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Serb War Crimes Suspect Shoots Himself Thu Apr 11, 2:05 PM ET BELGRADE (Reuters) - Former Serbian interior minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic, wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal, shot himself in the head outside the Yugoslav parliament on Thursday, a federal minister said. "I was informed that Stojiljkovic came to the parliament's main entrance, talked to one of the (Socialist Party) deputies for a while, pulled out his gun and shot himself in his head," Yugoslav Interior Minister Zoran Zivkovic told Reuters. A Serbian police source told Reuters the former minister, in his mid-60s, was "still showing some signs of life." Stojiljkovic, interior minister under ousted Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, shot himself hours after parliament approved a law clearing the way for the handover of war crimes suspects to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. He was one of three Milosevic-era senior officials widely seen as prime candidates for extradition after the law was passed. A Reuters reporter who arrived later at the parliament building in downtown Belgrade said police had sealed off the stairs leading up to the main entrance with plastic tape. Television crews and some ordinary people had started gathering by the building. Stojiljkovic, born in 1937, was interior minister from April 1997 until October 2000. His ministry was in charge of the police units widely accused of committing atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. He has kept a generally low profile since leaving office but remains a member of the federal parliament. He has defended himself as a "man of honor." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
