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Kosovo calls for inquiry after citizens jailed in Macedonia

PM Haradinaj, "Justice must be done"

03 November, 17:14
(ANSA) - TRIESTE - Kosovo's prime minister called for an international investigation after some of his countrymen were convicted of taking part in a gun battle with Macedonian police, Reuters said. The court has jailed 33 people accused of being members of an ethnic Albanian militant group and planning terrorist attacks. Some of the defendants were from neighboring Kosovo, while others were from Macedonia's own Albanian minority.

"Justice must be done", Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said in a statement. "An international investigation would help find the truth which we are all demanding", he added.

Kosovan media and officials have regularly said the accused Albanians were innocent and the victims of a plot by Macedonia's former nationalist government - an allegation dismissed by Skopje.

Crowds took to the streets of Kosovo's capital after the sentencing, accusing the Macedonian authorities of staging the attack. Protesters in the eastern Kosovan town of Gjilan burned the Macedonian flag. (ANSA).

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