BALKANS:  Organised Crime Behind the Assassination of Former PM
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BELGRADE, Nov 24 (IPS) - The single inside witness from the organised crime  group accused of killing reform-oriented former prime minister  Zoran Djindjic has finally confirmed the indictment and what was  long believed -- it was the Serbian mafia that committed the  crime.
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BELGRADE, Jun 15 (IPS) - State involvement in organised crime through the  1990s stands exposed following the arrest of 11 persons in a  giant cigarette smuggling operation.
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PrishtinÃ«, 5 September 2004 - (KosovoNews) - An Albanian youth was killed on the island of Zakinthos on Saturday night after being stabbed while young Albanian soccer fans were celebrating their country&#39;s win over Greece in a World Soccer Cup qualifier
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IT was an act of alleged bastardry that evolved into a political masterstroke. It combined the guile - some might say rat cunning - of senator George Brandis and Prime Minister John Howard.
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Kosovo's reformist PM may face war-crimes charges in the Hague
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TIRANA, Jul 4 (IPS) - People across the Balkans have much in common,  forget the conflicts of the recent or distant past, and the  efforts of politicians to convince them how "different"  or "distinctive" they are.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings &#151; along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings &#151; have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.
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THEIR previous leader was assassinated in a bomb blast, scores of their fellow countrymen have been killed this month and yesterday it was confirmed that terrorist explosives were responsible for downing a civilian aircraft last week.
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PARIS, March 5 -- An international war crimes prosecutor said Monday that former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj was a gangster in uniform who committed "cruel and violent crimes" during his guerrilla army's war against Serb forces in 1998-99.
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MOSCOW -- In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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One  night in 2003, on the wintry streets of Kosovo, a group of thugs stalked and beat Gramoz Prestreshi almost to death. Police in the war-scarred Balkan province laughed and called him names. The emergency room workers made him mop up his own blood. It was a sordid but hardly unusual episode in...
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In another incident, two gunmen shot dead a former prosecutor in Pattani province on Sunday, police said. The bird campaign, launched by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra weeks ahead of a general election, caught
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At least 25 people are dead from attacks on police stations, car bombings and an assassination, all on Tuesday. By Dusan Stojanovic.
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Serbian territory has 17 mass graves containing bodies of ethnic Albanians slain during Kosovo's 1998-99 war, a former interior minister said Friday, accusing current authorities of a cover-up. Dusan ...
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The slaying of billionaire businessman and former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, bore the hallmarks of a decade of attacks targeting politicians, militant leaders, Palestinian refugees, religious leaders and foreign residents. These include:
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As Serbia is criticised over fugitive war crimes suspects, BBC's Gabriel Partos examines the impact on the Balkans.
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Slobodan Milosevic's paramilitary commander and 11 other people were convicted Wednesday of assassinating Serbia's first democratically elected prime minister, Zoran Djindjic