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When Mines Grow Roots
Commentary by Igor K. Ilievski,
Dnevnik
Translatio and links by Reality Macedonia Team
After a planted antitank mine killed two NATO soldiers and wounded three Macedonian civilians, NATO officials hurriedly proclaimed that they "would like to believe the explosive device was not intentionally placed to cause harm." With wisdom accumulated by her people through the centuries, an older lady gave a splendid answer to NATO's stance in a contact TV-show, which can be paraphrased as: "Of course the mine was not set up intentionally in order to kill people. Somebody planted it so it can grow roots, grow, sprout branches, blossom, and finaly, to give fruits!" Unfortunately, the fruits of this "unintentionally" planted mine include two dead and three wounded human beings, one of whom now suffers a full-fledged disability.
NATO would not like to believe that someone intentionally set up a mine on the border road, frequented by vehicles of the Macedonian Army and Police, but Allied patrols, also. NATO soldiers would not like to take into account that in this country, bombs blast courthouses and lurk schoolchildren, timed to coincide with the sound of the school bell. Maybe they get puzzled by the fact that the mines which the NLA "unintentionally" scattered through the crisis regions, so far killed 28 persons, and injured several dozens.
NATO's stance conflicts with the official announcement by the Ministry of Interior Affairs, which briefly and clearly states that the jeep came over a landmine. A mine which certainly was buried into the ground. It is quite improbable that four professional soldiers driving on that road in broad daylight would fail to notice the difference between a fallen tree branch and an armed antitank mine.
Unfortunately, such "accidentally" planted landmines don't arouse much wandering here. We won't be amazed if some phantom army or a front for someone's unification takes the responsibility for this blast. And the NATO soldiers, like everybody in this country, besides wandering why someone would plant landmines, should start thinking about how to prevent it. By hiding the facts, they certainly won't manage to "beautify" the security situation in Macedonia. The facades of those Potemkin's villages fell a long time ago.
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