News on Albanian minority relations in the Former Yugoslav Rep. Macedonia

[masolord]

Kosovo gunman found dead in Macedonia - Pravda.Ru

Police found a fugitive gunman who broke out of a Kosovo jail two months ago. He was discovered shot dead in Macedonia on Thursday.


Xhavid Morina, 44, was found dead on a road outside Tetovo, near Macedonia's border with Kosovo.

Morina was one of seven inmates - convicted of terrorism, murder and theft - who broke out of the maximum security Dubrava prison in August after being helped by gunmen on the outside.

"Police were informed that a body was found near the village Odri (near Tetovo) with multiple wounds from automatic gunfire," police spokesman Ivo Kotevski told The Associated Press.

"Forensic experts identified the man as Xhavid Morina, who had been wanted on an international warrant following his escape from a Kosovo prison in August."

Kotevski said police believed Morina was killed in a shootout between rival criminal gangs operating in the area.

[masolord]

he got owned!!!

[Draco]

Originally Posted by masolord

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No offence Skoplord, but I found this more interesting than anything else in your post.

[masolord]

Originally Posted by Draco

No offence Skoplord, but I found this more interesting than anything else in your post.

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[masolord]

Macedonia concerned at rising Albanian tensions | Reuters


SKOPJE, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Macedonia cautioned on Wednesday against the politicisation of "criminal" elements in the country, amid growing signs of tension between the authorities and the ethnic Albanian minority.

The killing of a policeman this month and a row over the use of the Albanian flag have fuelled fears of political instability in Macedonia, just as the West tries to resolve the fate of 2 million independence-seeking Albanians in neighbouring Kosovo.

Macedonia's highest security body, the National Security Council, blamed recent security incidents on "criminal groups and individuals" acting without a political agenda.

But it called for vigilance "so that these criminals and small groups are not politically exploited in the future".

A Council statement noted "challenges in the context of regional events" -- a reference to talks on the fate of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province, due to climax at the turn of the year.

NATO allies with 16,000 troops in Kosovo fear any unrest over the Albanian majority's demand for independence would quickly spread to Macedonia, where guerrillas fought a 2001 insurgency for greater rights for the 25 percent Albanian minority.

President Branko Crvenkovski said criminal groups were operating in areas "which in 2001 we called crisis regions."

"We should not underestimate the risk that over the coming period, somebody might try to exploit them in a political sense," he told reporters after the Council meeting.

Serb ally Russia has blocked United Nations adoption of a Western-backed plan to grant Kosovo independence eight years after NATO drove out Serb forces to stop them killing Albanians in a war with rebels.

U.S., Russian and European Union envoys are mediating fresh talks with a deadline of Dec. 10 to report back to the United Nations. Chances of a deal are slim, and Kosovo Albanian leaders say they will declare independence after the talks end.

Analysts warn that a Serb backlash could provoke a cycle of violence affecting Macedonia and Serbia's Presevo Valley, where Albanians also fought an insurgency in 2000.

The Albanian former guerrillas in Macedonia spent four years in government until 2006, but are angry at being left out of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's current ruling coalition, which includes a rival ethnic Albanian party.

A row in the Constitutional Court over implementation of a clause in the 2001 peace accord regarding when and where Albanians can fly the Albanian flag led to the resignation this week of the court's ethnic Albanian president.

An EU source told Reuters that the European Commission, in a report next week, would not recommend opening EU membership talks with Macedonia because of political problems in the former Yugoslav republic, dashing government hopes.



Should we be concerned??i dont think so since we got plenty of connection,just one call,one call and all the problems will be gone

[gmellos]

DUde your an Idiot!!!! Face it unless your nation start focusing on it real problem Albanians wanting to break off and create a greater albania your nation is lost!!!!! But your nation deserves that for trying to steal the indentity of another nation!!! Remember people who steal are robbed as well!!!

[Mygdonia]

It Seems Fate Always Has A Sense Of Irony...this Is Sweet Justice

[edessa]

lol...kala na pathoun is all i can say
the funniest thing that will happen is if a mutual solution to the name is found, only for the albanians to completely gamisei their country and for them to cease as a country altogether

[preston]

Originally Posted by edessa

lol...kala na pathoun is all i can say
the funniest thing that will happen is if a mutual solution to the name is found, only for the albanians to completely gamisei their country and for them to cease as a country altogether

looove your vocubulary!
By the way can someone tell me what name the Albanians of FYROM would like to give to their country?

[slavicwolf]

they will call it greater albania together with kosovo and guess what will happen if they take kosovo and western macedonia? you guys will be next, lets face it we have our differences and dislikes between greeks and slavs but i bet my life savings that youd rather have us as neighbours and controling the teritory than the shiptars.
think about it