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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:08:11 +0000
From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc@igc.org>
To: hrw-news@igc.topica.com
Subject: Macedonia: Pamphlet Raises Ethnic Tensions
Macedonia: Pamphlet Raises Ethnic Tensions Tens of Thousands in Skopje
Streets Tonight
(New York, June 25, 2001) As tens of thousands of Macedonians gathered
in the streets of Skopje tonight, Human Rights Watch warned that the
threat of ethnic violence in the country was rising sharply. Army and
special police forces were seen joining the crowd, which took over the
parliament building.
A pamphlet being circulated in the vicinity of Skopje by a group
calling itself Macedonia Paramilitary 2000 has warned that ethnic
Albanians must leave Macedonia by tonight, or be killed and have their
homes and shops burned.
"This pamphlet is exactly the kind of thing that could lead to widespread
ethnic violence," said Holly Cartner, executive director of Human Rights
Watch's Europe and Central Asia division. "The government and
international community have to stop it now."
MACEDONIA PARAMILITARY 2000 ORDER:
"We order all Shiptars [derogatory term for ethnic Albanians-tr.] who
have objects for sale-shopkeepers here and around the Kwantaskhi
bazaar-to leave within three days, and for those Shiptars from
Aracinovo, the deadline is 24 hours. After this deadline, all the shops
will be burned, and if someone tries to protect [them], the same will be
killed without warning.
"We inform Shiptars of the Macedonian republic that for every killed
police officer or soldier 100 Shiptars who do not have citizenship or
who took citizenship after 1994 will be killed. For every police officer
or soldier disabled, 50 Shiptars will be killed. For every wounded
police officer or soldier wounded, 10 Shiptars will be killed, no matter
what gender or age.
"We inform Shiptars who do not have citizenship or got it after 1994 to
leave Macedonia before June 25 this year, at midnight. After this
deadline, we will start with the cleansing--"The Longest Night" courtesy
of Macedonia Paramilitary 2000.
"We order every Macedonian, Turk, Roma, Turbesh, Bosniak and others not
to shop in Albanian stores while the war is on, because with such
actions they directly support the Shiptar terrorist narco-gangsters.
Otherwise all the shops of those who trade with Shiptars will be burned
down.
"We order to everyone to stick this pamphlet on their shops to allow for
mass information. Those dwellings who receive this pamphlet and who do
not show it in a visible place will be potential targets, no matter to
whom they belong."
The pamphlet was stamped with a purple rubber stamp with the image of a
lion and M P 2000 written around the seal.
For more information on the crisis in Macedonia, please see:
Macedonia: Rioters Burn Albanian Homes in Bitola (HRW Press Release,
June 8, 2001) at http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/06/Bitola0608.htm
Macedonia: Albanian Rebel Abuses of Serb Civilians (HRW Press Release,
June 7, 2001) at http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/06/albabuses0607.htm
Macedonian Government Abuses in Runica Village (HRW Press Release, May
29, 2001) at http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/05/runica0529.htm
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