Belgrade and Skopje, 9 Nov.(AKI) – Macedonian police clashes with “criminal bands” on Wednesday in which six ethnic Albanians were killed and 13 arrested may signal wider conflict in the region, political and military analysts said on Friday.| Gee, yet another region where an aggrieved minority™ seethes and rolls their eyes. |
| Taking lessons from the RAB, are they ... |
The police said most of the bandits involved in Wednesday's clashes recently escaped from jail in neighboring Kosovo, which has been under United Nations control since 1999. They bandits had been sentenced for various crimes and Macedonian authorities suspect they were helped to escape by ethnic Albanian guards, several of whom had been arrested afterwards.
| They're all brothers in arms, after all ... |
Islamist SOP: Grievance, then violence, then a militia, then an armed campaign of conquest. Rinse and repeat.
| They need to come up with a catchy acronym ... |
The Tetovo organisation said in the statement there would be no peace in the Balkans until all ethnic Albanians living in the region were free to unite with Albania.
| So they're going back on their word of peace. Hmmm, there's a word for that, hmmm ... |
A prominent Belgrade military analyst, Miroslav Lazanski, said Kosovo independence would provoke a domino effect in Macedonia, Montenegro and even Greece, which have a sizeable ethnic Albanian minority.
Kosovo - the gift that keeps on giving.
“That means Macedonia is next,” Lazanski told Serbian news agency Tanjug. “Encouraging separatism and Kosovo's independence will surely raise tensions in Macedonia and spread the conflict there,” he said. “The high tide of violence and separatist ambitions” will later spread to Montenegro, Lazanski warned. “When you encourage one, others come forward with the same demands and they will not stop until they are all united in a Greater Albania,” he said.
| Albania, Kosovo, muslim Macedonia and parts of northern Greece all combined, with 'friendly' ties to the Turks. I think I can see where all that's heading ... |
Meanwhile, Kosovo ethnic Albanian leaders have warned that incidents like the one in Tetovo were detrimental to their independence drive and called for restraint.
"We ain't greedy, we only want what jines our'n"
The Albanian foreign ministry in Tirana condemned violence in Macedonia and appealed to local authorities not to use excessive force in areas populated by ethnic Albanians.
Islamist boiler-plate pap.
| Especially the part where the coppers thump the heads of the |