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...officials have blamed Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic for the upsurge in violence around the town, but while Belgrade has certainly armed and organized the remaining Serbs in northern Kosovo, the recent outbreak of violence began with a rocket attack on a bus carrying Serb civilians that most observers saw as a continuation of efforts by elements of the supposedly disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army to drive out the territory's remaining Serbs. "Laying all the blame on Milosevic is too easy," says Anastasijevic. "He's certainly involved in arming and organizing the Serbs, but saying Milosevic is the source...
...Tuesday, February 8, Pavle Bulatovic, defense minister in the government of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, was having a quiet dinner with friends in his favorite restaurant when an unknown assailant sprayed him with bullets from an AK-47 assault rifle. The killer fired from the dark garden behind the restaurant. Minutes later, when the police arrived, the only traces were empty shell casings on the ground. On the wall above Bulatovic's blood-smeared table hung a photograph of a benevolently smiling Milosevic...
...Slobodan Milosevic ought to be a little nervous. The assassination of his defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, on Monday is the second murder of a high-profile political figure in Serbia in the past month - and may be sign that power struggles inside Milosevic's regime are spinning out of control. When Zeljko Raznatovic, the Serbian paramilitary leader better known as the indicted war criminal Arkan, was gunned down in January, there had been some speculation that Milosevic may have wanted him dead. "But this time we can be more certain that Milosevic would not have approved the killing," says TIME...
DIED. ZELJKO RAZNATOVIC, 47, notorious Serbian paramilitary leader popularly known as Arkan, after being shot in the head by unknown gunmen; in Belgrade. He and his followers, the Tigers, had been accused of ethnic cleansing during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia. A close ally of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Arkan was indicted by the U.N. war-crimes tribunal...
...brutal criminal history that included time as the leader of the infamous Tiger militia that terrorized civilians in Bosnia and Croatia. So the questions begin: Was the attack some bit of gangland retribution from one of Arkan's many shady associates? Or was the hit ordered by someone in Slobodan Milosevic's government who didn't want Arkan testifying before the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal...