The war crimes tribunal in The Hague has unsealed its last indictment against alleged offenders during recent Balkan conflicts, prosecutors say.
The indictment, against a Macedonian ex-interior minister and a senior police official, is also the only one linked to Macedonia's ethnic unrest.
Ljube Boskovski and Johan Trculovski face trial for their alleged role in clashes with ethnic Albanians in 2001.
Correspondents say the tribunal is under pressure to complete its work.
It has until 2008 to finish trials, with a further deadline of 2010 to cover any outstanding appeals.
In the 10 years since it was set up, the tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has indicted around 150 people.
However, several key suspects remain at large.
Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are still believed to be in hiding in Bosnia, Serbia or Montenegro.
Meanwhile, the failure to bring Croatian fugitive Gen Ante Gotovina to trial is threatening to delay Zagreb's EU accession talks, due to start on Thursday.
Police raid
The last indictment, issued on 22 December 2004, was unsealed on Tuesday.
HAGUE TRIBUNAL
Mr Boskovski is currently awaiting trial in Croatia over a separate incident involving the deaths of seven South Asian immigrants.
He denies all the charges against him.
Mr Trculovski was arrested recently and is currently being held in Skopje.
Both men are charged with three counts of murder, cruel treatment and wanton destruction during clashes between government forces and ethnic Albanian rebels in the village of Ljuboten outside Skopje in August 2001.
Mr Trculovski was accused of leading the raid, but the indictment said Mr Boskovski had overall responsibility.
The village was shelled for three days, after which police conducted a house-to-house search and blew up 14 houses, the indictment said.
Ten ethnic Albanians died during the clashes, just two days before a Western-brokered peace deal ended the six-month conflict.
The raid was apparently in retaliation for the deaths of eight Macedonian soldiers in a land mine explosion nearby.
'Weapons planted'
Mr Boskovski commanded his own elite paramilitary police from 2001 to 2003.
He was arrested in Croatia last September and charged with the murder of six Pakistanis and an Indian near Skopje in 2002.
Prosecutors allege that he arranged for the seven to be lured from Bulgaria into Macedonia, where they were shot and then had weapons planted on them.
This enabled Macedonia to claim it had foiled an attempted al-Qaeda attack on the US embassy in Skopje, they say.
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