From i_spaho at hotmail.com Wed Nov 1 15:00:51 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 20:00:51 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Brovina is released... Message-ID: Updated 10:10 AM ET November 1, 2000 POZAREVAC, Yugoslavia (AP) - Prominent Kosovo Albanian activist Flora Brovina, sentenced to a long prison term last year for terrorism, was released Wednesday, witnesses and her lawyer said. Brovina left the prison here late Wednesday afternoon escorted by officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the U.N. human rights representative in Belgrade, her lawyers and officials of>non-government human rights groups.> "Justice has been served," lawer Branko Stanic told reporters at the prison gate as Brovina was driven away. Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's legal adviser, Filip Golubovic, was present at the prison. He brought the presidential order for Brovina's release, human rights officials said. In Kosovo's capital, Pristina, ethnic Albanian human rights activists aid Brovina was expected to arrive Wednesday evening. Her husband and son ere driving to the boundary at Medare to welcome her, they said. Brovina, a 50-year-old pediatrician and women's rights activist, has become a rallying point for people in Kosovo, a majority-ethnic Albanian province in southern Yugoslavia. Hundreds of ethnic Albanians have been held in Serb jails since the Kosovo conflict, which began when then-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic sent troops into the province to crush separatist sentiment there. Hopes for the prisoners' release have risen with Milosevic's ouster from power last month and his replacement by Kostunica. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From jandoni at yahoo.com Wed Nov 1 15:58:50 2000 From: jandoni at yahoo.com (jonita andoni) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:58:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] help! Message-ID: <20001101205850.16363.qmail@web616.mail.yahoo.com> I am doing a paper on Albanian traditional weddings. I would greatly appreciate anyone's explanations of customs and their significance and also how these customs are shaped by the Albanian culture and history. Thank you in advance. Jonita __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? >From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.yahoo.com/ From rencontresplacepublique at yahoo.fr Wed Nov 1 18:03:42 2000 From: rencontresplacepublique at yahoo.fr (=?iso-8859-1?q?Jacques=20SERRANO?=) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:03:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] (no subject) Message-ID: <20001101230342.11938.qmail@web6403.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Sir or Madam, Please find attached a press release about the international event "Language and cultural identity" to be held in Saranda, Albania on 9, 10 and 11 november 2000. Yours sincerely, Delphine Marie Communication ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Pour dialoguer en direct avec vos amis, Yahoo! Messenger : http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: PressRelease.txt URL: From AQeli at rushu.rush.edu Wed Nov 1 14:02:16 2000 From: AQeli at rushu.rush.edu (Albi Qeli) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:02:16 -0600 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Albanian boy and Greek flag divide nation Message-ID: Sounds Greek to me, no pun intended. I can't believe that these Greek morons are making such a fuss about who will carry the Greek flag. Instead of saying that Cenaj is a Greek (like they did with Manjani), these funny Greeks are now worried that an Albanian may actually carry the Greek flag. Oh my, oh my. . . The whole thing is even more ridiculous if one keeps in mind that the Greek revolution in the 19th century was essentially a work of Albanians. "Bravo" to Cenaj, God bless him, and God bless all other Albanian students wherever they be. That's what we need, some brain power. "This flag can only be held by Greeks on a national day," former socialist >Justice Minister Evangelos Yannopoulos said. > >But the usually reserved Greek President Costis Stephanopoulos rushed to >defend Cenai after the uproar. > >"Greek is whoever participates in Greek education," he told reporters, >paraphrasing the ancient Athenian orator Isocrates. > >Although Greek law dictates that only Greek citizens should bear the >national >symbol, Education Minister Petros Efthymiou waived the rule and said all >students, regardless of nationality, should be allowed to carry the flag. > >The Education Ministry dictates that the student who has the best grades >gets >to lead the parade on October 28, but many questioned whether an Albanian >was >worthy of carrying the flag on a day commemorating Greece's resistance to >the >Nazis. > >The Greek Orthodox bishop of Thessaloniki, Pandeleimon, told reporters >shortly before the parade: "For God's sake. Are we going to turn Greece >into >Albania?" > From wplarre at bndlg.de Wed Nov 1 04:38:54 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 10:38:54 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: Wishful Thinking: Dreaming of Democracy in Kosovo (AIM Athens, November 1, 2000) Message-ID: <39FFE4AE.47D40E20@bndlg.de> http://www.aimpress.org/dyn/trae/archive/data/200010/01031-004-trae-ath.htm Copyright: All those wishing to use or publish the following text are welcome to do so, provided that they indicate the source and inform the AIM office in Paris which is interested to receive comments and reactions on the information it provides. AIM, 17 rue Rebeval, F-75019 Paris, France TUE, 31 OCT 2000 23:08:22 GMT Wishful Thinking: Dreaming of Democracy in Kosovo AIM Athens, November 1, 2000 The headline of the October 30, 2000, International Herald Tribune trumpeted "Moderates Claim a Big Victory in Kosovo Polls" and the human rights group International Helsinki Federation hailed "A Major Step Towards Democratic Transition in Kosova". The victory of Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo over the Democratic Party -- linked closely with the Kosovo Liberation Army -- was a welcome relief to many. In the year-and-a-half since the West championed Kosovo's Albanians as popular victim-of-the-year, Kosovo's Albanians had failed to live up to expectations: they brutally expelled the greater parts of Kosovo's Serb and Romani populations; they killed, raped, tortured and abducted; they torched entire settlements in the presence of KFOR soldiers; and they expropriated property wholesale (ii). Over the brief window of attention during which international journalists peopled Kosovo, Kosovo generated such memorable images as elderly women slashed to death in their own bathtubs, and a local character styling himself after Hitler. What a relief, then, that charming, soft-focus Rugova, still sporting his paisley scarf, again secured the endorsement of the Albanians in the October elections -- it is again possible to imagine democracy in Kosovo. A lot of people really wanted this election to go off right. After all, an election sanctioning more of the same in Kosovo would mean more of the same in Kosovo: the massive outlay of huge sums of money by Western governments, and the Bosnia program all over again -- years of supervising and subsidizing a cause in which no one locally has any faith, name it what you will -- democracy, tolerance, the rule of law, multi-cultural society. By simply holding the election in a Kosovo still plagued with exploding grenades and a populace explicitly committed to ethnic vengeance, dominance or isolation, the international powers administrating Kosovo sent one clear message: give us a result we can live with, so we can leave. And because Kosovars of all ethnicities register messages sent by internationals with the astuteness of a ham radio, they delivered in spades. Thank goodness no one was looking too closely. They might have noticed that not a single Roma or Ashkali in the camps for internally displaced persons in the northern half of Mitrovica voted. The 500-600 persons there weren't registered, and in fact the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) registration teams apparently never visited the camps during the registration period. Elsewhere in Kosovo, according to reports, Roma enlisted by the OSCE to conduct voter registration discovered that whereas prior to volunteering, they had been unable to go to neighborhoods inhabited by ethnic Albanians, once they began work on voter registration, they weren't able to leave the Romani quarter at all, either to Serb or Romani areas. Similarly, in Macedonia, among the Kosovo Roma in the refugee camps, very few voted. Why should they vote in Kosovo? They can't even go there. According to information received by The European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) one day before the Kosovo elections, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had abandoned plans to attempt returns of Roma before spring to the (ex) Romani quarter in southern Mitrovica (burned to the ground in July 1999), a scheme that agency had been working throughout summer 2000. According to reports, when OSCE and UNHCR visited the area around neighborhood recently to find out what ethnic Albanians thought about the return project, they heard things like: "We'd rather have the Serbs move back," and "We are ready for revenge." At least one other Romani community targeted for such returns -- Mali Alas -- had been subjected to murderous grenade attacks in recent months (see http://errc.org/rr_nr3_2000/snap4.shtml). From being an obscure province in Tito- and post-Tito Yugoslavia, Kosovo advanced to total isolation after 1989. In 1999, having achieved near-perfect ethnic unity, Albanians in a fever-pitch of euphoria ran amok on the skins and property of Serbs and Roma. That was just last year. Some people now are trying to convince us of Kosovo's democratic credentials-- what are they thinking of? ---------------------------- i Claude Cahn is research and publications director at the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC). For more information on the ERRC, see http://errc.org. ii For detailed information on the situation of Roma in Kosovo, see: http://errc.org/publications/indices/kosovo.shtml. Claude Cahn (i) -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/8/_/920292/_/973164510/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Wed Nov 1 14:27:11 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 20:27:11 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: Rugova's Party Says "Too Soon" to Talk to Kostunica about Kosovo (AFP, Nov 1, 2000) Message-ID: <3A006E8F.D134E975@bndlg.de> http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=215970§ion=Kosovo Rugova's Party Says "Too Soon" to Talk to Kostunica about Kosovo PRISTINA, Nov 1, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) An offer from Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica to meet Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova was given a polite rebuff by the moderate nationalist's party Tuesday. "We will certainly see him, but it's still too soon," Skender Hyseni, spokesman for the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), told AFP. While the LDK is not opposed to such a meeting, there are no plans for the time being to accept the invitation, Hyseni said. "We are not considering the possibility right now. We should wait until after the spring elections" he said, referring to a Kosovo-wide legislative poll promised by the Yugoslav province's UN chief, Bernard Kouchner. Kostunica said in Norway earlier that he was open to talks with Rugova after his party won a massive victory in Kosovo's first post war municipal election Saturday, but he rejected the idea of independence for the province. "I am open to all sorts of talks. There is not a single door that I will not knock on in order to solve the problems within my country, so of course I'll have a dialogue" with Rugova, Kostunica said at a press conference in Oslo after talks with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. On Sunday, Kostunica had said that Belgrade could not recognize the election as legitimate because Kosovo's 100,000-strong Serb population had not participated. But while his willingness to discuss Kosovo appeared to signal a softening stance, he stressed that sovereignty remained "out of the question." "In political and strategic terms this would be very dangerous for the region," he said. Kosovo is still legally a province of Yugoslavia but has been run by a UN mission since a NATO-led peacekeeping force arrived in the province in June last year. Rugova's LDK won Kosovo's first election since last year's NATO bombing campaign, taking 58.13 percent of the vote. