Hello to all,
my oppinion about this topic is divided. I support democratic rights, and respect wish of Albanian people to try to build an independant country. But on other hand, I am very disappointed with Albanians and their role in Yugoslav society. They couldn't overcome their hate for so long, and what are the reasons for it? Why they try to constantly provoke incidents with Serbs? Could they come to peace with Serbs? Is the independent country road to frendship with Serbs, or final divide of two hostile societies?
I think that Serbs was naive and tried to became more than friend with Croats and Albannians in brotherhood relations, but have stoumbled on unfrendly thieves. Those want to steal teritory, haritige, history and even teritory from Serbs. Why? What are countries and borders?
Everyone tried to be a passanger on a big luxury ship, and nobody wanted to be crew on it. When it got dirty and rusty, everybody wanted out - rats first, and they blamed Serbs because they refuse to be their servants anymore.
There are some mistakes on history perspective here, there is a reasonable doubt about Albanian Iliric background. In the Byzantine times, there are province of Iliria. Albania and parts of Serbia are on their eastern borders. There couldn't be no Albanian pedcestors on this region before rehelenisation of Peloponesia, which was conducted to return Greaks wich was demographically weakened and owerpowered by Serbs. Serbs was then moved to borders of empire to be "stratiots", so there are Serb blood in Syria, Egypt, Turky, etc. Albanians could be Normans, or Sicilians, or Venicians wich came here in first half of 2nd milenium AD.
At Kosovo, Albanians was real minority, until Tito "erased" the word minority because "in Socialism there could not be minorities" which was a good idea. Many thoulsands of Albanian fleed from Comunist Albania, and reasons were poverty, or running from law - pretending to run fom poverty (similar to Cubans at Miami). So, you should compare demographic flow after 1945 and you should see what happend. Those criminals from Albania was welcomed to Serbia, but some of them continued with crime pretending that they are fighters for "national cause". They cause great problems in Yugoslavia. While Yugoslavia was strong, there were some solutions to it, but with weakening of YU, the problem growed to huge proportions. Incompatibile governers of small YU, couldn't find proper solution, and was not capable of using delicate instruments, so they tried to solve it by force. They didn't know that the problem is now biger then them, and with help of varius allies which now had interests in criminal deads (money lowndry, drug production and distribution, executions...) Those are some strong politicians such as G.W. Bush and H. Solana, and they pushed problem over edge, to maintain their crime-mashine. Behind all of it is gread and hate. I am 100% sure that there are honorable Albanians, the people with big and slall lifes, joy and sorrow in it, like Serbs. They are the same little ants, instrumentaded by powerfull.
For end just to say that, this world disappointed me. I belong to generation which was sure that world of future wouldn't be based on powerfull - powerless relation, but on power of truth. Truth is small and weak today, liers are strong and their lies rings with churches bells. Truth is equal to shame. I ask the world to look around, to hear the past, and not to be afraid of future. There is a sters of three steps wich goes to dark and those are "ignorance", "fear", and "hate".