Ansar Burney to sue Macedonian govt for killing 6 Pakistanis

(03/05/2004)
The News

KARACHI: The human and civil rights organisation Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International has announced plans to sue the Macedonian government for compensation of $12 million on killing of six innocent Pakistanis on fake terrorism charges in Skopje (Macedonia) in March 2002.

Chairman of the Trust Ansar Burney, Advocate announced on Sunday that the Trust is preparing to sue the Macedonian government for a compensation to pay the heirs of the six deceased with $2 million each - a total sum of $12 million.

These 6 innocent Pakistanis — Umar Farooq, Syed Bilal Husain Shah, M Asif Javed, Khalid Iqbal, Aijaz Ahmad and Muhammad Riaz — were brutally murdered, because they were carrying Qura’anic verses in their pockets in Macedonia two years ago.

The Trust decided to sue the Macedonian government in the International Court of Justice after Macedonia charged its former interior minister Ljube Boskovski and six officers, including 2 former police generals of its security forces, with murder on Friday. In 2002, innocent migrants were ambushed and made to look like ‘terrorists’.

"A parliamentary committee in Macedonia already voted 6 to 2 to lift the immunity of former interior minister Ljube Boskovski. They have approved the state prosecutor’s request for his detention," Ansar Burney said

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