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NEW CASE OF VIOLENCE BY THE MACEDONIAN POLICE
The AHC turns back once more to the remarks
formulated to the address of the Macedonian police regarding its
brutal behavior at the damage of Albanian citizens travelling to
Macedonia in a legal way.
The AHC received a visit by Mr. Xhevair Spahiu, a
well-known poet who is at the same time member of the Board of this
Committee, to bring to its knowledge the complaint of a group of
personalities of culture who went to Tetovo to take part in a
cultural activity dedicated to the national poet Naim Frasheri, one
of the leaders one of the Albanian Renaissance of XIX century. These
distinguished representatives of the Albanian culture were kept by
the policy in the vicinity of Kertchovo, where they were maintained
for several hours and submitted to a real interrogation. The
Albanian writers called this act as "an arrest of the Albanian
language".
The AHC has got its own experience with the
Macedonian police, when its representatives have been kept at the
border for the simple reason that they have brought books in
Albanian, which were even sequestered. This Committee has received
more than one evidence of this brutal behavior. The latest case is
all the more serious that this violence is still continuing when a
new atmosphere could be expected in the Macedonian-Albanian
relations in Macedonia itself after the signature of the Ohrid
agreement, providing for a new regulation of the coexistence between
the majority and the minorities, the Albanian population reaching
almost one third of the whole population of this Republic. The same
was to be expected towards Albanian citizens going there and
bringing with them messages of peace and good cooperation.
The AHC shares the indignation expressed by the above
mentioned personalities. This unacceptable behavior by Macedonian
police has reached such a degree that it is time to be discussed on
an official scale between the two governments.
27.11.2001
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