Poetry

  1 National|             Russia, with its more than 17,075,400 km² and 150,000,000
  2 Colonial|                  in territory, a total of 10,885 km², but it has extensive
  3 Colonial|                  a phenomenon of the last 12 to 13 years during which
  4 National|               hold sovereignty over about 130,938 km².~    It is more
  5 National|               hold sovereignty over about 140,000 km². About 500,000 Montenegrins
  6 National|                   than 17,075,400 km² and 150,000,000 inhabitants is not
  7 National|                Russia, with its more than 17,075,400 km² and 150,000,
  8 Colonial|                    and again from 1912 to 1916 when Prince Nikolla occupied
  9 Geopolit|                all Albanian territory. In 1939, Mussolini's Italy occupied
 10 Geopolit|                   who was in Albania from 1943 to 1944, memoirs published
 11 Geopolit|                   in Albania from 1943 to 1944, memoirs published in a
 12 Colonial|               1912-1913, and yet again in 1945, i.e. the Serbs, Montenegrins,
 13 Aspect  |                  state. Even in the years 1966 to 1981, in which a relatively
 14 National|                 question of Kosovo in the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution did
 15 Divided |              Soviet empire broke apart in 1991, about twenty million Russians
 16 National|               hold sovereignty over about 25,713 km², and about 9,500,
 17 National|                hold sovereignty over only 28,565 km² of this land, whereas
 18 Aspect  |           self-determination, but not the 3,000,000 Albanians in former
 19 National|                   United Germany with its 357,000 km² and 80,000,000 inhabitants
 20 National|                 with its more than 17,075,400 km² and 150,000,000 inhabitants
 21 National|                  a total surface of about 50,000 - 55,000 km² and have
 22 National|              Germany. Nor is China with 9,511,000 km² and 1,200,000,000
 23 National|                  sovereignty over only 28,565 km² of this land, whereas
 24 Aspect  |                   this right? How are the 600,000 to 700,000 Croats in
 25 National|                 sovereignty over about 25,713 km², and about 9,500,000
 26 Divided |                time when there were about 748,000 Albanians in Albania
 27 Aspect  |    self-determination when the 700,000 to 800,000 Albanians in Macedonia
 28 National|                 sovereignty over about 13,812 km². About 1,300,000 Macedonians
 29 Colonial|                  territory, a total of 10,885 km², but it has extensive
 30 National|                sovereignty over about 130,938 km².~    It is more than
 31 Geopolit|               created and, if this can be accomplished without war as in the past,
 32 Divided |          recognized country, because they account for over one-third of the
 33 National|               question of Kosovo could be achieved by altering the border between
 34 Geopolit|              serve to hinder contemporary achievements, such as the process of
 35 Geopolit|                not cut out for them. They acquiesced willingly to some of these
 36         | across
 37 Geopolit|               Germany, had become just as acute as it had been before the
 38 National|                   which the Albanians are acutely aware of the injustice done
 39 National|               Endless statistics could be added to the information given
 40 National|             because it did not provide an adequate solution to the national
 41 National|               British expert on strategic affairs, convinced that a just and
 42 Aspect  |                  prisons was particularly affected by any deterioration of
 43 Geopolit|                necessary to react to this aggression as they did to the other
 44 Aspect  |                   severely frustrated and agitated by regimes which are not
 45 National|                 European stability, after agreement within the international
 46 Social  |             survive only with the help of aid from the international community
 47 National|                 that Serbian-Albanian and Albanian-Serbian relations be placed on a
 48 Aspect  |                 Albania. Whenever Albania allied itself with a European or
 49 Colonial|              southern Slavs. They are not allowed to have their own homeland
 50 Colonial|                    as well as forests and alpine pastures. Kosovo also has
 51 National|               Kosovo could be achieved by altering the border between Serbia
 52 Aspect  |                  and the United States of America have become convinced over
 53 Colonial|                  Serbian specialists, may amount to thirteen billion tons.
 54 Geopolit|                 global power.~    Western analysts have suggested that three
 55 Aspect  |                   It also means an end to anguish and to the psychological,
 56 Geopolit|          communism finally faded into the annals of European history, are
