A Multiethnic Police Force: Macedonia’s New Hope for Peace

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In September Fihret Elmazi, a 34-year-old officer of Macedonia’s multiethnic police force, was murdered in the village of Bogovinje in Tetovo municipality, an area that saw fierce fighting between ethnic Albanian rebels and Macedonian security forces last year.

He was shot dead while standing in front of a police station that had opened justtwo days before. Elmazi was one member of a four-man police unit thatpatrolled the village……
(by Snezana Lupevska – BETA – MDI, 2002)

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