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse) -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/8/_/920292/_/973164521/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From traboini at erols.com Thu Nov 2 02:33:14 2000 From: traboini at erols.com (traboini at erols.com) Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 03:33:14 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} ARISTIDH P.KOLIA -Arvanitasi i madh ne histori Message-ID: <3A0118BA.38BD@erols.com> . ARISTIDH P.KOLIA -Arvanitasi i madh ne histori Shkruar nga Kolec TRABOINI, Boston 11 Tetori Tetori solli nje lajm qe vuri ne mjerim jo vetem njerzit e familjes, miqt e dashamiresit e shkrimtarit, studiuesit dhe veprimtarit te madh arvanitas Aristidh P. Kolia, por solli hidherim edhe per qindra mijra arvanitas ne Greqi dhe neper bote, si dhe ne mbare boten shqiptare. Eshte nje lajm qe nuk mund ta besojme. Kur nepermjet internetit nga Brukseli u njoftova nga piktori dhe kengetari Robert Dragot Alia, njeri nga miqt e ngushte te shkrimtarit te madh arvanitas, menjehere i shkrova se nuk desheroj ta besoj se miku yne i mire Aristidh Kolia ka vdekur, se zemra e tij e madhe nuk rreh me, se kurre me nuk do ta shohim dhe kurr me nuk do ta degjojme zerin e tij. Me ankth mora tre numurat e telefonave qe ai vete mi kishte dhene, por nuk mu pergjigj kurrkush, vec nje zeri gruaje qe ne greqisht thoshte se Aristidh Kolia kishte vdekur dhe varrimi behej me13 tetor ne Athine. Ishte pikerisht dita qe une merrja ne telefon me dritherime ne zemer. Sepse kjo nuk eshte nje vdekje por nje hata e nje gjeme! E njejta gjeme si ajo e para nje shekulli me arvanitasin tjeter te madh Anastas Kullurioti. Robert Alia nga Brukseli me shkruante se ka qene i semure me leucemi, por mua me duket se nje dore e e padukshme na e rrembeu njeriun tone te dashur, shkrimtarin, historianin, studiuesin e palodhur, arvanitasin me te madh te shekullit qe kapercuem, qe pasoi denjesishte te madhin e te pavdekshim Anastas Kullurioti jeta e te cilit u shua nga nje kafe me helm te qarqeve te errta nacionaliste greke ne fundin e shekullit te 19. Editori i "Diellit" ne New York Anton Cefa me shkruante jo me shume se para nje jave se desheronte ti pergatisja nje artikull per veprat dhe veprimtarine e Aristidh Kolias per ta vene perkrah shkrimit mbi studiuesin e mirenjohur arberesh Antonio Bellusci. E meritonin qe te dy vleresimin dhe konsideratat qe donte te shprehte gazeta e "Vatres" per dy veprimtaret e medhej te diaspores shqiptare te cilet ishin dhe miq te ngushte me njeri-tjetrin. E kisha vene mendjen ne pune, dhe nisa ti rishikoj librat dhe revistat e botuara nga Qendra e Studimeve Arvanitase,intervisten qe i kisha marre dhe qe eshte botuar ne "Illyria" Nr.555 Gusht 1996, mendova dhe fotografite qe do ta shoqeronin shkrimin e te cilat i kisha realizuar ne studion e punes se arvanitasit te madh ne rrugen Fidipidu Nr.6 ne Athine. Dhe ja ky lajm e ja kjo gjeme. E ndersa tani rri e shkruaj kete shkrim, pikerisht sot me 13 tetor, miku im i paharruar varroset ne Athine. Por Aristidh P.Kolia ishte miku i shume njerezeve jo vetem ne rradhet e arvanitasve por edhe ne ate te emigracionit shqiptar ne Greqi, ne Shqiperi, ne Itali dhe ne SHBA. Nderkohe qe ishte njeriu qe urrehej me shume nga qarqet ultranacionaliste greke te grumbulluara rreth gazetes "Stohos" te Kapsalit, e cila e nxinte ne cdo numur te saj, pa ngurruar ti vinte nga pas gjurmues dhe hafije sipas traditave te vjetra te megaloidhe-isteve. Por Aristidh P. Kolia ishte nga ata burra arvanitas qe nuk trembej. Ne faqet e revistes "Besa" e cila nga viti 1998 do te vazhdonte me revisten e re "Arvanon", ai shpalos me guxim pikpamjet e tij per te gjitha problemet qe kishin arvanitasit por edhe shoqeria greke ne teresi. Ne faqet e revistes se vet ai stigmatizonte edhe politiken e qarqeve greke ne mardheniet me Serbine e Milloshevicit, ne kohen kur krimineli Millosheviq shihej ne Greqi si nje hero i orthodoksizmes. Duke i shtjelluar akoma me tej idete e veta per rrugen e shtrember te diplomacise qeveritare greke, ai boton librin "Greqia ne kurthin e serbeve te Milloshevicit", e cila njohu vec botimit greqisht 1995 edhe botimin ne shqip qe pati nje jehone te madhe tek lexuesit shqiptar. Po cila eshte jeta e Aristidh P. Kolias,cila ka qene rruga qe ai ka ndjekur deri sa u formua si nje personalitet i madh dhe u be i njohur ne Greqi dhe jasht saj? Aristidh P.Kolia ka lindur me 8 Korrik 1944. Ne Intervisten qe kam marre prej tij ne korrik 1995 shprehet: "Prejardhja ime eshte nga nje fshat 20 km.ne perendim te Thivas, atje ku gjendeshin Thespies-et e lashte. Fshati quhej Kaskaveli, por tanime shumica e fshatrave kane ndrruar emra per shkak te ndonje nenpunesi burokrat injorant, keshtu qe fshati im quhet Leontari.Te gjithe fshatrat e krahines se Thivas dhe vete Thiva jane arvanitase...". Dhe me tej" Gjuha e pare me te cilen u shpreha ishte gjuha arvanitase". Ne kohen kur Aristidh P.Kolia bente gjimnazin ne Thiva, njohurite rreth temes "Arvanitet" dhe gjuha arvanitase nuk njihej. Mbizoteronte erresira. Ato pak vepra qe ishin shkruar per kete teme ishin pothuaj te panjohura.ne asnje prej librave te gjimnazeve apo te Universitetit nuk behej fjale per arvanitet dhe gjuhen arvanite. Pas mbarimit te studimeve universitare ne degen e legjislacionit ai nis kerkimin e literatures arvanite. Nxitjen perfundimtare qe e shtyti te merrej me studime per gjuhen, kulturen e traditat arvanite ishte njohja me librin e Kosta Rodit "Arvanitet zgjohen" 1978. Qe nga ky moment nis kerkimet bibliografike, nis studimet te thelluara historike dhe brenda pak vitesh te nje pune kembengulese boton librin voluminoz "Arvanitasit dhe origjina e grekeve" ne vitin 1983. Ky liber qe do ti jepte emer brenda e jashte Greqise njohu tete ribotime deri ne vitet 90. Nderkohe ne vitin 1981 ishte krijuar Shoqata e Arvanitasve, qellimi i te ciles , sic thoshte vete Aristidh P.Kolia, ishte:" -Te pershkruajme e te ruajme te dhenat gjuhesore, ti studiojme ne menyre shkencore dhe te bindim popullin grek, pavaresisht se ka apo jo zanafille arvanitase, se e ka per detyre qe te ruaje "gjuhen e Perendive"dhe te heronjeve te Greqise, d.m.th. te arvanitasve. Dhe ne pergjithesi ti bindim arvanitasit se eshte nder e krenari te ruajne e te flasin ate gjuhe qe u a lane trashegim paraardhesit e tyre. Ne vitin1985 eshte organizator i te parit Festival te Kengeve Arvanitese ne bashkpunim me Dhimiter Leken, Thanas Moraitin, Fotula Sofu dhe Meri Hronopulo. Kenget e paraqitura ishin krijime qe nga shelulli i XV dhe deri ne ate te XX dhe qarkulluan te incizuara ne dy disqe nga eteria"Julianos"e Miki Teodorakis. Aristidh P.Kolia shume shpejt do te behej personaliteti rreth te cilit do te mblidheshin shkrimtaret dhe artistet te shumte ne Greqi por qe deri me tash qene te harruar per origjinen e tyre arvanite. Dhe ata ishin te shumte, dhe ata ishin te shquar. Tek Aristidh P.Kolia ata do gjenin njeriun plot vullnet e temperament me aftesine qe tu ngjallte krenarine e te qenurit arvanitas, sepse shumica e arvanitasve prej vitesh ishin mesuar ta mohonin prejardhjen e tyre, apo aq me keq ta perjetonin me turp, kur , sic thote Kolia, greket edhe sot e kesaj dite mburren me kenget, veshjet dhe kulturen arvanitase e duke i quajtur thjeshte greke. Zgjimi i ndergjegjes se arvanitasve, sikur vetem kjo te ishte puna e kryer e Aristidh P.Kolias, do te mjaftonte qe emri i tij te ruhej me nderim nga breza te tere arvanitas te rinj. Por per vec punes per shume vite si veprimtar dhe President i Lidhjes se Arvanitasve te Greqise, ai ishte ne te njejten kohe drejtuesi i Qendres se Studimeve Arvanitase, botues revistash, dhe autor i shume e shume artikujve. Ne vitin 1989 lexuesit kane ne dore librin e tij te ri "Glossa ton Theon", - Gjuha e perendive,e cila shkon larg ne kohet e lashta, mbeshtetet ne vepren e Homerit dhe ne mitologjine e perendive te Olimpit, dhe nepermjet gjuhes arvanitase ben spjegimin e shume termave te lashtesise greke madje deri tek emrat e perendive. "Gjuha e Perendive" nga greqishtja eshte perkthyer edhe ne anglisht dhe ka qene nje deshire e zjarrte e autorit qe ta shohe botimin e tij ne Angli dhe ne SHBA, cfare do te ndikonte ne terheqjen e vemendjes se qarqeve intelektuale boterore rreth problemit arvanitas dhe atyre te drejtave qe shteti grek me fanatizem u a mohon. Edhe deshira e tij e shprehur ne intervisten e botuar ne gazeten "Illyria" 1996 per te vizituar komunitetin Shqiptar ne SHBA, nuk u realizua per mungesen e interesit te shoqatave shqiptare. Edhe perpjekja e studenteve te Boston University qe nepermjet Universitetit te sigurohen nje ftese, u miratua por mbeti per me vone per mungese fondesh. Tashme qe vdekja e rrembeu kete kollos arvanitas,mund te pendohemi per kopracine tone si komunitet apo shoqata te shumta qe gelojne, por Aristidh P. Kolian nuk kemi ku ta gjejme me... Te pakten Komuniteti Shqiptar ne Amerike, shoqatat apo dhe intelektualet e shumte te ndermarrin nje nisme per te krijuar nje fond per botimin e vepres se Aristidh P.Kolias ne anglisht, cka ishte dhe mbeti deshira tij e zjarrte deri sa mbylli syte ne keto dite te trishtueshme te Tetori 2000. Le ta mbyllim kete shkrim per mikun e te gjithe shqiptareve Aristidh P.Kolia me nje citat te nxjerre nga arvanitas tjeter i madh Anastas Kullurioti, shkruar nje shekull me pare, se ndoshta mund te na vleje si nje mesim atdhedashurie: "Kombet nuk jan? insekte q? mund t? heqin dor? dhe t? braktisin aq kollaj komb?sin?, gjuh?n zakonet dhe traditat e tyre si gjarp?rinjt? q? nd?rrojn? l?kur?n, t? mohojn? et?rit, m?m?dheun dhe fisnik?rin? e tij, traditat e trim?ris? s? vet. ?sht? anakroniz?m dhe e pad?gjuar q? n? historin? e kombeve t? gjejm? nj? popull aq haram dhe indiferent ndaj vetvetes". Shkruar ne Boston 13 Tetor 2000 -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/8/_/920292/_/973164523/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From arsimrdsh at hotmail.com Thu Nov 2 07:25:59 2000 From: arsimrdsh at hotmail.com (arsim sinani) Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:25:59 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Information Message-ID: Dear Jonita, I'm writing you from Tetova. Here every yesr have festival's where Culture groups from all Macedonia Showing us the diffwerent tradition's of weeding's ceremonies.If you want to know more for this festival "Sharri Kendon" I will send you Material from this Festivall Best regards, Arsim and Arlinda >From: jonita andoni >To: Balkans at egroups.com, albsa-info at alb-net.com, bota-letrare at egroups.com, >elita-kombetare at egroups.com >Subject: [bota letrare] help! >Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:58:50 -0800 (PST) > >I am doing a paper on Albanian traditional weddings. I >would greatly appreciate anyone's explanations of >customs and their significance and also how these >customs are shaped by the Albanian culture and >history. > >Thank you in advance. > >Jonita > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. >http://experts.yahoo.com/ > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From kbejko at hotmail.com Thu Nov 2 11:07:44 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 16:07:44 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Yugo. addmitted in the UN Message-ID: This will have huge legal implications for the Kosovar Albanians. Yugoslavia Admitted As a U.N. Member UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The General Assembly admitted Yugoslavia by acclamation on Wednesday as a new U.N. member, eight years after Belgrade was cast into the diplomatic wilderness following the breakup of the old Yugoslav federation. The old Yugoslavia was a founder member of the United Nations in 1945. But Belgrade has been in limbo since 1992, after Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia seceded, leaving the new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under President Slobodan Milosevic comprising only Serbia and Montenegro. The General Assembly ruled at the time that the rump Yugoslav state "cannot continue automatically the membership of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" and had to apply to join, just like the four states that seceded. The way for this was cleared when President Vojislav Kostunica last month replaced Milosevic, widely blamed for the bloody conflicts that accompanied the break-up of the old Yugoslavia. Last Friday Kostunica applied for U.N. membership for his country and on Tuesday the Security Council unanimously recommended that the 189-member General Assembly admit Yugoslavia as a member. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From albania at netzero.net Wed Nov 1 06:55:32 2000 From: albania at netzero.net (Nikoll A Mirakaj) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 06:55:32 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Albania Beat Italy in Nostalgic Veterans' Match Message-ID: <002701c043fa$a48d9100$2ea59840@albania> Albania Beat Italy in Nostalgic Veterans' Match TIRANA, Nov 1, 2000 -- (Reuters) Albanian goalkeeper Perlat Musta had only one regret after he saved a penalty from Italy's victorious 1982 World Cup striker Paolo Rossi on Monday. It came a quarter of a century too late. The save sealed a 0-0 draw in a nostalgic match between veterans of Italian and Albanian soccer from the 1980s. The 10,000-strong crowd at Tirana's Qemal Stafa stadium had further cause for glee when the portly Albanians went on to beat their more athletic rivals 5-3 on penalties. But Rossi did not mind. 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Name: not available URL: From eribudo at hotmail.com Thu Nov 2 18:00:54 2000 From: eribudo at hotmail.com (ERI Budo) Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 23:00:54 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Suggestion Message-ID: After reading the following, I strongly suggest a constitutional change to make EFL 101 (English As a FIRST language) a mandatory course for all Presidential candidates--what do you say??--eri >From: "Budo, Eri" >To: "'eribudo at hotmail.com'" >Subject: Suggestion >Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:50:28 -0500 > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Marsh, Mary Anne >To: Beacon >Sent: 11/2/00 4:45 PM >Subject: George Bush Quotes from the Campaign Trail > > >The following are quotes from George Bush on the campaign trail. > >I rest my case. > >Mary Anne Marsh > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Sine_Anderson at ksg.harvard.edu >[mailto:Sine_Anderson at ksg.harvard.edu] >Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 3:18 PM >To: mamarsh at gpcusa.com >Subject: Funny! > > > > > > > >> > "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" > > >> > --Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000 > > > > > >> > "I think we agree, the past is over." > > >> > --On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning > > >> > News, May 10, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is > > >sometime until we get an objective analysis." > > >> > --Meet the Press, April 15, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the > > >obligations; their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how >to > > >teach the > > >science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of > > >federal cufflink." > > >> > --Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not > > >factual-- are going to undermine his campaign." > > >> > --New York Times, March 4, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in > > >nature." > > >> > --Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "I understand small business growth. I was one." > > >> > --New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls >and > > >principles, come and join this campaign." > > >> > --Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that > > >simply suckles kids through?" > > >> > --Explaining the need for educational > > >> > accountability, Beaufort, S.C., Feb. > > >> > 16, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "We ought to make the pie higher." > > >> > --South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less, I > > >pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. >And > > >I'm more > > >interacting with people." > > >> > --Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" > > >> > --Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what > > >you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." > > >> > --Speaking during Perseverance Month at Fairgrounds > > >> > Elementary School in > > >> > Nashua, N.H. > > >> > > > >> > "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." > > >> > --Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. > > >> > 27, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just >like > > >you like to be liked yourself." > > >> > --At a South Carolina oyster roast; quoted in the > > >> > Financial Times, Jan. 14, > > >> > 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the > > >job is underestimating." > > >> > --U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000 > > >> > > > >> > "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." > > >> > ...George W. Bush > > >> > > > >> > "Welcome to Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush > > > > > >> > "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I >mean > > >in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I >didn't > > >live > > >in this century." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush 9/15/95 > > >> > > > >> > "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom >and > > >democracy but that could change." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush 5/22/98 > > >> > > > >> > "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, >and > > >that one word is 'to be prepared'." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush 12/6/93 > > >> > > > >> > "I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good >judgments > > >in the future." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush > > >> > > > >> > "The future will be better tomorrow." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush > > >> > > > >> > "We're going to have the best educated American people in the > > >world." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush 9/21/97 > > >> > > > >> > "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush to Sam Donaldson, > > >> > 8/17/93 > > >> > > > >> > "We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We >have > > >a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush > > >> > > > >> > "Public speaking is very easy." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush > > >> > > > >> > "I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican" > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush > > >> > > > >> > "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to >the > > >polls." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush > > >> > > > >> > "When I have been asked who caused the riots and the killing in >LA, > > >my answer has been direct & simple: Who is to blame for the riots? > > >> > The rioters are to blame. > > >> > Who is to blame for the killings? > > >> > The killers are to blame. > > >> > ...George W. Bush > > >> > > > >> > "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not >occur." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush 9/22/97 > > >> > > > >> > "For NASA, space is still a high priority." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush 9/5/93 > > >> > > > >> > "The American people would not want to know of any misquotes > > >> > that George Bush may or may not make." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush > > >> > > > > > "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the > > >impurities in our air and water that are doing it." > > >> > ...Governor George W. Bush > > >> > > > >> > "[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system." > > >> > ...Governor George W. 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Message-ID: <200011031315.FAA30751@mail20.bigmailbox.com> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From eralda_azizaj at hotmail.com Fri Nov 3 13:02:16 2000 From: eralda_azizaj at hotmail.com (Eralda Azizaj) Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 18:02:16 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: Monday - Nader - BU Message-ID: Not that I am a Nader fan or anything but.. for those of you who are interested in hearing Ralph Nader speak, he >will be at Boston University on Monday, November 6 at 7pm. > >Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, College of General Studies >871 Commonwealth Ave, Boston >B Green Line T to BU West stop > >(617) 782-2313 > > > >---------------------- >Deborah A. Piatelli >Department of Sociology >Boston College >McGuinn Hall 410C, mailbox #56 >Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 >voice mail: 617-552-4150 (#4) >deborah.piatelli at bc.edu >*www.bc.edu/globaljustice* > > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri Nov 3 22:44:34 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:44:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Vangjel Zhapa Message-ID: <20001104034434.28629.