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  • Risto the Great
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 15658

    "I don’t know exactly where I am heading but I am dreaming of a place where my children will have proper education and where they won’t need connections to get a job once they graduate and where neither of us need to bribe the doctor if we need health services. The government did not prove they can provide us with any of this, and I never thought I would be here 15 years after the war."
    Sounds like Macedonia to me.
    Risto the Great
    MACEDONIA:ANHEDONIA
    "Holding my breath for the revolution."

    Hey, I wrote a bestseller. Check it out: www.ren-shen.com

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    • vicsinad
      Senior Member
      • May 2011
      • 2337

      Two unrelated incidents in Kosovo, but it seems that with the situations in the Balkans (Greek economy, Kosovo blackhole, Bosnia and Macedonia political uncertainties), you never know which spark can lead to an explosion, or some sort of fire.



      Kosovo: Blast in Kosovska Mitrovica downtown

      KOSOVSKA MITROVICA – An unidentified individual threw a hand grenade in the downtown of northern Kosovska Mitrovica and although certain damage was done, nobody was injured in the incident.

      The blast occurred in front of a confectionery of a Gorani owner in the main street early on Saturday, around 6.30 a.m.

      The grenade caused damage to eight cars parked in the street, as well as nearby shops and private apartments.

      The window of the shop in front of which the blast occurred was also damaged in the incident.

      According to reports by Tanjug’s correspondent, the Kosovo Police Service has blocked the street and investigation is underway. In addition to members of the Kosovo police, KFOR troops are also present at the scene.

      The motives and the identity of the perpetrator are not known at this point.




      STRPCE – One woman was injured in an incident in which a bus transporting Serb passengers from Belgrade to Strpce was stoned in Banjica, southern Kosovo-Metohija, Strpce Mayor Bratislav Nikolic told Tanjug. [My note: Strpce is about 5 km from border with Macedonia]

      The incident occurred on Friday night, the investigation is underway and the identity of the individuals who stoned the bus is still not known.

      The bus is owned by Kosovo company Tandems.

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      • George S.
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2009
        • 10116

        Exodus from Kosovo: Why thousands have left the Balkans

        Exodus from Kosovo: Why thousands have left the Balkans
        Exodus from Kosovo: Why thousands have left the Balkans



        Kosovo has lost an estimated 50,000 people in the past two months - most of them on buses bound eventually for Germany. What is going on in this tiny corner of the Balkans?



        Kosovo has lost an estimated 50,000 people in the past two months - most of them on buses bound eventually for Germany. What is going on in this tiny corner of the Balkans?




        By Harriet Alexander, Pristina, 21 Feb 2015



        Nysret Ismaili surveys the small group of children playing on the flinty school football pitch, set in the plains below Kosovo's rolling hills, and knows he has a problem.

        His school is in trouble. In the past two months, 36 of his pupils have left, taken by their parents out of the country in the biggest exodus of Kosovans since the war. Their small, tight-knit farming community in Lug, 15 miles north of Pristina, is shrinking; his staff face an uncertain future.



        "It's a catastrophe," said Mr Ismaili. The Kosovan ministry of education agrees – 5,200 pupils have left schools nationwide since December.



        He opens the door on Nazmije Hiseni's rowdy class of six-year-olds, singing Balkan folk songs at the top of their lungs. She smiles weakly. Four of her 20 pupils have left, and she faces redundancy, as Mr Ismaili will be forced to merge two classes.



        "This has never happened before," he said. "We are on the brink."



        Since the end of November, an estimated 50,000 Kosovans have left this small Balkan nation of 1.8 million – mainly headed for Germany, where there has been a large diaspora since the 1970s.

        The youngest country in Europe, Kosovo gained independence in 2008, following Tony Blair and Bill Clinton's decision to bomb Serbia into retreat in 1999. It is also the poorest, with annual GDP per capita at £2,500. Work is non-existent in many areas – unemployment averages 45 per cent, rising to 60 per cent among those aged under 24.



