. >> a cultural festival is being held at in skopje, the capital of macedonia. music is in the air, and on the street, people lay on the street pretending to have been beaten by the police. the young people are demonstrating against the state's corporate for use of power. the country has never seen anything like it before. it is also aunusual that many ethnic albanians are protesting what the youou people. they are strictly separated from the macedonians. >> facebook has changed things. i now have lots of macedonian friends. i have your. i have learned that a young macedonian was beaten to death. >> it was not the first time a police officer went berserk, but it is the first time anyone has staged protests about it. macedonians and albanians stand side by side, carrying bilingual betters. what most outraged everyone was the government's attempt to cover up the killing. a spokesman lied directly to the cameras saying they had no information about the incident. but dozens of eyewitnesses testified they had seen a police officer relentlessly beating a 22-year-old.