 57 Aspect  |                    emotional and cultural annihilation.~    Anyone informed about
 58 Aspect  |               Yugoslav federation.~    An anti-Albanian attitude has always been
 59 Colonial|                   gain independence is an anti-colonialist struggle, a legitimate struggle
 60 Social  |                and settlements with their antiquated infrastructures which are
 61 Social  |                   Albania itself. This is apparent from their towns and settlements
 62 Aspect  |                 or of whom Yugoslavia was apprehensive, the number of Albanian
 63 National|                  Albanians? Which is more appropriate from the point of view of
 64 Social  |             Albanian writer Ismail Kadare aptly put it, "it threatened the
 65 Colonial|                  the countries which have arisen out of the second Yugoslavia,
 66 Geopolit|                  uniting Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Greece, Bulgaria,
 67 Divided |               argument in support of this assertion is that it is essentially
 68 Aspect  |                which a relatively liberal atmosphere towards the Albanians is
 69 Aspect  |                   remains to be solved to attain basic order in the Balkan.
 70 Geopolit|                  of Austria-Hungary, i.e. Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic,
 71         | away
 72 Social  |                  reasons for the economic backwardness and poverty of the Albanians
 73 Aspect  |                  with whom Yugoslavia had bad relations or of whom Yugoslavia
 74 Colonial|                 twelfth century when King Baldwin occupied the Serbian principality
 75 Aspect  |                 were at the bottom of the barrel. With the collapse of Yugoslavia,
 76         | becoming
 77 Aspect  |              Yugoslavia. At the same time began the de-Yugoslavization of
 78         | begin
 79 National|                borders have more recently begun to be fixed and changed
 80 Colonial|           criticised Serbia for its crude behaviour in Kosovo, it continues
 81         | behind
 82 Geopolit|                 Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania
 83 Divided |                  outside the country they belong to ethnically. As the word '
 84 National| self-determination. This is a right which belongs to the divided Albanian
 85 Aspect  |              expansion at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, and after an extraordinary
 86 Colonial|                    may amount to thirteen billion tons. These riches in Kosovo
 87 Aspect  |                 expulsion as well as from biological, physical, emotional and
 88 Colonial|                   chromium, silver, gold, bismuth, indium, germanium, selenium,
 89 Geopolit|                  liberation struggle, The bitter victory, it is clear that
 90 Social  |               sides of the border will be blocked - not only political agreements,
 91 Geopolit|                  of Slavic peoples of one blood. Their capitals would be
 92 National|               cases, it was cheaper, less bloody and, in general, more humane
 93 Geopolit|                    memoirs published in a book with a telling title: Albania'
 94 Geopolit|                 been published in various books and periodicals in Europe
 95 Aspect  |            treated as if they were at the bottom of the barrel. With the
 96 Colonial|                  Dukagjin. In view of the brevity of Kosovo's links with Montenegro
 97 Colonial|                this period was relatively brief. It found itself within
 98 Divided |                   a national state in the broadest sense of the term since
 99 Divided |                    When the Soviet empire broke apart in 1991, about twenty
100 Geopolit|                 several countries and the brutal and systematic violations
101 Aspect  |                  so new prisons had to be built, and when these overflowed,
102 Aspect  |             evident, and will continue to burden the Balkans and countries
103 Colonial|                  peoples, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Serbs, the Turks, and
104 Aspect  |                  ethnic identity from new calvaries of persecution and expulsion
105 Colonial|               Turks, and again the Serbs, came as invaders and colonists.
106 Aspect  |               into one huge concentration camp in which the Albanians realized
107 Geopolit|                  Great Powers as a people capable of playing various geopolitical
108 Geopolit|               peoples of one blood. Their capitals would be Moscow, Warsaw,
109 Colonial|             servants, technicians, health care workers, security officers,
110 National|               noted recently that in most cases, it was cheaper, less bloody
111 Aspect  |              indeed of political conflict catapulting the Balkans from one crisis
112 Social  |                  have ended in a national catastrophe, i.e. in the division of
