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The Serbs have made up two so-called arguments: the Serbs came to the Balkan region in the 6th century B.C. and that hundreds of thousands of Albanians invaded Kosova after World War II, while hundreds of thousands of Serbs left Kosova during the same period (!). I advise readers not to believe such arguments. They can find the truth by consulting serious and unbiased authors on the Kosova issue. “Kosovo – a Short History” by Noel Malcolm is a very good guide to the issue. The rejection of these bogus arguments on the basis of historical facts is very important because it would also expose all the other Serb theses.

President Woodrow Wilson did not protect Albania at the Paris Conference in 1919 because of America’s interests in the country (!). He prevented its dismemberment between Serbia, Greece and Italy for the sake of a principle embodied in his Fourteen Points that “guaranteed political independence and territorial integrity to great and small nations alike.” As well as this, President Clinton and the leaders of the European Union protected a small nation that was being massacred by the butcher of the Balkans not because of their special interests in Kosova. With their action, they gave a message to the dictators that they were not immune to international censure and that the free world will always stand up for those peoples and nations whose rights are trampled underfoot. President George W. Bush also has declared full American support for Kosova’s independence not because of America’s specific interests in Kosova. His statement reinforced the great principle Woodrow Wilson fought for: “guaranteed political independence and territorial integrity to great and small nations alike”. In a nutshell, what these three American presidents have done is the embodiment of American idealism, a notion, which is alien to Serbs and Serbia. . States are like people. People who are devoid of ideals and after selfish interests are the scum of society. The same goes for the states, be they big or small.

I do not think partition is the best solution to the Kosova problem because such a solution would benefit the Serbs only and create even more serious problems in the region. If not the entire Kosova, the Serbs would like to grab its northern part (Northern Mitrovica) because that part is the richest in mineral deposits not only in Kosova, but in the entire former Yugoslav space. Kosova and Voivodina were the two granaries of the former Yugoslavia. The Serbs exploited the mineral wealth of Kosova and its agricultural products for one hundred years and now they want to exploit it forever (!).

The partition of Kosova, which means changing its borders, may cause a chain reaction in the Balkans. In other words, it would open the Pandora Box. Changing the borders of Kosova would lead to demands for the rectification of the Balkan borders and organized political and other movements will resort to every means to achieve this end.

The Serb government in Belgrade is now lavishly spending money to purchase the land and houses of the Albanians in Northern Mitrovica at very high prices. This move by Belgrade indicates that the Serbs are fully aware that Kosova will become independent and that they are in a hurry to grab part of it at least. By so doing, the Serbian government is conducting ethnic cleansing of the Albanians from the richest part of Kosova in anticipation of an independent Kosova.

High birth rate, I would say, is an innate, intuitive response of self-protection of a nation when it is in imminent danger of extinction. Nation is like a living organism. It has its own protective immune mechanism that goes into action once it feels its existence threatened. In the case of the Albanians, the threat has always come from Serbia. That immune mechanism can work only in a nation who is full of vitality and resilient like the Albanians.

It is the opinion of foreign policy specialists that the Albanian issue is the very essence of the Balkan question. There are Albanian territories in five Balkan countries. There is no country like Albania in Europe at least. Across the borders of today’s state of Albania there are only Albanian territories inhabited by Albanians. That’s why, their unification into one Albanian state would be the most natural thing and very easy for the international community to help achieve. If created, such a situation would lead to the solution of the Albanian issue and the Balkan question as well.

If I have albanian (or any) blood on my hands, god help me. War is war, who knows. My point was that is stupid this days to threat with violence. Even more stupid to do it on Balkans. It is “been there, done that”.
We have to respect international laws. That is achivement of human civilization throughout centuries. Disrespect of international laws will bring nothing good to us.
Anyway you have the right to fight for your goals. That right is mine too.
So let’s live it there.