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> SPECIALE Si e humbi Shqip?ria pasurin? 800 milion? dollar?she t? Vangjel Zhap?s N? vitin 1859 ai inicoi dhe sponsorizoi Loj?rat e Para Olimpike t? Greqis?, e cila i ka ngritur nj? monument t? madh n? hyrje t? pallatit "ZAPPION" t? Athin?s Aty nga viti 1955-56, Shoq?ria Komisjonere e cila merrej me shitblerjen e pasurive t? tund?shme dhe t? patund?shme t? shtetasve shqiptar? q? kishin jetuar jasht? Shqip?ris?, ra n? gjurm?t e nj? pasurie shum? t? madhe n? Stamboll t? Turqis? e cila konsiderohej n? afro 800 milion dollar?. P?r k?t? pasuri kishte dijeni vet? kreu i shtetit komunist Enver Hoxha, i cili urdh?roi kryeministrin Mehmet Shehu q? me an? t? mekanizmave shtet?rore t? gjendeshin t? gjitha mund?sit? q? t? fitoheshe ?` t? mundej nga ajo e t? kthehej n? Shqip?ri. Ajo pasuri administrohej nga Patriakana e Stambollit dhe pronari i v?rtet? i saj ishte nj? shqiptar i quajtur Vangjel Zhapa nga Labov? nj? fshat tep?r i njohur n? Jug t? Gjirokastr?s. Po kush ishte Vangjel Zhapa, cila ishte e kaluara e tij, si e krijoi ai gjith? at? pasuri t? madhe dhe si u trash?gua ajo? Kush ?sht? Vangjel Zhapa? Ai ka lindur m? 23 gusht t? vitit 1800 n? fshatin Labov? t? Madhe ose si? njihet ndryshe Labova e Zhap?s n? rrethin e Gjirokstr?s. Sipas t? dh?nave t? ndryshme t? biograf?ve q? jan? marr? me figur?n e Vangjel Zhap?s, b?het e ditur se ai q? n? mosh? fare t? re shkonte si bari me bag?tit? e familjes tij. Q? n? at? koh?, teksa kulloste tuf?n e deleve n? shpatet e maleve n? af?rsi t? fshatit tij, ai shfaqte interes p?r bim?t mjeksore t? cilat i mblidhte dhe i kultivonte n? sht?pin? e tij. Kur nuk ishte m? shum? se 13 vje?, ai u nda nga familja dhe u largua nga fshati e shkoi n? Janin? ku u takua me bashkfshatarin tjet?r, labovitin Vangjel Meksi i cili njihej si mjek popullor n? t? gjith? Vilajetin e Janin?s. Pasi q?ndroi p?r disa vjet pran? Vangjel Meksit, duke m?suar zanatin e xherahut, (mjek popullor) ai p?rfitoi mjaft nga bashkfshatari i tij e m? pas u largua duke e ushtruar vet? at? mjesht?ri. N? mosh?n 20 vje?are ai mori pjes? n? revolucionin grek n? luftrat kund?ra Turqis? duke u bashkuar me arvanitasit dhe t? fam?shmit suljot? t? Marko Bo?arit. Thuhet se p?r trim?ri t? rralla n? ato luftra Vangjel Zhap?s ju dhan? medalje e dekorata dhe u caktua si komandant n? vij?n e par? t? frontit. Pas revolucionit grek, aty nga viti 1831, ai u largua nga Greqia s? bashku me disa bashkfshatar? t? tij dhe emigroi p?r n? Rumani ku vazhdoi t? ushtronte zanatin e mjekut popullor. Sipas t? dh?nave t? ndryshme biografike p?r Vangjel Zhap?n, m?sohet se n? fillimet e vendosjes tij n? Rumani ai mori p?rsip?r dhe arriti t? sh?ronte vajz?n e princit Maruzit t? Rumanis? nga nj? gangren? q? kishte pasur n? k?mb?. P?r k?t? gj? atij ju dha nj? shp?rblim i madh n? toka bujq?sore, q? ishte dhe pasuria e par? e tij. Dokumente t? ndryshme arkivore t? shtetit Rumun, hedhin drit? dhe v?rtetojn? se nga fundi i vitit 1844, Vangjel Zhapa bleu nj? ?iflik n? Broshten af?r Ialonic?s ku p?rfshiheshin toka, kullota, pyje, mullinj, magazina, hane etj. Po k?shtu p?rve? k?tij ?ifligu, Vangjeli bleu dhe n? Bukuresht nj? sht?pi t? madhe e nj? hotel. Mbas gjithk?saj pasurie q? ai mundi ta siguronte si pron? t? tij, ai kishte pjes? dhe n? shum? aksione n? shoq?rit? e vapor?ve q? lundronin mbi Danub. T? gjitha k?to pasuri i dhan? Vangjelit nj? nam t? madh aq sa thuhet se ai arriti t? b?het dhe k?shilltar pran? oborrit mbret?ror t? Rumanis?, p?r problemet tregtare. Bamir?s n? Rumani N? Rumani ku Vangjeli u vendos q? nga viti 1831 s? bashku me kush?ririn e tij Kostandin Zhapa, q?ndroi p?r afro 34 vjet duke b?r? nj? pasuri tep?r t? madhe aq sa filloi t? b?nte vepra t? m?dha bamir?sie kryesisht p?r arsimin. Veprimtaria bamir?se e Vangjelit n? Rumani la gjurm? t? thella, aq sa ai ?sht? b?r? objekt i disa monografive, librave dhe studimeve t? autor?ve rumun? t? cil?t evidentojn? dhe nxjerrin n? pah zot?sin? dhe shpirtin e tij t? madh e human. K?shtu historiani rumuno-grek Nikolia Postolaqi n? nj? lib?r kushtuar jet?s dhe veprimtaris? s? Vangjel Zhap?s lidhur me koh?n q? ai jetoi e punoi n? Rumani midis t? tjerave shkruan:"P?r sa na p?rket neve, e kemi evokuar, p?rkujtuar Evangjel Zhap?n duke i dh?n? vendin q? meriton, qysh nga inagurimi i Muzeut t? Sportit t? Rumanis? n? majin e vitit 1971. Kishim nd?rmend at?here q? t? paraqisnim dhe nj? bust prej bronzi, i cili ishte b?r? q? n? vitin 1867 dhe u zbulua n? mbledhjen p?rkujtimore historike t? 1 gushtit t? atij viti n? inagurimin e Shoq?ris? Letrare Rumune q? u b? nga Akademia e Rumanis?. Por nuk ishte e mundur, megjith? q? e kisha n? disa piktura, bronzi i bustit tij, nuk ka p?r t` u gjetur m? sot." Po n? k?t? lib?r evidentohet dhe nj? th?nije drejtuar rumun?ve ku Vangjel Zhapa shprehet :"Rumun? t? denj? p?r tu admiruar, nuk mund t? shprehem dot me gjith? d?shir?n q? kam p?r Ju, ndjenjat e mir?njohjes dhe dashuris? me t? cilat ?sht? plot shpirti im, p?r t? shp?rblyer virtutet tuaja, virtute t? cilat sipas dinjitetit i meritoni." N? Rumani emri i Vangjel Zhap?s u b? shum? i njohur jo vet?m si pronar i madh tokash, por dhe p?r humanizmin e tij e ndihm?n e madhe me kontribut financiar q? ai dha p?r nd?rtimin e Akademis? Rumune, Universitetin dhe Teatrin e Bukureshtit e Kish?n e Sh?n-Vangjelizmoit n? Broshteni. Inicon dhe sponsorizon Lojrat e para Olimpike n? Greqi Pas shum? vitesh q?ndrimi n? Rumani, shqiptari Vangjel Zhapa nga Labova e Gjirokastr?s u vendos n? Greqi ku b?ri nj? pasuri kolosale. Nj? nga veprat m? t? m?dha t? tija q? e kan? ber? at? tep?r t? njohur jo vet?m n? Greqi e Rumani ku jetoi e punoi p?r shum? vjet, ?sht? zhvillimi i Lojrave t? para Olimpike moderne n? shtetin helen n? vitin 1859, ku Vangjeli ishte inicuesi dhe sponsorizuesi kryesor i tyre. P?rve? sponsorizimit t? Lojrave t? para Olimpike, me parat? e Vangjelit q? kur ai ishte gjall?, por dhe pas vdekljes tij n? Greqi u nd?rtuan disa godina publike me p?rmasa t? m?dha si ajo p?r organizimin e ekspozitave Olimpike kat?rvje?are, me emrin "ZAPPION" n? Athin?. Po k?shtu ai derdhi shuma t? m?dha parsh p?r nd?rtimin e Universitetit, Bibliotek?s Komb?tare, Akademin? e Athin?s, Politeknikumin, Teatrot, Konseravtorin, shkoll?n "Arsaqi", si dhe disa muzeume. Nga t? dh?nat dokumentare b?het e ditur se p?r pallatin "ZAPPION", ideja ka qen? e vet? Vangjelit, kurse projektin e saj e p?rgatiti arkitekti francez Bullenzhe dhe e zbatoi kolegu i tij danez Hansen. Punimet e k?tij pallati madh?shtor zgjat?n plot 14 vjet dhe shiritin e inagurimit e preu kush?riri i par? dhe bashkpun?tori i ngusht? i Vangjelit, Konstandin Zhapa i cili shkoi enkas nga Rumania p?r at? gj?. Ai pallat q? p?r nga bukuria quhet ndryshe "Stoli Floriri", z? nj? sip?rfaqe prej 2420 m. katror? dhe rrethohet nga nj? mjedis i gjelb?ruar q? arrin n? 268216 m. katrore. N? t? dy an?t e hyrjes kryesore jan? t? vendosura mbi pidestale t? larta monumentet e Vangjelit e kush?ririt t? tij Konstandin Zhap?s. Bamir?s n? Turqi dhe vendlindjen e tij Shqip?ri P?rve? Rumanis? dhe Greqis? ku Vangjel Zhapa jetoi dhe punoi p?r vite t? t?ra duke b?r? vepra t? madha bamir?sie, ai emigroi dhe n? Turqi ku po ashtu tregoi shpirtin e tij t? madh me veprat q? b?ri. Dhe n? Turqi Vangjeli b?ri nj? pasuri kolosale dhe nd?rtoi me fondet e veta godina publike p?r bamir?si, si n? Stamboll, Edrene, Kerkelleri, Firkides etj. P?r t? gjitha ato bamir?sira ai u nderua me tituj t? ve?ant? nga Patriakana e Stambollit. Ndon?se jetoi p?r vite t? t?ra n? Greqi, Rumani dhe Turqi, Vangjel Zhapa kurr? nuk e harroi vendlindjen e tij Labov?n ku her? pas here b?ri bamir?si t? ndryshme ndon?se jo si ato t? Greqis? Rumanis? dhe Turqis?, p?r vet? kushtet n? t? cilat ndodhej Shqip?ria asokohe n?n sundimin otoman. K?shtu n? fshatin e tij? Labov? ai nd?rtoi shkolla, objekte kulti, biblioteka, rrug?, objekte publike etj. P?rve? Labov?s, thuhet se ai ka nd?rtuar objekte bamir?sie dhe n? krahin?n e Rr?z?s dhe fshatrat Zagorie, (P?rmet) Dhrovjan (Delvin?) Qeparo, Filat etj. Para se t? vdiste, aty nga viti 1865, Vangjeli e la me porosi n? testamentin e tij, q? eshtrat ti silleshin e ti varroseshin p?r tu prehur n? vendlindje n? Labov?. Kjo d?shir? e tij u realizua n? vitin 1887, 22 vjet pas vdekjes ku eshtrat e tija u soll?n nga Broshtenija e Rumanis? dhe u varros?n n? sheshin para kish?s s? Sh?n Papandis? n? Labov? Enveri: Pasuria e Vangjelit t? vij n? Shqip?ri Aty nga viti 1955-56, Shoq?ria Komisjonere e shtetit shqiptar filloi t? interesohej p?r sjelljen n? Shqip?ri t? pasuris? s? madhe q? kishte l?n? shqiptari Vangjel Zhapa. Lidhur me k?t? gj? thuhet se ishte interesimi i vet? Enver Hoxh?s (q? si gjirokastrit q? ishte, kishte dijeni mbi pasurin? e madhe t? Vangjel Zhap?s) i cili urdh?roi kryeministrin Mehmet Shehu q? t? b?heshin t? gjitha tratativat me an? t? mekanizmave shtet?rore q? nga ajo pasuri t? sillej ?` t? mundej n? Shqip?ri. Interesimin e Shoq?ris? Komisjonere p?r sjelljen e pasuris? s? Vangjelit n? Shqip?ri e konfirmon dhe nj? nga trash?gimtar?t e Vangjel Zhap?s, 80 vje?ari Jani Malo. Lidhur me k?t? gj? ai d?shmon:" Aty nga viti 1955-56, Shoq?ria Komisjonere shqiptare ra n? gjurm?t e pasuris? s? madhe t? Vangjel Zhap?s n? Turqi, e cila administrohej nga Patriakana e Stambollit. Avokati i Ministris? s? Jasht?me, Arqiviadh Lamani u interseua se kush ishte trungu familjar dhe trash?gimtar?t e Vangjel Zhap?s. Ai u lidh me pleqt e vjet?r t? Labov?s dhe m? pas takoi dhe n?n?n time Urani Malo dhe Sokrat Bejon p?r ta ndihmuar p?r at? gj?. Pas k?saj un? b?ra trungun familjar t? Vangjelit me pem?n gjenalogjike t? cil?n ja dorzova Shoq?ris? Komisjonere. Pas k?saj me vendim gjygji, dol?n nja 60-70 vet? trash?gimtar t? Zhap?s. P?r tu interesuar p?r pasurin? e Vangjelit n? Turqi u ngarkua ambasadori shqiptar Lik Seiti i cili na b?ri t? ditur se ajo pasuri p?r t? cil?n avokati turk Ak?u thoshte se ishte n? vler?n e 200 milion dollar?ve, nuk ishte e v?rtet?, sepse n? fakt ishin 800 milion dollar?." Nga burime t? tjera m?sohet se n? at? koh? Shoq?ria Komisjonere shqiptare ngarkoi avokatin e njohur turk Aqif Ak?u, i cili mori p?rsip?r q? ta evidentonte pasurin? e Vangjel Zhap?s, ta ?onte n? gjygj at? dhe nga ajo pasuri do t? p?rfitonte 20 % t? saj. Avokati i njohur turk p?r k?t? gj? erdhi disa her? n? Shqip?ri. Ai kishte zbuluar se n? Stamboll shkolla e vajzave ishte nd?rtuar n? truallin e Sulltan Bajazitit dhe trash?gimtar?t e tij ja kishin dhuruar at? me dokumenta t? rregullta Vangjelit. Pasi avokati turk erdhi disa her? n? Tiran?, problemi i pasuris? s? Zhap?s mbeti pezull dhe trash?gimtar?t e tij nuk u th?rriot?n m? nga zyra e Shoq?ris? Komisjonere. P?rse u zhduk avokati turk? Lidhur me mbetjen pezull t? tratativave p?r marrjen e pasuris? s? Vangjel Zhap?s, ekzistojn? disa versione. Versioni i par? ?sht? se avokati turk Ak?u u korruptua nga shteti turk, apo dhe nga shteti grek i cili ishte shum? i interseuar p?r at? pasuri dhe ai hoqi dor? nga ajo gj?. Varianti i dyt? ?sht? se shteti turk nuk donte q? at? pasuri t`ja kalonte nj? shteti komunist si Shqip?ria e cila nuk do ja kthente at? trash?gimtar?ve t? ligjsh?m t? Zhap?s, por do e