They say if he does not announce new elections will be held in April, they will launch another round of protests in the spring. Indicted for a 1991 massacre of 250 men in Croatia and for other incidents in Bosnia in 1997, Arkan was a longtime Milosevic ally and reportedly one of the richest men in Serbia. Days later, a U.S. Army investigation accuses several soldiers of using excessive force on Kosovar men and of having improper sexual contact with local women. In the latest in a series of attacks along the Kosovo-Serbia border, a Serbian police checkpoint is hit with mortar fire, injuring no one. A day before, one man was killed and another was injured in another attack.
Serbian authorities blame the attacks on Albanian gangs from Kosovo.