| | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Dark days in Tetovo - Amnesty International |
 | | This principle should apply wherever alleged torturers happen to be, whatever their nationality or position, regardless of where the crime was committed and the nationality of the victims, and no matter how much time has elapsed since the commission of the crime. |
 | | For example, after the government banned the official display of flags of national minorities in July 1997, there were violent confrontations in Gostivar in which hundreds of ethnic Albanian demonstrators, including those who had not used or incited violence, were beaten by the police. |
 | | Macedonia, which obtained independence from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, was admitted to membership of the United Nations (UN) in 1993 under the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) because of objections by some states to its unqualified use of the name "Macedonia". |
| web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/recent/eur650072002 (871 words) |