        In a country whose most valuable export appears to be pop singer Rita Ora, the lure of the wealthy West is strong: asylum applications from Kosovans in Germany rose in January by 572 per cent, year on year.



        But precisely why this is happening now remains a mystery – the economic situation is nothing new.



        Hashim Thaci, the influential foreign minister and deputy prime minister, said it was due to "false rumours" that Germany was about to loosen its asylum policy. People traffickers have apparently been selling the myth that Fortress Europe was preparing to open its doors.

        Those fed up with the economic slog and the political impasse seized their moment – at the end of January the largest riots since independence broke out in Pristina, amid frustration at six months of wrangling between ruling parties.



        Kosovan media reported nightly the story of the exodus, fuelling the theory that now was the time to go.



        And some suspect that the Serbian authorities who saw the convoys of buses leaving Kosovo were happy to turn a blind eye to the crumbling of a country whose independence they refuse to recognise – the mass desertion of Kosovo served their political purposes nicely. Plus, with thousands of people boarding buses to Belgrade and then on to the Hungarian border, business was booming for Serbian entrepreneurs – both legal and illegal.



        "I've not seen anything like it since the war, since the Serbs kicked everyone out," said Venton Demiri, who for the past 30 years has coordinated traffic at Pristina's central bus station.

        At his desk, with his cigarettes and coffee, beside the full-blast electric heater in his office, he watched as the people poured in to buy a ticket for the six hour trip to Belgrade. Buses were so full that the €15-tickets had to be bought a week in advance; up to 13 buses a night would leave. Most passengers, he said, were young men.



        "It's sad for Kosovo. But there is no hope for people here. They're leaving because they are desperate."



        Outside a young family was boarding the 10.30pm bus – their children, aged two and three, wrapped up against the bitter cold. The father explained that he was earning €70 a month, and could not feed his family. They hoped to make it to Germany.



        Such dreams are usually ill fated.



        Germany, which is home to half of all Kosovans living abroad, rejects 99.7 per cent of their asylum applications. Kosovo is considered stable and secure enough for repatriation, which is usually a quick process.



        On Wednesday, The Telegraph watched as a group of six young men were escorted by police onto their plane in Munich, and sent back to Pristina. On Thursday several more left via the same route. On Friday afternoon a further four were returned. And this week the Kosovan authorities hope to make a show of the returnees, bringing television crews to the airport to dissuade others considering the journey.



        Germany has opened four new centres to process Kosovan asylum claims, and last week sent border guards to help Hungary – where 20,000 Kosovans are currently in detention.

        Word does appear finally to have got out that the "open doors" story was a myth. The number of those leaving has slowed. More and more people are returning empty-handed, with tales of woe, having sold their cars and left their jobs for their failed adventures.



        On Saturday the front page of Koha Ditore, one of Kosovo's main daily newspapers, published an advert from the Austrian government which stated: "Smugglers are lying. There will be no asylum for economic reasons in Austria. For staying illegally in Austria, you may be punished by up to €7,500."



        Johanna Mikl-Leitner, the Austrian interior minister, raised the issue of asylum seekers during his Friday visit to Pristina.



        "We will have a charter plane every two weeks and if there is a need we will engage more planes," he said. "We are discussing turning these people back also via land routes."

        But it has left a bitter taste.



        A little over two months ago Robert, a 28-year-old labourer set off from the town of Gjakova. On arrival at the Hungarian border, his Serbian taxi driver handed him over to the Hungarian police – a judge fined him €60, and let him go. Robert continued through Austria – where his asylum application was rejected after two weeks of deliberation. Released from a detention centre near Vienna and with €40 from the Austrian authorities, he continued on to the German city of Mannheim, paying €92 for the express train into Germany.



        He moved on to France, meeting up with a brother who six months earlier had sought asylum in Mulhouse and is still awaiting a decision.



        But Robert's own asylum claim was once again rejected, so he went to try his luck in the Swiss city of Basel. They took a fortnight to reject his application, gave him 110 Swiss francs, and told him to get out of Europe.



        This time he listened, worn out by the process and having used up all his savings. He returned to Kosovo three weeks ago.