mbante at? pasuri si pron? shtet?rore. Po k?shtu varianti i tret? ?sht? se shteti turk nuk i pranoi dokumentat e Shoq?ris? Komisjonere shqiptare e cila nuk kishte firmat e trash?gimtar?ve t? ligjsh?m t? Zhap?s, por e k?rkonte at? gj? si shtet, ?ka binte ndesh me ligjet e shtetit Turk. Qeveria turke la afat p?r dhjet vjet nga 1955 deri n? 1965 q? shteti shqiptar ta k?rkonte at? pasuri n? baz? t? gjitha rregullave me trash?gimtar?t e ligjsh?m, e n? rast se ajo gj? nuk b?hej brenda atij afati, shteti turk kishte t? drejt?n e parashkrimit duke e mbyllur at? ??shtje e cila nuk mund t? k?rkohej m?. Nga disa burime t? tjera m?sohet se deri n? vitin 1940 pronat e Vangjel Zhap?s n? Turqi jan? administruar nga Patriakana e Stambollit dhe n? at? vit shteti turk ja mori duke i b?r? t? ditur Patriak?n?s se ato prona nuk ishin t? sajat, por t? Vangjel Zhap?s dhe n? baz? t? ligjeve q? kishte, n? rast se ai nuk kishte l?n? trash?gimtar?, gjith? pasuria e tij i kalonte fshatit ku ai kishte lindur. N? vitin 1960 shteti turk ja dha p?rs?ri n? p?rdorim Patriakan?s pronat e Vangjel Zhap?s, deri sa ti dilnin trash?gimtar?t e v?rtet? t? saj. Po ?u b? m? tej me pasurin? e shqiptarit Vangjel Zhapa, p?rse shteti shqiptar nuk e k?rkonte t? gjith? pasurin? e tij q? ishte dhe n? Greqi e Rumani, por k?rkonte vet?m at? t? Turqis? q? ishte m? e pakta q? ai kishte l?n?? Thuhet se kjo gj? vinte ngaq? Rumania ishte shtet komunist dhe i kishte sekuestruar t? gjitha pronat private e nuk i kthente dot ato. Po k?shtu edhe ndaj Greqis?, shteti komunist shqiptar nuk mund ti k?rkonte pasi mardh?niet nuk ishin fort t? mira p?r arsye t? ligjit t? luft?s q? ishte n? fuqi. Po ?far? thon? trash?gimtar?t e Vangjel Zhap?s lidhur me mbetjen pezull t? atij problemi? P?r k?t? Jani Malo shprehet :" Vite m? von? jemi takuar me ish konsullin shqiptar n? Stamboll Lik Seiti i cili na tha se po ta kishte k?rkuar shteti shqiptar at? pasuri n? baz? t? trash?gimtar?ve t? ligjsh?m t? Vangjel Zhap?s, do ta kishte fituar me koh?, por shteti turk nuk kishte ligje q? at? pasuri t`ja jepte shtetit shqiptar kur ai nuk ishte trash?gimtari i v?rtet? i saj". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri Nov 3 22:49:26 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:49:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Shekulli per Nolin Message-ID: <20001104034926.28952.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> Busti i panjohur shtohet n? pavionin e ngritur enkas p?r Nolin Noli peshkop, shkon n? muze Muzeu Historik Komb?tar pasuron pavionin e ngritur posa??risht p?r Nolin me disa zbulime t? reja. ?sht? busti i Nolit, i cili i shtohet k?tij institucioni pas nj? k?rkese drejtuar Universitetit t? Tiran?s nga kreu i Muzeut Historik Komb?tar, Moikom Zeqo. Burime pran? Muzeut, thon? se busti i Nolit, ?sht? ndryshe nga t? tjerat. P?r her? t? par? Noli zbulohet me veshjen e tij prej peshkopi. Nuk dihet se kur dhe si ky bust i Nolit peshkop ?sht? gjendur n? bibliotek?n shkencore pran? Universitetit t? Tiran?s. Gjetja e k?tij busti, sipas kreut t? muzeut, Zeqo, ka r?nd?si t? madhe, sepse ndihmon n? plot?simin e nism?s q? ka marr? ky institucion p?r t? kompletuar pavionin e Nolit me d?shmi t? reja. Me nj? marr?veshje zyrtare, midis dy institucioneve u vendos q? Noli peshkop t'i shtohet relikeve t? tij, t? ekspozuara n? pavionin e pag?zuar posa??risht p?r t?. Deri tani ky bust ka qen? i panjohur nga historian?t. Nd?rsa nuk ka asnj? d?shmi apo em?r t? ndonj? autori q? t? tregoj? qoft? edhe vitet se kur daton derdhja e tij. Nga fondi i i t? dh?nave dhe i d?shmive q? Muzeu ka marr? p?rsip?r t? mbledh?, kan? dal? n? drit? edhe kat?r botime t? vjetra. K?shtu, krahas letrave t? m?parshme t? minibibliotek?s shkencore personale t? Nolit, t? ekspozuar n? pavion, do t? shtohen edhe librat, t? cil?t jan? "Bibla hebraike". P?rve? hershm?ris? s? viteve, k?ta libra paraqesin interes t? madh p?r studiuesit, pasi n? ta ka sh?nime origjinale, t? shkruara me dor?n e Nolit. N? vazhd?n e ngritjes s? k?tij k?ndi n? Muze, Zeqo thot? se do t? gjurmojn? ende n? t? dh?na dhe d?shmi t? tjera t? cilat jan? n? vazhd?n e k?saj ekspozeje historike. Nd?rkoh?, ky pavion ka mbledhur m? par? disa veshje origjinale t? Nolit, si? ?sht? veshja e arqipeshkvit; tekstin e mesh?s s? par? ortodokse ,t? mbajtur nga Noli; portretin e tij origjinal si dhe shum? korrespondenca dhe let?rk?mbime t? njohura dhe t? panjohura t? Nolit me shum? personalitete brenda dhe jasht? vendit. V.Murati __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From juniku at hotmail.com Sat Nov 4 02:33:47 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 07:33:47 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Pas pranimit te RFJ-se ne OKB, ku qendron fati i Kosoves? Message-ID: Te nderuar anetare te listes, nuk e di a jam ne lajthim apo ne aspektin formal juridik ky hap i OKB-se, pas te cilit si duket qendron z. Holbrooke si perfaqesues i qeverise amerikane, pra de facto dhe de jure edhe qeveria amerikane, eshte hapi i pare testues drejt nje konfederate te quajtur Republika Federale e Jugosllavise e cila do te duhej te perfshinte edhe Republiken e Kosoves?! Deshira ime eshte te jem ne lajthim, mirepo sipas te gjitha gjasave Kosova do te kaloje neper nje ferr deri te realizimi i endrres se pavarsise. Sinjalet jane duke ardhur nga te gjitha anet. Jane vetem disa organizata studiuse dhe joqeveritare te cilat kane debatuar apo shqyrtuar pavarsine e Kosoves si nje modus vivendi te mundshem politiko- juridik, porse asnje qeveri nuk ka dhene sinjale se eshte duke shkuar drejt procesit te njohjes. Mendoj se ne kete situate eshte shume i nevojshem nje koncensus sa me i shpejte per zgjedhjet nacionale i forcave politike ne Kosove, koncensus ky i cili do te duhej te perkrahej edhe nga forcat politike ne trevat shqiptare ne Ballkan. Nje parlament i Kosoves do te ishte hapi i pare drejt instituticionalizimit te shtetesise de facto te Kosoves. Kujtoj se koha kur forcat politike duhet te bashkohen ka ardhur pa marre parasysh rezultatet e zgjedhjeve lokale. Nese kesaj radhe deshtojme ne unitet parimor ardhmeria jone do te jete me pasaporta jugosllave. Kosova duhet sa me pare te filloje me rithemelimin e gjykatave ne te gjitha nivelet, pushtetit legjislativ ne nivel komunal, menjehere sapo te mbahen mbledhjet e para te bashkive, te insistoje ne formimin e paralamentit dhe deri atehere te vendose nje lloj paralelizmi parlamentar nga nje keshill me delegate nga kuvendet e bashkive, ne rast se gjithsesi duhet te hyhet ne far negociatash ose ne rast se bashkesia nderkombetare fillon me fare intriga apo presione, dhe te beje nje qeveri si organ ekzekutiv. Sa me shume qe presim me duket se te tjeret do te na caktojne fatin. Disa ende kemi iluzione, por pavarsia e Kosoves nuk do te vie lehte. Une dhe shumica e shqiptareve e dime se ajo do te vie, por do te vie me lehte nese ia kryejme obligimet. Ne te njejten kohe besoj se duhet te fillohet me planprograme konkrete per permiresimin e ekonomise komunale, buxheteve dhe TMK-ne. Kjo do te duhej te hapte rrugen per ekonomine nacionale dhe infrastrukturen qe do te duhej te jete nga investimet e para. Sipas bindjes sime tash per tash jemi ne nje pozicion baraz- baraz me bashkesine nderkombetare dhe planet e internacionaleve jane qe Kosova te integrohet permes Jugosllavise qe nuk eshte tjeter pos Serbi. Ne kete drejtim mendoj se Demaci me mire e ka pasur te shkonte ne Podgorice sesa ne Beograd. Me mire te bisedohet me Mal te Zi se sa me Koshtunicen...Mali i Zi shume lehte edhe tash edhe ne te ardhmen mund te jete aleati me i rendsishem i shqiptareve ne Ballkan. Nese Kosova eshte mon amour e secilit shqiptar, atehere ajo do te behet e pavarur, ne te kunderten nuk e di. Lutem te jem gabim! Te fala. Uk Lushi > >Pas pranimit te RFJ-se ne OKB, ku qendron fati i Kosoves? >Pergjegja mbetet e mjegulluar > >Isuf Hajrizi (Nju Jork, 3 nentor, 2000) >Per gazeten Zeri, Prishtine > >Fati politik i Kosov?s mbetet i mjegulluar n? OKB pas pranimit n? k?t? >organizat? t? RFJ-s? k?t? jav?. > Pranimin e ngutsh?m pa u diskutuar asnj? nga problemet me t? cilat do >t? >ballafaqohet krijesa e re jugosllave e inicoi ambasdari amerikan n? OKB >Ri??rd Hollbruk, i cili, para dy muajsh gjithashtu ishte iniciator i >nxerrjes jasht t? p?rfaq?sueseve t? Slobodan Milosheviqit nga ky organ >nd?rkomb?tar. > Pyetjet q? tash k?rkojn? p?rgjigje jan?: Ku n?nkuptohet se q?ndron >Kosova n? k?t? "krijes? t? re" t? posa pranuar n? OKB? A ?sht? ajo pjes? e >k?saj krijese dhe automatikisht - sa i p?rket OKB-s? - a i bashkangjitet >RFJ-s? kund?r vullnetit t? shqiptar?ve? Apo a do t? diskutohet m? tutje >Kosova dhe statusi politik i saj n? K?shillin e Sigurimit? Dhe s? fundi, >kush ?sht? "Republika Federative e Jugosllavis?" - cilat rajone i perfshin? >ajo? > P?rgjigjet n? k?to pyetje nuk jan? definitive as nga zyra ku ?sht? >inicuar pranimi i RFJ-s? n? OKB. N? nj? bised? me Z?rin, z?dh?n?sja e >misionit amerikan n? OKB, Alison Grunder, tha se nuk ishte e mendimit se >Kosova automatikisht n?nkuptohej si pjes? e RFJ-s? s? posa pranuar n? OKB. >Sipas saj, pritet q? Kosova do t? diskutohet n? K?shillin e Sigurimit si >"pjes? e procesit" p?r ta gjetur statusin p?rfundimtar t? saj. Ajo tha se >ekzistojn? edhe shum? tema q? do t? diskutohen n? OKB q? e rrethojn? >krijes?n e re jugosllave dhe rolin e saj n? aren?n nd?rkomb?tare. >- Nj? nd?r problemet m? t? nguthsme ?sht? q? "RFJ" t? paguaj borxhin e >an?tar?sis? ndaj OKB-s? prej 8 milion? dollar?sh para se t? merr? t? >drejt?n >p?r t? votuar n? Asamblen? e P?rgjithshme. >- Nj? problem tjet?r q? tash p?r tash qeveria serbe e Vojisllav >Koshtunic?s >e ka injoruar, ?sht? bashk?punimi i Begradit me Gjykat?n e OKB-s? p?r >krimet >e luft?s me seli n? Hag?. >- K?rkohet p?rgjigje e qart? n? pyetj?n se ?far? p?rfaq?son RFJ? Qeveria >e >Podgoris?s ka k?rkuar nga OKB q? Serbia dhe Mali i Zi t? ken? dy vende t? >ve?anta n? Asamblen? e P?rgjithshme dhe se t? dy republikat duhej t? >funksiononin si nj? "bashk?si e shlir?" e dy shteteve t? njohura ve?mas >nd?rkomb?tarisht. >- Duhet t? zgjidhet problemi i trash?gimis? dhe pron?s s? "Jugosllavis? s? >Titos," t? cil?n e ka p?rvet?suar Beogradi. > Mir?po t? gjitha k?to probleme zbehen n? krahasim me problemin e >Kosov?s. >N? OKB, disa diplomat?, p?rfhsir? edhe Hollbrukun jan? t? mendimit se edhe >statusi i Kosov?s duhet t? zgjidhet sa m? shpejt. K?shilli i Sigurimit e >ka >dh?n? mendimin e tij vjet p?r nj? Kosov? n?n RFJ-n? me nj? "autonomi >substanciale." Mir?po, tani kjo shprehje e ka humbur vler?n e vet pas nj? >viti t? Kosov?s jasht kthetrave t? Beogradit dhe n?n protektoratin >nd?rkomb?tar dhe sidoms pas zgjddhjeve t? lira dhe paq?sore n? Kosov? jav?n >e kaluar q? kishin n?ntonin e pavar?sis?. > SHBA-t? n? kund?rshtim me aleat?t e saj n? Evrop? dhe me kund?qrshtar?t >e >saj Rusin? dhe Kin?n, kan? marr? q?ndrimin se pavar?sia e Kosov?s nuk mund >t? p?rjashtohet nga diskutimet e ardhshme n? K?shillin e Sigurimit. > Ambasadori Hollbruk e konfirmoi k?t? q?ndrim t? Uashingtonit n? nj? >konferenc? p?r shtyp me gazetar?t n? fillim t? jav?s: > "Rezoluta 1244 nuk e p?rjashton pavar?sin? si p?rfundim t? mundsh?m. E >kam parasysh se disa nga miqt tan? n? K?shillin e Sigurimit nuk pajtohen m? >k?t? q?ndrim. Ata mendojn? se ??shtja ( e Kosov?s) ve? ?sht? zgjidhur. >Por >pozicioni i Shteteve t? Bashkuara ?sht? i till? q? nuk e p?rjashton >pavar?sin?." > Mir?po ndihm?si i Sekretarit t? P?rgjithsh?m (ish diplomati slloven) >Danilo Turk ?sht? i mendimit se mbeten shum? probleme p?r t'u zgjidhur q? >kan? lidhje me RFJ-n?, por propozon se nuk duhet nxituar. > "K?rkohet nj?far? kohe ? prandaj duhet t? kemi durim - k?rkohen disa >muaj >para se t? merremi me disa nga k?to ??shtje t? komplikuara," ka deklaruar >nihm?si i Kofi Ananit. > Kur ?sht? fjala p?r nxitimin, analist?t spekulojn? se jan? dy arsye pse >Hollbruku ka nxituar n? pranimin e RFJ-s? n? OKB tani. Nj?ra arsye thuhet >se ka t? b?j me distancimin sa m? t? madh t? Koshtunic?s nga njer?zit e >Millosheviqit duke i dh?n? atij veglat p?r ta siguruar pozicionin e tij n? >pushtet dhe p?r ta garantuar moskthimin e mundsh?m t? Milosheviqit n? >pushtet. Arsyeja e dyt?, mund t? jen? zgjedhjet presidenciale n? SHBA me >prapavij?n se po q? se fiton kandidati republikan Xhorxh Bush, mos t? merr >ai kreditin p?r sjelljen e "Jugosllavis? q? e ka bombarduar Klintoni me Al >Gorin" n? gjirin nd?rkomb?tar. Admistrata e Klintonit vazhdimisht e ka >p?rs?ritur se "nuk jemi kund?r popullit serb, por kund?r Milosehviqit." > Mir?po b?mir?sin? amerikane Koshtunica po e merr me rezerva. Dje gazeta >Washington Post njoftoi se presidenti i ri serb ka refuzuar t? takohet me >Klintonin dhe Sekretar?n e Shtetit, Medllin Ollbrajt, me arsyetimin se >"mund >t? jet? t?p?r heret." Nd?rkoh? ai deri me tash ?sht? takuar me president?t >e Rusis?, Franc?s dhe Sekretarin e p?rgjithsh?m t? NATO-s. > > > > > >Ky shkrim mund te ribotohet me kusht qe te theksohet autori dhe revista >Zeri, Prishtine. