Three of the six defendants charged with killing five men in April pleaded innocent at the start of their trial in Skopje.
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Two former officials accused of collaborating with Communist-era Yugoslavia's secret police have had their names cleared.
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A court in Skopje has delayed the start of a trial of six people charged with the murder of five men in April to January.
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The Macedonian association of the World War Two veterans held a protest march in Skopje against a court decision to take away their premises in the capital and give them to the Union of War Invalids.
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The head of Macedonia's Lustration Commission says his work will continue despite the high-profile resignations of two members of the commission.
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Following a RECOM round table in Skopje, the Macedonian President, Gjorge Ivanov, met the team of regional REKOM advocates.
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Many Macedonians hope that Johan Tarculovski, the only Macedonian national convicted for war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, could soon be released following the recent acquittals of Kosovo’s Ramush Haradinaj and Croatia’s Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac.
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The lustration process is being conducted contrary to Constitutional Court rulings and is violating human rights, a round table in Skopje organized by the Open Society-Macedonia foundation heard.
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The issue of missing persons from the Kosovo conflict must be depoliticized and treated strictly as a humanitarian concern, concluded a conference held in the Macedonian capital Skopje.
Former Culture Minister Gjuner Ismail rubbishes Lustration Commission claims that he collaborated with the old Yugoslav secret services, adding that he will not appeal the decision as he is ignoring the Commission.
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Macedonia’s parliament has started discussing amendments to a controversial army law as the impact of 15,000 proposed revisions is becoming apparent.
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An ethnic Albanian legislator threatened to torch the assembly if all other attempts fail to stop the passage of a controversial army bill that has angered Albanians.
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One of the main reasons why the role of the Yugoslav People’s Army, JNA, in the breakup of Yugoslavia remains unclear after nearly 20 years since the wars is that archives of the army are still kept secret, experts say.
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Macedonia’s Constitutional Court has refused to evaluate whether parliament’s decision last year not to prosecute four war crime cases was constitutional.
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In the latest twist over the controversial proposed army law, the ethnic Albanian party in government has filed over 15,000 proposed amendments aimed at preventing its adoption.
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