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Today, the political assassination that rocked Serbia.

We're going back to the 12th of March 2003,

when the country's Prime Minister, Zoran Ginjic, was shot dead outside government headquarters in Belgrade.

Serbia was placed into a state of emergency, so who did it and why?

Gordana Mapkiewicz has been speaking to Matt Pintas about a moment she will never forget.

They say people in America remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when Jonathan Kennedy was assassinated.

I think it's the same in Serbia.

Today, when you ask ordinary people, everyone knows exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news.

I was in the meeting.

The Deputy Minister came to tell me that Zoran Ginjic had been shot in front of the government building.

Gordana was one of the first people to know about the shooting.

She was one of Zoran Ginjic's most important government ministers.

From that point on, everything became surreal.

We quickly learned that he had passed away.

Bundled into the back of a car, the dying Prime Minister is rushed to hospital,

but emergency surgery failed to save him.

The high-powered rifle rounds fired from a distance suggest a well-planned, professional assassination.

We were all immediately given personal security.

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