Nikolas93TS Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 I guess this terrorists will be declared martyred just like Adem Jashari was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Lindquist Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Ugly stuff in the Balkans... again. The natives are revolting! Fully agree, the natives ARE revolting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohala Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) I read that the police lost 8 killed and 37 wounded in a 28 hour operation and that 14 militants were killed plus over 30 captured. Allegedly a band of militants had entered from Kosovo. They were experienced and had participated in combat in the Middle East.Edit to add: The militant leaders were from Kosovo, while most of the militants were citizens of FYROM. What is not clear to me is what their objective was. Kumanovo apparently isn't even Albanian majority. Edited May 10, 2015 by rohala Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistral Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Who knows, maybe they expected to initiate Allied Force part duex. Hey it worked the first time 30+ dead due to gunfire in Europe in a single day, surely the BBC will be on top of it. Nope, I just checked. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32679290 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohala Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) Who knows, maybe they expected to initiate Allied Force part duex. Hey it worked the first time 30+ dead due to gunfire in Europe in a single day, surely the BBC will be on top of it. Nope, I just checked. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32679290They have the story here http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32680904ETA: They are however definitely slow in covering the events. It seems that this short article is the only one related to the clashes. Meanwhile in.gr (which is the home page on my browser) has put 5 articles since yesterday. Meanwhile, based on what I read in Greek media Gruevsky spoke and said that the objective of the militants was to destabilize the country by attacking public institutions, police stations etc, and that some of the militants are connected to the 40-strong group that attacked a police station in a village near the border a couple of weeks ago. What I get from this is that there are several dozens of militants active. Edited May 10, 2015 by rohala Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 I only saw this reported on the evening news just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Supposedly random volunteers from Bulgaria and Serbia are getting self-organized to go fight the Albanians... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Peter Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Today morning index.hu stated that this is for steaming off the demonstrations and uncontent with the government Now it is reworded, stating this about the border crossing incident only, which was not confirmed by the opposition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 We havent heard a word about this on the UK Media....Surprised. Not. After all Albanians as "peaceful, gentle minority". Exact words from few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swerve Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) Who said that? I don't see how it fits with the press reports here of violent Albanian gangsters. Edited May 11, 2015 by swerve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) It made it to Japanese news broadcast. 22 killed in gun fight in Macedonia between police and an armed group. Of those 8 police killed, 14 gunmen. Tensions in Macedonia continue with Albanian extremist groups and the police are positioning around the terrorists that infiltrated from neighboring Kosovo. http://www.fnn-news.com/sp/news/headlines/articles/CONN00292116.html Edited May 11, 2015 by JasonJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) To be fair, by the time the scope became apparent, media here were pre-occupied with the Bremen state elections yesterday where the Social Democrats received a drubbing in their stronghold (earlier they were all about the 70th anniversary of the end of WW II, and Merkel's visit to Moscow yesterday where she called the occupation of Crimea "criminal and contrary to international law" while standing next to Putin was still second news item last night), and all this against the background of a new peak in the NSA affair over reports that the US side smuggled in search terms to spy on European governments and industry in their cooperation with German intelligence, plus the union of railway engineers holding the whole country hostage again in an unprecedented week-long strike aimed not so much at getting improvements for the engineers rather than competing with another railway union. After Channel 1 evening news had done the Bremen exit polls and usual discussion round of party representatives, and covered Merkel in Moscow, NSA-BND and what the government might have known of it, and the end of the railroad strike, they only had time for sports and weather left in their 15 minutes. Channel 2 news, which has five more minutes, brought a rather comprehensive report on Macedonia. Rather similar for online news; Spiegel Online had a report on last night, but with the hasty online news cycle, it has vanished from their front page this morning. The eternal formula of proximity x severity = news relevance holds true, of course. Edited May 11, 2015 by BansheeOne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Who said that? I don't see how it fits with the press reports here of violent Albanian gangsters.BBC World, when there was some shit on Kosovo few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swerve Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Well, don't take it as the standard view here, & remember that despite being state-owned, the BBC has editorial independence. It's certainly not the official view. The police will tell you Albanian gangs are heavily involved in people-smuggling, drugs, guns & prostitution, especially of women trafficked from Albania & Kosovo, & have gained their