The assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić on 12 March 2003 was very traumatic for the whole Serbian society and left a mark on the vector of the further political advancement of the country.
Zoran Đinđić took power as the man of America on the wave of the Orange Revolution that overthrew Slobodan Milošević. Back then, the Serbian opposition that centred in DOS (Democratic Opposition of Serbia with its leader Vuk Drašković) used the financial and advisory help of the USA. The American preparation of Serbian opposition of utter anticommunistic and nationalistic orientation (in exaggerated and schematized form) moved to the up in arms phase of deployment from the USA to the Balkans with the beginning of local wars. [15] Therefore, most of the Serbian opposition was to one degree or another connected with the West intelligence and other structures, and frequently these connections had family multi-decadal character.
Zoran Đinđić came into office as Prime Minister in January 2001 after the Democratic Opposition of Serbia won the parliamentary election in December 2000 and implemented several reforms in a democratic direction. However, after about two years, he became a notable exception from a number of Western puppets only in one issue on which decision still depends the fate of the Balkan region, Europe, and the world because the result of this decision shows whether exists the Yalta-Potsdam system in the international relations or it is the point of no return. That is the Kosovo and Metohija issue.
Đinđić realized where the West political activity leads and what consequences it will have for Serbia. He visited the USA nine months before the attentate and came back disappointed. He said to the inner circle: "I thought they care about a power shift in Serbia, but now I see that they only destroy Serbia - everywhere and at every level." The message was sent in the public speech: "If they take from us Kosovo and Metohija in the name of Albanians ethnical rights and identity ignoring the borders and sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Serbia - we will demand a new Dayton Agreement.