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Focus News Agency (Bulgaria)
November 10, 2007
SITEL: Commander Hoxha warns of “squaring accounts”
with Macedonian police
Skopje - Xhezair Shaqiri, known as Commander Hoxha,
warned that there could be an armed skirmish with the
Macedonian police, the Macedonian SITEL television
channel informed.
The members of the former National Liberation Army are
reportedly preparing to “square accounts” with the
Interior Ministry’s special units.
He did not reveal the exact place, but said “we will
wait for the police wherever they come”.
Hoxha claimed he did not know the people who were
shooting against the Macedonian police in the village
of Brodec.
Commander Hoxha’s group has tried several times to
trigger incidents. Two weeks ago there were doubts
that he was connected with the attack against the
Macedonian border police in the village of Tanusevci.
Following the incident in the region of Tetovo he
reiterated he would protect the Albanian population,
the Macedonian TV channel adds.
Focus News Agency reminds:
Tanusevci village is considered to be related to the
start of the actions that led to the serious conflict
in Macedonia in 2001.
In January the NLA stated its existence by claiming
responsibility for an attack against a police patrol
in the village of Tearce near the town of Tetovo,
where a policeman was killed and another two injured.
Clashes between the Macedonian security forces and
armed groups of NLA followed in March and April in the
mountain region in Northwestern Macedonia near the
village of Tanusevci.
In March three Macedonian soldiers were killed near
Tanusevci: one of them was shot, and the other two –
by a mine explosion under their vehicle. In the end of
February the administrator of the village of Debelde
in Kosovo, which is neighboring to the village of
Tanusevci, announced that over 150 citizens of
Tanusevci have searched asylum in Kosovo “to get rid
of the repressions of the Macedonian Army”.
The Macedonian government then defined this migration
as a well-organized act with political goals.
In the first days of March 2001 Macedonia closed its
border with Kosovo and demanded the summoning of an
extraordinary session of the UN Security Council, as
well as the establishment of a buffer zone between
Macedonia and Kosovo with the presence of
international farces in it. On March 5th Skopje
declares mobilization of militaries from the reserve
after new clashes in northern Macedonia which involved
Albanian extremists.
Serbian News Network - SNN
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