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Funerals for dead soldiers and national day of mourning

(11 Aug 2001) 1. Various of main street 2. Exterior of Houses of Parliament 3. Macedonian flag on Houses of Parliament at half mast 4. Close up flag 5. Macedonian government building 6. Close up flag at half mast on building 7. Exterior main Christian orthodox church in Skopje 8. Interior church - woman lighting candles to the dead on national day of mourning 9. Interior church 10. Close up candles 11. Exterior cemetery in Gjorce Petrov suburb of Skopje at funeral of soldier Marjanco Bofkovfki - funeral procession with coffin bearers and grieving relatives 12. Mourners and priest at graveside 13. Mourners and soldiers at graveside 14. Soldiers fire gun salute to fallen comrade 15. Various of coffin being lowered into ground 16. Relatives throwing soil into grave 17. Close up mourner 18. Various of looted business in Gjorce Petrov suburb and people clearing up 19. Smashed up butcher's shop and people bringing out meat and clearing up 20. Wide shot funeral of Thomas Love Nastevfki in chapel at Butel Cemetery 21. Close up photo of Nastevfki on coffin 22. Various of mourners 23. Wide shot of his body in the coffin and mourners 24. Wife kisses her husband's body in coffin 25. Various mourners 26. Priest performing service STORYLINE: Macedonia observed a national day of mourning on Saturday as relatives buried their loved ones after eight soldiers were killed when their military vehicle went over a land mine near Tetovo on Friday. Elsewhere in Skopje shopkeepers of Albanian businesses were clearing up the mess after angry Macedonian mobs went on the rampage overnight on Friday. The rioters, angry at what they perceive as a Western bias toward the ethnic Albanians, smashed windows and looted ethnic Albanian-run businesses. The land mine explosion has shaken hopes for a peace deal meant to end this Balkan nation's crisis. The recent surge in fighting - including battles on the outskirts of the capital, Skopje - has jeopardized a tentative peace accord accepted earlier this week by ethnic Albanian and Macedonian political leaders. Though plans for a formal ceremony to sign the agreement on Monday remain in place, the troubled country appeared instead to be slipping toward all-out civil war. The country's foreign minister Ilinka Mitreva pleaded with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, NATO chief Lord Robertson and European Union envoy Javier Solana to assist Macedonia at "this most dramatic moment." Though dozens have died in the six months since the Albanian rebel movement emerged, 19 people on the government side alone have been killed in the days since the tentative deal was reached on Wednesday. Under the peace plan, ethnic Albanians would be granted more influence and a larger share of power in police, parliament and education. The rebels would be given amnesty and agree to disarm under the supervision of 3,500 specially deployed NATO troops. But the rebels say there is no reason for this to happen while government forces are using helicopter gunships and artillery against them. Meanwhile, President Boris Trajkovski convened a security council meeting to decide how to respond to the attacks, and issued a statement afterward pledging to press on with offensive actions. But Macedonians claim the rebels simply want to seize a chunk of territory and call it their own. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...