I say to western readers if they are interested in the history of Kosovo (which is what we were talking about) to find books written before the US media labeled the Serbs to be the only bad guys in the region. Noel Malcolm you mention as a source about Kosovo? Are you serious? This man jumped on the Anti-Serb bandwagon in the early 90s when it was fashionable to make himself some nice amounts of cash. He writes a book about kosovo (by the way Kosovo is a SERBIAN word) and he did not use even 1 Serbian source!! He used only Albanian and Austrian/German sources! It is as if someone wrote a historic book about America without using 1 American source. In his Bosnia book Malcolm argues for a centralized state yet in Kosovo he backs the “right” for Albanians to break away. How is that not a bias?
For anyone seriously looking to find good and truthful books about the region simply look at anything written prior to the early 1990s to see the history of the region. Also do a google search on “what the NY Times wrote about Kosovo in the 1980s” and you will see how back then the NY times was reporting on what the Albanians were doing to the Serbs in Kosovo (rape, killing and intimidation to leave so a “pure” Albanian state could be formed). 2) you say “serbia is responsible for killing thousands”, what about the “thousands” of Serbs killed by Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians? What specific number count are you referring to? Bosnia for example had 100,000 die in a civil war (a tragedy in which all sides share the blame), 36,000 of that number were Serbs, did they “kill themselves”? According to Bosnian propaganda even after Serbia was found not guilty by the World court (for the nonsense accusation of “genocide” in a civil war in which all 3 sides fought each other and committed barbaric acts) the Muslim Albanians and Bosnians continue the “serbs are guilt for everything” lie. How is it that the Serbs are the only ones that are blamed and are the only people that dmit to the crimes they committed? Are you also referring to the “thousands” of Serbs killed and forced out of Kosovo since 99′ by Albanians? Keep bringing more lies here so I can shut you down over and over again. Maybe your claims can work with someone that has no clue about the region but not here. 3) Your “responsible for WW1″ comment doesn’t even need to be addressed, it is simply ignorant. You clearly have no idea that Wall st made millions off of both wars by plunging the world into debt. Clearly you think that the “americans will always fight for the Albanians”. Enjoy it while it lasts as they will drop you as they did Saddam,the Taliban, the contras and countless other groups they support today and drop tomorrow as their geo-political interest changes. 4) What other races in Serbia “don’t want anything to do with them”? who? Serbia is a European nation and one of its most diverse. Even when the Albanians fled Kosovo, fearing a NATO ground invasion, thousands went north towards Belgrade for safety. 5) you say that kosovo is now independent. really? how are Belgrade based institutions then still operating in the North? how come there are still thousands of Nato troops there? how come Kosovo cant event take one step on its own without the EU and US doing it for you? how come it will never be a UN member? The Albanians have reached their height in Kosovo, the thing that is scaring them the most is that the Serbs have now united around this double standard and JUST cause of getting back their territory. If you take a close look at history you will see that the Albanians have inched and weaseled their way into Kosovo slowly for many years (settling and forcing serbs to leave) while the Serb nation was fighting epic battles against the Ottomans, the Austrians, Germans and now NATO. The Serbs have woken up from the illusion of trying to “play their part” in major world affairs (losing foolishly half of its male population in ww1 and close to 2 million in ww2 while fighting the Albanian ally Nazi Germany). The Serbs were today dropped by their old allies; USA, UK and France the same way that these countries will drop the Albanians one day.
Just as a large percentage of people believe there were WMDs in Iraq, there are many people who believe the media excesses (supplied by the Clinton Administration via the KLA)that scores of thousands of Kosovar Albanians were killed. Of the 2000 dead (you are correct) there are no details as to how many died from NATO bombing. Same with the Serb deaths. Which means the whole raison d’etre for the war was moot. For the U.S. and the E.U. to go into a sovereign nation and divide it up is a violation of every international law that exists. Maybe Raul Castro should start agitating the Miami Cubans to declare independence from Florida.
If Kosovo Albanians are such a proud Albanians, how come they prefer to call themselves Kosovars and Kosovans instead of using their national name Sqiptars? They are willing to be what they are not, just so they can rob the land that does not belong to them. BTW, Kosova is Spanglish for Kosovo. Kos means a blackbird and Kosovo means a Land of Blackbirds.
Furthermore, I very much understand and appreciate Albanian extreme desire for freedom and higher standard of living which in reality they never had. For the first time in their history there are able to live closer to the European standards. But values are still that of the most backward, most undeveloped, the least educated country in Europe with vendetta legal system.
Instead of being thankful for what Yugoslavia gave them and for an opportunity to live in “little America” (at the time in comparison to Enver’s Albania) they use their primitive and aggressive tactics – rob, still, poison, rape.
Because of their mafia mentality, culture, customs, vendetta laws, intolerance towards others they already have very well recorded history within the New York City’s Police Department, especially in the Bronx.
The same goes across any major European city. Europeans do not want them in their backyards. The way our for them is to give Serbian Kosovo in a hope that would keep Albanians away.
Because of horrible standards of living and their own mentality, every Albanian wants to leave not only Kosovo, but Albania as well. They will all build huge homes in their own villages just to show off, but will continue enjoying the civilized Europe, and USA and will continue to import vendetta, drug sales, brothels and other criminal operations.
Albanians will continue to arrange for more business style marriages to get more families out of Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro. While Albanian woman are often physically abused, who take care of many children, cook, clean and even go to work, their man pretend not to be married, visit clubs and restaurants, have none Albanian girlfriends, party and lavishly spend. Often they are caught with illegal possession of guns and get arrested.
Albanian money is 60% of the world’s heroin market from Afganistan. Who in the West is going to dare to end this circle and say enough is enough? Hey EU and USA just do not do it at the expense of the Serbian Kosovo!!!
What Albanians are offered by Serbia is independence de facto but not de jure. They refuse that. They want a secession. If that was a lone entity of Albanians in Balkans one would perhaps be willing to understand. But Kosovo is adjacent to an Albanian state. This is no matter how you want to phrase it annexation.
Moreover it is a slow and orchestrated thievery. Kosovo belonged to Serbia from the time the Slaves came to the Balkans. First the Turks cleansed it, then the Germans and Italians and finally Tito turned the blind eye to the massive and mostly illegal influx from Albania proper.
So why do the Albanians want the independence? They want to have a free hand to organize the most efficient drug smuggling and white slavery state in Europe. Nobody could then penetrate into that fortress of corruption and thievery.
