Twenty years after the murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija the trial of three of the accused nears its end
by Renata Rat
It was Easter Sunday April 11th, 1999. The NATO bombs started falling on Serbia a month ago. Slavko Ćuruvija and his partner return home from Easter lunch. In front of their home two masked men approach Ćuruvija and shoot him dead.
Slavko Curuvija. Photo: Wikipedia commons
Fifteen years later, in 2014, the Serbian prosecutor’s office indentified four suspects. All of them had ties to the security services of the former Republic of Yugoslavia under President Slobodan Milošević. Two were arrested, a third was already in prison for another crime and the fourth was on the run.
Slavko Ćuruvija was a harsh critic…
