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May 2, 2004, 06:01 PM
Relatives said Sunday they will seek legal damages after Macedonia admitted that its police framed and executed six Pakistani immigrants to boost the Balkan country's profile in the U.S.-led effort against terrorism...
Macedonian police said seven Pakistanis were killed, but Burney said one of the victims was Indian. He said the police had killed them in a fake encounter outside the U.S. Embassy in Skopje and made out that they were terrorists, trained in Pakistani camps and planning to strike American and European interests.
"They were just economic migrants passing through Macedonia illegally to reach some European country to earn money for their poor families," Burney said.
Macedonian police have accused the country's former interior minister, Ljube Boskovski, of ordering the executions and also implicated three top associates, as well as a businessman and two police commandos...
Since breaking away from Yugoslavia in 1991, Macedonia has been eager to win American political and economic support. It has supported the U.S.-led campaign against al-Qaida and has sent troops to Iraq.
Absolutely inhuman. link (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=18&u=/ap/20040502/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_macedonia)
Macedonian police said seven Pakistanis were killed, but Burney said one of the victims was Indian. He said the police had killed them in a fake encounter outside the U.S. Embassy in Skopje and made out that they were terrorists, trained in Pakistani camps and planning to strike American and European interests.
"They were just economic migrants passing through Macedonia illegally to reach some European country to earn money for their poor families," Burney said.
Macedonian police have accused the country's former interior minister, Ljube Boskovski, of ordering the executions and also implicated three top associates, as well as a businessman and two police commandos...
Since breaking away from Yugoslavia in 1991, Macedonia has been eager to win American political and economic support. It has supported the U.S.-led campaign against al-Qaida and has sent troops to Iraq.
Absolutely inhuman. link (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=18&u=/ap/20040502/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_macedonia)
