His repression against independent media and political opponents, especially students from the Otpor organization, is another sign that his government is worried about the rising success and political power of thousands of dissatisfied students.
Police in Serbia raided the offices in the capital, Belgrade, of the movement Otpor (Resistance), which has been leading opposition to President Slobodan Milosevic in the run-up to elections at the end of this month.
The loosely structured movement known as Otpor, or Resistance, is made up of young people, many of them students, who seem desperate enough to risk their skulls to fight a regime that is blocking their future.