        "But I'll try again," he said. "There is nothing here for me."



        In Pristina, the mayor, Shpend Ahmeti, understands why people like Robert try to flee. One in four Kosovans live abroad, and 13 per cent of the country's GDP is from remittances.

        "I don't blame them," he said. "I've never seen such dissatisfaction.



        "Just yesterday a man with an economics degree came to me and said: 'If I don't get a job this month I am taking my family to Bulgaria.' What could I say?"



        But while he has sympathy for the emigrants, he has little time for the government – his own upstart movement, Vetevendosje ("self-determination"), is in opposition; the burly Harvard-educated economist is seen as one of their brightest rising stars.



        "The government simply does not have an economic plan," he said. "People are not leaving because they don't have money in their pockets. They are leaving because they have no expectations of being able to make any money over the coming years."



        He argues that Kosovo needs to create jobs and attract investment to make the country a worthwhile place to live – foreign direct investment shrank last year, despite a modestly-growing economy, and the country's largest export is scrap metal. It has one of the largest trade deficits in the world, with almost everything imported and no pre-1990s industry remaining.



        "This really isn't rocket science. We need to start substituting our imports for home-grown produce; it's not OK for us to import garlic and onions from Egypt, while our land lies empty," he said.



        Since being elected mayor last year, Mr Ahmeti said he had made efforts to improve the business climate in one of the most challenging countries in Europe – organised crime and corruption are rife. In a city whose skyline today is dominated by minarets and cranes towering over half-built skyscrapers, Mr Ahmeti ordered an immediate halt to illegal construction, angering many black market consortiums.



        He said he had also handed over 80 files on organised crime – but that the government and judiciary had not yet acted on them. An assassination plot against him was uncovered in May – less than five months into his tenure.



        "We don't have a functioning state," he said, undeterred. "Half of our people are abandoned.

        "And part of the problem is that we compare ourselves to Palestine and say we're not too bad really – when we should be comparing ourselves to Slovenia, and aiming high. We are a young country in every sense, and we should be doing better."



        Across Mother Teresa Square, the government takes a different view.



        Bekim Collaku's office windows are still smashed – a remnant from the violent January protests – but the minister for European integration sees their anger as the fault of the EU.



        "This generation is extremely frustrated," he said. "Kosovo has a huge diaspora, yet just to get an appointment for a visa takes six months. People feel trapped."



        Kosovo is the only country in the region not to have a visa waiver scheme within the Schengen area – even Moldovans can travel without a visa, which rankles in Pristina.



        But surely the exodus is due to his government's economic and political policies, rather than the visa situation?



        "It has been a worrying situation, but now the numbers leaving are falling," he said, adding that the 3,630 asylum applications in Germany last month were in reality a tiny figure. The EU's most recent statistics show that 20,000 Kosovans applied for asylum in EU nations in 2013 - accounting for five per cent of all applicants. Over the same period, some 50,000 Syrians and 40,000 Russians applied.



        "Our post-war transition is almost complete. It has taken a little longer than many hoped, which has made people frustrated. But now we can concentrate on the future."



        Back in the village of Lug, Sadik Bulliqi, the 64-year-old school caretaker, is locking up for the night. One month ago two of his sons left – Sultan, 20, and 25-year-old Avdyl. They had been unemployed for a year after the local sunflower oil factory, Flori, relocated to Bulgaria.

        "I didn't want them to go, but what could I say?" said Mr Bulliqi.



        "There is nothing for them here. They were doing odd jobs, earning €10 a day. Better go to Germany and take your chances. I hope they will be able to stay."



        The sons have telephoned their four siblings to say they are OK, and awaiting the result of their asylum claim. They will, however, almost certainly then be deported, something Mr Bulliqi greets with a resigned shrug.



        "My wife and I are old and tired, and it is sad that they had to go.