113 Geopolit|                met and intertwined: Roman Catholicism, Byzantine Orthodoxy and
114 Social  |                   to comprehend, has been caused more than anything by the
115 Colonial|             Crisis, it is not an issue of central importance to the Montenegrins.
116 Colonial|                manual labour in the urban centres of Slovenia, Croatia and
117 Aspect  |              right? It is unjust to apply certain political criteria to the
118 Aspect  |         constitutes the greatest national challenge facing the Albanian people
119 National|               Albanians be given an equal chance with their neighbours to
120 National|                 history of the fixing and changing of borders, mostly, alas,
121 Aspect  |          emigration. The reasons for this chauvinist attitude towards the Albanians
122 National|                that in most cases, it was cheaper, less bloody and, in general,
123 Social  |                 freedom and independence, cherished for five hundred years under
124 Social  |                 inhabitants, malnourished children in elementary schools, malnourished
125 Social  |                  unnaturally and forcibly chopped into pieces and is now struggling
126 Colonial|               lead, copper, zinc, nickel, chromium, silver, gold, bismuth,
127 National|                  which, as it is becoming clearer to everyone, is both politically
128 Divided |               understood, or at least not clearly and properly understood.
129 Colonial|               versus a Christian minority clinging to political and economic
130 Aspect  |                Bosnia and Herzegovina are close to being fulfilled by the
131 Aspect  |                case should be regarded as closed. But such an illusion fades
132 National|       contribution to Balkan and European co-existence, so that they can meet the
133 Colonial|                   mercury, and especially coal deposits which, according
134 Geopolit|                   its own on the Albanian coast, ambitions that would soon
135 Colonial|              status of a colony. It is no coincidence that French writer Paul
136 Geopolit|           indication in our era, in which cold war and the division of
137 Aspect  |                   of the barrel. With the collapse of Yugoslavia, all the traditional
138 Colonial|                   Kosovo with a number of colonies of varying sizes. If this
139 Colonial|                   Serbian and Montenegrin colonization in Kosovo up to the present.
140 Colonial|               Before World War II, Serbia colonized Kosovo with Serb and Montenegrin
141 Aspect  |                 which will weigh upon the coming generation, too. In the
142 Social  |                  the expense of those who committed it in the first place: the
143 Divided |              minority.~    Although it is commonly used by political and government
144 Geopolit|                   parts), and the Islamic communities of Macedonia, Bulgaria,
145 Geopolit|               whether this future will be compatible with a new and just world
146 Aspect  |                 deprived of such freedoms completely. It means an end to persecution,
147 Aspect  |            Albanian question all the more complex.~    At a time when the
148 National|                   to come, which might be composed of Serbia, Montenegro, and
149 Aspect  |              regarded by the Albanians as compromised.~    If it remains unsolved,
150 Aspect  |                 transformed into one huge concentration camp in which the Albanians
151 National|                 peoples must come to this conclusion, too, i.e. that their national
152 Divided |                own jurisdiction.~    What conclusions can be drawn from the above?~   
153 Social  |             well-being have been cramped, confined and restricted. How could
154 Aspect  |                   and indeed of political conflict catapulting the Balkans
155 Aspect  |                because they have not been confronted with such problems and do
156 Aspect  |                  of this expansion at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, and after
157 Colonial|           exclusive property of those who conquered them in 1878, and in 1912-
158 Aspect  |                  the recognition of their conquests by the Great Powers at the
159 Geopolit|                  in Western civilization. Considering the harm that has been done
160 National|                 those countries. Albania, consisting of Albanian territory on
161 Geopolit|                 any possible geopolitical constellation.~    The Albanians have
162 Geopolit|                And yet, such geopolitical constellations still exist in the Balkans.
163 Aspect  |                 resolved, a problem which constitutes the greatest national challenge
164 National|               Kosovo in the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution did not resolve the Albanian
