Koha Ditore carries an interview that Foreign Minister of Serbia and Montenegro Vuk Draskovic gave to Beta News Agency.
Draskovic said during the interview that an independent Kosovo would be a cancer for Serbia and the Balkans and reiterated the stance that Belgrade is offering Kosovo something ‘more than autonomy less than independence’.
‘An independent Kosovo would be economically isolated from Serbia and would not have any chance of surviving economically, so it would soon turn into a place of social riots and blood feuds among Albanians themselves’, Draskovic said.
To support his belief that Brussels, Washington and New York will accept ‘Belgrade’s compromise’, Draskovic underlined that independence in Kosovo, against the will of Serbia, would imply that NATO did not bomb Serbia and Montenegro to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, but to ‘break an internationally recognized State and create another independent state within it’. It would be a most grievous violation of the UN Charter, he stressed.
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Draskovic underlined that independence in Kosovo, would imply that NATO did not bomb Serbia and Montenegro to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, but to,,, ’. It would be a most grievous violation of the UN Charter, he stressed. Well a dumb ass,, like he forgot how many times serbija violated the chapters of UN wake up drashko
I guess that since Serbia violated the UN charter, that excuses the United States and NATO for violating it as well. Good reasoning.
Every day Serbs come with a lamer excuse than the previous days. There is no reason to believ that Serbs would not start a genocide again. After all a poll today showed that the radicals lead all other political parties. Imagine the NAZI's leading the polls in post war Germany. Therefore Kosova's independence is the only solution.
What a confused person!!! No wonder the serbs are going downhill!!! Come one guys wake up get some proper leaders to lead you......
call us arrogent, u dumb peicees of barbaric shit, but your arrogent times 5000. Whatever you getm you want more more more, my maceodnian friend fled from u faggots
CANCER=TOO MUCH LIFE
ALBANIAN BIRTH RATE=HIGHEST IN EUROPE
suck on that
Martyr u're a confused piece of shit. You call us fags and yet you say we have the highest birthrate in the area. Meanwhile your birthrate is bellow repalacement levels, old and decaying. Simply by analyzing these facts you come to the conclusion that Serbs are faggots and impotents. These are the causes why the Serbs are getting smallere in number and its popullation is decaying and dying. Again you are fags and impotents.
Martyr,
You heart is going to let go !Hehehe
Chill.
You are so naive. I feel sorry for your mom (that is if you do have one)...
Hey guys i bet you this was bullied at school :(
Let him in his own world of psycho
hehe
It feels good to feel you angry. You deserve it you analphabetic Nazi=Serbian thug. No going back for you to Croatia or Kosova (you were a refuge there right)
hehehe
Dont these fucks realize that its in their best interest to just let us go.
They tried to change the region's demographic but couldnt cuz their a bunch of liberal panzies who make 1 kid for every couple. On the other hand we make 4+.
before they would realize we would have been the majority and being that we are Albanians and stick together we would eat up that little piece of shit nation you call greater serbia.
Guys, I don't think this is Martyr that used to type here.
First of all he used to spell his name MARTyr, while this one is Martyr.
Besides, the imposter seems illiterate, he can hardly spell a word. He swears all the time and seem very confused. Even more than the former Martyr.
Or maybe still this is Martyrs other personality... who knows
Tosi
Sweden
Chris Blaku--you're a poet, a scholar, and a prophet. I applaud your brilliance.
SErbs are shit people
we will kick you ass like hitler did in world war 2 and make kosovo part of albania.
greater albania!!!
