SKOPJE, Nov 12 (Hina) - Three policemen were killed in a shelling Albanian guerrillas launched near Semsovo, a village in the Tetovo area, late on Sunday evening, the Macedonian Interior Ministry said on Monday. In the predominantly
Albanian Tetovo area, where around 150 members of the officially disbanded Liberation People's Army (ONA) and the Kosovo People's Corps are located, armed ethnic Albanians have abducted more than 20 Macedonian civilians, the ministry said. These events have spurred Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski to convene a National Security Council session. In the village of Neprosteno on Sunday afternoon, the Macedonian police arrested seven Albanians suspected of causing the death of several people by using explosive and of ethnic cleansing in the Tetovo area. This was the first such action by the state police following the signing of a peace agreement in Ohrid in
SKOPJE, Nov 12 (Hina) - Three policemen were killed in a shelling
Albanian guerrillas launched near Semsovo, a village in the Tetovo
area, late on Sunday evening, the Macedonian Interior Ministry said
on Monday.
In the predominantly Albanian Tetovo area, where around 150 members
of the officially disbanded Liberation People's Army (ONA) and the
Kosovo People's Corps are located, armed ethnic Albanians have
abducted more than 20 Macedonian civilians, the ministry said.
These events have spurred Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski to
convene a National Security Council session.
In the village of Neprosteno on Sunday afternoon, the Macedonian
police arrested seven Albanians suspected of causing the death of
several people by using explosive and of ethnic cleansing in the
Tetovo area.
This was the first such action by the state police following the
signing of a peace agreement in Ohrid in August.
The arrests were carried out despite pressure from the
international community to grant amnesty to all ONA members who did
not commit crimes falling under the jurisdiction of the United
Nations war crimes tribunal.
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