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A shootout which erupted during a police raid between police forces and an armed group identifying as the National Liberation Army (NLA) occurred on 9 May 2015 in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo.〔 During the shootings, eight Macedonian policemen and 10 of the armed men were killed, while 37 officers were wounded and hospitalized. The shooting ended on 10 May 2015, with full suppression and elimination of the group in an operation by the Macedonian police and armed forces, in which 28 men were arrested and charged with terrorism by Macedonian authorities and prosecutors. ==Prelude== The event took place during a deep political crisis in Macedonia, dating back to the 2014 general elections. The main opposition party, Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, has been making allegations on electoral fraud, denounced the conservative VMRO-DPMNE's party victory and has boycotted the Macedonian Assembly since. Since early 2015, the Social Democratic leader, Zoran Zaev, has escalated the political crisis in the country by planning an alleged "coup d'état" through a massive wire-tapping scandal. Zaev started releasing the so-called information "bombs," a series of wire-tapped conversations between the conservative government officials, most of them including Macedonia's prime minister Nikola Gruevski.〔 In doing so, he has made allegations that Gruevski has ordered the wire-tapping of some 20,000 Macedonian citizens and having control over the court system in Macedonia. In October 2014, the building of the Macedonian Government was attacked by two projectiles likely to have been fired from an RPG launcher. Around one week after the attack, a letter arrived at the Macedonian Albanian-language television station Alsat-M signed by a group claiming ties with the dissolved NLA taking responsibility for the attack. The NLA was also the main player in the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia. The document said that the Macedonian government is running a pro-Russian ideology, and that the NLA demands Macedonia join the European Union and NATO by all means. According to Macedonian police reports, on 21 April 2015, a police watchtower at the border between Macedonia and the disputed territory of Kosovo, in the mountain village of Gošince, was attacked by 40 heavily armed men wearing uniforms and claiming to be the NLA. On 3 May 2015, the headquarters of the largest ethnic Albanian party in Macedonia, the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), was attacked with a hand grenade. There were no casualties, and no suspects. It was suspected that the attack was due to rising criticism of the DUI party among ethnic Albanians due to alleged close ties with the governing conservative party. The opposition accused the government of allegedly trying to cover-up the death of a man in 2011 and a journalist in 2013, which was followed-up by violent protests against alleged police brutality on 5 May 2015. Officials said that 38 policemen were injured. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kumanovo clashes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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