        "But what hope is there for them here?"
        "Ido not want an uprising of people that would leave me at the first failure, I want revolution with citizens able to bear all the temptations to a prolonged struggle, what, because of the fierce political conditions, will be our guide or cattle to the slaughterhouse"
        GOTSE DELCEV

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        • Volokin
          Member
          • Apr 2014
          • 278

          Kosovo Vote on New War Crimes Court Fails

          Kosovo Vote on New War Crimes Court Fails

          A vote to change the constitution to allow the establishment of a controversial new special court to try Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas failed because not enough MPs voted in favour.

          Protest outside parliament against the new court.

          The long-delayed vote on constitutional changes to establish the new court to try alleged war crimes committed during the 1998-99 conflict failed on Friday to gain enough votes in favour to pass the legislation.

          After a heated debate, only 75 MPs voted for the changes - six short of the number required to approve the legislation. Seven voted against and two abstained but the remainder of the MPs in the 120-seat legislature refused to take part in the voting process.

          The proposed establishment of the EU-backed court has been highly controversial in Kosovo.

          Veterans’ associations and opposition parties have claimed that it is an insult to the KLA’s armed struggle to escape Serbian control during the 1998-99 conflict, and some demonstrated outside parliament during Friday’s session.

          At the beginning of the session, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Isa Mustafa told MPs that the court would try individuals and not the KLA’s war.

          “I invite all of you to vote for the proposed amendment,” Mustafa urged.

          Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci also told parliament that it was in Kosovo’s interests to create the special court.

          “We will prove that we have nothing to hide and preserve the historical and strategic alliance with our partners the United States of America, the European Union and NATO. We have to establish this independent and international institution,” said Thaci.

          But Glauk Konjufca from the opposition Vetevendosje (Self-Determination Movement) party said that the court was an insult to the KLA’s struggle.

          “A court that tries Kosovo’s Liberation Army, I wouldn’t vote for it even if I knew that [not doing so] would cause the end of the world,” Konjufca said.

          Ramush Haradinaj, leader of opposition party the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo opposition party said justice was being imposed selectively because Belgrade was not being forced to set up a similar court.

          “This is not happening to other republics of the former Yugoslavia. This is not happening to Serbia. This is not happening to all the others that were parties in war,” Haradinaj said.

          The establishment of the so-called Specialised Chambers, often referred to as the ‘special court’, first became public in an exchange of letters between Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga and the EU’s foreign policy chief last year.

          It is widely considered by the Kosovo public and most political parties to have been imposed by Pristina’s western allies.

          The US had also threatened not to continue opposing Russian attempts at the UN Security Council to establish a Kosovo tribunal if the new court is not established.

          Opposition parties have blamed the ruling parties for bowing to international pressure and acting against Kosovo’s interests.

          The mandate for the court is derived from a report published in early 2011 by Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty, who claimed that crimes against civilians such as kidnapping, torture and organ-harvesting were committed by members of the KLA during the conflict.

          The report implicated Thaci, the former political head of the KLA and the ex-prime minister of Kosovo, who is now foreign minister. Thaci strongly denies the allegations.
          A vote to change the constitution to allow the establishment of a controversial new special court to try Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas failed because not enough MPs voted in favour.


          What a surprise. A corrupt state run by criminals veto's a court to try them for exactly that behavior.

          Surely Thaci has a some backdoor deal to get amnesty, otherwise I don't see why he would be pro the court being created. He has been named and implicated multiple times in crimes against the minorities in Kosovo.

          And Ramush Haradinaj, there was a court to deal with all crimes of the former Yugoslavia, including the Kosovo War on both sides, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

