Macedonia: the final two days of bloody fighting with terrorists in Kosovo … – Gazeta.pl

37 police officers and SWAT soldiers were wounded during fierce fighting in inhabited by Albanians Cumans district lying near the Macedonian-Kosovo border.

– Some terrorists were wearing uniforms of the disbanded guerrilla Kosovo – Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) – Iwo Kotewski spokesman said. The armed group that attacked a police station in Kumanovo, composed of citizens of Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania, all probably of Albanian origin.

– Zneutralizowaliśmy one of the most dangerous terrorist groups in the Balkans – said Kotewski. He added that during the operation, which took, among others, share armored vehicles, there were no casualties among the civilian population.

Part of the district’s residents Cumans, which at dozens of hours became a bastion of terrorists fled from their homes.

EU calls for thorough investigations

The European Union has expressed on Saturday evening” deep concern “over the situation. – In the interest of overall stability in the country (in Macedonia) to avoid further escalation of violence – said EU Commissioner. Neighbourhood Policy, Johannes Hahn. He called on “the authorities and all EU leaders to work together to restore calm” as well as to conduct a “detailed and objective investigation” on recent events in Macedonia.

The clashes in Kumanovo has been almost three weeks after the as April 21 about forty armed men from Kosovo who claimed to belong to the disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was taken over for a few hours control over police outpost on the border between Kosovo and Macedonian. Kosovar terrorists announced then that the demand for the establishment of the Albanian state in the territory of Macedonia, which was part of the former Yugoslavia.

Macedonia as a candidate for EU

Macedonia, where almost a quarter of the numbering 2.1 million population are Albanians, already experienced in 2001 the Albanian minority rebellion ended after six months of signing the agreement.

In 2005 Macedonia was granted candidate status to the European Union, but accession negotiations to the opposition of Greece, which disputes the name of the country “Macedonia” has not yet begun.

Brussels expressed concern over the political situation in Macedonia, where the leftist opposition demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister Nikolai Grujewskiego into allegations of telephone tapping assumption of 20 000 people, among them a hundred journalists.

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