Cause and Effect essay

 Incidents that got me worried

Recently in the heart of south Europe, in my country of  Macedonia a lot of incidents occurred.  There are several reasons for this occurrence. First, tensions have been simmering in Macedonia since the end of the armed rebellion in 2001, when ethnic Muslim Albanians fought Macedonian forces for about eight mounts; their cause was seeking greater rights for their community in Macedonia. But most Macedonians argue that what their Albanian countrymen really want is the destruction of Macedonia and the creation of a "Greater Albania". The conflict left 80 people dead, and ended with the intervention of NATO troops.

Two month ago an off-duty Macedonian policeman shot and killed two ethnic Muslim Albanians. The policeman was with his daughter when he was attacked by 4 Muslim Albanians and the media said that the cause was a parking space. Also, separate reports alleged that he had responded to an attempted assault by a group of men seeking to silence his supposed knowledge of the local illegal drug trade. The effects of this were a series of attacks on buses and in the streets involving clashes between Macedonians and ethnic Albanian youths. This was followed by further violence over the weekend. In April 2012 Macedonia has declared a day of mourning after the shooting of five men, the worst mass murder in the history of the tiny Balkan country that has fueled speculation they were ethnic-related killings. The victims were ethnic Macedonians, mostly young fishermen. Four were in their 20s, and the fifth was in his 40s. Four days after the killings, several hundred young Macedonian protesters in the capitol city of Skopje clashed with police, battling to stop them from entering the parts of the city where Muslim Albanians live, seeking revenge. Finally, after 3 weeks of investigation the police arrested twenty radical Muslims, mostly Macedonian citizens, some of whom had been fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan against NATO soldiers. They were nabbed on Monday after a massive security operation involving some 800 police officers and other interior ministry officials. One of the effects of these arrests was the protest of about 1,500 radical Islamists in the Macedonia capitol Skopje demanding release of the Islamists radical suspects arrested by the police on 2^nd of May following the cold-blooded summary execution of four Macedonian children and one mid-aged Macedonian while they were fishing.

The aim of the brutal murder was to get Macedonians to attack Muslim Albanians and vice versa. Facebook is here, lets organize, lets burn them alive, right? Except, Macedonians are much, much smarter than that, and most importantly are not evil people, like others. The effect wanted by the killers was not accomplished, at least not so far…