Assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic

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Assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic
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Sources

• Conservative New York Post
• Moderate Washington Post
• Liberal Mother Jones
• International New Zealand Herald

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Summary

• Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was
  assassinated on March 12, 2003
• Killers are part of an organized crime
• Djindjic was a key figure in the downfall of
  former President Slobodan Milosevic.
• Djindjic also delivered Milosevic to the UN
  tribunal in Hague, Netherlands where he is in
  trial now for his war crimes

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Summary (contd)

• Djindjic wanted to get rid of organized crime and
  corruption
• But it earned him a lot of enemies in the
  underworld
• Warlords and organized crime flourished during
  Milosevics regime.
• It seems bad guys have now joined forces to bring
  down Djindjic and to bring the country back to a
  crime shelter it once was

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The Articles

• The New York Post describes the funeral as having
  a lot of mourners with a band playing in the
  background.
• It describes the scene as very sad because the
  crowd is in tears
• The article does not explain much about the
  killers or who the suspected killers
• New York Post calls it organized crime and not
  mafia as the Washington Post calls it

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• Washington Post  portrays Djindjic as a very
  respectable man, as somebody who deserves respect
• Both Washington Post and New York Post quoted
  that colleagues of the slain leader compared him
  to John F. Kennedy
• Washington Post says that Djindjic symbolized
  hopes for a new generation
• The article from Mother Jones seems to be looking
  for an explanation why the assassination happened

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• The article from Mother Jones also mentioned that
  this event is a caution for those who plan to
  rebuild a nation, like the US trying  to rebuild
  Afghanistan and Iraq after the war

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• It says that
• nation-building is a dangerous, lengthy
  and uncertain business. That is something the
  Bush administration needs to remember as it
  prepares for the possibility of war and
  nation-building elsewhere, in another country
  presided over by a power-mad dictator.

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• The Mother Jones article also says that US is
  partly to blame because of its lack of interest
  in the Balkans
• The New Zealand Herald views the event as a
  shocking one
• The article quoted several civilians who are
  afraid that the country will go back to the way
  it was  
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