[AMCC-News] Suspicious arrests in Macedonia: WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IN MACEDONIA? (FAKTI)

[Mentor Cana]

           "Why the Macedonian structures continuously have
            been accusing the Kosovars for invasion, where
            in the meantime they are imprisoning The Albanians
            from  Macedonia?"

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WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IN MACEDONIA?
27/03/2001

Suspicious arrests!
by Emin Azemi, publisher of FAKTI Daly Newspaper

As far as the genesis of the crises is concerned, since the crises began in
Tanusha, the evaluation of the Macedonian state structures has been
constant: "Terrorists have come from Kosova, conducting invasion in
Macedonia".

After the last offensive of the Macedonian police and army, the dilemma
whether "the terrorists were from Kosova or from Macedonia still remains
unexplained to the public. The last action by arresting many Albanians,
either from the cities or those from the upper villages of Tetova, makes
this dilemma even more confused.

If this operation continues with the same intensity, another question
arises and remains open: Why the Macedonian structures continuously have
been accusing the Kosovars for invasion, where in the meantime they are
imprisoning The Albanians from Macedonia?

Legal experts, may probably locate sources of the crises precisely,
respectively the carriers of the activities, which the court considers them
to be "oriented against the integrity and sovereignty of Macedonia".

It would be counter-productive if imposed methods during the overcoming of
the situation are activated, methods which by all means want to create a
kind of preparatory terrain "to judge the terrorism through unfounded
accusations". You get the impression as if particular segments of the state
accomplish in the cities what they could not do in the mountains, through
arresting people with and without excuses.

What worries is the fact that among those arrested are intellectuals,
translators of the foreign organizations, school principals, political
parties' activists, teachers, etc. In most of the cases, according to the
arrested people's lawyers, we have to do with unfounded and suspicious
accusations, setups and accelerated police actions.

It is clear that political parties , especially the Albanian political
party at the Government, are in the most difficult position. Nevertheless,
it would be quite effective if the intervention of these political parties
to stop this furious action of the security organs takes place immediately.
The great moral resource of the Albanian political parties in overcoming
the crisis would be sufficient as a guarantee for all these innocent
individuals who have been arrested.

1001 proofs exist and they talk in favor of the innocence of these people,
of which most of them, in the civil life, are known as honorable, loyal and
professionally distinguished people.

Emin AZEMI,
publisher of FAKTI Daly Newspaper