Posted on 09/30/2007 12:56:17 PM PDT by joan
29 September 2007, Saturday
Three young men, ethnic Albanians, have been shot dead late on Friday on a busy boulevard in Skopje, the Bulgarian national radio reported.
One of the victims died on the spot, while the other two were taken to the city hospital but the doctors could do nothing to save them.
The men are aged between 20 and 30.
There were no immediate reports about the suspected killer.
The shootout comes just days after Macedonian police clashed with supporters of an ethnic Albanian party outside parliament as rival MPs exchanged blows inside the building over electoral reforms.
At least five people were arrested and three were hurt as they tried to resist arrest on Tuesday evening.
An ethnic Albanian uprising almost led to a civil war in Macedonia in 2001.
Political, a turf war among gangs, or a blood feud?
send all albanians outside of “albania” to Iran....
FYROM
Former Yougoslave Republic of Macedonia.
(the 1950 warm water port scam of tito and stalin)
Not to be confused with the Alexander the Great Province in Greece. the one with Pella where King Philip, and Alexander’s Son are burried.
So what is the adjective form?
Pella and Verghina are two different places. Verghina (ancient Aegae) is where Andronikos found a tomb which he identified as that of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. That is still disputed...probably most scholars accept it, but some argue that the tomb is later and is more likely the tomb of Philip Arrhidaeus, Alexander’s half-brother. Alexander, of course, was buried in Alexandria.
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia doesn't have access to the ocean; it is landlocked, so what do you mean?
The Greeks cleansed a lot of “Slavs” from Macedonia, Greece, didn’t they?
save the Tito propaganda.
I have actually been to the tomb.
The Credible Scholarship has never deviated. The discovery of the Tomb and the artifacts inside only made the slav claims even more ridiculous.
I suggest you go there, read the writings which are in Greek.
Alexander was never actually burried, his body was seen as a power prize and was lost and/or destroyed in the power vacume left in the collapse of the empire.
Actually Greeks OWN much of the industry in FYROM. It is a source of cheep labor.
OTE (the Greek Phone company) set up much of the infrastructure.
Right now the primary objective is establishing as much political stability to try and stop the flood of illegal aliens. Of course the USA does not help with that with all the bone headed thinking that comes out of our state department.
The Macedonians (or Fyromians as you would consider) say that the real population of Albanians in Macedonia is much lower than they were literally forced to publish for the last census (around 25% Albanians).
I know the Macedonians were forbidden by the international community for a few months to announce and publish the results and they did other pressures and tricks, so I tend to believe the Macedonians and others that it is probably true.
Many claim that the real Albanian population in Macedonia is slightly under 20%.
Doesn't Greece have a much larger problem with Albanian and other immigrants? What is the population of Albanians in Greece?
FYRomanian?
I have been to both Pella and Verghina—in fact I was in a group that was shown “Philip’s Tomb” by Andronikos himself. It’s a magnificent tomb, but there’s nothing on the tomb to say whose tomb it is. Obviously it was built for some member of the royal family, sometime in the latter part of the fourth century B.C. The leading proponent of the Arrhidaeus theory (Eugene Borza)is no Tito propagandist but a leading Alexander-scholar who is Romanian-American.
Three less to murder Christians.
Then I doubt very much you were there.
The Greek Writings have been translated.
There is an issue as to one of the WIVES not the kings.
nice try.
Greece has a huge problem with illegal alien albanians.
This is compounded by the TWO illegal alien amnestys that were allowed in the past few years.
Greece generally profits from the cheap labor of hundreds of thousands of Albanians apparently. What they gain by that must more than offset the armed robberies and other crimes they bring.
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