PETITION FOR REVOCATION OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FROM AGENCY ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Issue

By editing incorrect information the world ranking press agency "AP" acted unfair - at the least, given the fact this information found its way to millions of users who whole heartedly believe it, so disrupting the peace of Macedonia precisely at a moment when media are invited to be the system which will be appeal for awareness and peace.  

This is what  AP repported about the murder near Skopje mistaking the victims as ethnic Albanians even though they were Macedonians. The correspondent from Skopje reported accurate that the victims were Macedonians, but we believe that AP twistted the truth for no explicable reason. The report was spread trough many world media.

 

Macedonia: 5 hurt, 14 arrested in clashes The Associated Press Posted:   04/17/2012 07:47:46 AM PDT

 

    SKOPJE, Macedonia—Police in Macedonia say five people, including two police officers, have been injured and 14 people detained for questioning following riots triggered by the slaying of five fishermen that has stoked ethnic tension.

The clashes occurred late Monday between riot police and hundreds of youths in Macedonia's capital, Skopje, who chanted anti-Albanian slogans, threw rocks at police and vandalized property. The arrests and injuries were announced Tuesday.

The Albanian lake fishermen were found shot dead last week. Police have not commented on reports that the killings may have been racially motivated.

Ethnic Albanians make up a quarter of Macedonia's population of 2.1 million. Tensions with the Macedonian majority have simmered since a 2001 uprising by ethnic Albanian rebels.

 

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The Issue

By editing incorrect information the world ranking press agency "AP" acted unfair - at the least, given the fact this information found its way to millions of users who whole heartedly believe it, so disrupting the peace of Macedonia precisely at a moment when media are invited to be the system which will be appeal for awareness and peace.  

This is what  AP repported about the murder near Skopje mistaking the victims as ethnic Albanians even though they were Macedonians. The correspondent from Skopje reported accurate that the victims were Macedonians, but we believe that AP twistted the truth for no explicable reason. The report was spread trough many world media.

 

Macedonia: 5 hurt, 14 arrested in clashes The Associated Press Posted:   04/17/2012 07:47:46 AM PDT

 

    SKOPJE, Macedonia—Police in Macedonia say five people, including two police officers, have been injured and 14 people detained for questioning following riots triggered by the slaying of five fishermen that has stoked ethnic tension.

The clashes occurred late Monday between riot police and hundreds of youths in Macedonia's capital, Skopje, who chanted anti-Albanian slogans, threw rocks at police and vandalized property. The arrests and injuries were announced Tuesday.

The Albanian lake fishermen were found shot dead last week. Police have not commented on reports that the killings may have been racially motivated.

Ethnic Albanians make up a quarter of Macedonia's population of 2.1 million. Tensions with the Macedonian majority have simmered since a 2001 uprising by ethnic Albanian rebels.

 

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