Three ethnic Albanian men were on 19 July 2001 stopped at a police checkpoint in Leshok and taken to a security police building in Skopje. The father of one of the men described their treatment:
"They were all tortured. They were in separate rooms but each could hear the screams of the other. After four hours of beating, they were all brought back to the taxi to check it again. There were lots of inspectors and police around in the yard of the building. The police fetched two passers-by from the street as witnesses. When they searched the car they found six hand grenades and three fuses... Then they were taken back to the basement and tortured for another 25 hours."
The continued impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of abuses committed during the conflict in Macedonia (March-September 2001) will perpetuate lack of respect for the rule of law, Amnesty International said today as it released the report “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Dark Days in Tetovo”.
Amnesty International remains concerned that the human rights abuses committed during the conflict by both sides have not been subjected to investigation and are not likely to be effectively investigated in most cases. The only exception is a very small number of cases in which the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia has declared an interest.
"They were all tortured. They were in separate rooms but each could hear the screams of the other. After four hours of beating, they were all brought back to the taxi to check it again. There were lots of inspectors and police around in the yard of the building. The police fetched two passers-by from the street as witnesses. When they searched the car they found six hand grenades and three fuses... Then they were taken back to the basement and tortured for another 25 hours."
The continued impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of abuses committed during the conflict in Macedonia (March-September 2001) will perpetuate lack of respect for the rule of law, Amnesty International said today as it released the report “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Dark Days in Tetovo”.
Amnesty International remains concerned that the human rights abuses committed during the conflict by both sides have not been subjected to investigation and are not likely to be effectively investigated in most cases. The only exception is a very small number of cases in which the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia has declared an interest.