SKOPJE (Reuters) - Twenty-nine ethnic Albanians pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of terrorism on the opening day of a trial over a deadly day-long gun battle with police in Macedonia last May.
The shootout, in which eight police officers and 10 ethnic Albanians were killed, was the most serious bloodshed in the former Yugoslav republic since Western diplomacy pulled it back from the brink of full-blown civil war in 2001.
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