The grenades were planted, they say. The photographs faked. What you see in the television footage was a mobile phone in Ramadan's hand. I met his uncle, Mahi Loku, at the funeral. Ramadan took out his mobile phone, so they killed him.
War closes minds.
But civil wars also create a lethal new social cohesion even as they exclude 'the other'. And already the communities are lining up behind the gunmen on both sides. On a street corner in front of a row of little kiosks on the outskirts of Tetovo, Macedonia's second city, last Tuesday the Macedonian machine-gunners had sandbagged themselves into a little nest. A group of men and boys squeezed in beside them, sitting on their haunches. They handed the soldiers cold drinks, ran errands and dampened towels for the soldiers to wrap around the steaming barrels of their guns.