Slavko Ćuruvija

Serbia’s state security agency said two of its former officers should not testify in public at the trial for the 1999 murder of journalist Slavko Curuvija, an opponent of Slobodan Milosevic.

A former Serbian state security officer told the Slavko Curuvija murder trial that the prominent journalists was killed minutes after a security team was told to stop following him.

Historian Branka Prpa on Tuesday told the Special Court in Belgrade that Miroslav Kurak "does not look like the person who shot Slavko Curuvija."

Prpa, Curuvija's common-law wife, was with the publisher and journalist when he was shot and killed in Belgrade in April 1999.

Ratko Romic, one of the former Belgrade security officers on trial for killing opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija in 1999, insisted that he had an alibi for the day of the murder.

Milan Radonjic, one of the former security officers on trial for organising the murder of Serbian opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija in 1999, said he was not in contact with the alleged killer.

Mira Markovic denies involvement in Curuvija's murder

Mirjana Markovic, the widow of former Serbian and Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, says she did not take part in the murder of Slavko Curuvija.

The media earlier this week carried reports, quoting an official police note, accusing Markovic of "giving the order to kill Curuvija."

Mirjana Markovic, the widow of former Serbian and Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, says she did not take part in the murder of Slavko Curuvija.

For three years before he was killed, prominent Serbian journalist Slavko Curuvija was followed by state security officers because of his articles about Kosovo, his murder trial was told.

Mira Markovic, president of JUL, according to operative data organized a meeting at which it was agreed to murder Slavko Curuvija.

The wife of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, an official police note reveals, told Vlastimir Djordjevic, then head of the Department of Public Security of the Serbian MUP, that the owner of Dnevni Telegraf and Evropljanin must be liquidated.

The trial of four former members of the State Security (DB) suspected of the murder of Slavko Curuvija will begin at Belgrade's Special Court on Monday.

The journalist and publisher was gunned down in front of his home in April 1999.