Fearing repression or even murder, most have shied away from criticizing the Milosevic Government too strongly.

Otherwise, he said, the Milosevic Government will retain "unfair advantage."

Yet the Milosevic Government has refused to level with the Serbian people about the size of the refugee problem.

These days striking directly at the Milosevic Government is very much on his mind.

She has also been reluctant to send investigators into Kosovo without the permission of the Milosevic Government.

While Arkan is protected at the moment by the Milosevic Government, that could change.

But the Milosevic Government has never received an outright promise that the sanctions, imposed in 1992, would end if certain conditions were met.

His death, however, marked a turning point in the growing confrontation between the Milosevic Government and the emboldened opposition.

Ultimately, it could be the Yugoslav military that puts decisive pressure on the Milosevic Government to change its course.

The ban on visas for those people was put in place last year as part sanctions to punish the Milosevic Government.