Macedonia: Protests Against Police Brutality/Murder Cover-Up Spread · Global Voices
Filip Stojanovski

This post is part of our special coverage Macedonia Protests 2011.
Macedonian youth and some older intellectuals have been protesting for five days online and offline in Skopje, urging the authorities to “solve” the case of murder of a young man by a police officer who served as a bodyguard to a high-ranking official during the post-election rally of the ruling party. On Friday, youth from other cities, like Bitola, Strumica, and Kochani, took to the streets, too.
Currently, the most popular Twitter hashtags include #Martin, #protestiram (“I protest”) and #Bitola.
Vnukot has been providing consistent high-quality coverage of the street protests in English (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4). With his permission, Global Voices relays his article on Day 5:
According to A1 TV [mk], the brother and friends of the murdered Martin Neshkovski also joined the protest, carrying his photo.
More HQ photos from the Skopje protests, licensed under Creative Commons, are available on FOSIM's Flickr profile.
A new symbol arose on day 5 – black flags that were put up on poles and waved in the crowd, as a reminder of the meaningless end of a young life.
This time, a lot more streets were covered with the steps of the protesters (over 6 kilometers), and throughout the day, the initial symbol was kept – sitting down on every intersection, blocking it and paying respects with a minute of silence.
In the meantime, the number of foreign media covering the protests grows by the minute…
Day 5 of protests in Skopje – Macedonia awakens! from Dejan Velkoski on Vimeo.
This post is part of our special coverage Macedonia Protests 2011.