[ALBSA-Info] Feedbacks on the "Dr's" piece

[Agron Alibali]

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On "Myth of Greater Albania" by Sam Vakhnin, AND March
9, Page 2. 

"I think Dr Vakhnin’s article is a disgrace to appear
in your excellent news service. Much of it could have
been written in the Ministry of Information in
Belgrade."

James Pettifer

james at balkan.demon.co.uk

March 10, 2000

"I have been a regular consumer of your news service
ever since day one. I have nothing but good words to
say about the seriousness and the professional content
of your web-site. However, I was deeply disturbed and
angered at the article you published on Wed. 03/08/00
under the heading "The Myth of Greater of Albania".
(The story was taken from the Central Europe Review of
last year-ed.) Not only was it not news worthy, but it
was an irate, malicious, and incredibly ignorant
portrayal of the true state of the affairs of the
Albanian nation. As an Albanian from Albania proper,
of both Geg and Tosk extract I am deeply offended by
the unsubstantiated claims that the author of this
article makes. Not only do I not harbor negative
feelings towards any of our brethren in Kosove, but on
the contrary I and many other Albanians from Albania
are actively engaged to promote the rights of the
Albanians in Kosova, or where ever they might be. The
sense of being Albanian is more alive in Kosova today
then anywhere else in Albanian lands.

Dr. Sam Vaknin through this article has only showed
how little he knows about the Albanian nation."

Kreshnik Bejko

kbejko at ptloma.edu

March 9, 2000

On article Greek Formin Stress Importance of Ethnic
Minorities, AND March 10, Page 1, Column 1

I disagree with how the information is given in your
newspaper. You have been transformed in sopkespersons
of information that has nothing to do with our
national interests. You are indeed controlled by some
other interests... You and your superiors do not know
the history of your country.

A concrete remark:

You give an extraordinary support to the statements of
the Greek Foreign Minister on the Greek minority in
Albania. In the article, there is no single comma,
word or expression on the Albanian minority in Greece.
Do you know that there is a 250,000-strong Albanian
population in Greece, without including here the
post-1990 refugees who are obliged to change their
names? Do you madams and sirs know that in northern
Greece there is a region even bigger than Kosovo,
called Chameria, which is Albanian land? Why don’t YOU
have the courage to write anything about this? Don’t
you know the history of your country? Do you know but
you have shut your mouth for pay? Or you do not see
the future of your children in Albania? Shame on those
who do not know the history of their country. Shame on
those who work for the foreigners.

March 10, 2000

Unnamed, no email address given. In Albanian,
translated into English by our staff.

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