165 National|                   in its present form and content, the Albanians will remain
166 Divided |                which forms a geographical continuity with the Republic of Albania,
167 National|                  called Greater China. In contrast to this, some people still
168 National|             Albanians can make a positive contribution to Balkan and European co-existence,
169 Geopolit|                    more than half of them converted to Islam, they were regarded
170 Colonial|                  and rare minerals: lead, copper, zinc, nickel, chromium,
171 Aspect  |                 police and the diplomatic corps at its disposal throughout
172 National|               this injustice has not been corrected. It is in the interests
173 Aspect  |               group to be harassed at all costs and forced into emigration.
174 National|             expense of the Albanians will counter that the Albanian unification
175 Divided |               1918, for instance, it left countless Hungarians outside the borders
176 Social  |                  and well-being have been cramped, confined and restricted.
177 Colonial|             organizations have constantly criticised Serbia for its crude behaviour
178 Colonial|                 the jobs that no Slovene, Croat, Serb or even Bosnian would
179 Geopolit|                   ancient times have been crossroads for the Great Powers - the
180 Colonial|                 criticised Serbia for its crude behaviour in Kosovo, it
181 Geopolit|                  also here that the great cultures of the Middle Ages met and
182 Colonial|              freedoms have been radically curtailed. These human rights violations
183 Colonial|                 rights violations and the curtailment of the basic freedoms of
184 Geopolit|                i.e. Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia
185 Aspect  |              discriminated against, to be damned by history. With all this
186 Aspect  |                 if another day would ever dawn. On such occasions, there
187 Aspect  |                   the same time began the de-Yugoslavization of Albanian political opinion
188 Social  |                   will, alas, have to pay dearly for it.~
189 Aspect  |                that they had the right to decide their future themselves.
190 Geopolit|                uniting factor, indeed the decisive factor in these alliances,
191 Geopolit|              Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, declared that one of his greatest
192 Geopolit|         Montenegro were able to penetrate deep into the southeast Balkans.
193 Geopolit|               which, after the inevitable defeat of Italy and Germany, had
194 Aspect  |               Albanians who were the most defenceless of all the ethnic groups
195 National|                borders peacefully than to defend existing borders in never-ending
196 Divided |               should depend on a specific definition and not simply on the vagaries
197 National|                 to the surface after much delay and which is still being
198 Aspect  |              strikes, protest marches and demonstrations of the Albanians, which
199 Social  |               which has become the common denominator of their economic and social
200 Divided |                terms whose meaning should depend on a specific definition
201 Colonial|          undertaken numerous campaigns to depopulate Kosovo of as many Albanians
202 Colonial|              mercury, and especially coal deposits which, according to Serbian
203 Colonial|                  French writer Paul Garde described the status of Kosovo in
204 Geopolit|              aggressive and impoverishing designs that ideology.~    Why?~   
205 National|                   All those who sincerely desire that Serbian-Albanian and
206 Geopolit|            illusion, created at a time of desperation for the West, which facilitated
207 Colonial|               intrinsically linked to the destiny of the Albanian people.
208 Aspect  |                  universal and systematic destitution and an end to their extremely
209 Aspect  |              particularly affected by any deterioration of relations between Yugoslavia
210 Social  |                The Albanians were late to develop economically. As a people
211 National|                 to become an advanced and developed nation which, as a consequence,
212 Social  |                   opportunities for their development, progress and well-being
213 Colonial|                Serbian propagandists have devised slogans for the promotion
214 Social  |                  an unspeakable communist dictatorship, from which it will take
215 Social  |              Albanians is something quite different. It is systematic, permanent
216 Aspect  |              fulfil their aspirations any differently. Is it proper for the Serbs,
217 Aspect  |                  army, the police and the diplomatic corps at its disposal throughout
218 Aspect  |              their own, without their own diplomats, police and army, i.e. without
219 Colonial|                have been multifarious and dire. There are ramifications
220 Geopolit|                their attention in another direction. The fact that half of the
221 National|               have been put at a dreadful disadvantage in comparison with other
222 National|                   Now that Yugoslavia has disintegrated, now that other countries
223 Social  |              states and consequently, the disintegration of the Albanians as a people
