Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro
Two of ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s top henchmen were convicted this week of killing one of his main political rivals in 2000. Rade Markovic, Milosevic’s secret service chief, got 15 years in prison for ordering the assassination of Ivan Stambolic. Milorad “Legia” Lukovic, a notorious paramilitary commander, got the maximum 40 years for leading the unit that carried it out. The two men were also convicted of the failed assassination attempt on another Milosevic rival, Vuk Draskovic, who is now Serbia’s foreign minister. “This is a legal acknowledgement that Milosevic’s regime participated in political murder,” said Zarko Korac, a Belgrade University professor who was part of the democratic opposition. Milosevic was toppled in a peaceful revolution in late 2000.
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