Posted on 11/12/2001 3:56:31 AM PST by oxi-nato
SKOPJE (Reuters) - Twenty-five Macedonians were abducted on Monday after their bus was stopped by ethnic Albanian militants but another group of 13 seized the night before have been freed, police said. The incidents as well as overnight clashes between security forces and ex-guerrillas triggered by a police operation to secure a "mass grave" site without liaising with international monitors have put a summer peace accord in jeopardy.
Three police troops were killed in fighting near the site late on Sunday night and two others were wounded.
A state police general who asked not to be named said eight of the 25 Macedonians hustled off a bus near the northwestern village of Miletino had subsequently been freed with international mediation which was continuing.
He said the 13 grabbed by armed ethnic Albanians in the village of Semsevo on Sunday night were all freed by Monday morning and were undergoing medical checks at a base of NATO troops mandated to protect international monitors.
bush watch in effect, true test on war on terrorism is the balkans!
kla must be defeated!
balkans is the true test!
and watch the media also, will they report this terrorist acts by the kla or just keep a lid on it?
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