Sali Berisha - a former President of Albania - talks ominously about an "Albanian Federation". The younger, allegedly more urbane Pandeli Majko, the current Prime Minister of Albania, raises the idea (?) of a uniform curriculum for all Albanian pupils and students, wherever they may reside. Albanians in Macedonia make it a point to fly Albanian flags conspicuously and of every occasion. This could have well been a plausible scenario had it not been for two facts. First, that there is no such thing as homogeneous "Albanians" and second that Great Albania is without historical precedent.Albanians are comprised of a few ethnic groups of different creeds. There are catholic Albanians - like Mother Theresa - and Muslim Albanians - Like Hashim Thaci. There are Tosks - southern Albanians who speak a (nasal) dialect of Albanian and there are Gegs - northern Albanians (and Kosovars) who speak another dialect which has little in common with Tosk (at least to my ears). Tosks don't like Gegs and Gegs detest Tosks. In a region where tribal and village loyalties predominate these are pertinent and important facts.The Kosovars are considered by their Albanian "brethren" (especially by the Tosks, but also by Albanian Gegs) to be cold, unpleasant, filthy rich cheats. Albanians - Tosks and Gegs alike - are considered by the Kosovars to be primitive, ill mannered bandits. There is no love lost between all these groups. When the crisis brought on by Operation Allied Force started, the local Albanian population charged the refugees amidst them with exorbitant (not to say extortionate) prices for such necessities as a roof over their head, food and cigarettes. When the UN mandate (read: the KLA mandate) was established, the Albanians rushed to export their brand of crime and banditry to Kosovo and to prey on its local population. No Macedonian - however radical - will dare say about the Albanians what my Kosovar contacts say. They non-chalantly and matter of factly attribute to them the most heinous crimes and uncivilized behaviour. Kosovars had - and are still having - an excruciating experience in Albania during this crisis. The lesson (being learned by Kosovars since Albania opened up to them in 1990) will not be easily forgotten or forgiven. Albanians reciprocate by portraying the Kosovars as cynical, inhuman, money making terminators, emotionless wealthy predators.This is not to say that Albanians on both sides of the border do not share the same national dreams and aspirations. Kosovar intellectuals were watching Albanian TV and reading Albanian papers even throughout the Stalinist period of Enver Hoxha, the long time Albanian dictator. Albanian nationalists never ceased regarding Kosovo as an integral part of an Albanian motherland. Albania was created in 1912 (its borders finally settled in 1913) in response to Austro-Hungarian demands. It never encouraged Kosovo to secede. The Albanian King Zog suppressed the activities of Kosovar irredentist movements in his country in between the two world wars.
In 1878, at the end of May and at the beginning of June (according to the old calendar), over 300 delegates gathered at a great session in Prizren from all parts where Albanians lived. It was decided that independent, ethnically clean Albanian state should be founded. The state should encompass all "Albanian territories". It was planned as a unique body composed of four regions (principalities):
The first region should be composed of southern Albania and Epir (Janjina);
The second region should be composed of northern and central Albania (Skadar, Tirana and Elbasa);
The third region should be composed of parts of Macedonia (Skopje, Debar, Gostivar, Prilep, Veles, Bitolj and Ohrid);
The fourth region should be composed of Kosovo with parts of southern Serbia and Macedonia (Pec, Djakovica, Prizren, Novi Pazar, Mitrovica, Sjenica, Pristina, Gnjilane, Presevo and Kumanovo).
This is the essence of the concept of "Great Albania" which means trespass of Slavic and Greek territories where Albanians are national minority. They settled those territories and persecuted local people in most cases due to a special status in the Turkish Empire.
The concept of a greater Albanian state did not appear as an authentic expression of the Albanian national movement. Until the beginning of the Great Eastern Crisis (1875-1878), Albanians, unlike other Balkan nations – Serbs, Greeks, Bulgarians, Rumanians – did not attempt to create a national state through modern political organization. A regional and religious identity was dominant among the Albanians.
The main power of the expansionist Albanian movement came from Muslim Albanians. With the exception of isolated examples of cultural efforts among the Albanians, mostly those in Diaspora (Istanbul, Egypt, South Italy), Albanian Muslims were the iron fist of the Ottoman Empire in its efforts to suppress the Christian movement in South Eastern Europe. With their patriarchal-oriental society of Asian type, they constituted the main obstacle to Europeanization of this part of Europe in the 19th and 20th century. Exceptions to this were an insignificant catholic minority in the north of Albania, mainly in the region of Skadar, and the more numerous orthodox community in the south of Albania, which was strongly influenced by the Greek cultural orbit.
All attempts by Balkan Christians to win over the Albanians to the common struggle against the Ottoman Empire and for the aim of national liberation and modernization of their societies were fruitless. At the beginning of the Great Eastern Crisis Albanians were at the forefront of the Turkish regular, and particularly irregular troops (bashibozuk) and committed numerous atrocities in battles against the Christian rebels. During the crisis the Albanians did not join the liberation movements of the Balkan Christians in any way.
