REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA. Arachinovo. July 2001. Macedonian Special Police "Tigers", training/showing positions above the village of Arachinovo. Skopje in the background. After ethnic Albanian rebels of the NLA, National Liberation Army had been evacuated by US troops in a Nato brookered deal, Macedonian governement forces retook control of the village in the outskirts of the capital Skopje.