Journalist denies she denounced Curuvija to Milosevic

The attack was in this way extended to publisher and journalist Slavko Curuvija, 20 years after his murder, and several days after a verdict was passed, sentencing those who carried the crime out to a total of a hundred years in prison, the commission said.

Prpa was Curuvija's civil partner who was with him at the time of the murder, in April 1999, and who was injured when the killer struck her on the head with a pistol.
The commission recalled in a statement published on Monday that Prpa has been belittling its work ever since this body was founded (by the Serbian government), and has been dismissing any possibility that the commission would contribute to the killers being brought to justice.
"The commission is wondering why Ms. Prpa is so outrageous with the ruling against (former) state security officials and what could have made her, with a delay of 20 years, start personally accusing Ljiljana Smajlovic," the statement said.
At the time of the murder, Smajlovic was the editor-in-chief of the Evropljanin magazine, published by Curuvija.
The Commission recalled that both its president, Veran Matic, and Ljiljana Smajlovic have for many months been exposed to attacks by people who opened the media crackdown on Slavko Curuvija in the Politika Ekspres in 1999 - because they are fighting to end impunity for crimes committed against journalists. Prpa's action has been no less brutal and unscrupulous than that taken by Goran Kozic and Djordje Martic, the Commission said.
Ljiljana Smajlovic also reacted, to say that she was astonished by the brutality of Prpa's attack on her personal integrity.
"But I am equally horrified by the fact that she is falsifying Slavko Curuvija as we who worked with him in Evropljanin knew him,"...