three alleged masterminds of the Djindjic murder plot, Dusan Spasojevic and Mile Lukovic, died in a gun battle with police. The third, Milorad Lukovic (a.k.a. Legija), the former commander of an élite antiterrorist squad called the JSO, is still on the lam. After questioning members of JSO, officials found the body of Ivan Stambolic, a former Serbian President who disappeared three years...
...HAGUE, Netherlands: The U.N. war crimes court sentenced Dusan Tadic, a Bosnian Serb war criminal convicted of torturing and killing his neighbors, to 20 years in prison today. The sentence is the first imposed by the war crimes court after a full trial since World War II. In delivering the court's decision, Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald said Tadic beat his victims "intentionally and with sadistic brutality," using among other things, knives and iron bars as torture weapons. Goran Neskovic, the deputy justice minister in the Bosnian Serb government, objected that the court demonstrated an anti-Serb bias and that...
...Dusan Makavejev, a visiting lecturer and a well-known international filmmaker who advised Oppenheimer's film thesis, explains that scenes like the baby in the ocean and the more striking image of a baby "burning" in a microwave succeed because Oppenheimer's storytelling is intriguing but not overly "bookish...