Galip Balkar

Two Armenian gunmen opened fire with small firearms[1] at the ambassador's car, which stopped for a red light at a major downtown intersection in Belgrade.

Another shot aimed at Brajević had ricocheted off a wall and slightly wounded an office worker, Zorica Solotić.

[citation needed] They had arrived in Yugoslavia from Beirut on 6–7 March and both held Lebanese passports.

[1] Callers to other news outlets in Paris and Beirut also said the Justice Commandos had carried out the assault.

The messages said the shooting was intended to draw the world's attention to what the group called "the national problem of the Armenian people.

Galip Balkar's grave at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Memorial Cemetery, in Ankara