          As a matter of fact, you were indicted!
          Haradinaj served 100 days as Prime Minister in 2005 before being indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), at The Hague. The indictment alleges that Haradinaj, as a commander of the KLA, committed crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war between March and September 1998, the alleged purpose of which was to exert control over territory, targeting both Serb, Albanian, and Romani civilians. He was acquitted on 3 April 2008, because of lack of convincing evidence.
          When the ICTY indictment was issued in March 2005, Haradinaj chose to step down immediately from his position as Prime Minister. The following day he travelled voluntarily to The Hague where he submitted himself to the custody of the court and remained for two months until he was granted provisional release pending trial. The head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) during this time, Søren Jessen-Petersen, welcomed the decision Haradinaj to face the tribunal voluntarily, praised his work and described Haradinaj as a "close partner and friend", regardless Western intelligence reports that Haradinaj was a key figure in the range between organized crime and politics. Citing Mr. Haradinaj's compliance with the ICTY and the fact that he posed no risk of flight and no risk towards witnesses, the Trial Chamber of the ICTY extended his provisional release and allowed him to wait for trial in his hometown of Prishtina. Further, the Appeals Chamber later granted Haradinaj the unprecedented right for an indictee to engage in public political activity. Such activity was, however, subject to the approval of UNMIK. This step was unprecedented in the history of international criminal law and seen as a reflection of the fact that Mr. Haradinaj voluntarily submitted himself to the court. Critics (and the prosecution) however, argued that this went too far. The Prosecution argued that although Mr. Haradinaj posed no threat to witnesses, his mere presence in Kosovo could have a “chilling” effect on whether witnesses would testify. The longtime Chief Prosecutor of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla Del Ponte, has remained steadfastly unimpressed by the international support for Haradinaj, continuing to make strongly negative statements about him. She told the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that "according to the decision to provisionally release him, he is a stability factor for Kosovo. I never understood this. For me he is a war criminal."
          Oh Kosovo...



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          • Soldier of Macedon
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2008
            • 13670

            Opposition parties plan another push for the government to resign on the day marking the eighth anniversary of the country's independence.

            Kosovo Opposition Plans Independence Day Rally

            15 Feb 16

            Opposition parties plan another push for the government to resign on the day marking the eighth anniversary of the country's independence.

            Opposition parties in Kosovo have called on people to take to the streets again on February 17, when the country will celebrate the eighth anniversary of the declaration of independence. The rally marks a continuation of the opposition's campaign against an agreement with Serbia on the establishment of the Association of municipalities of Kosovo and a border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. The three-party opposition bloc, Vetëvendosje, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK and NISMA will also demand that the government to resign after the Constitutional Court ruled that parts of the agreement on the Association are unconstitutional.

            While Isa Mustafa's government, supported by the international community, remains silent about this request, the head of the AAK, Ramush Haradinaj, warned implicity of violence on Friday, speaking in a forum with civil society representatives. “Wednesday [February 17] will be the day of confrontation. The mumber of people in the protest will be bigger and they cannot ignore us anymore,” Haradinaj said. Prishtina lecturer in politics Arben Qirezi said the opposition had managed to build an “effective case” against the EU-brokered deals with Serbia and Montenegro signed last August. “The international community has got Kosovo wrong by pressurizing the government to sign a deal which is not only unconstitutional, but undermines the functionality of Kosovo as a state,” Qirezi told BIRN.

            While the opposition wants the government to quit, Kosovo's two governing parties are in the process of preparing for a session when current deputy Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi will be voted President of Kosovo. Naim Rashiti, from the Balkans Policy Research Group think tank, told BIRN that it was clear that no one on either side was willing to back down. “A resolution to this crisis does not appear to be on the horizon," he warned, adding that Kosovo needed "profound reforms undertaken in an inclusive political and institutional dialogue”.
            In the name of the blood and the sun, the dagger and the gun, Christ protect this soldier, a lion and a Macedonian.

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            • JJAskiz
              Banned
              • May 2015
              • 101

              Kosovo je Serbija!

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              • Redsun
                Member
                • Jul 2013
                • 409

                Originally posted by JJAskiz View Post
                Kosovo je Serbija!
                No, what makes you so compassionate?

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                • vicsinad
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2011
                  • 2337

                  I don't care about "Kosovo is Serbia" for Serbia's sake, but for what "Kosovo is Albanian" means for the Tetovo region in Macedonia, as well as other western regions. We know their goals of "Greater" Albania. While all Balkan peoples' have historical interpretations and dreams of greater this or united that, the last two Balkan skirmishes have been Albanians using weapons to complete their aims. They aren't giving up on this, and they aren't just going to stop with the political system.

                  Here's a 2015 Albanian parade in NYC.

                  Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.


