Orce Stefkovski - pesna za Ljube Boskoski
Macedonian music.....Ljube Boškoski was born on 24 October 1960, in the village of Čelopek, Brvenica municipality, on the outskirts of Tetovo, Republic of Macedonia.Known among his supporters as "Brother Ljube"
In 1985, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, thereafter working as an apprentice in a court and later as a legal adviser for a health insurance fund in Rovinj, Croatia.
After the parliamentary elections in 1998 and the success of VMRO-DPMNE, Boškoski was named deputy-director of the Administration for Security and Counter-Intelligence.
On 31 January 2001, he was named state secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and on 15 May of the same year, appointed Minister of Internal Affairs by the ruling government. Following the parliamentary elections of 5 September 2002, he was dismissed from his position as Minister of Internal Affairs and became a Member of Parliament.
In April 2004, Boškoski nominated to run in the presidential elections and had previously collected 10,000 signatures as is required of potential candidates. The State Electoral Commission invalidated his candidacy as he had not fulfilled the requirement that all presidential candidates live in the country for 15 consecutive years prior to nominating.
On 2 March 2002, at approximately 4:00 a.m. local time, seven allegedly armed militants, six of them being Pakistani citizens and another being an Indian citizen, were shot dead in Raštanski Lozja near the village of Ljuboten, close to the Macedonian border with Serbia. The men were shot by the Lions.
(an elite special operations tactical unit formed after the 2001 Macedonia conflict in order to aid against acts of terrorism and for emergency deployment in rural combat areas)
Ljube Boškoski, whom many believe ordered the killings, denies the allegations made by the media and the victims' families. Boškoski made a statement suggesting that the men were associated with a terrorist group and had planned an attack on the British, American and German embassies in the Macedonian capital of Skopje. A court of law acquitted 4 members of the Macedonian security forces, who were tried as a result of the incident; the court ruled that the killings were not a staged act.
Boškoski was detained in Croatia in August 2004, after he was stripped of parliamentary immunity by Macedonia. In December of that year, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) published an indictment against him and Johan Tarčulovski.
In March 2005, he was transferred to the ICTY in The Hague. Boškoski and Tarčulovski were charged with violations of the laws or customs of war during the 2001 Macedonia conflict — a "civil war" between ethnic Albanian members of the NLA and the Macedonian security forces such as the Wolves in 2001, during which, Boškoski was Minister of Internal Affairs.
According to the indictment, between Friday 10 August 2001, and Sunday 12 August 2001, a land offensive was launched by Macedonian security forces against ethnic Albanian civilians and property in Ljuboten, a predominantly Albanian village.
According to the tribunal, Boškoski, in his capacity as Minister of the Interior, "had de jure and de facto command and control over the members of the police forces which took part in the alleged crimes." The tribunal also claims that "Boškoski knew or had reason to know that the crimes alleged in this indictment had been committed by his subordinates.
he ICTY trial against Boškoski started on 16 April 2007, and ended on July 10, 2008, he he was acquitted of all charges against him. However, Tarčulovski received 12 years imprisonment.
When Boškoski arrived at Skopje Alexander the Great Airport on 11 July 2008, he symbolically kissed the ground and was welcomed by women in traditional Macedonian clothes. With tears in his eyes. he held a short speech in which he called for brotherhood among the people living in the Republic of Macedonia. Later that day, he appeared at Pella Square in Skopje and was welcomed by Macedonians who travelled from all over the country to the capital city.
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