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hmm first serbian summer without war around, boring? nono, state terrorism eats it's own yesterdays marionets, Serbian controversal opposition leader Vuk Draskovic gains his second bonus to survive assassination in less than year. z ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2000年6月16日 11:10:10 +0200 From: karel dudesek <dudesek@vis-med.ac.at> To: Zvonimir Bakotin <zone@Desk.nl> Subject: pnn Serb opposition leader recovering after assassination attempt June 16, 2000 Web posted at: 4:06 a.m. EDT (0806 GMT) BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Serbian opposition leader Vuk Draskovic was shot and lightly wounded late Thursday at his apartment in Budva, Montenegro, one of his top party officials told CNN. The official said Draskovic was treated and released from a hospital in Kotor, a coastal town in Yugoslavia's smaller, pro-Western republic. The wounds, he said, were not life-threatening. Draskovic was reported to have been struck in the head and one ear. "Just before midnight, a new assassination attempt was made on Vuk Draskovic. Several volleys were fired through the window of his house in Budva," said Milena Popovic, head of the press office of Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement. Draskovic was at his vacation home on the Montenegrin coast. More than one man entered the apartment and started shooting, sources said. Draskovic tried to protect himself behind a table. One source said Draskovic had managed to hide somewhere in the apartment and later escaped. An adviser to Draskovic said the attack appeared to have been carried out with an automatic weapon; the apartment was riddled with bullets. Draskovic reportedly was in his apartment alone at the time of the shooting. His wife later joined him at the hospital. There is no indication of who was responsible for the attack or why it occurred. No one has been accused in connection with it. The charismatic opposition leader, who claims the most support among opposition leaders in Yugoslavia's dominant republic Serbia, has alleged the government tried to kill him last year in a road accident that killed four close aides. Officials from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's government have denied those charges. Draskovic regularly accuses the authorities of "state terror" over last year's car crash, in which he was slightly injured. Officials have denied having anything to do with the incident, in which a truck carrying sand veered into two cars carrying Draskovic and his friends. Police say they have not been able to find the driver or owner of the truck. The shooting on Thursday follows a string of mysterious assassinations of officials and underworld figures in Belgrade. Earlier this month Goran Zugic, the security adviser to Montenegro's pro-Western President Milo Djukanovic was gunned down in front of his home in Podgorica shortly before two key local elections. Milosevic's government blames Western agents it says are intend on destroying, then occupying Serbia. In January Zeljko Raznatovic, known as Arkan and Serbia's most famous warlord, was killed in Belgrade. One month later Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic was shot dead in a restaurant in the Yugoslav capital. The government has cracked down on dissent this year, accusing Draskovic and other opposition leaders of "terrorism." Earlier this month the government took of the television station in Belgrade which Draskovic runs through his party's leadership of the city council. It also took over the public transport service in the city after opposition activists urged Draskovic to use the buses to blockade government buildings. A few days later Draskovic's bodyguards were arrested for carrying guns when they came to get him at the Belgrade airport after a visit to Russia. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net