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. #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. (hina) lml sb