Macedonia Holocaust museum damaged during demonstrations
The Holocaust museum in Macedonia was damaged in a surge
of violence that erupted in the country's capital.
Protesters over the weekend damaged the Holocaust
Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia in Skopje and the glass area of the
Macedonian Museum of History, and broke several windows of a new theater under
construction, according to Sitel.com.mk, a news website.
The hostilities broke out March 2 when police used tear
gas to break up a demonstration by ethnic Albanian youths in support of newly
named Defense Minister Talmut Xhaferi, a former leader of Albanian guerrillas
who fought government forces in 2001, China's Global Times reported.
The demonstrators also damaged bus stops and traffic
signs, and overturned vehicles.
The violence came about a week before the second
anniversary of the museum's opening.
More than 100,000 Jews were living in Macedonia before
the start of World War II. By 1943, a majority of them either had been arrested
or killed by the Nazis. Some 200 Jews live there today, mostly in Skopje.
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