In Macedonia, the conservative Macedonian Slav-run government has for years dragged its feet on implementing the equal-rights provisions of the Ohrid Agreement, reached in 2001 with the leaders of the ethnic Albanian minority to end a violent insurrection by the National Liberation Army, an ethnic Albanian militia. Demonstrators have taken to the streets of the capital, Skopje, shouting that the government has opted for a policy of open discrimination on “ethnic and religious grounds.”