MACEDONIAN POLICE SHOW CAPTURED WEAPONS IN SKOPJE, 2001-05-31 (photo)

A Chinese-made grenade launcher, seized by the Macedonian army when it re-took several villages that were under the control of ethnic Albanian guerrillas, is displayed in front of a picture of Ibrahim Rugova, head of the neighbouring predominantly-Albanian region of Kosovo, in the Skopje police barracks on May 31, 2001. Rugova's picture was also seized in the formerly rebel area. The Macedonian army seized a large amount of weapons, including mortars and heavy machine guns, that were left behind in the villages the rebels were forced to quit after an assault by government troops. Macedonian forces and ethnic Albanian guerrillas held their fire on Thursday, but squabbled over how the thousands of civilians trapped in the battle zone should be evacuated. OT/BK