KOSOVO-MACEDONIA-UNREST-FUNERAL

KOSOVO-MACEDONIA-UNREST-FUNERAL

Kosovo Albanian attend the burial ceremony for eight Albanians who were killed during fighting with Macedonian police in Kumanovo, on May 26, 2015 at a university in Kosovo’s capital Pristina. The May 9-10 clashes in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo between police and ethnic Albanian gunmen, most of whom were from neighboring Kosovo, left 22 people dead, including eight police officers. Former members of the now disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), wearing military uniform, carried the eight coffins into the hall for the ceremony. The KLA is an ethnic Albanian guerilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo in the 1990s. Macedonia labelled the gunmen killed in the northern town of Kumanovo “terrorists” and claimed they were planning to attack state institutions. AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI