On 26 June 2001, from 3,000 to 5,000 Macedonian protesters, armed with machine guns, broke into the Parliament building and demanded to talk to the
President of Macedonia at the time,
Boris Trajkovski, shouting "treason", calling for "resignation", Some protesters chanted
anti-Albanian slogans such as "Gas chambers for the Albanians", "death to the Albanians", "kill the Albanians", as well as demanding that ethnic Albanian rebels be killed. The crowd was made up of army and police, as well as reservists who kept the NLA encircled in Aračinovo. They later managed to get into the building, where they started to break windows and furniture, and destroyed two police cars. Several police officers and several journalists were injured. == See also ==