                  At 1:22, the woman speaker goes "Albanians in Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Presevo Valley...don't stop fighting." We don't know the whole context of the speech, but given that at minute 1:09 and 1:10 they flash a poster of Greater Albania (Ilirada) with all those parts incorporated into it (and strangely, all those parts are red except for the western half of Macedonia, which is blue...I don't know what that signifies...is Macedonia next?)...we know their agenda. Of course, I don't normally put that much faith in Diaspora shouting and antics. But it is the Albanian Diaspora in the United States, as well as Switzerland, that funded and armed the KLA. They literally flew planes full of weapons from NYC to Kosovo, and they had some of the most influential Democratic congressmen in their back pocket.

                  What Kosovo means for the Macedonians is the planned and coordinated attempt -- that's actually being executed -- to break off a chunk of Macedonia. In the early 90s, I remember many of the Serbs and Macedonians' brushing the Albanians off. I was young. Then the Kosovo War, then the terrorist and rebel insurrection in Macedonia. Now it seems like we're just waiting nervously for when something big is going to happen. Have we accepted that it's a loss?

                  It doesn't matter -- to the Albanians -- that the Serbs were more brutal and aggressive toward the Albanians than the Macedonians. They have the same goal. It was easier for them to sell Kosovo to the international community than it was to sell northwestern Macedonia, but that doesn't make northwestern Macedonia any different in their eyes. They will find a way.

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                  • JJAskiz
                    Banned
                    • May 2015
                    • 101

                    Originally posted by Redsun View Post
                    No, what makes you so compassionate?
                    Albanians from Albania are not Illyrians, they are from Caucasia.

                    Viennese researchers upset traditionally minded Albanians by pouring cold water on the theory that the Albanian language has its roots in Ancient Illyria.

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                    • JJAskiz
                      Banned
                      • May 2015
                      • 101

                      Originally posted by vicsinad View Post
                      I don't care about "Kosovo is Serbia" for Serbia's sake, but for what "Kosovo is Albanian" means for the Tetovo region in Macedonia, as well as other western regions. We know their goals of "Greater" Albania. While all Balkan peoples' have historical interpretations and dreams of greater this or united that, the last two Balkan skirmishes have been Albanians using weapons to complete their aims. They aren't giving up on this, and they aren't just going to stop with the political system.

                      Here's a 2015 Albanian parade in NYC.

                      Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.


                      At 1:22, the woman speaker goes "Albanians in Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Presevo Valley...don't stop fighting." We don't know the whole context of the speech, but given that at minute 1:09 and 1:10 they flash a poster of Greater Albania (Ilirada) with all those parts incorporated into it (and strangely, all those parts are red except for the western half of Macedonia, which is blue...I don't know what that signifies...is Macedonia next?)...we know their agenda. Of course, I don't normally put that much faith in Diaspora shouting and antics. But it is the Albanian Diaspora in the United States, as well as Switzerland, that funded and armed the KLA. They literally flew planes full of weapons from NYC to Kosovo, and they had some of the most influential Democratic congressmen in their back pocket.

                      What Kosovo means for the Macedonians is the planned and coordinated attempt -- that's actually being executed -- to break off a chunk of Macedonia. In the early 90s, I remember many of the Serbs and Macedonians' brushing the Albanians off. I was young. Then the Kosovo War, then the terrorist and rebel insurrection in Macedonia. Now it seems like we're just waiting nervously for when something big is going to happen. Have we accepted that it's a loss?

