REGULAR POLICEMAN TALK TO THE MEMBERS OF THE DISBANDED POLICE UNIT LIONS, 2003-01-22 (photo)

A regular policeman talk to the members of the disbanded Macedonian special police unit "Lions", who have kept their weapons, as they man a blockade on the main road connecting Macedonia to Kosovo January 22, 2003. Armed with weapons such as machine guns and rocket launchers, the angry reservists of the controversial Macedonian security unit, stopped traffic on Wednesday on the road linking the capital Skopje with the Yugoslav province of Kosovo to the north, in protest at what they said were plans to dissolve it. The Lions were set up to fight ethnic Albanian guerrillas during an insurgency in 2001. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski OT/AA