It is completely clear that the birth of the Albanian league in 1878 and its political program were not an expression of Albanian original liberation efforts, which anyhow were late in coming compared to other peoples. The league was an instrument, primarily in Turkish hands, and later in the hands of other powers, for the preservation of the Ottoman Empire. The Albanian central revolutionary committee (Abdul Frasheri, Pashko Vaso, Sami Frasheri, Zija Prishtina, Jani Vreto and others) was founded in April 1878 in Istanbul and its was to organize Albanian popular resistance to the liberation actions in Montenegro, Serbia and Greece.
The Greater Albanian political concept in its original and authentic program was totally imbued with the spirit of pan-Islamism and radical political Islam. Only from time to time did the Albanian political elite try to hide the distinctive Islamic feature of the foundations of their ideology, usually prompted by a desire to secure the support of some Western power. A militant from of Islam prevailed in Old Serbia, primarily in Kosovo and Metohija, as well as in the regions of today’s Western Macedonia, brought by the Albanian population from the mountainous parts of North Albania who forcefully descended into the gentle and fertile parts of this region. The forceful intrusions followed by centuries-long Muslim violence against the local Christians are today insistently presented as alleged repression of Albanians by local Christians.
In the European literature it is well known that the regions of today’s Middle Albania constitute the original centers of Albanian population. A distinguished German Albanologist, Georg Stadtmuller points out that the original regions of Albanian settlement encompass the valley of the river Shkumba, both sides of the river Mat, Kroja and some other neighboring parts4. The history of the Albanians and the Albanian society is far more complex than is usually presented today. This is true not only of the region of today’s Albania but also of the neighboring countries in which Albanians live as national minorities. Their religious heterogeneity and a distinctive tribal identity have always been a permanent source of internal conflict which result in the chronic instability of this country. This “unstable” condition of the young state threatens primarily non-Albanian people in Albania itself, but also in the neighborhood. We must not overlook the fact that in the territory of today’s Albania large Slav settlements have existed for centuries and that Slav toponymisc have been largely preserved up to the present day. In recent time, from the creation of the first Albanian state in 1912, and especially during the rule of the Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoja, a large part of non-Albanian, particularly Slav population, excluding Greeks, were assimilated by the most brutal means of state repression.
The Greater Albania project is directly connected with the consequences of the Turkish conquests in South Eastern Europe, and especially with the wars of European Christian powers against Turkey towards the end of the 17th century. It has remained, in a sense, as a long reaching hand of the Ottoman spirit in Europe, as a vehicle of that kind of life, customs and mentalities which were characteristic for the territory of the South Eastern Europe at the time of Ottoman rule. The Christian population of the European Turkey, primarily of Old Serbia and the northern part of Macedonia, joined the struggle of the European powers after the siege of Vienna en-mass (1683) to oust the Turks from Europe. After the defeat of the Europeans (1690) as a reprisal this population was subjected to massive atrocities and, in essence, the first major ethnic cleansing. Turkish destructive military campaigns allowed the overflow of Albanian people from their original regions into the countries of their neighbors, both Slavs and Greeks. It was not before the 18th century that masses of Albanian stock breeders from the hilly regions of their country started descending into the fertile lands of Kosovo and Metohija populated by orthodox Serbs in overwhelming majority, as well as into the regions of today’s western Macedonia, form Skoplje to Bitolj populated by undoubtedly Serbian and Macedonian Slav population.
Besides the massive and almost regular atrocities which characterized this conquest of Old Serbia, there were also numerous other ways in which the compact Serbian ethnic body was broken up (forced Islamisization, different forms of robbery, plunder, destruction of religious sites, and many other forms of terror). This is testified to by many travel writers, and particularly Roman missionaries and visitors. These processes were convincingly described in, among numerous other Vatican sources, the report of the archbishop of Skoplje Matija Masarek in 1764. The archbishop reports on fresh colonies of Arbanas who had left their hills and settled in the gentle region of Metohija, in the vicinity of Djakovica. These Arbanas, new comers in Serbia, wrote archbishop Masarek, did not obey the orders of Christ’s Apostles, but quickly converted to Islam pushing out the orthodox and catholic population from their villages and taking over their lands (“maledetti Albanesi, I quali per forya si soo impadroniti di quasi tutti li terreni scismatici e cattolici serviani”)
A similar process went on in the Albanian-Greek boundary regions. Albanian migration under the Turks went towards Greek lands, particularly Epir. With the strengthening of the Greek liberation movement Turkey used Muslim Albanians to secure the rule over the largest possible parts of Epir and Thesalia. The Greater Albania ideology explained it thus: “From the banks of the river Bojana up to Janjina lives a unified and homogenous people. From Janjina to the gulf of Ambracia is the terrain which Greek religious and other propaganda denies to the Albanians who prevail there, if not in number, then in strength and power to resist”.
