410:". Visibly flustered, Mira reportedly responded: "How can you say that Slavko, after all we've allowed you". Slavko's later comment was also published in the book: "Evidently she thought she'd done me a great favour by allowing me to live a normal life and publish newspapers all those years". The meeting, their last ever, ended with Ćuruvija saying: "Say hello to your husband for me." To which visibly shaken up Mira responded: "I will not do that, but I will tell him everything you said." People who happened to be in the building said Mira Marković was crying after the meeting.
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who was with him at the time of his murder attaches less significance to this friendship saying that it "revolved around conversations that many other journalists engaged in with Mira
Marković hoping to manipulate her into revealing more than she'd originally planned". Prpa went on to add: "However,
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commemorating 7 years since the unsolved murder of Ćuruvija, his wife Branka Prpa recounted few more details of the Ćuruvija-Marković exchange: "He was shouting 'What are you doing this for? You're going to cause a widespread war!' Mira then told him 'Oh, so you want them to bomb us.' He responded
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was banned as the new
Information Law was being prepared. The meeting, reportedly quickly turned into a heated exchange. Branka Prpa, Ćuruvija's common-law wife, and Ljiljana Smajlović, co-worker, said that one of the things that got him in trouble with the Milošević regime was the article about
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that year), Ćuruvija was shot dead by two masked men in front of his house in
Belgrade. The Serbian government began a review on 24 January 2013 of several suspicious cases involving the alleged murders of journalists, including Ćuruvija, Milan Pantić, and
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The former
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In 2021, four former intelligence officers were convicted of Ćuruvija's murder and sentenced to long prison terms. However, the verdicts were reversed on appeal in 2024, which led to the acquittal of the four.
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weekly magazine, as well as to the Social
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Serbian police were in various stages of a crackdown on ethnic Albanians in
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a ban on 14 October 1998 under a special new decree. Furious with these new developments, Ćuruvija demanded to see Mira
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