On wednesday 14 the FYROM police demolished the roof of a building at the Recica e Vogel village of Tetova dedicated to serve as premises for the Faculty of Sciences of the incoming Albanian-medium University of tetova.

The University was due to inaugurate on 17 december 1994.

Reports from Tetova say that heavy FYROM police forces keep the Recica village under siege.

Today, the FYROM police also raided on the premises of the PPD party (the wing of Arber Xhaferi & Menduh Thaci) in Tetova.

The reports from Tetova were also confirmed today by the Albanian-language media in FYROM.

There are as yet unconfirmed reports of Albanians arrested by the police.

The Macedonian (FYROM) Government issued yesterday a communique in which it says the government [...] Albanian-medium University of Prishtina.

The FYROM government argues that nationalities [a Communist-manufactured term for blurring the distinction between the concept of a 'nation' and a 'national minority'] are entitled to only elementary and secondary schooling in mother tongue.

The communique says the FYROM government will undertake "all legal measures in its disposal" to suspend the activities of the Founding Committee of the Albanian-medium University in Tetova. The government states that the blame for possible ethnic tensions would lie with this Committee, thus hinting that the Macedonian authorities are intent on embarking on a severe anti-Albanian University campaign.

The Albanian ministers in the FYROM government - Beqir Zhuta, Asllan Selmani, Xhevdet Hajredini, Iliaz Sabrin and Servet Avziu, as well as deputy ministers Hasan Jashari and Bardhyl Kuka [all of them members of the outgoing cabinet] have distanced themselves from the Macedonian part of the cabinet's position on the issue of Albanian university.

An independent Albanian deputy to the Macedonian parliament, Hysen Ramadani, said only 1.5-2% of the students of the University of Shkup/Skopje and Manastir/Bitola are of Albanian ethnic background, and that for the time being there is short supply of some "800 elementary and secondary school teachers" in Albanian, and that by the year 2010 some 4000 teachers will be needed.

The Belgrade-based "Borba" reports today of a protest rally of some 2000 Macedonian students on Monday in Skopje. They protested against the opening of an Albanian-medium University! Slogans such as "Tetova is a Macedonian town!" and "Macedonia to Macedonians!" were heard. These students urged the FYROM government's crackdown on the Albanian University so as to make it impossible for such a university to be opened.

Arben Xhaferi, a PDP leader said yesterday, addressing a crowd of 500 people at the Kamjan village of Tetova that "the University of Tetova is a fait accompli". "If the FYROM police is set to obstructs its operation, we deputies of the PDP will stand on the front", he avowed.

There have been continuous complaints by the Albanian political parties and institutions in FYROM in the past few years about what they call a continued Macedonian oppression and discrimination of the large Albanian community.

Albanian political leaders have been said the FYROM authorities have embarked on continuous manipulations to reduce the profile of Albanian entity within framework of the multiethnic Macedonian state.

There are voices who argue that there is virtually no improvement in the position of the Macedonian "democratic" regime from the Communist one towards the Albanians. Both of them use the same Byzantine methods to marginalize the Albanian community and supress its human and national rights.

It is the international community's turn now. Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia cannot pass for a democratic country as long as it holds the large Albanian community under yoke following markedly Communist tactics.