That Kosovo and Metohija, of which Albanian authors often speak as “Albanian land” were irrefutably the central regions of Serbian settlement, is testified to by the fact that the most important monuments of Serbian architecture and Serbian spirituality were erected there. In Kosovo and Metohija alone 1,400 monasteries, churches and other Serbian monuments were built. The most famous among them are the Patriarchy church in Pec, monasteries Banjska, Gracanica, Decani, St. Archangel near Prizren, Bogorodica Ljeviska in Prizren etc. A logical question can be asked: why would Serbs erect their central church, the Patriarchy in Pec, in the region where they were not in majority and which was not the central point of their people’s homeland?
The greatest changes in ethnic structure of the population of this part of Old Serbia occurred from the middle of the 18th up to the middle of the 19th century, and from the Berlin congress in 1878 up to the liberation of these regions from Turkish rule in 1912. They were basically a consequence of the conflict between the Islamic Ottoman-feudal concept on the one hand, and the European Christian concept of society on the other hand. Samuel Huntington is quite right when he defines similar processes today as “conflicts of civilization”. Kosovo and Metohija may be the most convincing example of such a conflict today, bearing in mind that the radical Islamic features of the Albanian secessionist movement are quite skillfully masked by European phraseology and European symbols.
Numerous foreign authors testify to the ethnic, political and religious circumstances in these regions. These are the works of Ami Bue, Joseph Muller, Johan Georg von Han, Ivan Stepanovich Jastrebov, Aleksandar Giljferding, Viktor Berar, Gaston Gravier and others. For example, Joseph Muller reports the data from 1838 about the religious and linguistic structure of the population in Metohija – in Pec, Prizren and Djakovica; in Pec, orthodox and Muslim Serbs were in a majority (92.09%) in relation to the catholic and Muslim Albanians (4.17%). In Prizren the percentage of Serbs, Muslim and Christian, from the total population (24.950) amounted to 73.68, whereas the percentage of Albanians, Muslim and catholic, amounted to 16.63%. Only Djakovica had a clear Albanian majority – the percentage of the Albanians, Muslim and catholic, amounted to 80.76%, whereas the percentage of Serbs, Christian and Muslim, amounted to 18.05%
The facts that Prizren, a town in Old Serbia, and on the outskirts of the Albanian ethnic region was chosen as the place for the session of the Albanian league in 1878 testifies to the extremely expansionist nature of Albanian aims. That is exactly were it was necessary to create a strong obstacle to further strengthening of the Serbian liberation movement in Old Serbia. And it was not a coincidence that the session of the Albanian League was not held in Albania, say in Drac, Valona, Tirana or some other town. From the time of the Great Eastern Crisis (1875-1878) the neighboring regions of Albania such as Kosovo, Metohija, today’s western Slav Macedonia and northern Epir, were Albanians had massively settled, mainly in the 18th and 19th century, started being referred to as “Albanian lands”. So the Albanian league, created on the eve of the Berlin Congress, took it upon itself to prevent the liberation of the “Albanian lands” from the neighboring peoples. The Leagues`s documents reveal the essence of the movement. The sessions were held in a Prizren mosque, and the special feature of the Statute (Kararname) was Islam. Albania and Albanians were not explicitly mentioned in any of the 16 articles of the Statute, but instead they speak in general terms of “nation and motherland”, “country”, “our land”, “Balkan country”, “in the Balkans” and similar. The political subjects of the Union (League) are simply Muslims; the article 7 talks of the need for the Union with “our long-suffering fellow countrymen and members of the same faith in the Balkans”, and the last 16th article qualifies the abandonment of the Union as the abandonment “of Islam”.7 It is also telling that Muslim land owners from Raska, and even Bosnia and Herzegovina were present at this meeting.