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From aalibali at yahoo.com Sat Nov 4 09:44:54 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 06:44:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Re: Pak sport - Olimpiada Message-ID: <20001104144454.29694.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> [02] NEW ATTACKS AGAINST GREECE ON THE 2004 OLYMPIC GAMES Athens, 3 November 2000 (18:17 UTC+2) Another International Olympic Committee, IOC, member has launched an attack against Greece concerning the organizing of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. IOC press office head Franklin Shryber stated to the "Financial Times" that the delay in the completion of the Olympic projects is possible to reduce the demands on the capacity of the facilities, bring about the withdrawal of certain sports events and cause the reduction of the number of the participating athletes. "Athens 2004" Organization president Ms. Yianna Angelopoulou-Daskalaki has sent a letter to IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch asking for his support against the anti-Greek propaganda by certain IOC members. Referring to the issue, minister of environment, land planning and public works, Kostas Laliotis pointed out that IOC members should not involve Athens and the 2004 Olympic Games in their election aspirations concerning the succession of Mr. Samaranch in the IOC. Minister of culture Theodoros Pangalos said that such comments are meaningless and curious, while commenting on the view that the Olympic Games must be hosted only by rich countries, he stated that the Olympic Games is an affair that concerns the many and not the few. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Sat Nov 4 09:53:34 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 06:53:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Migrants maltreated in Greece Message-ID: <20001104145334.5366.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com> Positive talk on migrants a 'PR stunt' BY KATHY TZILIVAKIS An exhausted young migrant, one of 16 Iraqi Kurds arrested by authorities on the Dodecanese island of Kos yesterday, sleeps on the ground. AROUND 150 foreigners were arbitrarily rounded up for a check of their residency status early yesterday morning in the northeastern Athens suburb of Agia Paraskevi in the largest sweep operation targeting illegal immigrants in recent months. The roundup, which began at 6am and lasted three hours, was criticised harshly by migrant and human rights groups. Officers at the Agia Paraskevi police station told the Athens News yesterday that 56 out of the 149 migrants, all men, were undocumented and would be deported. Some 31 Albanians boarded a bus for their homeland at midday while the remainder, mainly Bulgarians and Romanians, are to be expelled by tomorrow. Police in the capital carry out regular inspections of foreigners' papers. Advocates of migrants' rights condemn this tactic, saying it only serves to fuel racism and xenophobia. "We have condemned these operations from day one," Greece's representative of the EU Immigrants Forum, Samsi Deen Iddrisu, told the Athens News. "We believe this is a violation of human rights. We will continue to condemn it but I am not sure the public order minister will ever listen to us." Yesterday's crackdown came less than 48 hours after government officials, including Public Order Minister Michalis Chrysohoidis and Deputy Labour Minister Christos Protopappas, addressed an Athens seminar on migrants and refugees in Greece. The event's slogan was "Each culture has something to offer to the progress of society as a whole". It was aimed at promoting diversity and tolerance in society. "Yesterday's sweep operation only serves to justify what we have been saying all along," said Costas Argaliotis, of the Coordinating Anti-racism and Migrant Organisations. "All this talk by politicians about migrants is just talk - hypocrisy! It is all public relations. The sweep operations represent the bitter reality." In a separate incident, police in Varkiza, a seaside town south of Athens, arrested 25 illegal migrants, mainly Kurds, who they discovered aboard a privately-owned bus. Authorities said the eight men, five women and 12 children were part of a group of 100 migrants which was left on the shores of Sounio, southern Attica, yesterday. The driver of the bus managed to flee before police arrived. A large-scale manhunt was launched for the driver, the unidentified people-smugglers and the other 75 migrants. Meanwhile, 16 Iraqi Kurds were arrested on the Dodecanese island of Kos, near the Turkish coast, yesterday morning. The speedboat they were travelling on was spotted by the island's coastguard at 3.45am less than two nautical miles from shore. The vessel was sailing without navigational lights and this aroused suspicion. The boat was forced to head to shore after a high-speed chase. The 10 men, one woman and five young children were detained by the Kos coastguard while two Turkish nationals who allegedly tried to smuggle them to the island were to appear before a local public prosecutor. The accused were identified as 43-year-old Husein Hunsu Ceyhan and Yurdakul Mercan, 28. Mercan tried unsuccessfully to evade arrest by jumping into the sea. According to the merchant marine ministry, an estimated 3,504 illegal migrants and 133 people-smugglers have been arrested since the start of the year. ATHENS NEWS , 04/11/2000 , page: A02 Article code: C12794A022 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From AQeli at rushu.rush.edu Sat Nov 4 11:52:35 2000 From: AQeli at rushu.rush.edu (Albi Qeli) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:52:35 -0600 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Shqiperia ne BE? Message-ID: http://www.balkanweb.com/gazeta/politike/politike3.htm Berlini: P?r 10 vjet jeni n? BE TIRANE Ministri i Shtetit n? Ministrin? e Jashtme gjermane Zopel, gjat? takimit me Kryeministrin Meta tha se "Shqip?rin? n? 10-vje?arin e ardhsh?m e shoh an?tare t? Bashkimit Evropian". Kryeministri Meta nga ana e tij tha se "Gjermania ?sht? nj? nga partner?t kryesor? ekonomik? t? Shqip?ris?, ajo z? vendin e tret? n? shk?mbimet tregtare si dhe jep 30 p?r qind t? fondeve q? vijn? si ndihm? nga ana e BE. Zopel shtoi se "brenda pak muajve do hapen bisedimet p?r asocim-stabilizimin mes Shqip?ris? dhe BE", ky ?sht? dhe hapi i par? p?r an?tar?simin n? Bashkimin Evropian. Ministrit i Shtetit n? Ministrin? e Jashtme, Zopel, ?sht? takuar edhe me drejtues t? partive politike shqiptare. Burime t? ndryshme thon? se ai ka ardhur n? Shqip?ri edhe p?r t? diskutuar ndonj? problem t? ngritur n? Parlamentin Evropian. "Un? jam mir?njoh?s q? qeveria ?sht? e gatshme t? pranoj? verifikimin e t? gjitha ??shtjeve q? mund t? verifikohen, nga organizatat e huaja t? cilat jan? OSBE, ODHIR dhe KE. Jan? pik?risht k?to organizma q? b?n? edhe v?zhgimin e zgjedhjeve lokale. Ministri i Shtetit gjerman Zopel, tha dje, pas takimit me Kryeministrin Meta, se ai "ishte i befasuar nga informacioni i marr? n? lidhje me situat?n makroekonomike n? vend. "Gjermania do ta mb?shtes? Shqip?rin? q? n? konferenc?n e Zagrebit t? ket? sinjale pozitive edhe p?r Shqip?rin?. Nuk besoj se do edhe shum? koh? derisa t? fillojn? negociatat p?r marr?veshjen e stabilizimit dhe asocimit t? Shqip?ris? me BE", tha Zopel. From aalibali at yahoo.com Sun Nov 5 18:51:47 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 15:51:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Kadare Message-ID: <20001105235147.14000.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> Intervist? ekskluzive e shkrimtarit Ismail Kadare dh?n? gazet?s "Shekulli" ?'do t? jet? Shqip?ria n? Ballkan Robert Rakipllari Pyetja e par? p?r ju kur vini n? Shqip?ri ?sht? b?r? tanim? tradicionale. Si e shikoni gjendjen? Pas k?saj pyetjeje q?ndron preokupimi i ligjsh?m i njer?zve p?r fatin ton?, p?r shanset q? kemi ose q? i humbim. Nj? pyetje tradicionale ka rrezik t? nxit? nj? p?rgjigje t? t? nj?jtit lloj, pra tradicionale. Do t? p?rpiqem t'i shmangem k?saj dhe ta mendoj pyetjen tuaj si t? b?r? p?r her? t? par?. Un? hyj nd?r ata q? kam besim n? k?t? vend. Meqen?se n? koh?n ton? mosbesimi ngjan m? modern (shpesh me arsye) se besimi, p?rgjigja ime mund t? duket jo fort e koh?s. E megjithat? po e p?rs?ris: besimi im nuk ?sht? l?kundur aspak. Shanset q? dalin ose q? humbin p?r nj? popull nuk jan? si numrat e llotaris?. Ka nj? g?rshetim faktor?sh q? i diktojn?. Ato q? duken dhe ato q? fshihen n? thell?si. Ato q? ne i dim? e ato q? nuk i dim?, q? do t'i marrim vesh m? pas, q? nuk do t'i marrim vesh, e q? ndoshta s'?sht? nevoja t'i marrim vesh asnj?her?. Kur u duk se populli shqiptar u harrua, se nj? pjes? e tij po mbytej nga dhuna serbe dhe nga shp?rfillja europiane, ndodhi e pabesueshmja: pik?risht p?r shkak t? tij u krye lufta e fundit e mij?vje?arit n? Evrop?, luft? q? do t? mbetet n? historin? e kontinentit dhe t? bot?s. Nd?r k?ta faktor?, faktori shqiptar mbetet sot kryesori. ?do e keqe q? mund t'i vij? sot nga t? tjer?t popullit shqiptar, mbetet e vog?l n? krahasim me t? keqen q? shqiptar?t mund t'i b?jn? (e nganj?her? s'p?rtojn? t'ia b?jn?) vetvetes. N? qoft? se ky vizion iu duket pesimist po ju them se ?sht? e kund?rta. Esht? optimiste t? dish se rrjedha e fatit t?nd ?sht? transferuar n? duart e tua. Nj? rregullim i brendsh?m i shqiptar?ve qoft? n? Shqip?ri, qoft? n? Kosov?, nj? qytet?rim i jet?s politike, forcimi i institucioneve demokratike, zhvillimi i ekonomis?, sh?ndoshja morale vlen m? shum? se aleancat, marr?veshjet, kredit?, ndihmat. P?rkund?r profecive t? kukuvajkave anemban? kontinentit evropian, zgjedhjet e