CROATIA/BOSNIA: WARLORD ARKAN - PROFILE

English/Nat The Serbian paramilitary leader Zeljko Raznatovic, also known as Arkan, has been shot dead in a gun battle at Belgrade’s Inter-Continental Hotel. It’s believed he was shot in the eye during an exchange of fire that left another man dead. Police have now blocked the entrance to the hotel. Arkan - who’s real name is Zeljko Raznatovic - led a Serb paramilitary group during the Bosnian and Croatian wars. His private army, the Serb Volunteer Guard, also called “Tigers,“ was the most notorious paramilitary group operating during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Arkan was indicted for war crimes by the International Court of Justice in the Hague in 1997, but the indictment was kept under wraps until the NATO air campaign in the Balkans began in March. The tribunal made public his indictment in an apparent attempt to dissuade him from joining the Serb crackdown in Kosovo. It’s alleged that he instigated a series of atrocities between 1992 and 1995. Arkan is accused of being