                      It doesn't matter -- to the Albanians -- that the Serbs were more brutal and aggressive toward the Albanians than the Macedonians. They have the same goal. It was easier for them to sell Kosovo to the international community than it was to sell northwestern Macedonia, but that doesn't make northwestern Macedonia any different in their eyes. They will find a way.
                      The Americans are supporting Greater Albania for their own political and economical purposes just like the fake war the USA are fighting in the Middle East just to steal the Arab's oil. There is a reason why America made Kosovo independent and a reason why the Americans are supporting the Albanians to take over Republic Of Macedonia so the Albanians can make a Greater Albania. Macedonia kicked the ass of the Albanian UCK Terrorists in 2001 until USA got involved and helped the Albanians fight against the Macedonian Army and etc... Then made a Peace Treaty to stop the war. And them cops that got killed recently by them Albanian UCK terrorists again, USA was behind that too because we were supporting the Turkish and Russian Gasline Project and because we didn't put Sanctions against Russia because we are on the side of mother Russia, not the West USA, NATO, EU, UN and etc... . The Macedonian Army, Police and etc... Got a tip off and told other Macedonian citizens in Republic Of Macedonia not to get involved and not start another 2001 war because it was USA using the Albanian UCK terrorists as a Proxy to cause trouble in our country Republic Of Macedonia for being on the side of mother Russia.

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                      • Redsun
                        Member
                        • Jul 2013
                        • 409

                        Originally posted by JJAskiz View Post
                        Albanians from Albania are not Illyrians, they are from Caucasia.

                        http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/arti...lost-for-words
                        There is no mention of their Caucasian origins in the link you provided.

                        How does this link support your view, “Kosovo je Serbija”?

                        Kosovo does not belong to Albania or Serbia, Kosovo is an area of land. What makes you think the Serbian government should have the authority to govern the land and the people inhabiting it? There is no legitimate reason.

                        I think these two extracts from the report contradict one another…


                        The root of the controversy is their hypothesis that Albanian does not originate from the language of the Ancient Illyrians, the people or peoples who inhabited the Balkans in the Greek and Roman era.

                        Schumacher and Matzinger believe Albanian came into existence separately from Illyrian, orginating from the Indo-European family tree during the second millennium BC, somewhere in the northern Balkans.


                        The last extract definitely does not support what you stated previously in post #7. You may have good intentions, next you time you look for a source to support what you have stated please read the entire article first.

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                        • Redsun
                          Member
                          • Jul 2013
                          • 409

                          Originally posted by JJAskiz View Post
                          Then made a Peace Treaty to stop the war. And them cops that got killed recently by them Albanian UCK terrorists again, USA was behind that too because we were supporting the Turkish and Russian Gasline Project and because we didn't put Sanctions against Russia because we are on the side of mother Russia, not the West USA, NATO, EU, UN and etc... . The Macedonian Army, Police and etc... Got a tip off and told other Macedonian citizens in Republic Of Macedonia not to get involved and not start another 2001 war because it was USA using the Albanian UCK terrorists as a Proxy to cause trouble in our country Republic Of Macedonia for being on the side of mother Russia.

                          Why do you refer to Russia as mother Russia? What sides? How do we support Russia?

                          I think that your statement is based on the belief that Russia and America are the two greatest powers and nothing else matters, lol.

                          Why are you a Russian sympathizer? You must be an imperialist, to state such…

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                          • JJAskiz
                            Banned
                            • May 2015
                            • 101

                            Originally posted by Redsun View Post
                            There is no mention of their Caucasian origins in the link you provided.

                            How does this link support your view, “Kosovo je Serbija”?

                            Kosovo does not belong to Albania or Serbia, Kosovo is an area of land. What makes you think the Serbian government should have the authority to govern the land and the people inhabiting it? There is no legitimate reason.

                            I think these two extracts from the report contradict one another…


                            The root of the controversy is their hypothesis that Albanian does not originate from the language of the Ancient Illyrians, the people or peoples who inhabited the Balkans in the Greek and Roman era.

                            Schumacher and Matzinger believe Albanian came into existence separately from Illyrian, orginating from the Indo-European family tree during the second millennium BC, somewhere in the northern Balkans.