Albiqete

“Albanian fighters were very close to airport and Chaire district and who is from Skopje knows what I am talking about. If they wanted to go in Skopje, it was just a five minute and the only thing that was holding them back was THE AMERICAN base near Skopje airport.”

“U.S. TROOPS ESCORT REBELS TO SAFETY INSIDE MACEDONIA”

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/serbia/kosovo/index.html?query=ARACINOVO%20(MACEDONIA)&field=geo&match=exact

As I say: Been there, done that.

You got just this right: “In the end, the discussion is about Kosovo not Macedonia.”

So I’ll live it right there and I will not post more on this forum.

Oncemore: You got right to fight for your goal. But it’s time, I think, to find some better way.

Three Serb Big Lies:

!. Serbs came to the Balkans in the sixth century B.C. and not in the seventh century A.D. as mercenaries of the Byzantine emperor.

2. Hundreds of thousands of Albanians invaded Kosova after World War II.

3. Hundreds of thousands of Serbs left Kosova after World War II.

Albiqete,
Your post reminded me of what I had read in “Twenty years of Balkan Tangle” by Mary Edith Durham. What she wrote about the Serbs and Serbia at the turn of the 20th century is stlll valid today.
What she says about Serb mentality is also made manifest in the comments that some Serb readers post in this Webside. Read it carefully and I am sure you will draw the proper conclusions as to Serbs’ behavior today:

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“That is their religious fanaticism, which then surprised me. It was not astonishing that the Serbs hated Islam, but that they should fiercely hate every other Christian Church I did not expect. (p31)

It is but one more instance of the fact that it was largely to the fanaticism of the Orthodox Church that the Balkan people owed their conquest by the Turks. Evidence enough there is to show that when their fate was in the balance the Orthodox of the Balkans regarded the Turk as a lesser evil than the Pope. Even in 1902, though a few mosques were still permitted to exist, no Catholic Church was tolerated save that attached to one of the Legations over which, of course, the Serb Government had no control. Most of the foreign women I met, who had married Serbs, told me frankly that for the sake of peace they had had to join the Orthodox Church; “you cannot live here unless you do.” (p32)

I was astonished at the intense bitterness with which the ex-Queen Natalie’s conversion to Rome was spoken of. As the poor woman had led wretched life in Serbia and had left it for ever, her religion could be no concern whatever now of the Serbs. But it seemed to be considered on all sides as an insult to the nation.

Nor was it, so far as I could see, because the people were devout believers–the upper classes certainly did not appear to be—but because the Church was Serbian, and represented a frenzied and intolerant Nationalism. To such an extent was this carried out that a Catholic Albanian, of whom I subsequently saw a good deal, had to add “itch” to the end of his name and conform to the Orthodox Church outwardly in order to obtain leave to open a shop in Belgrade.

That frenzied Nationalism and not religion is at the base of this intolerance is further proved by hatred of the Serb for the Bulgarian Church, which on all points of dogma and doctrine and in its services is precisely the same as that of the Serbs.

And this same frenzied Nationalism, if persisted in, may yet lead to Serbia’s undoing.” (p.32)

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Haven’t developemts over the last years proved the British author Mary Edith Durham right?
Serb ultra nationalism destroyed Yugoslavia. The process of its dissolution started in Kosova where Serb suppression was the worst. It will be complete after Kosova wins its independence.

Dobrica Cosic Former Yugoslav (Serbian) President (you can Google for him to find out more)

“We lie to deceive ourselves, to console others; we lie for mercy, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our and somebody else’s misery. We lie for love and honesty. We lie because freedom. The lie is the trait of our patriotism and the proof of our innate smartness. We lie creatively, imaginatively, inventively.”

This is the core of the problem in Kosovo
We lie to deceive ourselves (translation) = we lie so we can lie ourselves = double lies
To console others = we lie to them so lets cheer them up = double lie

can someone else continue I’m so tired of those damm lies (I canoot count how many times the wrod “lies” are mentioned)