L-I: afp- Macedonian police station near Kosovo hit by rocket

["Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General" <nerajov@EUnet.yu>]

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The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU

>  SKOPJE, March 8 (AFP) - Unidentified attackers fired a rocket at  
>a police station in a predominantly ethnic Albanian town in 
>Macedonia, but no one was hurt, the interior ministry said 
>Wednesdsay. 
>   The attack occured late Tuesday in Tetovo, near Macedonia's  
>border with Kosovo, it said. 
>   The ministry said an M-70 rocket was fired from a distance of  
>about 60 meters (200 feet) at the police station and struck an 
>electricity pylon near the building. 
>   The rocket launcher was found several hundred meters from the  
>station but the attackers fled, it said. 
>   National radio reported earlier that the explosion damaged the  
>police station and destroyed the electricity pylon, causing a power 
>failure in the center of Tetovo, located 45 kilometers (30 miles) 
>east of Skopje. 
>   It was the second attack this year against a police station in  
>Macedonia. 
>   On January 20, an explosive device was thrown at a police  
>station in Kicevo, a village near Skopje that also has a mainly 
>ethnic-Albanian population. 
>   On January 12, three Macedonian policemen were shot and killed  
>as they patrolled near another Albanian-dominated town, Aracinovo, 
>10 kilometers (six miles) north of Skopje. 
>   The area is known as a hub for arms and drug trafficking.  
>   In 1997 and 1998, several police stations, courts and railway  
>lines were targets of bomb attacks in six Macedonian towns. The 
>attacks were claimed by the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army. 
>   During that period, nine ethnic Albanians were convicted and  
>jailed for "terrorism." Four of the nine were recently released.
>
Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
Art  historian
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