Word: zeljko
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...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 Belgrade reporter...
...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...
...people start to ask "Who shot Zeljko Raznatovic?" the answers aren't so much who wanted him dead as who didn't. The paramilitary leader known as Arkan, gunned down along with two others Saturday in the lobby of the Belgrade Intercontinental hotel, had a long and 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...