224 Geopolit|                world order or a new world disorder dominated by force, the
225 Aspect  |                  political prisoners were dispatched to Croatia, Slovenia and
226 Aspect  |                   in which they have been dispensed political democracy, freedom
227 Aspect  |                   diplomatic corps at its disposal throughout Yugoslavia's
228 National|             Greeks, Serbs and Bulgarians) disposed of. At the present time,
229 Aspect  |                   crisis to the next. The dissatisfaction of the Albanians will only
230 Aspect  |                   The well-known Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilas once called
231 National|               that it must, of necessity, disturb their Balkan neighbours,
232 Geopolit|                 to the logic of blocs and divisions along religious lines. During
233 Aspect  |                Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilas once called Kosovo a millstone
234 Geopolit|                   or a new world disorder dominated by force, the Albanian coastline
235 Colonial|                role of their own, that of dominating the political and economic
236 Geopolit|                   Serbian and Montenegrin domination created an illusion for
237 Aspect  |           situation or because there were doubts as to their loyalty towards
238 Social  |                  been much more rapid and dramatic in recent years, has brought
239 Aspect  |              Albanians, which have helped draw the world's attention to
240 Divided |                   What conclusions can be drawn from the above?~    If there
241 National|                repeat, have been put at a dreadful disadvantage in comparison
242 Social  |                    it is clear that their dreams of freedom and independence,
243 Aspect  |             rights bit by bit, as if on a druggist's scales, or deprived of
244 Colonial|                   more advanced, as being due to lack of information.
245 Colonial|                   Prince Nikolla occupied Dukagjin. In view of the brevity
246 Colonial|                   been left behind in the dust of the Balkan Wars. They
247 Social  |         Montenegro) and Macedonia are not dying of hunger, it is only because
248 Aspect  |                European or global powers, e.g. to Germany or Italy, or
249 Social  |             reason, and certainly not the earliest historical reason for this
250 National|               peoples in the Balkans were early to realize and which other
251 Geopolit|                small nations elsewhere on earth are well aware that their
252 Geopolit|                 the Adriatic will find it easier to control the Mediterranean.
253 Geopolit|                 they were regarded by the East as a barrier to the penetration
254 Social  |            Albanians were late to develop economically. As a people they were poor
255 Colonial|               grateful for the civilizing effects their work has had on the
256 Divided |                   because they were about eight times as numerous as the
257 Social  |                  malnourished children in elementary schools, malnourished students
258 Geopolit|                hand, no Albanian national elite could be found to play the
259 Geopolit|                past few years, serving to elucidate the ethnic structure of
260 Colonial|                  outside of Serbia's iron embrace, but also more advanced,
261 Colonial|                   had not managed to find employment in the other regions of
262 Aspect  |                   from England and France enabled Serbia to more than triple
263 Colonial|                 other side of the border, encompassing half the Albanian population,
264 Colonial|                 intellectuals have always endeavoured to justify their occupation
265 National|                  of justice.~    In their endeavours to realize this right, the
266 National|                   peoples in the Balkans. Endless statistics could be added
267 Geopolit|            communism, they used all their energy to fling open the gates
268 Aspect  |                   has been granted to and enjoyed by the other peoples of
269 Social  |                   will do their utmost to ensure that any agreements reached
270 Colonial|              invaders and colonists. They entered the country or passed through,
271 National|                   the others a promise of equality and good will in the Balkans,
272 Aspect  |                   more than to be treated equally with the other peoples of
273 Geopolit|                the only indication in our era, in which cold war and the
274 Social  |                  political and historical error now working at the expense
275 Social  |                    it threatened the very essence of our race." If Albanians
276 Colonial|                 Kosovo is not an issue of essential significance to Serbia either,
277 Geopolit|                  and the Soviet Union, an event which was to have tragic
278         | everyone
279 Divided |                 Albanian question has not evolved from the problem of an ethnic
280 Colonial|                 natural resources. It has excellent farmland and enough water
281 Aspect  |                  this in mind, one cannot exclude the possibility that they
282 Colonial|                  are considered to be the exclusive property of those who conquered
283 Geopolit|               essentially religious roles exclusively. Subsequently, in the modern
284 National|                 peacefully than to defend existing borders in never-ending
