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Sources from the field reports that explosive was set up on his door from inside. It was KLA revenge, the locals says, since the brother of the deceased Aco Stojanovski was in the Macedonian special forces The Tigers.

Later, during the police investigation, two more explosive devices were found inside of his house.

Skopje, February 10 (MIA) - On Sunday morning, at about 11,20, Aco Stojanovski from the village of Arachinovo lost his life and Tomislav Spasovski was badly injured in an explosion that happened the village.

The incident occurred when they opened the door of Stojanovski's house located on 10th street in the village. The explosion occurred as soon as they opened the door.

Stojanovski died on the way to the hospital and Spasovski was hospitalized and his medical condition is stable.

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Macedonian police will do everything to catch the perpetrators of this crime and to hand over to the judicial organs," Minister of Interior Ljube Boskovski stated late Sunday addressing bigger group of citizens of the village of Aracinovo, near the capital city Skopje, who calmly protested in front of the Macedonian parliament building due to the incident in the village when Aco Stojanovski lost his life due to activation of the planted bomb.

Minister Boskovski expressed his deepest condolences due to Stojanovski's death and called all Macedonians from Aracinovo to have trust in the Macedonian Government.

"We have witnessed another terrorist act, this time committed in Aracinovo. The international community has been also upset by this horrible act. Europe is on our side in the combat against the terrorism which is happening at this moment in Macedonia, Boskovski said, stressing that "we should bear up this heavy crisis and to give peace a chance."

On Sunday morning, at about 11,20, Aco Stojanovski from the village of Aracinovo lost his life and Tomislav Spasovski was badly injured in an explosion that happened in the village.

The incident occurred as they tried to enter the house of Stojanovski's brother, located on 10th street in the village. As soon as they opened the door a planted bomb exploded leaving Stojanovski dead. Spasevski, who stood next to him, was injured and transferred to a hospital. His condition is stabile.

Ministry of interior confirmed the incident and informed that during the search of the house other planted bombs were found. Ministry undertakes all necessary measures to solve the case and find the perpetrators of this terrorist attack.

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Macedonian refugees from Arachinovo, June 12, 2000.

Skopje, Feb 10 - The displaced people from Arachinovo made a peaceful protest in front of the Parliament this afternoon. The protest was in memory of their friend, Aco Stojanovski, who was killed today visiting his house in Arachinovo. The banished Macedonians showed their mourning by lighting candles on the lawn in front of the Parliament.

The displaced people from Arachinovo say that the government is lying to them, and that it is in fact not safe for them to go back to their homes in Arachinovo. One of the displaced people almost got killed by an explosive device set up in his yard by the KLA few days ago. The device is still in the village. He avoided it by pure luck.

The displaced people from Arachinovo are against the general amnesty plan, because the government allows the terrorists, who kicked them out of their own houses, to go free.

Aco Stojanovski was one of the displaced people living in the Refugees Centers in Skopje.

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Kosovo democracy: hurling bricks as a way to protest the arrest of KLA war criminals suspected of killing Albanian civilians. Imagine what would happen UN tries to bring to justice the KLA who targeted Serbs.

U.N. international and local police run from ethnic Albanian protesters hurling bricks during a protest demanding immediate release of three suspected war criminals held in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Friday, Feb. 8, 2002. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Fri Feb 8, 2:32 PM ET
By GARENTINA KRAJA, Associated Press Writer

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - Hundreds of youths hurled bricks Friday at police and residents sitting at a hotel patio, as a protest to demand the release of suspected ethnic Albanian war criminals turned violent.

Three international police officers, helping local police with crowd control, were slightly injured along with two civilian women, said U.N. police and the manager of the hotel Iliria.

A police vehicle was slightly damaged, and the picture windows of the hotel were shattered by rocks and bricks hurled at clients sitting at tables outside by demonstrators angered that they did not join in the protest.

The violent group was part of a crowd of about 5,000. After they rushed regular U.N. and local police, special police units in riot gear were deployed in the central part of the capital.

Before dispersing, the crowd chanted the name of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which fought to rid the province of Serb rule, and called upon the U.N. administration to leave Kosovo.

"This is extremely sad and unnecessary," said Simon Haselock, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in the province. "This was a group of hooligans rather then a group of demonstrators representing the outpouring of local opinion."

Friday's protest was the fourth since the three suspects were arrested Jan. 28 by U.N police and NATO-led peacekeepers on suspicion of participating in abductions, assaults and murders from September 1998 to June 1999. All the victims were ethnic Albanian civilians.

The previous demonstrations were largely free of violence.

The men, the first former Kosovo rebels to be arrested on war crimes allegations, were members of the military police unit in the area of Podujevo, some 35 miles north of Pristina.

Their unit was part of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the guerrilla group that fought for the Yugoslav province's independence until NATO's 1999 air war ousted Serb forces loyal to then-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

In a separate development, a man died and another was injured when they set off a suspected cluster bomb, Wing Cmdr. Daz Slaven, a spokesman for the NATO-led peace force, said Friday.

The explosion occurred Thursday in a Pristina park, part of which used to be a Yugoslav military base heavily bombed during the air war. The fatal victim was identified as Selman Ibrahimi, 20.