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Killings Heighten Ethnic Tensions in Macedonia

Apr 16th, 2012

Killings Heighten Ethnic Tensions in Macedonia

By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER SOFIA, BULGARIA — On Orthodox Easter, one of the most sacred holidays for Christians here, Macedonians mourned the deaths of five Macedonian men amid speculation that their killers were ethnic Albanians, arousing fears of a new bout of intercommunal violence. The men were fishermen, four were in their late teens or 20s and one was 40; they were found dead Thursday night on the shore of an artificial lake near the village of Smiljkovci outside the capital, Skopje. They were buried on Saturday.