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Danas Archive: Editions from August 24 to 30
Two full decades have passed since the violent death of Ivan Stambolic, and the Danas newspaper was for some time one of the few written media in the country whose pages were able to report on the disappearance of the president of the Serbian Presidency during the “great” Yugoslavia, on August 25, 2000.
And how is the search for the former political mentor of Slobodan Milosevic going, after the disagreement in the opinions of one of the greatest opponents of his successor’s regime in many party and state positions.
“According to his family members, Stambolic went for a run at the Kosutnjak resort in Belgrade on Friday morning and did not return or report home.” Stambolic’s wife, Kaca, said that she believed that there were no political motives behind her husband’s disappearance and that her husband did not intend to go into politics… ”. She pointed out that her husband led a “normal life” like any ordinary citizen and that no one threatened him … “.
However, not everyone interpreted this unpleasant event in broad daylight, because Stambolic was none other than someone whose “electricity” lost the battle to the Milosevic option at the famous Eighth Session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia. in 1987, and 13 years later it was mentioned as possible. the leader of the united opposition and a potential DOS candidate in the presidential election.
“Stambolic’s lawyer, Nikola Barovic, assessed that the fact that even after two days no state media reported on the disappearance of the former president of the Serbian Presidency, in itself indicates the political background of this act,” Barovic said according to our newspaper. police conducted an investigation on Saturday morning, because (due to darkness) they were unable to on the day of Stambolic’s fatal run.
The same text also transmitted the findings of the Beta agency about the white truck, that is. the presence of such a vehicle and strangers in it near the family home of a lawyer in the vicinity of Ivanjica, days before the disappearance of a man with several “strong” commitments in the then economic and banking system. As well as the testimony of the guards of the “Golf Club” about the passing of the same white truck next to the parking lot where Stambolic was resting before all trace of him was lost.
Yesterday, Danas editor-in-chief Grujica Spasović asked on behalf of Stambolić’s family, the Kingdom of Norway’s charge d’affaires, Ambassador Svera Berg Johansen in Belgrade, to help find the former president of the Serbian presidency Ivan Stambolić through his government, “calls for a swift and comprehensive investigation into the disappearance of -isnjak joined our newspaper, whose journalist also noted that Police General Branko Đurić promised the family the telephone transmission of the available information and then gave him the wrong number.
However, the remains of a staunch critic of Milosevic’s order (he called it Bolshevism and National Socialism) were only found on March 28 and buried on April 8, 2003, with all state honors. The subsequent investigation established that the kidnapping, murder with a firearm, burning of the body and burial in Fruška gora, on August 25. In 2000, members of the Special Operations Unit of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior committed crimes and the murderers, led by Milorad Ulemek Legija, were sentenced to several years in prison for them.
He said: “Milosevic replaced me, and after the shift I experienced a tragedy, my daughter died in a car accident in Budva. The story for the public is that she died, but I know she was killed. I cannot be politically active again out of fear. for something to happen to Katarina (wife), Veljko and Tijana (children) ‘”, Ljubomir Mihajlović revealed parts of his conversation with Stambolic the night before one of the politically motivated killings during his rule. Milosevic.
The former director of Komercijalna Banka also claims that his friend did not plan to be on the electoral line for his former protégé.
“The decision was to be announced the next day to Latinka (Perović) and other opposition politicians, however, he was kidnapped and killed in the morning.”
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