porsazhvilluara n? Kosov? ishin nj? d?shmi e mrekullueshme e rezerv?s qytet?ruese q? ndryn n? vetvete popullin shqiptar. Mendoni se do t? ndihet m? n? fund prania jon? n? Ballkan, se do t? b?hemi edhe ne t? r?nd?sish?m, si? thoshin filozof?t tan? t? Rilindjes, apo kjo nuk ?sht? ve?se nj? ?nd?rr si t? tjerat? Pesha dhe r?nd?sia e nj? populli nuk varen as nga ?nd?rrimet boshe, e aq m? pak nga lakmit?, p?r t'u fryr? si bretkoca, q? donte t? b?hej buall, (p?rrall? aq fort aktuale sot n? Ballkan). Populli shqiptar duhet t? siguroj? n? gadishull at? pesh? e r?nd?si q? i jep gjendja e tij natyrale (at? hise t? vet n?n k?t? diell, si? thoshin t? vjetrit) pa lakmuar m? tep?r, e pa ulur kryet p?r t'u k?naqur me m? pak. Pesha, p?rmasat e nj?mendta t? nj? populli jan? n? fund t? fundit pasqyrimi i asaj q? quhet liri e tij, e drejta natyrale p?r t? jetuar e p?r t'u zhvilluar. Nj? nga shkaqet themelore t? konfliktit shqiptaro-serb, ndon?se nuk thuhet, mendoj se ka t? b?j? pik?risht me pesh?n dhe r?nd?sin? e tyre n? gadishull. Skema tani p?r tani ?sht? kjo: Serbia e r?nd?sishme. Shqip?ria e par?nd?sishme. Rrjedhimisht b?het ?mos q? Serbia t? vazhdoj? t? quhet e r?nd?sishme, Shqip?ria t? vazhdoj? t? quhet e par?nd?sishme. Serbia ka v?n? n? fytyr? mask?n e Jugosllavis? s? zhdukur, e hiqet si shtet i madh. Shqip?ria vazhdon t? mbaj? rreckat e vendit t? coptuar e nga kjo duket edhe m? e vog?l e m? pa pesh?. N? t? v?rtet? ky ?sht? nj? dekor i jasht?m, nj? realitet virtual, kurse thelbi ?sht? ndryshe. Faktori shqiptar n? gadishull, p?rmasat e popullit shqiptar, numri, energjia njer?zore, historia, kultura, gjuha, nuk ka asgj? m? pak se faktori serb. Kjo e v?rtet? jo vet?m nuk pranohet prej serb?ve, por iu shkakton atyre nj? t?rbim t? pap?rfytyruesh?m. Kjo e v?rtet? nuk pranohet as nga miqt? e tyre n? Evrop? dhe n? bot?. Nj? tuf? e pafundshme politolog?sh, letrar?sh, gazetar?sh, b?jn? ?mos p?r ta mbajtur n? k?mb? k?t? iluzion. P?rpara faktorit fizik shqiptar (sasis? s? shqiptar?ve) ata mbyllin syt?, duke p?rfituar dinak?risht nga shp?rndarja e shqiptar?ve n? dy shtete fqinj? e, sidomos, duke e konsideruar Kosov?n pjes? t? Serbis?. P?r faktorin shpirt?ror, kulturor, e kan? m? leht? sepse n? sferat m? t? ep?rme mashtrimet sajohen gjithmon? m? leht?. P?r ta b?r? edhe m? t? besueshme k?t? hipnoz? ata shkojn? edhe m? larg, duke ngulur k?mb? se k?shtu ka qen? gjithmon?, pra ky realitet i sot?m ?sht? sipas tyre vazhdimi logjik i nj? gjendje shekullore. P?r mend?sin? europiane, n? t? cil?n mbeturinat e vizionit kolonialist jan? ende t? forta, kjo ?sht? di?ka e leht? p?r t? ngjitur ngaq? iu kujton ato q? kan? m?suar n? shkoll? p?r raportet koloni-metropol. Ndon?se intelektualisht ata mund ta d?nojn? shtypjen, n? nj? shtres? t? err?t t? nd?rgjegjes, si ish kolonialist?, ata identifikohen me shtyp?sin, kurse i shtypuri iu duket tradicionalisht i larg?t e i huaj. Pik?risht te kjo e kan? v?n? shpres?n nacionalist?t serb? dhe pik?risht nga kjo shpjegohet habia e tyre q? Evropa dhe SHBA u mor?n seriozisht me shqiptar?t. P?r ta ky ?sht? d?shp?rimi m? i madh ngaq?, sipas tyre, kush?rinjt? e Evrop?s ishin ata, kurse bijt? e njerk?s ishin shqiptar?t. Raportet serbo-shqiptare gjat? shekujve s'kan? asgj? t? p?rbashk?t me k?t? klishe. Akademiku Dushan Batakovi?, nj? nga kasnec?t e Serbis? s? madhe, n? librin e tij "Kosova, spirale e urrejtjes" botuar pak koh? m? par? n? Zvic?r, d?shmon p?r di?ka q? propaganda serbe nuk d?shiron ta cek?. Duke folur p?r bashkimin e Kosov?s me Serbin? m? 1918, ai shkruan: "Shqiptar?t e Kosov?s, lider?t e tyre, shefat e klaneve e t? pronar?ve t? m?dhenj, q? qen? konsideruar si nj? far? aristrokracie komb?tare, deklaruan haptas se nuk mund ta duronin sundimin e ish sh?rb?tor?ve t? tyre, ata t? cil?t ende i quanin n? m?nyr? p?r?muese shkje". Si? shihet, mosdurimi ose urrejtja serbo-shqiptare, ajo e cila shpesh trajtohet si misterioze etj. etj. ?sht?, ve? t? tjerash, nj? ??shtje revanshi. Dje ju shqiptar?t ishit senjor? n? Ballkan, sot ?sht? radha e jon? etj. etj. Me fjal? t? tjera, historia e njohur e njer?zve, q? p?r t'u sh?ruar nga dhuna dhe fyerjet e p?suara n? f?mini, k?rkojn? t'i ushtrojn? ato mbi t? tjer?t, histori q?, me sa se duket, p?rs?ritet midis popujve. Pyetje: T? rikthehemi te pesha dhe r?nd?sia e nj? populli. Krijohet p?rshtypja se po t? k?rkojm? ne shqiptar?t "hisen ton? n?n k?t? diell", kjo quhet si k?rkes? p?r Shqip?rin? e Madhe. P?rgjigje: Esht? e v?rtet? se merret ashtu. Miti i Shqip?ris? s? Madhe u ringjall koh?t e fundit p?r t? krijuar barazpesh? me k?rkes?n e Serbis? s? madhe. Ndryshimi ?sht? se nd?rsa ky i fundit ?sht? nj? program n? em?r t? t? cilit luftohet e veprohet haptaz, fantazma e Shqip?ris? s? madhe gj?llon kryesisht n? propagand?n antishqiptare. Me fjal? t? tjera, nd?rsa Shqip?ria quhet e par?nd?sishme me gjith?ka, ajo b?het befas e r?nd?sishme, pra pranohet r?nd?sia e saj jo si nj? realitet normal, por vet?m si rrezik, si nj? mund?si e keqe. T? m?suar q? n? m?nyr? fyese e t? verb?r ta quanin t? vog?l e t? par?nd?sish?m, tani q? populli shqiptar po del nga mjegulla e nj? nate, shtabi i tij i natyrsh?m i tmerron ata q? s'e kan? dashur. Ata ul?rijn?: po del rreziku, po del Shqip?ria e Madhe! Ne duhet t'u themi: s'po del asnj? rrezik, asnj? Shqip?ri e Madhe ose e Vog?l. Po del thjesht Shqip?ria. Kund?rth?nia ?sht? e hap?t. Nj? vend s'mund t? jet? nj?koh?sisht edhe i r?nd?sish?m edhe i par?nd?sish?m. (I r?nd?sish?m kur ?sht? rasti p?r t'u goditur, i par?nd?sish?m kur duhet dh?n? dora e ndihm?s apo miq?sis?). N? k?t? kah, shprehja Shqip?ri e madhe nuk ?sht? ve?se nj? eufemiz?m q? n?nkupton nj? program cinik p?r t? penguar zhvillimin normal t? nj? populli, nj? doktrin? ngacmimi t? p?rhersh?m p?r ta l?n? at? popull shtatanik, p?r t'i ngritur mure e pengesa midis, pik?risht kur muret jan? shembur n? kontinent. Me t? njohurit e mi t? huaj, kur m? bie rasti shpesh t? bisedoj p?r k?t? tem? i pyes: ku e keni par? projektin e Shqip?ris? s? madhe, ku i keni par? librat, konferencat, forumet, doktrin?n, programin, partit? q? e mbrojn?, grupet parlamentare, l?vizjen popullore, skic?n e hapur etj. etj. K?saj pyetjeje ata i p?rgjigjen zakonisht me nj? ngritje supesh. Pyetje: Shkrimtari grek Vasili Vasilikos, ka shkruar koh?t e fundit n? gazet?n "L? Monde" se vepra juaj ?sht?, me sa duket, nj? skic? e fsheht? e Shqip?ris? s? Madhe. P?rgjigje: E kam par? k?t? shkrim dhe m? ka zbavitur. Ndoshta shprehja Shqip?ri e Madhe, duhet z?vend?suar k?tu me shprehjen Shqip?ri e st?rrmadhe, ngaq? po t? nisemi nga projekti im i fsheht? dhe padyshim tep?r djall?zor, n? t? do t? futeshin edhe piramidat e Egjiptit dhe stepa ruse dhe rrafshulta t? Anadollit dhe ndonj? cop? nga Muri kinez, dhe hap?sira t? tjera q? kam p?rmendur n? librat e mia. Sinqerisht s'do t? m? vinte keq q? disa njer?z t? merreshin me k?to libra e t? linin t? qet? popullin shqiptar, q? edhe pa k?to marr?zira, ka mjaft andrralla mbi kok?. Kjo q? thash? m? lart duket si mahi, por nuk ?sht? aspak e tepruar. Ju e dini ndoshta se synimi shqiptar p?r nj? gjuh? t? nj?j?suar, synim i p?rbashk?t i gjith? kombeve europiane, ?sht? i interpretuar gjithashtu si pjes? e projektit p?r Shqip?rin? e Madhe dhe kjo jo vet?m nga rrethe t? huaja antishqiptare por edhe nga disa karagjoz? shqiptar?, n? Tiran? e n? Prishtin?. Shqiptar?t nuk kan? nevoj? as p?r Shqip?ri t? madhe, as p?r Shqip?ri t? vog?l, ata kan? nevoj? p?r Shqip?rin? e tyre natyrale brenda peisazhit demokratik evropian. Nuk mund t'i k?rkohen k?tij vendi ligj? t? tjera nga ato q? s'i k?rkohen askujt. Shqiptar?t s'mund t? merren as si gogol p?r t? trembur t? tjer?t, as si nx?n?s shembullor?. Ata s'kan? nevoj? p?r nofka lavd?ruese, natyrisht as p?r fyerje. Shqiptar?t do ta ripohojn? pesh?n e tyre, identitetin, gjith?ka, jo duke u mburrur per shembull me pap?t me origjin? ilire, as me themelimin e dinastis? mbret?rore egjiptiane (q? p?r fat e kan? harruar), e as me profka t? tjera t? k?tij lloji. Aq m? pak mund ta pohojn? at? me revansh dhe me krime. Dihet q? krimi ?sht? ngjit?s, sidomos n? hap?sir?n nervoze ballkanike. P?r t? patur t? drejt?n morale t? d?nojn? krimin e ushtruar ndaj tyre shqiptar?t duhet ta refuzojn? me ngulm hakmarrjen dhe krimin si m?nyr? ?lirimi nga e keqja. Ne duhet t? m?sohemi t? d?nojm? t? keqen, racizmin ton? kur ai shfaqet, krimin ton?. T'i d?nojm? jo p?r t? lar? goj?n, p?r t'u paraqitur humanist? por me bindje t? thell? se rruga e krimit ?sht? rruga e katastrof?s. Ndon?se kemi p?suar dhun? nga serb?t, s'duhet t? kemi droj? t? d?nojm? me pasion hakmarrjen ndaj serb?ve t? pafajsh?m, ndaj cigan?ve e ndaj kujdo qoft?. Thuhet shpesh se nuk jemi racist? agresiv?. Dhe p?rmenden raportet e Shqiptar?ve me cigan?t ose me rom?t ose gips?t (ata q? jo pa p?r?mim quhen jevgj). Mendoj megjithat? se ashtu si tumorin e keq e mb?shtjell shpesh nj? cip? e holl?, ashtu ndodh edhe me racizmin pasiv. Shum? shpejt ai mund t? kthehet n? raciz?m veprues. Ne duhet t'i kishim mbrojtur m? me vendosm?ri cigan?t dhe rom?t e pafajsh?m n? Kosov?, kur ata u k?rc?nuan nga hakmarrja e verb?r. Ne s'duhet t? b?nim asnj? l?shim kur ishte fjala p?r mbrojtjen e serb?ve t? pafajsh?m. Ne duhet t? d?nojm? ashp?rsisht krimet e trafikant?ve shqiptar? kund?r kurd?ve, kinez?ve ose nevojtar?ve t? komb?sive t? tjera, q? mjerimi i bije n? m?shir?n ton?. P?r ne duhet t? jet? i papranuesh?m dhe kriminal humori i zi q? b?het me k?t? rast me viktimat ngaq? jan? t? tjet?r komb?sie. Nga ky pastrim populli shqiptar nuk dob?sohet. P?rkundrazi. Pyetje: Ju keni reaguar ashp?r koh?t e fundit ndaj librit t? Xavier Raufer "Mafia shqiptare" duke e akuzuar pik?risht p?r raciz?m antishqiptar. A mund t? sh?rbej? ky raciz?m antishqiptar si argument p?r t? p?rligjur kund?rsulmin ton?? P?rgjigje: Kurrsesi nuk mund t? p?rligjet kurrfar? racizmi. Libri i francezit Xavier Raufer ?sht? shembull i nj? racizmi primitiv, q? t? kujton fashizmin. N? t? thuhet se mafia shqiptare drejtoka mafien evropiane, ngaq? n? baz? t? saj q?ndron "Kanuni" dhe "Besa"! (Pra kemi p?rs?ri r?nd?sin?, madje p?rmasat evropiane t? nj? populli, por vet?m p?r keq). N? t? thuhet se jan? shqiptar?t e shekullit 15 q? i m?suan italian?ve kodin mafioz! N? t? k?mb?ngulet se thelbi, struktura e brendshme e k?tij kombi ?sht? mafioze, p?r t? ardhur gjer te pohimi kriminal se t? deportuarit shqiptar? gjat? luft?s s? Kosov?s, nuk iknin prej masakrave, por ishin t? zgjedhur nga mafia p?r t? shp?rndar? drog?n n?p?r bot?. Esht? padyshim revoltuese q? nj? intelektual francez mund t? p?shtyj? k?shtu mbi dram?n e nj? populli, mbi f?mij?t e vrar? e mbi gjith? at? zi t? pafund. E megjithat? as racizmi i k?tij barbari nga Evropa, as racizmi prej horrash provincial? i italian?ve, ose ai prej horrash fshati i grek?ve, as cinizmi i mynxyrave t? tilla morale si raportuesi i OKB-s? Jiri Dientsbier, nuk munden kurrsesi t? p?rligjin marr?zit? tona t? mundshme. Pyetje: T? kthehemi n? ngjarjen e fundit aktuale t? Ballkanit: r?nien e Milloshevi?it dhe ngritjen e Kostunic?s. Besoj se e keni pritur k?t? pyetje. Kemi d?gjuar se ju keni reaguar ftoht? p?r Kostunic?n n? intervistat tuaja ne radiot franceze dhe zvicerane. P?rgjigje: S? pari dua t? theksoj se r?nia e Milloshevi?it ka qen? pa asnj? dyshim nj? lajm i mir?. S? dyti se me nj? Serbi demokratike si Kosova, si Shqip?ria, si gjith? Ballkani do t? fqinj?zonin krejt ndryshe, dometh?n? shum? m? mir? se