Poetry

  1 Divided |                 shares territory.~    The Albanians were not an ethnic minority
  2 Divided |                 can this be true?~    The Albanians were not an ethnic minority
  3 Divided |                   the federation.~    The Albanians are not an ethnic minority
  4 Divided |                   Yugoslavia. Nor are the Albanians a minority within Serbia,
  5 Divided |                  ethnic minority.~    The Albanians are not an ethnic minority
  6 Divided |                  one other reason why the Albanians in former Yugoslavia can
  7 Divided |            continuous with Albania, these Albanians are just as numerous as
  8 Divided |                 If there are just as many Albanians in former Yugoslavia as
  9 Divided |                   then logical that these Albanians in former Yugoslavia, i.e.
 10 Divided |                  there were about 748,000 Albanians in Albania itself, there
 11 Divided |                 were also about 1,200,000 Albanians abroad, in lands occupied
 12 Colonial|                   the human rights of the Albanians in former Yugoslavia, and
 13 Colonial|                 the basic freedoms of the Albanians in former Yugoslavia, as
 14 Colonial|                the colonial status of the Albanians. It is indeed this status,
 15 Colonial|                feature of life there! The Albanians were discriminated against
 16 Colonial|                primarily because they are Albanians, an unwanted ethnic group
 17 Colonial|                   a source of woe for the Albanians because they have condemned
 18 Colonial|             regions of former Yugoslavia. Albanians from Kosovo and Macedonia
 19 Colonial|                   there were and are many Albanians who do the jobs that no
 20 Colonial|                    there are about 60,000 Albanians in Belgrade, of whom most
 21 Colonial|              depopulate Kosovo of as many Albanians as possible and replace
 22 Colonial|                 the origins of the Kosovo Albanians. According to this theory,
 23 Colonial|                before and after 1981, the Albanians as a people ought to be
 24 Colonial|                  and rugged nature of the Albanians who would otherwise have
 25 Colonial|                  away the reaction of the Albanians who insist they would not
 26 Colonial|                   Kosovo was inhabited by Albanians and by their predecessors,
 27 Colonial|                  territories inhabited by Albanians in Yugoslavia (Serbia and
 28 Colonial|                Macedonia, but also by the Albanians living in Albania.~
 29 Geopolit|       geopolitical constellation.~    The Albanians have always been strongly
 30 Geopolit|                 Islam. Nolens volens, the Albanians found themselves in the
 31 Geopolit|                   moments of history, the Albanians have been regarded by the
 32 Geopolit|                   Ages, for instance, the Albanians were regarded as a barrier
 33 Geopolit|                  Balkans. Since there are Albanians of all three faiths, however,
 34 Geopolit|                  the Russian Empire - the Albanians (and other Balkan peoples)
 35 Geopolit|                and Germany hoped that the Albanians would create a barrier to
 36 Geopolit|                   Powers, Russia. But the Albanians did not play the role to
 37 Geopolit|              United States hoped that the Albanians would play the role of a
 38 Geopolit|            communism. But once again, the Albanians did not play the role they
 39 Geopolit|                  the First World War, the Albanians had hoped for assistance
 40 Geopolit|                 Ignored by the West, many Albanians turned their attention in
 41 Geopolit|              created an illusion for many Albanians who were strongly influenced
 42 Geopolit|                  alliance, from which the Albanians would only free themselves
 43 Geopolit|                   to the present day, the Albanians can thus be seen in various
 44 Geopolit|                have often made use of the Albanians, and of other Balkan peoples.
 45 Geopolit|         conference of Islamic states, the Albanians cannot seriously take part
 46 Social  |                 Albanian question~    The Albanians remain the poorest people
 47 Social  |               poor, but poverty among the Albanians is something quite different.
 48 Social  |                  essence of our race." If Albanians in rump Yugoslavia (Serbia
 49 Social  |                  the remittances of other Albanians who have managed to find
 50 Social  |                   States.~    Why are the Albanians so incredibly poor? Because
 51 Social  |           backwardness and poverty of the Albanians was the communist system
 52 Social  |                 this state of things. The Albanians were late to develop economically.
 53 Social  |                 the disintegration of the Albanians as a people has, as a matter
 54 Social  |                irredentist demands of the Albanians or because they were simply
 55 Social  |            agreements reached between the Albanians on the two sides of the
 56 Social  |               never-ending poverty of the Albanians on both sides of it. This
 57 Social  |               uninterrupted emigration of Albanians abroad from the time of
 58 Aspect  |                 Albanian question~    The Albanians in former Yugoslavia, i.e.
 59 Aspect  |                   in the interests of the Albanians, but also in the interests
 60 Aspect  |                 and demonstrations of the Albanians, which have helped draw
 61 Aspect  |                   to realize that for the Albanians, Yugoslavia means nothing
 62 Aspect  |                 the Greeks, Bulgarians or Albanians. And yet, after their expansion
 63 Aspect  |             peoples, in particular of the Albanians who were the most defenceless
