Thousands of Serbians marched Saturday in Belgrade in honor of Prime Minister, Zoran Dindic, who was murdered on March 12, 2003.

20 000 people took part in the ceremony, organized by the Liberal-Democratic party. They walked through downtown Belgrade and stopped to lay flowers in the courtyard of the government building where the PM was assassinated.

Party leader, Cedomir Jovanovic, said that Dindic's strive to modernize Serbia is the duty of all citizens, of the State, and of future generations.

Zoran Dindic was Serbian Prime Minister from 2001 until his assassination in 2003. He was the Mayor of Belgrade in 1997, and long-time opposition politician and a doctor in philosophy.

Dindic was a founder of the modern Democratic Party and became its president in 1994.During the 1990s, he was one of the leaders of the opposition to the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, and became Prime Minister of Serbia after the latter's overthrow. At the post, he advocated pro-democratic reforms and European integration of Serbia. He was assassinated by members of the Serbian organized crime

Dindic had constant disagreements with his ex-coalition partner and then-Yugoslav President, Vojislav Kostunica, who was his biggest political rival. Despite Kostunica's accusations of Dindic being close to organized crime, the latter always insisted that he was determined to clean Serbia, and created the "Special Tribunal" with a witness protection program.

In 2007, twelve men were convicted for the assassination of Dindic. The former commander of Special Operations Unit of Yugoslavia's secret police, Milorad "Legija" Ulemek, mastermind of the murder, and the physical assassin, Ulemek's soldier Zvezdan Jovanovic were among the convicted defendants.

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