Basically the same ideas served as a foundation program for the so called Pec league in 1899 and so called second Prizren league in 1943. After the Turks were ousted from Europe in 1912, and after the formation of an independent Albanian state, the programme`s aims were clearly adapted somewhat to the new political circumstances and new protecting powers. The insistence on a totally pure ethnic Albanian state is typical for the conceptual program of Greater Albania, as is the rejection of any multi-ethnic concept. In accordance with such a program, the organized ethnic cleansing of non-Albanian population from the regions which were proclaimed as “Albanian lands” started right after the Berlin congress. During the period from 1876 to 1912 around 150,000 orthodox Serbs were forced to leave Old Serbia, that is the then Kosovo vilajet.8 We find similar ideas in Ismail Kemal Bey Vlora, the president of the first Albanian interim government. As the government president he demanded that the great powers cleanse “Albanian lend” of Slavs and Greeks.9 He also praised Albanians for having ousted “Christian Slavs”with their guns and violence.
Mirjana
Damn girl, i was readin your shit, but half way realised what a twisted bunch of propaganda you got goin on there on the history of events. Obviously i can find several source that can completly contradict what you have posted!
I just wanted to mention a few points, I am from Kosovo and lived in albania for 3 years 92-95 and sure i was ridiculed by my own people, callin me names and shit, but that was just for the first month or so. Obviously they were jeleous of us having more money since we enjoyed a bit more freedom than they did during the comunist era. And under Hoxha's communism the freedome of movement did not exist, so therefore it is inevitable for two distant reagions fo the same populus to have different dialects and ideals and even grow some form of rivalry between each other. Think of america with the yanks and the dirty south!
Note that albania suffered a major economic collaps in 97 and sure times were rough still in 99 hence just like every other population in the world, rough economic times do produce a few bad apples here and there that did charge their own bretherin for a roof over their head, but seriously dont blow this shit out of proportion cuz thats just bs. We are a humble group of folk that do live in peace with people (let them be of different religion or nation), but when you have three fuckin neighbors that keep eatin your territory and oppress your people you have every reason to become pissed off. Albania was the only nation that protected the jews during the nazi occupation, even though we joind forces with them, but you cant blame people for teamin up with a nation that promises liberation for your people, although be it they were the bad guys.
As for the territory issue, Albanians who just happen to be the direct descendants of illirians (sure you disagree with it, but face it we are!) have occupied the western part of the balkans since the greeks been playin nude wrestling in athens. So dont give us this mumbo jumbo about slavs being here first.
You can take it any way you want, but the fact is we were persecuted, by the serbs, plain and simple. I can attest to it because i have witnessed it myself. Same thing goes for macedonia, we were denied schools and any many other forms of freedoms that other minorities enjoy in "civilized nations". And the sam e goes for albanians who live in greece who were forcefully assymilated due to denial of schools and so on.
As for religion, in todays albania there is no such persecution going. Yes shit may have happend in the disntant past, but look at serbs for gods sake. Killin inocent children and women in cold blood as recently as six years ago and bosnians as recently as 10 years and for what cuz we just so happen to be mostly muslims.
Suck it up bitch, you'r people are the barbaric and ruthless people in todays world, and their aint shit you can do about it, its the cold hard fact. The whole world knows it but their too scared to say shit cuz they feel some sort of sympathy since you aint muslims, and there happens to be a great deal of prejudism against muslim these days.
Take a look at turkey. Their tryin to join the eu so badly and they wont even look at them, instead they are tryin to include bulgaria and romania in the expansion even though their economies are shit and turkeys is way better. Did you know turkey's per capital gdp is equal to that of croatia? but it doesnt matter, their affraid of muslims.
I just read the first sentence of the blogger called Mirjana and was able to understand that she is an Albanophobe. I have an added sense, I can spot an Albanophobe quite easily.
Albanians are descendants of the Illyrians, the tribes of Dardans (Kosovars) were the trunk of the Illyrians - the Dardans, whose descendant is the today's Albanians in Kosova.
In the Serbian historical consciousness, Kosova is connected with two battles in the years 1389 and 1448 with Serbia. In the battle on the Kosova fought not only the Serbs, but all nations of the Balkans.