285 Aspect  |                means nothing more than an expanded Serbia.~    The Serbs are
286 Social  |                  to recover than might be expected at the moment.~    The border
287 National|                  Jonathan Eyal, a British expert on strategic affairs, convinced
288 Colonial|                including a good number of experts who had not managed to find
289 Colonial|                  of the Balkan Wars. They explain away the reaction of the
290 Colonial|                  in the past, not only to exploit its natural resources, but
291 Aspect  |                   state of oppression and exploitation under foreign rule. In other
292 Colonial|                   of a colonial power, of exploiters. Albanian interests in Kosovo
293 Colonial|              Croatia and Slovenia, or are exported as raw materials of strategic
294 National|                   this: the more a border expresses a demographic division,
295 National|               inhabitants and which would extend over a total surface of
296 Aspect  |              Berlin in 1878, and after an extraordinary expansion during the Balkan
297 Aspect  |           destitution and an end to their extremely poor quality of life. It
298 National|                   the Albanians. Jonathan Eyal, a British expert on strategic
299 Aspect  |               impression of the situation faced by the non-Serbian population
300 Geopolit|           desperation for the West, which facilitated Albania's inclusion in the
301 Aspect  |               greatest national challenge facing the Albanian people as a
302 Geopolit|              later when communism finally faded into the annals of European
303 Aspect  |              closed. But such an illusion fades quickly and its initiators
304 Geopolit|                are Albanians of all three faiths, however, they were never
305 Social  |                   for some time after the fall of communism, at least for
306 Aspect  |                   realized that night had fallen, but did not know if another
307 National|                the only inhabitants or by far the majority inhabitants,
308 Colonial|               resources. It has excellent farmland and enough water for irrigation,
309 Geopolit|                   aggressive moves of the Fascists and Nazis at the time.~   
310 Aspect  |            political, economic and social fate of the other peoples, in
311 Social  |             territory either because they feared the understandable and inevitable
312 Aspect  |                issues, over the country's federal structure or over relations
313 National|                    as a consequence, will feel at home in the community
314 Geopolit|                   the Balkans, one gets a feeling for the geopolitical and
315 Divided |         jurisdiction should not enjoy any fewer privileges than the other '
316 Social  |                   peasants working in the fields, malnourished workers toiling
317 Geopolit|              century later when communism finally faded into the annals of
318 Social  |      infrastructures which are not really fit for human habitation, but
319 Social  |               independence, cherished for five hundred years under the
320 National|                  race is a history of the fixing and changing of borders,
321 Geopolit|                  used all their energy to fling open the gates and windows
322 Social  |                   to Western Europe. This flow of emigrants, which has
323 National|                  relations be placed on a footing of goodwill, i.e. that good
324 Geopolit|               world disorder dominated by force, the Albanian coastline
325 Social  |                  has been unnaturally and forcibly chopped into pieces and
326 Social  |                  Albanian question to the fore in international politics.
327 National|                   people since it did not foresee national self-determination
328 Colonial|                for irrigation, as well as forests and alpine pastures. Kosovo
329 Divided |                historical territory which forms a geographical continuity
330 National|             mostly, alas, in time of war. Fortunately, borders have more recently
331 Colonial|             Montenegrins. There have been four major campaigns of Serbian
332 Colonial|                   from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries and again after
333 Aspect  |                  as help from England and France enabled Serbia to more than
334 Colonial|                 It is no coincidence that French writer Paul Garde described
335 Geopolit|                 alliance would only cause friction within the country.~   
336 Aspect  |                   will give vent to their frustration beyond their ethnic borders
337 Aspect  |            Herzegovina are close to being fulfilled by the division of that
338 Geopolit|                 assigned other historical functions by the Great Powers of Europe:
339 Aspect  |                attitude has always been a fundamental feature of nationalist ideology
340         | further
341 Geopolit|                could be found to play the game for the Great Powers in
342 Colonial|                   that French writer Paul Garde described the status of
343 Geopolit|                  energy to fling open the gates and windows of their lonely
344 Geopolit|                  it is clear that England gave its wholehearted support
345 Geopolit|                   exists, uniting Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Greece,
346 National|                  reunification of the two Germanies as an important factor for
