Portal:Current events/2003 March 12
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March 12, 2003 (Wednesday)
- Zoran Ðindic, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated.
- Vicente Fox, president of Mexico, undergoes emergency back surgery for a herniated disc.
- An Indonesian court convicts Brig.-Gen. Noer Moeis of crimes against humanity and sentences him to five years in prison for failing to prevent massacres in East Timor.[1]
- The European Court of Human Rights rules that the Turkish trial of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan was not fair.
- The World Health Organization issued a rare Global Alert about a mysterious severe respiratory disease spreading in several countries.
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