BELGRADE: "RED BERETS" ARE BEING DISBANDED BELGRADE, March 25 (Hina) - The Serbian government on Tuesday decided to disband a Unit for Special Operations, known as the Red Berets, after this unit's assistant commander, Zvezdan
Jovanovic, was arrested yesterday under suspicion that he had directly taken part in the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic on March 12.
BELGRADE, March 25 (Hina) - The Serbian government on Tuesday
decided to disband a Unit for Special Operations, known as the Red
Berets, after this unit's assistant commander, Zvezdan Jovanovic,
was arrested yesterday under suspicion that he had directly taken
part in the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic
on March 12. #L#
"The government ordered members of the unit to turn in their
weapons, equipment, uniforms and official identification
documents," the government was quoted by the national television as
saying.
The base of the Red Berets, established by Slobodan Milosevic in
1991, is in Kula, some 120 km north-west of Belgrade.
Serbian Premier Zoran Zivkovic said earlier in the day that police
had arrested Zvezdan Jovanovic, aka Zveki.
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