347 Colonial|                    gold, bismuth, indium, germanium, selenium, mercury, and
348 Geopolit|             structure of the Balkans, one gets a feeling for the geopolitical
349 Aspect  |                possibility that they will give vent to their frustration
350 Geopolit|                   and the division of the globe into ideological blocs has
351 National|                  they were not created by God. The history of the human
352 Colonial|                 nickel, chromium, silver, gold, bismuth, indium, germanium,
353 National|                 be placed on a footing of goodwill, i.e. that good neighbourly
354 Aspect  |                   more than what has been granted to and enjoyed by the other
355 Colonial|                 resources above and under ground) are considered to be the
356 Aspect  |                   the Albanians will only grow and become more evident,
357 Social  |              communism, and as anyone can guess from their present state,
358 Social  |                  not really fit for human habitation, but also from the pale
359 National|               Albania, made up of the two halves of the divided Albanian
360 Aspect  |                  Albania increased, which happened often from 1912 onwards,
361 Colonial|             insist they would not only be happier outside of Serbia's iron
362 Aspect  |                  as an ethnic group to be harassed at all costs and forced
363 Geopolit|             civilization. Considering the harm that has been done to them
364 Social  |                 injustice is returning to haunt them, and they will, alas,
365 Colonial|              civil servants, technicians, health care workers, security officers,
366 Social  |                   as if right through the heart of the nation, has been
367 Aspect  |                 stress which have weighed heavily upon the present generation
368 Colonial|                Macedonia carry out 80% of heavy manual labour in the urban
369 Aspect  |                 the Albanians, which have helped draw the world's attention
370 Colonial|                 regions of Montenegro and Hercegovina, thus resolving its own
371         | here
372 Geopolit|                  British officer Reginald Hibbert who was in Albania from
373 Colonial|                  A Moslem majority with a high birth rate versus a Christian
374 Geopolit|               alliances can only serve to hinder contemporary achievements,
375 National|              Albanian nation can still be hindered by the Great Powers, but
376 Colonial|            consider Kosovo as an issue of historic significance to Montenegro,
377 National|                 consequence, will feel at home in the community of Balkan
378 Geopolit|               democratic means, one could hope that the age of unwanted
379 Aspect  |                 were transformed into one huge concentration camp in which
380 National|              bloody and, in general, more humane to alter unjust borders
381 Social  |          independence, cherished for five hundred years under the Turkish
382 Divided |                less than one-third of the Hungarian nation, and the twenty million
383 Social  |                Macedonia are not dying of hunger, it is only because they
384 Colonial|                  the promotion of Serbian ideals in Kosovo, such as, "Kosovo
385 Aspect  |                    i.e. which they cannot identify with, and will continue
386 Geopolit|               question did not exist.~    Ignored by the West, many Albanians
387 Colonial|                 with Serb and Montenegrin immigrants from the poorest regions
388 National|                   the two Germanies as an important factor for European stability,
389 Geopolit|                  Eastern Crisis, but more importantly, these same powers sacrificed
390 Colonial|                   demographic policies by importing Serbs who do not find work
391 Geopolit|            alliances, whereas others were imposed upon them against their
392 Social  |                    as a matter of course, impoverished them even further and jeopardized
393 Geopolit|            mansions to the aggressive and impoverishing designs that ideology.~   
394 Geopolit|            obvious, as are the systematic impoverishment of a people divided into
395 Aspect  |                  gain a more or less true impression of the situation faced by
396 Aspect  |               persecute the Albanians, to imprison them, to murder them or
397 Aspect  |              prisoners. These people were imprisoned because they refused to
398 Aspect  |                  persecution, oppression, incarceration and murder, an end to universal
399 Geopolit|               which facilitated Albania's inclusion in the communist alliance
400 Colonial|                 In fact, even when it was incorporated into the mediaeval state
401 Aspect  |                propaganda against Albania increased, which happened often from
402 Social  |               from the remittances of the increasingly large number of emigrants
403 Social  |                  Why are the Albanians so incredibly poor? Because they don't
404 Geopolit|          Montenegro. This is not the only indication in our era, in which cold
405 Colonial|                    silver, gold, bismuth, indium, germanium, selenium, mercury,
406 Divided |                  i.e. about three million individuals. Half of a nation cannot
407 Colonial|              Kosovo itself, but rather by industries in Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia,
