[AMCC-News] MOSQUE SET ON FIRE, [Albanian] SHOPS DEMOLISHED IN MACEDONIAN TOWN

[Mentor Cana]

   Picture of the burned Mosque in Prilep;

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RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 150, Part II, 9 August 2001

website: http://www.rferl.org/newsline

MOSQUE SET ON FIRE, SHOPS DEMOLISHED IN MACEDONIAN TOWN.

Following the reports of the killing of the 10 soldiers, Interior Minister
Ljube Buckovski imposed a 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. curfew on Prilep, where
most of the 10 came from, dpa reported on 8 August. Several hundred
Macedonians nonetheless demanded weapons to attack a neighboring Albanian
village "in order to save Macedonia," Deutsche Welle's Bosnian Service
reported. When their request was denied, the crowd set fire to a mosque in
central Prilep and ransacked a number of shops owned by Albanian and other
Muslim Macedonians. Similar riots took place in Bitola earlier this year
after some local men were killed by Albanian fighters (see "RFE/RL
Newsline," 2 May 2001). UB/PM

ALBANIAN SHOPS DESTROYED IN MACEDONIAN CAPITAL.

Several hundred Macedonian citizens who had been forced to leave their
villages some weeks ago staged a peaceful protest in front of the
Macedonian parliament in Skopje on 8 August. The crowd had gathered to
mourn the 10 dead soldiers. As the Skopje daily "Dnevnik" on 9 August
reported, the protesters were later joined by a crowd of young Skopje
citizens, who later destroyed several Albanian-owned shops in the city
center. UB