Macedonia Paramilitary 2000

[Paola Lucchesi <paola.lucchesi@mail.inet.it>]

   "We order all Shiptars [derogatory term for ethnic Albanians-tr.] who
    have objects for sale-shopkeepers here and around the Kwantaskhi
    bazaar-to leave within three days, and for those Shiptars from
    Aracinovo, the deadline is 24 hours. After this deadline, all the shops
    will be burned, and if someone tries to protect [them], the same will
    be killed without warning."

                      Excerpt from the "MACEDONIA PARAMILITARY 2000 ORDER"


   "This pamphlet is exactly the kind of thing that could lead to
    widespread ethnic violence. The government and international
    community have to stop it now."

                      Holly Cartner,
                      HRW Executive director
                      Europe and Central Asia division


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http://hrw.org/press/2001/06/macedon0625.htm

Macedonia: Pamphlet Raises Ethnic Tensions
Tens of Thousands in Skopje Streets Tonight

(New York, June 25, 2001) As tens of thousands of Macedonians gathered in
the streets of Skopje tonight, Human Rights Watch warned that the threat of
ethnic violence in the country was rising sharply. Army and special police
forces were seen joining the crowd, which took over the parliament building.

A pamphlet being circulated in the vicinity of Skopje by a group calling
itself Macedonia Paramilitary 2000 has warned that ethnic Albanians must
leave Macedonia by tonight, or be killed and have their homes and shops burned.

"This pamphlet is exactly the kind of thing that could lead to widespread
ethnic violence," said Holly Cartner, executive director of Human Rights
Watch's Europe and Central Asia division. "The government and international
community have to stop it now."


MACEDONIA PARAMILITARY 2000 ORDER:

We order all Shiptars [derogatory term for ethnic Albanians-tr.] who have
objects for sale-shopkeepers here and around the Kwantaskhi bazaar-to leave
within three days, and for those Shiptars from Aracinovo, the deadline is
24 hours. After this deadline, all the shops will be burned, and if someone
tries to protect [them], the same will be killed without warning.

We inform Shiptars of the Macedonian republic that for every killed police
officer or soldier 100 Shiptars who do not have citizenship or who took
citizenship after 1994 will be killed. For every police officer or soldier
disabled, 50 Shiptars will be killed. For every wounded police officer or
soldier wounded, 10 Shiptars will be killed, no matter what gender or age.

We inform Shiptars who do not have citizenship or got it after 1994 to
leave Macedonia before June 25 this year, at midnight. After this deadline,
we will start with the cleansing--"The Longest Night" courtesy of Macedonia
Paramilitary 2000.

We order every Macedonian, Turk, Roma, Turbesh, Bosniak and others not to
shop in Albanian stores while the war is on, because with such actions they
directly support the Shiptar terrorist narco-gangsters. Otherwise all the
shops of those who trade with Shiptars will be burned down.

We order to everyone to stick this pamphlet on their shops to allow for
mass information. Those dwellings who receive this pamphlet and who do not
show it in a visible place will be potential targets, no matter to whom
they belong.

The pamphlet was stamped with a purple rubber stamp with the image of a
lion and M P 2000 written around the seal.