On 12 century, the Serbs came under the dynasty of the Nemajiden - a Serbian king who would install the Serbian Orthodox Church. As the first king, began Stephan II. His brother Sava (monk) became first Serbian archbishop of the independent Serbian National Church. From their points of view, Kosova was "the church center of the Serbian realm" and/or "the cradle of Serbia"
The churches in Kosova are not Serbian. Archaeological and historical sources show that the churches were the churches of the Illyrians - Albanians. They are estimated by Serbs as Serbian cultural property.
“All attempts by Balkan Christians to win over the Albanians to the common struggle against the Ottoman Empire and for the aim of national liberation and modernization of their societies were fruitless. At the beginning of the Great Eastern Crisis Albanians were at the forefront of the Turkish regular, and particularly irregular troops (bashibozuk) and committed numerous atrocities in battles against the Christian rebels. During the crisis the Albanians did not join the liberation movements of the Balkan Christians in any way.
It is completely clear that the birth of the Albanian league in 1878 and its political program were not an expression of Albanian original liberation efforts, which anyhow were late in coming compared to other peoples. The league was an instrument, primarily in Turkish hands, and later in the hands of other powers, for the preservation of the Ottoman Empire. The Albanian central revolutionary committee (Abdul Frasheri, Pashko Vaso, Sami Frasheri, Zija Prishtina, Jani Vreto and others) was founded in April 1878 in Istanbul and its was to organize Albanian popular resistance to the liberation actions in Montenegro, Serbia and Greece.”
Gjergj Kastrioti, born in the year 1404, is the founder of the Albanian nation?. He is the Albanian national hero, a man, who had never more than some thousands, not even war-experienced men under his instructions by a number often the ten and twenty fold superior could resist victoriously 24 years against Turkish armies. Europe trembles completely with the inexorable victory run of the Ottoman Califon, and in a remote ground connection angle smash all efforts otherwise of the undefeatable at the iron will of a man, who makes with a view his soldier heroes.
He fought for Christianity and was betrayed by your ancestors in the common fight against the turks.
When the end of the Ottoman rule was approaching on the Balkans, the Serbs began themselves with the goal to organize and establish their own national states. The center mobilizing idea with the Serbs was the "revenge for Kosova". The national ideology justified thereby that the areas "lost in battleground" on 12 and 15 century should recovered in the same way. (that is Dardania=Kosova=”old Serbia” to you).
In 1878 the political mobilization of the Albanians with emergence of the league of Prizren, which had the goal to combine all Albanian settled territories on the Balkans. The Albanian people (Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim= The Albanian religion is that of being Albanian) fought the neighbor states against the separation of Albanian settlement areas and against their connection at Serbia, Montenegro and Greece.
On 28 November 1912, in the city of Vlorë (Albania) was proclaimed an independent Albanian State and also generally recognized soon thereafter. It was a trunk Albania, and the ethnical criteria did not play the most important role with the fixing of the boundaries at the conference of Ambassadors in London 1912/13. The interests of the great powers at that time were crucial (Rusia was a major player). Therfore, the Albanian lands were given to the Slavs and the Albanian state covered only about half of the regions on the Balkan. As a result more than 50% of the Albanian population remaining outside of the borders of the new National State. Kosova became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by force. This was not accepted by the Albanians as their state, but regarded to it as colonial state. The procedure of the Serbs against the Albanian people in Kosova in the year 1912-1915 was brutal. At that time 22 100 Albanians disappeared, 6 000 houses were set in flames, it gave permanent investigations and persecution.
During the Second World War the Albanians tried to split off the kingdom of Yugoslavia, but they were however unsuccessful. At the end of the war (1945) there was a massacre of 5.000 Albanian. On 10 July 1945 took place under Serbian military administration the so-called "meeting of Prizren". The 142 participants (78 Serbs and Montenegrins and 33 Albanians) decided the combination of Kosova "under military, police and psychological pressure" of Serbia. The Albanians, who rejected this step in the meeting, had to pay later with their life or ended into Serbian prisons.
After efforts and condition amending for many years in the years 1968, 1969 and 1971, Kosova became by the Federal Constitution of 1974, as constitutional element of the Yugoslav federation. On a federal level, it had thus the same status and the same rights as the republics. Kosova had its existence, its borders, and its organs guaranteed by the Federal Constitution of Yugoslavia. Kosova could directly carry out the Federals law from own organs and with constitutional amendments even had an absolute right to exercise a veto. The only thing that was missing for Kosova, was the designation as a "state" in the Constitution.
