Kosovo journalist Parim Olluri has been called a Serbian spy – and worse – on social media after he published an article criticizing the government's offer to award relatives of ethnic Albanians convicted of involvment in the 2015 gunbattle in Kumanovo, Macedonia.

Parim Olluri, a Kosovo journalist who runs the online newspaper Insajderi says has has come under vicious attack on social media during last two weeks, after he published an article criticising the Kosovo government for allocating money to families of men convicted in the "Kumanovo case".

In 2015, armed ethnic Albanians engaged in a two-day gunbattle with Macedonian police in the Macedonian town of Kumanovo.

The Kosovo government on November pleged to give 219,000 euros to cover the expenses of the family members of those convicted of involvement in or killed during the gunbattle in May 2015.

The decision came after the Skopje Criminal Court on November 2 gave life sentences to seven of the 37 ethnic Albanian defendants accused of involvement in the two-day shootout. Most of the rest got long jail terms.

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