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Last Despatches: Serbian Journalist Killed to Protect Post-Milosevic ‘Plunder’
Filip Rudic    Belgrade   BIRN
February 11, 2019
In the latest in the Last Despatches series about journalists and media workers killed during and after the break-up of Yugoslavia, BIRN examines the 2001 murder of reporter Milan Pantic, whose killing was allegedly linked to high-level crime.

On the morning of his death, Milan Pantic rose early, popping to the shop and heading home in the central Serbian town of Jagodina before 8am.

It was June 11, 2001, some eight months after popular protests brought down Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic and the change of power unleashed a wave of privatisations plagued by allegations of corruption and cronyism.

As a correspondent for the Belgrade-based daily newspaper Vecernje novosti, Pantic had looked closely at a number of those sell-offs.

Read more at: https://balkaninsight.com/2019/02/11/last-despatches-serbian-journalist-killed-to-protect-post-milosevic-plunder/

The article goes on to say 140 journalists, members of the media, citizen reporters were killed in the Balkans wars.

More: http://last-despatches.balkaninsight.com/

And I keep looking at Syria, thinking it's the most dangerous war I've seen. Maybe it is but these others certainly have had their dangers as well.