Posted on 06/01/2008 9:29:36 AM PDT by joan
1 June 2008, Sunday
Shootings led to at least one death and allegations of ballot fraud, forcing elections officials to suspend voting in at least 17 polling stations at the start of Macedonia's early parliamentary election, Darik News reported.
Before the polls opened, the campaign was tainted by violence among rival ethnic Albanian parties and claims of fraud in more than a dozen pre-election attacks.
The most serious election day violence began within hours of polls opening in the former ethnic Albanian rebel stronghold of Aracinovo, a village near Skopje, where two separate shootings left one person dead and three wounded.
Two supporters of the main ethnic Albanian party, Democratic Union for Integration, were seriously wounded in a shootout with special police unit members near the village. One of them died later in hospital.
Aracinovo is now cordoned off by the police.
In the capital city of Skopje gunfire at or near the party's headquarters injured at least one person.
Party members had taken cover in the basement and sirens could be heard in the background.
Police did not immediately confirm the incident but officers had cordoned off an area nearby where a shooting occurred near a polling station close to the party headquarters.
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Trouble in paradise?
I cant believe that Carla Del Ponte and the Clinton Clan dont have this in order
Muslims doing what they do best—getting things their way by killing the opposition.
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