Fifteen years taken by Serbia's prime minister's assassination

Today, the 15th anniversary of the assassination of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is marked in Belgrade.

He has been the first Serbian prime minister elected after the collapse of Slobodan Milosevic's regime in 2000.

Djindjic's government has co-operated with The Hague War Crimes Tribunal and has arrested and extradited some accused to this court.

Djindjic was killed on March 12th 2003 by a sniper near the Government building in downtown Belgrade.

The mastermind of the assassination, Milorad Ulemek Llegija, and sniper Zvezdan Jovanovic have been sentenced to 40 years in prison.