408 Aspect  |                  annihilation.~    Anyone informed about the past and the present
409 Social  |         settlements with their antiquated infrastructures which are not really fit
410 National|               done to them and constantly infuriated that this injustice has
411 National|                 Albanians in the Balkans, inhabiting as a majority a territory
412 Aspect  |                   questions have found an initial solution, only the Albanian
413 Aspect  |            illusion fades quickly and its initiators are inevitably regarded
414 National|                Albanians because it is an inner-Yugoslav solution or, better said,
415 Aspect  |        consolidate liberal and democratic institutions and maintain a stable democratic
416 Divided |                 the word 'minority' is an integral part of the term 'ethnic
417 Geopolit|                   the process of European integration.~    A united Europe of
418 Geopolit|                support to the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia,
419 Colonial|                politicians, statesmen and intellectuals have always endeavoured
420 Aspect  |                  question will inevitably interfere with relations between Albania
421 Aspect  |                   control. It depended on internal relations within Yugoslavia,
422 Divided |                    now an independent and internationally recognized country, because
423 Geopolit|                   the Middle Ages met and intertwined: Roman Catholicism, Byzantine
424 Social  |           situation which has become more intolerable than it was under the Turks.
425 Colonial|             therefore, Kosovo is an issue intrinsically linked to the destiny of
426 Colonial|                  again the Serbs, came as invaders and colonists. They entered
427 Divided |                  and humanitarian factors involved have been understood, or
428 Colonial|               happier outside of Serbia's iron embrace, but also more advanced,
429 Social  |             understandable and inevitable irredentist demands of the Albanians
430 Divided |                  minority of any country, irrespective of the number of inhabitants
431 Colonial|             farmland and enough water for irrigation, as well as forests and
432 Aspect  |                continue to be a source of irritation and indeed of political
433 Social  |                 the great Albanian writer Ismail Kadare aptly put it, "it
434 Social  |        impoverished them even further and jeopardized their economic survival.
435 Aspect  |                 in the Balkans who are in jeopardy? Their neighbours, in this
436 Colonial|                     Kosovo is the Serbian Jerusalem," etc., etc. It is with
437 Colonial|                 many Albanians who do the jobs that no Slovene, Croat,
438 National|                   Herzegovina are free to join rump Yugoslavia (Serbia
439 Geopolit|                      Although Albania has joined the conference of Islamic
440 National|                 change for the Albanians. Jonathan Eyal, a British expert on
441 National|                   politically and morally justifiable and historically inevitable.~   
442 National|            question: Albanian demands are justified.~    Those who still hold
443 Colonial|                have always endeavoured to justify their occupation of Kosovo.
444 Social  |              great Albanian writer Ismail Kadare aptly put it, "it threatened
445 Colonial|            Serbian workers do.~    Serbia keeps Kosovo as a colony as did
446 National|                 Greater Albania. But what kind of argument is this? Russia,
447 Colonial|                  the twelfth century when King Baldwin occupied the Serbian
448 Geopolit|              territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, i.e. to maintaining
449 Colonial|              miners for Kosovo and manual labourers for other regions of former
450 Colonial|                 advanced, as being due to lack of information. The natives
451 Social  |                was under the Turks. Their language and culture are proof of
452 Social  |           remittances of the increasingly large number of emigrants working
453 National|                 convinced that a just and lasting solution to the question
454 Social  |                things. The Albanians were late to develop economically.
455 Colonial|                 common and rare minerals: lead, copper, zinc, nickel, chromium,
456 Geopolit|                   his visit to Italy, the leader of the Russian Liberal Democratic
457 National|             never-ending wars. If we have learned one lesson from European
458 National|                    If we have learned one lesson from European history, it
459 Social  |                   and sallow faces at all levels of Albanian society. There
460 Geopolit|                 title: Albania's national liberation struggle, The bitter victory,
461         | like
462 Colonial|                 is an issue intrinsically linked to the destiny of the Albanian
463 Colonial|                   wages, too. In Maribor, Ljubljana, Rijeka, Zagreb, Belgrade,
464 Geopolit|                 what they regarded as the loftier interests of their own states.~   
465 Divided |           Republic of Albania, it is then logical that these Albanians in
466 Geopolit|                 in the Balkans. And quite logically so, because Balkan issues
467 Geopolit|                gates and windows of their lonely stone mansions to the aggressive
468 Geopolit|                 not, misfortune was their lot.~    Because of their geostrategic
469 Colonial|                 offer their services at a lower price than Serbian workers
470 Aspect  |                   were doubts as to their loyalty towards the Yugoslav state.
471 Geopolit|            Kingdom of Yugoslavia, i.e. to maintaining the status quo in the Balkans.
472         | makes
473 Social  |                  Albania, for their part, manage to survive only with the
474 Colonial|                   and even from Croatia - managers, civil servants, technicians,
475 Geopolit|             windows of their lonely stone mansions to the aggressive and impoverishing
476 Geopolit|               past.~    Looking at ethnic maps which have been published
477 Aspect  |                 that the strikes, protest marches and demonstrations of the
478 Colonial|                 and at low wages, too. In Maribor, Ljubljana, Rijeka, Zagreb,
479 Social  |              international politics. This mass migration, the consequences
480 Divided |                  one of those terms whose meaning should depend on a specific
481 Geopolit|                  quo in the Balkans. This meant that Kosovo and other Albanian
482 Aspect  |                  political opinion in the media and, subsequently, in political
483 Aspect  |               easily be found servile and mediocre Albanian politicians willing
484 Geopolit|                  it easier to control the Mediterranean. This was Albania's misfortune
485 National|            co-existence, so that they can meet the demands which will be
486 Divided |            minority' has come to mean the members of an ethnic group living
487 National|            Macedonia will remain the sick men of the peninsula.~    Our
488 Social  |                   poverty in turn, not to mention persecution and political
489 Colonial|              indium, germanium, selenium, mercury, and especially coal deposits
490 Aspect  |                 and have been left to the mercy of the Yugoslav state, the
491 Aspect  |                  Albanian question is not merely a problem for the Albanians.
492 Geopolit|               cultures of the Middle Ages met and intertwined: Roman Catholicism,
493 Social  |         international politics. This mass migration, the consequences of which
494 Aspect  |                  any of the political and military alliances, to the Soviet
495 Aspect  |             well-known Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilas once called Kosovo
496 Colonial|            including both common and rare minerals: lead, copper, zinc, nickel,
497 Colonial|                   source of cheap labour: miners for Kosovo and manual labourers
498 National|                 Montenegro, i.e. Albanian minorities living in those countries.
499 Colonial|                the First World War that a modest number of Montenegrin colonists
500 Social  |                  might be expected at the moment.~    The border which runs
501 Geopolit|          geostrategic position at various moments of history, the Albanians