Several injured, cars stoned in clashes in Macedonian capital
SRNA - August 5, 2004

Skopje, 5 August: Several people were wounded and around hundred vehicles stoned during last night's clashes between local Albanians and the protesters against the new territorial division of Macedonia in the Skopje suburb of Cair, SRNA's correspondent reports.

The protest was organized by the VMRO-DPMNE Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity , the largest opposition party in the Macedonian parliament.

Deputy chairwoman of this party, Ganka Samoilova-Cvetanovska, said that the road for around hundred vehicles which took part in the protests was blocked by rubbish containers, after which the Albanians attacked the protesters by throwing stones at them.

Police members stood near the place of the incident, but they did not intervene.

SOURCE: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 0830 gmt 5 Aug 04

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