Middle of the eighties dipped the stream of "Serbian question" up, which had a recentralization as a goal. In a memorandum of the Serbian academy from the year 1986, the Serbs maintained a discrimination of Serbia within the Yugoslav federation. One of the discrimination reasons was the arrangement of Kosova with a territorial autonomy after the Federal Constitution of 1974. The Serbs regarded the constitution of 1974 as an attenuation of the Serbian position and therefore as injustice. With the ascent of Slobodan Milosevic began the re-establishment of the "integrity" of Serbia, i.e. the "regaining" of the complete rule over the Kosova.
To restore this "integrity", the goal was of the Federal Constitution novella of 1988. So the change in the relationship republic to the autonomous provinces in the Serbian constitution, for which the agreement of the parliaments of the provinces was necessary, it could be implemented only after solid pressure against the selected representatives of the provinces, Kosova and Vojvodina. This constitutional amendment was rejected by the Kosovar Albanians and it gave demonstrations in Kosova. Additionally after proclaiming the state of emergency mass arrests were led. Representatives of Kosova were forced to the resignation and replaced by politicians, faithful to the Milosevic.
After the autonomy was waived by obligation, 114 Albanian delegates of the parliament called on in addition the independence of Kosova on 2 July 1990, in a "bill of rights", as equal unit within the Yugoslav federation with the same constitutional to insure the status as the other republics. Than, in counter reaction Serbia dissolved on 13 July the parliament of the Kosova, set the government off and furnished a special administration. On these bases, occupational politics was undertaken. On 7 September, it was proclaimed by Albanian delegates of the dissolved parliament by Serbia, the independence and the constitution of Kaçanik was released. The Albanians develops an underground state with own institutions again. In May 1990 took place the parliamentary elections. The today's president of Kosova, was elected at that time also as a president of the Republic of Kosova.
Serbia never gives up the oath "the heart of Serbia". The Albanians were called again and again of Serbia as minority. The Serbian line of argumentation read that "the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia are defined in accordance with their constitutions as state of equal citizens". In your opinion was guaranteed the minority rights. In the eyes of the Serbian leadership, the Albanian political leadership was "manipulated", which boycotted the Serbian political system by the "illegal" referendum. Behind this argumentation stood not only the regime of Milosevic, but all political forces in Serbia - "Kosova were a substantial part of the Republic of Serbia and it would remain always like this. Furthermore, it is the cradle of the Serbian state, one of the oldest states of Europe, and the origin of the Serbian culture and the Serbian Orthodoxy." By the way you should find your origin somewhere from the land between the Danube and the Carpathian mountains or from the Caucasus . That’s were the origin of the Serbs is.
After efforts for many years of the Kosovar leadership, to solve the Kosova question with peaceful means, and the missing treatment in the Dayton - agreement (1995) no notice was taken. In the year 1998 the situation in Kosova escalated. The Serbian police, army and the Paramilitary forces began to remove the whole people by mass murder from their homeland.
After the failure of the endeavor around a political solution, the question remained, to stopping those continuous systematic murders and the ethnical driving out. After NATO threatened in the autumn of the year 1998 with air raids, the UN Security Council had already for seizure of coercive measures in accordance with Chap. VII of the security council of the united nations by a predictable veto of Russia and Chinas[43 ] however was blocked. Although, in the resolution of 1203 v. 24. 10. already in 1998, a threat of the international peace determined, were in the middle of March 1999 only one question was open: NATO will notice its threats or will withdraw, in order to win time for new mediation efforts, while however the time for the victims in the Kosova had for long run off. On 24 March begun the air raids of the NATO. NATO countries are not Muslim countries just so that you know.
As far as the Albanians from Albania and the Albanians from the Kosova go, they have never been closer together as people thanks to the Serbian genocide during 1998-1999.
Faruki
PS This a very general history of Kosova i am sure Chris can offer something more specific
Geez, thanks for the huge effort Chris! Much appreciated... (saved this one on my pc)
Great having someone debunk the serbian lies, which have gone unchallenged for too long.
Keep up the great work
Tosi
Sweden
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