By Alex, Belgrade
March 25, 2006
Fact 1. When Serbs settled the Balkans in the 6th and 7th centuries, and in subsequent centuries, they fought the Byzantnine and Ottoman Turkish Empire. Not Albanians. See the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
Fact 2. Only Albanians claim to be descendants of the ancient Illyrians but most of the world does not support this theory. See the Wikipedia encyclopedia. In any case, Serbs did not fight the Illyrians, because the Illyrians were not there when Serbs had initially settled the Balkans.
Fact 3. Kosovo was the center of Serbian statehood, medieval Empire and the birthplace of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Numerous medieval churches and monasteries, which Albanians are now destroying, testify to the centuries of Serbian religion, culture, history and civilization in the area.
Fact 4. In 1389 Serbs fought the Ottoman Turks at Kosovo, not Albanians. When Kosovo was not part of Serbia (from 1389 till 1912), it was part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, not part of Albania.
Fact 5. From 1912 till 1999 Kosovo was part of Serbia and, later, Yugoslavia.
Fact 6. Until the beginning of WW 2, Serbs were the absolute majority population in Kosovo.
Fact 7. The only time Kosovo had EVER been part of Albania was under a Greater Albanian state created by Hitler during WW 2. That should hardly count as relevant.
Fact 8. The genocide of Serbs by Albanians in WW 2, followed by Tito's Communism - which favored relations with Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha thus forbidding Kosovo Serbs to return to Kosovo after the war, the deacades of flow of illegal aliens from Albania proper into Kosovo, along with the fact most Albanians have 8 or 10 members per family, and the rise of Albanian separatism and later terror, all contributed to the decrease of the Serbian population and to the increase of the Albanian population in Kosovo. That does not make it automatically their land.
Fact 9. According to UN Resolution 1244 adopted in 1999, Kosovo is legally still part of Serbia and Yugoslavia (now the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro), and it's officially and internationally still called Kosovo, not Kosova, as the Albanians insist on calling it. In a similar way, the Albanians of Kosovo should not be called Kosovars, because that implies to a separate nation or state, which is not the case. They should be called Kosovo Albanians.
Fact 10. If Kosovo is given independence, by the same criteria the Basque region, Corsica, Chechnya, Kurdistan, the Tamil-Tiger controlled part of Sri Lanka, Kashmir, perhaps even Texas and many other places in the world should be given independence.
Conslusion and closing arguments: For several centuries in the Middle Ages Kosovo had played the central part in Serbian statehood, religion and culture, traces of which are evident all over Kosovo. Even after the fall of Kosovo to the Turks in 1389, the legend of the Battle of Kosovo continued to live on for centuries, in epic poems, stories that were told from generation to generation, and, later, it continued to live in history and literature books, and many, many Serbian generations were raised with Kosovo in their hearts. They carried it in their hearts, and they knew all about it, even if they had not visited it. When Kosovo was liberated from the Turks in 1912 - and not taken from the Albanians because they didn't hold it in the first place, it was reintegrated into Serbia and later Yugoslavia. For most part of the 20th century, Kosovo was part of Serbia and, officially, it still is, even though it's "administered" by Nato and the UN.
Albanians are telling lies - first that Kosovo was once inhabitted by Illyrians - whom Albanians claim are their distant relatives. Maybe. But, when Serbs came to the Balkans, they did not fight the Illyrians or the Albanians, so we could not have taken it from them in the first place. We did not take it from them then. We did not take it from them in 1912 (as they claim), because in 1912 Kosovo was controlled by Turks, not Albanians. So, Albanians manifest a very big lie when they claim that we had taken Kosovo from them. The facts say that Kosovo - if we exclude the Ottoman Turks, had for most time belonged to Serbs and the Serbian state, and had only been part of the Albanian state once, during the time of Hitler.
The fact that Albanians are renaming towns from Serbian to Albanian, giving them new Albanian names, and not the previous names from the Turkish era, means only one thing - they are trying to rename everything into Albanian so that they can later say that Kosovo had always been Albanian. Another great lie.
The fact that Serbian Orthodox Christians, their churches, monasteries, even graveyards, their historic monuments and traces of their culture and history are disappearing from Kosovo, can only mean one thing. Albanians want Kosovo only for themselves, to be an islamic state, fully and completely Albanian, with no place for any other culture or ethnic group.
The fact that the borders between Kosovo and Albania had been opened in 1999 without any strict control, means one thing - if Kosovo is given independence, there will practically be a Greater Albania in place. It will not be called that officially, maybe Kosovo will not be allowed to join with Albania officially, but on the ground, with open and uncontrolled borders, it will practically be the Greater Albania Adolf Hitler had created. This time, it would have been created by America, the European Union, Nato and the United Nations.
The fact that Interpol - at the request of UNMIK chief Soren Jesen Pettersen, had crossed out the former Croatian general and KLA terrorist, current Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku from the Most Wanted List, is a horrific example of how the West is playing right into the hands of the Albanians, actually helping them form their Greater Albanian state. Picture it, one large, poor islamic state full of crime, drugs, corruption and arms, in the heart of Europe.
Chilling, isn't it?