prominence largely by being more violent than others. And that's reported in the press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistral Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 To be fair, by the time the scope became apparent, media here were pre-occupied with the Bremen state elections yesterday where the Social Democrats received a drubbing in their stronghold (earlier they were all about the 70th anniversary of the end of WW II, and Merkel's visit to Moscow yesterday where she called the occupation of Crimea "criminal and contrary to international law" while standing next to Putin was still second news item last night), and all this against the background of a new peak in the NSA affair over reports that the US side smuggled in search terms to spy on European governments and industry in their cooperation with German intelligence, plus the union of railway engineers holding the whole country hostage again in an unprecedented week-long strike aimed not so much at getting improvements for the engineers rather than competing with another railway union. After Channel 1 evening news had done the Bremen exit polls and usual discussion round of party representatives, and covered Merkel in Moscow, NSA-BND and what the government might have known of it, and the end of the railroad strike, they only had time for sports and weather left in their 15 minutes. Channel 2 news, which has five more minutes, brought a rather comprehensive report on Macedonia. Rather similar for online news; Spiegel Online had a report on last night, but with the hasty online news cycle, it has vanished from their front page this morning. The eternal formula of proximity x severity = news relevance holds true, of course. They will have a second chance in the next round. Do not worry Greater Albania is coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 ...And that's reported in the press.Don't get me wrong, I don't think it is some conspiracy, just sheer press incompetence of Biblical proportions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Well as far as the UK any media, this doesnt take much in the way of effort. Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Charles Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Well as far as the UK any media, this doesnt take much in the way of effort. Fixed. Isn't that the truth. Charles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETAC21 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 ...And that's reported in the press.Don't get me wrong, I don't think it is some conspiracy, just sheer press incompetence of Biblical proportions. i.e. SOP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Tucan Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 As for newsies... Our news services reported on it, but... But spent far more time on the case of a Czech libertarian trying to create his own country on the border between Serbia and Croatia (IIRC Serbia acknowledges border as through middle of Danube and Croatia as a hypothetical straight line, so there are bits that according to Serbian rule belong to Croatia and according to Croatian rule to Serbia). He used one such river meander to establish his "Liberland". Sigh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yama Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 As for newsies... Our news services reported on it, but... But spent far more time on the case of a Czech libertarian trying to create his own country on the border between Serbia and Croatia (IIRC Serbia acknowledges border as through middle of Danube and Croatia as a hypothetical straight line, so there are bits that according to Serbian rule belong to Croatia and according to Croatian rule to Serbia). He used one such river meander to establish his "Liberland". Sigh... Did it work? There is similar area between Sudan and Egypt. It's pretty substantial too, but as it's surrounded by both countries, it looks like no other country is able to claim it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Tucan Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Well it is still ion being worked, but tbh the guy seems a bit delusional i guess the only effect will be Serbia and Croatia finally settling on a common definiton of border. Many countries have such bits of land (heck, just look at recent transfer of some Czech clay to Poland). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted May 12, 2015 Author Share Posted May 12, 2015 (edited) Last thing I heard he got arrested by Croats, then released.OTOH, that piece of real estate was army range in '50/60s. Edited May 12, 2015 by bojan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 Kosovo, funeral of some of terrorist from Macedonia.Nothing to see here, move along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Romania PM Ponta resigns over Bucharest nightclub fire 8 minutes ago Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta has resigned after some 20,000 people took to the streets to protest over a nightclub fire that killed 32 people. Friday night's blaze in Bucharest started when a band performing at the club set off fireworks inside. Demonstrators called for Mr Ponta to step down, complaining of government corruption and poor safety supervision. "I'm handing in my mandate, I'm resigning, and implicitly my government too," Mr Ponta said in a statement. "I hope the government's resignation will satisfy the people who came out in the streets," he added. Ponta under fire In September, Mr Ponta became the first sitting Romanian prime minister to go on trial charged with corruption. He faces allegations of fraud, tax evasion and money laundering. He denies the charges and has accused prosecutors of being "totally unprofessional". He was one of three people who resigned under pressure from the protesters. They also singled out the mayor of the Bucharest district, where the nightclub fire occurred, and the country's interior minister. The protesters chanted "shame on you" and "assassins", and carried banners reading "corruption kills". [...] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34720183 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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