 64 Aspect  |           government policies towards the Albanians in Yugoslavia. The Albanians
 65 Aspect  |              Albanians in Yugoslavia. The Albanians were seen by Serbia and
 66 Aspect  |           chauvinist attitude towards the Albanians are ethnic, political, religious
 67 Aspect  |            liberal atmosphere towards the Albanians is considered to have reigned
 68 Aspect  |                 on factors over which the Albanians themselves had no control.
 69 Aspect  |           concentration camp in which the Albanians realized that night had
 70 Aspect  |                   enough room for all the Albanians in Serbian, Macedonian and
 71 Aspect  |                 country of their own, the Albanians were and have been left
 72 Aspect  |               with them: to persecute the Albanians, to imprison them, to murder
 73 Aspect  |                 only for this reason, the Albanians have never been willing
 74 Aspect  |                political expulsion of the Albanians from public life in Yugoslavia.
 75 Aspect  |                   political practice. The Albanians as a people made it known
 76 Aspect  |           politically understandable. The Albanians demand no more rights than
 77 Aspect  |                  will understand that the Albanians are not demanding anything
 78 Aspect  |                 with the exception of the Albanians, have come to fulfil their
 79 Aspect  |               approximately seven million Albanians in the Balkans who are in
 80 Aspect  |           interests at the expense of the Albanians.~    This makes resolving
 81 Aspect  |                the right to demand of the Albanians that they fulfil their aspirations
 82 Aspect  |           self-determination, and for the Albanians in Yugoslavia (Serbia and
 83 Aspect  |               apply other criteria to the Albanians. How is it that the 1,000,
 84 Aspect  |     self-determination when the 2,000,000 Albanians in Kosovo are deprived of
 85 Aspect  |               when the 700,000 to 800,000 Albanians in Macedonia are being denied
 86 Aspect  | self-determination, but not the 3,000,000 Albanians in former Yugoslavia? The
 87 Aspect  |                  effort to understand the Albanians in Yugoslavia (Serbia and
 88 Aspect  |                  merely a problem for the Albanians. It is a matter for other
 89 Aspect  |                 the relations between the Albanians and the Serbs, between the
 90 Aspect  |                and the Serbs, between the Albanians and the Macedonians, between
 91 Aspect  |                  Macedonians, between the Albanians and the Montenegrins, and
 92 Aspect  |             Montenegrins, and between the Albanians and the Greeks. A just solution
 93 Aspect  |                solving the problem of the Albanians there, who constitute over
 94 Aspect  |                inevitably regarded by the Albanians as compromised.~    If it
 95 Aspect  |                The dissatisfaction of the Albanians will only grow and become
 96 Aspect  |               peoples of the Balkans, the Albanians will continue to be severely
 97 Aspect  |           vengeance could arise among the Albanians forced into emigration as
 98 National|            considered satisfactory by the Albanians because it is an inner-Yugoslav
 99 National|                permanent solution for the Albanians can only be national unification,
100 National|                  Albania and on which the Albanians are either the only inhabitants
101 National|             against such a change for the Albanians. Jonathan Eyal, a British
102 National|               better: for about 2,000,000 Albanians to be within the borders
103 National|                   sake of about 2,000,000 Albanians? Which is more appropriate
104 National|                with its roughly 2,000,000 Albanians be left in Serbia or that
105 National|            resolved at the expense of the Albanians will counter that the Albanian
106 National|          geographical entity in which the Albanians are either the only inhabitants
107 National|                 there would still be many Albanians 'left over' in Serbia, Macedonia
108 National|          geographical entity in which the Albanians are either the only inhabitants
109 National|                  territories in which the Albanians are either the only inhabitants
110 National|                 with the exception of the Albanians, who have been and continue
111 National|              significance not only to the Albanians, but also to the Balkans
112 National|             present form and content, the Albanians will remain the condemned
113 National|                 the injustice done to the Albanians and be convinced of their
114 National|                   instance, the number of Albanians in the Balkans was approximately
115 National|                however, the seven million Albanians in the Balkans, inhabiting
116 National|                 injustice under which the Albanians are forced to live, compared
117 National|                  neighbours, too.~    The Albanians now believe that their national
118 National|                 that the interests of the Albanians must be recognized and realized.
119 National|              recognized and realized. The Albanians are not demanding, nor should
120 National|              equal to the others.~    The Albanians, I repeat, have been put
121 National|                   a position in which the Albanians are acutely aware of the
122 National|                   of the Balkans that the Albanians be given an equal chance
123 National|                   of the Balkans that the Albanians be united in their own country
124 National|             united in theirs, so that the Albanians can make a positive contribution
125 National|                   realize this right, the Albanians must not forget that there