Official calls
ethnic Albanian neighboring states occupiers
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
SERBIANNA
An influential ethnic Albanian Secretary from the Organization of the
Veterans of the Army for the Liberation of Kosovo, Faton Klinaku, has accused
Balkan states - Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece - of being occupying
nations and has threatened war on them to take away their land in case
Kosovo is separated.
"The Macedonians, Montenegrins and the Serbs from Eastern Kosovo [Southern
Serbia] are occupiers and the Albanian people live in the conditions of
a classic occupation in their lands. This is also valid for the Albanians
in Greece, since Greece refuses to recognize their rights," Klinaku told
the Bulgarian news agency Focus.
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of the Army for the Liberation of Kosovo posing with severed Serbian heads
when they were fighters. |
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"We fought for the freedom of the Albanian people. Every other decision
different from that would lead to violence for which both the politicians
and the international community would be guilty," said Klinaku.
"Where there are more Albanians – there will be Albania. This will happen
if they start a separation of Kosovo. At the end of it all, such development
is in our benefit, since all Albanians will unite in a single country,"
Klinaku said.
According to the ethnic Albanian provisional Prime Minister of Kosovo,
Agim Ceku, the ethnic Albanians will declare Kosovo independent and seek
recognition from its Western backers immediately after the December 10
of this year, the date when the negotiations on the status will end.
Ceku also said that Kosovo will remain stable as long as Western powers
recognize that declaration immediately. Ceku did not specify the level
of violence ethnic Albanians plan on causing in order to destabilize the
region in case they do not get a recognition.
Agim Ceku is a former Croatian commanding officer who took part in a
massive ethnic cleansing campaign of Serbian population of Croatia.
Kosovo is a UN administered province of Serbia whose ethnic Albanian
population has expelled over two thirds of its Christian population in
an attempt to make the province a religiously pure extremist Muslim state. |