Pavle Bulatovic
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, Yugoslavia
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– February 7, 2000, Belgrade
Belgrade
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) was Yugoslavia
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's foreign minister
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from 1994 and later defense minister, was shot dead in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
on the evening of February 7, 2000. The shooting took place at a restaurant in the suburb Banjica
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and Bulatovic later died at a military hospital. Israel
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was suspected to be responsible for assassination. The so-called Makina Grupa(Maka's group) was working for Mossad
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. The main suspects are hiding in Israel. Bulatovic represented the Socialist People's Party of Montenegro
Socialist People's Party of Montenegro
The Socialist People's Party of Montenegro is a socialist opposition political party in Montenegro. It has 16 MPs in the Parliament of Montenegro, which it won on the 2009 parliamentary election...
(SNP), which was then allied in government with the Socialist Party of Serbia
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led by Slobodan Milošević
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.
More recently, Bulatovic's murder has been connected with the Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic.