From: michael.polymenakos@factory.com (Michael Polymenakos) 
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: Here we go....
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:46:00 GMT
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Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis
Reply-To: michael.polymenakos@factory.com (Michael Polymenakos) 


In <1992Nov10.153839.6437@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, Sasa (aka MILS) writes:

>and windows. Very quickly the crowd grew to 3000, of which most
>were of Albanian ethnicity. Violence broke out when the crowd
>overturned a police van and attacked police officers inside it
>who had come to pick up Sedjiu from the clinic and transport him
>to the local police station. Two public transport buses and a
>police car were also demolished by the crowd. Nearby shops had

 Here we go.... Don't take me wrong, I am not happy about any of this
happening in Vardar. But it was inevitable. The Slavs' inflexibility has
turned Vardar into an isolated blot in the map. The Albanians are not
happy about suffering for the stubborness of Gligorov and his clique.

>heard coming from the crowd. In some streets, barricades were
>erected and from which the police where fired upon. Police were
>also fired upon from nearby houses and apartments. In some
>instances, the police returned the gunfire. Special units from
>the Interior Ministry were called into action. Calm was restored

 Wait a second. Until yesterday, MILS propaganda was telling us that
Albanians were happy living in "M". Now this. What is going on?

 A) The problem is so widespread that Gligorov cannot deny it
 B) Gligorov is pulisizing the news to justify putting "M" in some sort
    of "emergency state" (read: Dictatorship).
 C) Same as B), with the added goal of casting the Albanians as the
    bad guys for the purposes of justifying "cleansing operations".
 D) All of the above.

>Four people were killed during the riot: Sulejman Memis, 22,
>Safet Sejfulai, 32, Ibraimi Semsedin, 38, and Viktorija Gesovska,
>63. Fourteen ethnic Albanians were injured, of which seven
>sustained serious injury. Fifteen police officers were seriously
>injured. According to police, 87 people were arrested after the
>riot. There is an indication that seven people organised the
>riot.

 Wow! According to the MILS posting, the riots started
with one incident at 4.00pm, and grew to over 3,000 before 6.00pm, when
shots started being fired. 7 organizers, 3,000 protesters in less
than 2 hours, completely out of the cold. How where the 7 identified?

  A) Any 7 random people the police could arrest in the confusion.
  B) People outspoken against Gligorov, whether they happened to
     be in the riots or not.
  C) 3 from A) and 4 from B)
  D) 2 from A), 4 from B), and 1 randomly selected hard-core criminal
     (who was not nessesarily involved in the riots)
     for the purpose of discrediting the rioters as a whole.

(Hint: The correct answer is not A, B or C)

>A police investigation is under way.  All political institutions
>in the republic are working to discover the causes of the riot.

 Is is so hard to discover the causes? Gimme a break!

Michael
                                             
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