                            The last extract definitely does not support what you stated previously in post #7. You may have good intentions, next you time you look for a source to support what you have stated please read the entire article first.
                            The link proves that the Albanians are not Illyrians nor do they speak/spoke the language of the Illyrians and proves the theory that Albanians are from Caucasia. Which just proves more the other theory that the land Kosovo always belonged to Serbia not Albania. And it also proves the other theory too that the Albanians stole Kosovo off the Serbs with also a little help from NATO and USA with bombing Serbia from
                            March 24, 1999 to June 10, 1999 and helped the Albanians take Kosovo from Serbia to help them make a "Greater Albania" for exchange so that USA can get power in the Balkans and control shit there. That is why them police officers got shot in Republic Of Macedonia by them UCK terrorists in Kumanovo, because USA is using the Albanian UCK Terrorists as a Proxy to destabilise our country Republic Of Macedonia and the Balkans. Because Republic Of Macedonia refused to put Sanctions against Russia and because Republic Of Macedonia supports Russia. And also because Republic Of Macedonia are doing the Russian/Turkish Gas Line Project which USA hates and does not want that happening or they lose money.

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                            • JJAskiz
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                              Originally posted by Redsun View Post
                              Why do you refer to Russia as mother Russia? What sides? How do we support Russia?

                              I think that your statement is based on the belief that Russia and America are the two greatest powers and nothing else matters, lol.

                              Why are you a Russian sympathizer? You must be an imperialist, to state such…
                              I like Russia because Russia and Ukraine helped Republic Of Macedonia out in the 2001 war between the Macedonians and the Albanians and they gave us a lot of weapons, Ammo and etc... And helped us out heaps when we were in need of help.

                              And Macedonians and Russians help each other's countries economically and they had our backs like I said in 2001. And when USA, NATO and EU told Republic Of Macedonia "Put Sanctions against Russia or else...", Republic Of Macedonia refused to put Sanctions against Russia and gave USA, NATO and the EU the middle finger and a big F U to them.

                              And also Russia and USA are the world powers at the moment.

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                              • Redsun
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                                Originally posted by JJAskiz View Post
                                The link proves that the Albanians are not Illyrians nor do they speak/spoke the language of the Illyrians and proves the theory that Albanians are from Caucasia. Which just proves more the other theory that the land Kosovo always belonged to Serbia not Albania. And it also proves the other theory too that the Albanians stole Kosovo off the Serbs with also a little help from NATO and USA with bombing Serbia from
                                March 24, 1999 to June 10, 1999 and helped the Albanians take Kosovo from Serbia to help them make a "Greater Albania" for exchange so that USA can get power in the Balkans and control shit there.
                                The link does not prove that the land of Kosovo belongs to Serbia, neither does it state or prove that it ever had belonged to Serbia.

                                Kosovo is not Serbia.

                                Originally posted by JJAskiz View Post
                                That is why them police officers got shot in Republic Of Macedonia by them UCK terrorists in Kumanovo, because USA is using the Albanian UCK Terrorists as a Proxy to destabilise our country Republic Of Macedonia and the Balkans. Because Republic Of Macedonia refused to put Sanctions against Russia and because Republic Of Macedonia supports Russia. And also because Republic Of Macedonia are doing the Russian/Turkish Gas Line Project which USA hates and does not want that happening or they lose money.
                                Before 1999, when had Macedonia refuse to put sanctions against Russia? These “sanctions” were imposed in the wake of the recent conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

                                Why do you think the USA is “using” the Albanian UCK Terrorists, opposed to “supporting” the NLA Terrorists? NLA Terrorists were the instigators.

                                Support of Russia, Sanctions and Gas lines? Why no mention of the Framework Agreement imposed upon us by the USA and EU. What about the NATO intervention.

                                Originally posted by JJAskiz View Post
                                I like Russia because Russia and Ukraine helped Republic Of Macedonia out in the 2001 war between the Macedonians and the Albanians and they gave us a lot of weapons, Ammo and etc... And helped us out heaps when we were in need of help.
                                Russia “helped us”? Where did you read this?


                                Originally posted by JJAskiz View Post
                                And Macedonians and Russians help each other's countries economically and they had our backs like I said in 2001. And when USA, NATO and EU told Republic Of Macedonia "Put Sanctions against Russia or else...", Republic Of Macedonia refused to put Sanctions against Russia and gave USA, NATO and the EU the middle finger and a big F U to them.

                                And also Russia and USA are the world powers at the moment.
                                Russia and the USA have their own agendas.

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