me nj? Serbi nacionaliste (dometh?n? t? marr?). Un? jam kund?r ?do lloj xhelozie ndaj vendeve t? tjera n? rajon. Gjith? puna ?sht? n?se jemi v?rtet p?rpara nj? zhvillimi demokratik apo p?rpara nj? bllofi. N? k?t? kah un? i kuptoj fare mir? rezervat e shqiptar?ve t? Kosov?s. Do t? p?rpiqem t'i bije shkurt p?r t? mos u zgjatur n? gj?ra t? njohura. Ka qen? nevoja p?r nj? ndryshim t? Serbis? e jo ve? t? liderit t? saj. Nj? lider komunist-nacionalist u z?vend?sua nga nj? lider jokomunist-nacionalist, madje m? i thekur p?r nacionaliz?m se i pari. Ky lider na paska si faqen m? t? ndritur t? biografis? antishqiptarizmin, p?r shkak t? t? cilit Titua e d?noi m? 1974! Kjo do t? ishte gjysma e t? keqes n?qoft?se ky njeri do t? kishte b?r? nj? korrigjim. Por p?r fat t? keq, deklarimet e tij t? para sidomos ato p?r gjyqin e Hag?s, p?r Kosov?n e p?r t? burgosurit shqiptar? t? z?n? peng nga Serbia ishin politikisht e moralisht t? mjerueshme. Ato tregojn? se elita politike serbe ?sht? sot m? e paemancipuara n? gadishull. Megjithat? un? mendoj se n? rastin e Kostunic?s, n?qoft?se ai ndryshon p?r t? mir? nuk ka pse t? mbahen paragjykime kund?r tij. Pyetje: Megjithat? Europa, sidomos Franca e Italia, pa pritur asnj? shenj? treguan nj? eufori t? habitshme n? k?t? rast. P?rgjigje: Esht? e v?rtet? se u tregua nj? dehje e nj? eufori befasuese, ?'ka tregon se emancipimi nuk ?sht? vet?m problem ballkanik. E kuptoj fare mir? inkurajimin q? i jepet nj? vendi kur bije nj? tiran, megjithat? ?sht? e pakuptueshme se si Evropa nuk i k?rkoi asnj? deklarim politik themelor k?tij vendi p?r dhjet? vjet krime kund?r t? tjer?ve. U duk sikur Europa k?rkoi t? kaloj? nj? sfungjer mbi peisazhin e p?rgjakur ballkanik. Por n? Ballkan, m? mir? se kudo dihet se asnj? sfungjer s'mund t? laj? gjakun dhe krimin. Nga kjo pik?pamje ekstaza europiane mund t? merrej si nj? fyerje p?r t? gjith? popujt q? e vuajt?n k?t? tmerr. Nj? thirrje p?r ta b?r? t? nd?rgjegjshme Serbin? p?r p?rgjegj?sin? e saj ?sht? pritur nga opinioni publik, ?'ka ?sht? shprehur gjer?sisht nga shtypi. Pyetje: Esht? nj? harres? kjo gj? sipas jush apo k?rkesa p?r revizionimin e nj? politike? P?rgjigje: Besoj se jan? t? dyja nga pak. Analist?t e k?rkojn? shpjegimin e k?saj n? lidhjet tradicionale. Pa e kund?rshtuar k?t? mendoj se prapa tyre ka shkaqe m? t? fshehura. N? nj? shkall? bot?rore mendoj se pavar?sisht nga p?rparimi i tij njer?zimi ka mbetur shum? i eg?r. Mendimi kriminel, ai q? shoq?ron veprimin kriminel jo vet?m s'?sht? zbehur por rrall? her? s'ka qen? kaq i duksh?m si n? shekullin ton?. N? k?t? skajim Europa nuk b?n ndonj? p?rjashtim. Flirti me krimin k?tu jan? t? njohura. N? kujtimet e amerikanit Xhejms Rubin, botuar tani s? fundi n? "Financial Times", p?rmendet episodi kur presidenti i Serbis? Milutinovi? q? kryesonte delegacionin serb n? Rambuj?, duke mos kuptuar asgj? nga ajo q? po ndodhte, u thot? amerikan?ve: "P?rse shqet?soheni p?r shqiptar?t? Na e lini ne k?t? pun? dhe ne e mbarojm? p?r nj? jav?" (Me fjal? t? tjera, na lini t'i farojm? ne shpejt e shpejt). T? m?suar t? flasin k?shtu me per?ndimor?t kur vjen fjala p?r shqiptar?t, serb?t e p?rdorin at? gjuh? edhe nj? jav? p?rpara bombardimit. Pyetja q? del n? k?t? rast ?sht? tep?r shqet?suese: mir? ky kriminel kok?trash?, krejt?sisht jasht? realitetit flet k?shtu, po Europa si e ka pranuar k?t? gjuh? m? par?? Sepse kjo gjuh? cubash, p?r fat t? keq nuk ?sht? p?rdorur p?r her? t? par? n? Rambuj?. Ajo ka patur, me sa dukej nj? tradit? dhe pranimi i asaj gjuhe ka qen? interpretuar nga serb?t si drit? e gjelb?r p?r krimin antishqiptar. Pyetje: A mund t? flitet n? k?t? rast p?r nj? predispozit? antishqiptare n? nj? pjes? t? Evrop?s, p?rshembull n? Franc?, ku ju kaloni nj? pjes? t? koh?s? P?rgjigje: Gj?rat jan? m? t? nd?rlikuara se ?'duken. Gjat? luft?s s? Kosov?s Franca u faj?sua gjithashtu prej Serbis? p?r predispozit? antiserbe. Si nj?ra predispozit?, si tjetra jan? dhe nuk jan? t? v?rteta. Varet nga rrethanat, varet p?r ?'sfera b?het fjal?. N? nj? vizion t? p?rgjithsh?m Franca ka qen? dhe ndoshta vazhdon t? mbetet m? af?r Serbis? se Shqip?ris?. Sidomos diplomacia, kreu i ushtris?, e djathta ekstreme dhe e majta ekstreme. Nd?rkaq nj? pjes? zot?ruese e elit?s kulturore e politike dhe e opinionit publik kan? tjet?r q?ndrim. E megjithat? edhe kjo ndarje nuk ?sht? edhe s'ka si t? jet? e sakt?. E v?rteta ?sht? se nd?rsa ekziston nj? nostalgji proserbe n? k?t? vend, nuk mund t? flitet p?r nj? nostalgji proshqiptare. Nostalgji proshqiptare mendoj se nuk ka kurrkund, nga q? miqt? e mbrapsht? q? ne zum?: jugosllav?, sovjetik? dhe kinez?, kan? qen? miq t? rrem? dhe po aq t? rrem? kan? qen? miqt? m? t? hersh?m, italian?t. Nostalgjin? proshqiptare mund ta krijoj? koha jon?. At? mund ta krijoj? qytet?rimi yn? i sot?m demokratik n?qoft?se ai nd?rtohet, n? aleanc? me ngroht?sin? e njeriut dhe me peisazhin shqiptar, hatu e par? t? k?tij vendi. N? vend q? t? na zej? smira pse ky ose ai vend ka af?rsi me Serbin?, ne duhet t? dim? t'i fitojm? miq?sit?. Natyrisht q? miq?sia s'mund t? jet? e njajshme. N? nj? mbledhje n? mjediset e Asambles? Komb?tare t? Franc?s kam d?gjuar t? citohet nj? zyrtar francez, sipas t? cilit gjat? nj? jave n? Tiran? vriten aq njer?z sa ?'vriten gjat? dy vjet?ve n? krejt Evrop?n Per?ndimore. N?qoft?se zyrtari n? fjal? e ka dh?n? v?rtet k?t? shif?r, me fjal? t? tjera k?t? thirrje p?r izolim t? Shqip?ris?, ?sht? v?shtir? t? pritet ndonj? miq?si prej tij dhe prej zyrqs q? ai drejton. Franca ?sht? nj? vend q? un? e dua dhe e quaj nj? atdhe t? dyt?, gj? q? m? shtyn t? them p?r t? at? q? nuk do t'i thoshja p?r nj? vend tjet?r. Duke afishuar nj? ngroht?si t? tep?ruar p?r nj? vend q? ende nuk ?sht? shp?lar? nga krimi i djesh?m, Franca ka rrezik t? fitoj? ftoht?sin? e s? paku pes? shteteve t? tjera ballkanike. T?rheqja e Franc?s prej gadishullit ku gjat? m? shum? se dy shekuj ka qen? ngulitur natyrsh?m n? kultur?n dhe historin? e gjith? popujve ballkanas n?p?rmjet iluminizmit t? saj, do t? jet? nj? gj? e keqe p?r at? vet? dhe natyrisht p?r ballkanasit. Pyetje: Si e komentoni "profecin?" e presidentit t? porsazgjedhur jugosllav se konflikti n? Ballkan, pasi ka braktisur Serbin? do t? zbres? n? Jug, dometh?n? n? Shqip?ri, si konflikt midis Veriut dhe Jugut? P?rgjigje: Ky pohim meriton nj? analiz? psiko-politike. Ai zbulon nj? t? v?rtet? t? fshehur me kujdes, nj? program, nj? hall, nj? ?nd?rr t? Serbis?. Ka gjas? t? jet? programi, halli ose ?ndrra num?r nj? e fqinjit ton?: destabilizimi i Shqip?ris?. Zyrat jugosllave kan? vite q? punojn? p?r t?, nacionalist?t kan? vite q? psher?tijn?, agjent?t kan? vite q? rob?tohen. K?rkojn? idera, m?nyra, mjete, her? t? reja, her? t? vjetra, her? t? ringritura nga varri. Shefi i ri jugosllav, me t? z?n? vend n? fronin presidencial, me t? hapur dosjen e par?, ka ndeshur, me sa duket, kryefjal?n e programit serb: troshitjen e Shqip?ris?. Dhe meqen?se, me sa duket, nuk ?sht? fort i rafinuar nga mendja, u ngut ta shpallte gjith? g?zim n? TV italian. Tani del fare qart? se ?ka qen? koh?t e fundit gjith? ajo zhurm? p?r konfliktin e pritm? midis jugut dhe veriut t? Shqip?ris?, midis geg?ve dhe tosk?ve e natyrisht midis shqiptar?ve t? Shqip?ris? e t? Kosov?s.Tani del qart? se ?'ka qen? ajo vij? ndar?se, lumi Shkumbin, q? nuk mungonte asnj?her? n? hart?n e Shqip?ris?, n? lajmet e pranver?s s? vitit 1997. P?rher? e m? qart? del se ?'?sht? ajo zhurm? p?r ndarjen e geg?rishtes nga tosk?rishtja, ai nervoziz?m kund?r gjuh?s s? nj?j?suar, p?r t? ardhur gjer te gogoli i Shqip?ris? s? Madhe si nj? tmerr p?r Europ?n. Ky tmerr, sipas tyre, mund t? shmangej vet?m po t? ngriheshin mure midis shqiptar?ve, t? thyheshin urat bashkuese, t? thyhej gjuha, duke u ndar? m? dysh, mund?sisht m? tresh. S? fundi tani del edhe m? qart? se ?'?sht? ky pasion p?r destabilizim n? Shqip?ri e n? Kosov?. Agjentura ka punuar me shum? zell p?r k?t?. Nj? pjes? e elit?s politike dhe kulturore, si n? Shqip?ri si n? Kosov? ?sht? p?rzier n? k?t? loj? t? dyshimt?. Populli shqiptar ka koh? q? me intuit? e ka ndier k?t? mbrap?shti. Shum? her? kam takuar njer?z t? thjesht? q? m? kan? pyetur: si shpjegohet q? sapo nis t? ndreqet di?ka, menj?her? vihet n? l?vizje nj? forc? e err?t p?r t? rikthyer kaosin? Pyetje: Rrjedhimisht, nj? ftohje q? vihet re n? ca rrethe politike dhe kulturore n? Kosov? kund?r Shqip?ris?, a ka lidhje me k?t?? P?rgjigje: Natyrisht. Ka patur psikoza nga t? dy an?t, por koh?t e fundit armiq?simi ndaj Shqip?ris? ?sht? shtuar n? ato rrethe q? p?rmend?t ju. Duhet t? jesh i met? nga mendja q? t? mos e kuptosh se kur nj? politikan ose letrar i Kosov?s k?rkon armiq?si ose preteks armiq?simi me Shqip?rin?, ai s'b?n gj? tjet?r ve?se i lot syrin Beogradit p?r t'i th?n?: m? ndan? nga ty, por zemr?n e kam atje. Dyshojn se ftohja shkall?-shkall? e Kosov?s me Shqip?rin? do t? jet? k?ndej e tutje boshti i strategjis? serbe. P?r t? do t? punojn? forca t? caktuara politike n? Kosov?, t? ndjekura nga nj? zhgan intelektual?sh e letrar?sh t? pabes?, q? n? k?si rastesh s'mungojn? kurr?. Nd?rkaq jam i bindur se kjo ndodh ve? n? sip?rfaqe. N? thell?si asgj? nuk ndryshon. Sepse n? thell?si, atje ku jeton, mendon dhe vendos ligjet populli i madh, atje sundon tjet?r logjik? e tjet?r realitet. Pyetje: Ka patur nje seri artikujsh kritike ndaj jush nga Anton Berisha e disa ? tjer? ne Kosove, ku ju akuzojn? se me kritikat tuaja i keni fyer shkrimtar?t e Kosov?s> A b?jn? pjes? keto n? pretekset p?r sherr, apo kan? nj? baz?? P?rgjigje:Nuk i kam fyer dhe nuk do t'i fyej kurr? shkrimtar?t e Kosov?s. Po ju kujtoj se nd?r tri veprat artistike q? kam shkruar p?r dram?n kosovare, dy prej tyre kan? si personazh qendror nj? shkrimtar dhe nj? poet, t? dy sublimuar n? shkall?n m? t? lart?. Kam kritikur disa her? hermetizimin e nj? pjese t? let?rsis? kosovare, nga q? kam patur bindjen se kjo rendje ndaj avanguardizmit ka qen? shkak q? ata t? mos d?shmojn? p?r krimin kund?r popullit t? tyre. P?rgjigja e tyre se ky d?shmim "?sht? si detyr? sht?pie" e kam quajtur moralisht t? papranueshme. Kam menduar dhe mendoj se d?nimi i krimit ka ushqyer krenajat e let?rsis? bot?rore. Si? e shihni, kritika ime ka marr? shkas n? radh? t? par? nga mosd?shmimi i krimit, me fjal? t? tjera nga mosplot?simi i dosjes s? Kosov?s, dosjes num?r nj? t? kombit shqiptar n? k?t? fund shekulli. D?nimi i krimit n? Kosov? nuk ?sht? vet?m ??shtje letrare. Ai ka lidhje me lirin? e Kosov?s. Ju e dini se ?'po ndodh tani. Beogradi ka shp?rthyer nj? ofensiv? p?r t? kthyer opinionin bot?ror n? favor t? tij. Ai p?rpiqet t'i kthej? gj?rat kryengulthi: Serb?t t'i paraqes? si viktima dhe shqiptar?t si agresor?. Shkrimtar? e filozof? t? njohur n? per?ndim si Pet?r Handke, Regis Debrai, Naom Shomsky etj., p?r turp t? tyre jan? v?n? t? d?shmojn? n? dobi t? serb?ve. Kurse disa letrar?ve t? Kosov?s iu duket se po ta b?jn? k?t? n? dobi t? popullit t? vet iu bie klasi. D?shmimi i let?rsis? nuk ?sht? as luks e as "detyr? sht?pie". Ai ka nj? vend t? paz?vend?suesh?m n? letrat kredenciale t? nj? populli. Pyetje: N? nj? intervist? botuar n? shtypin kosovar m? 1998, njerin nga ata qe ju ka sulmuar, e keni quajtur "Juda i Kosov?s". N? romanin tuaj t? fundit "Lulet e ftohta t? marsit" e keni p?rs?ri personazhin e Jud?s, k?t? her? p?r nj? personazh te nje intelektuali t? Tiran?s. Cili ka qen? shkaku q? i jeni kthyer k?tij personazhi t? Bibl?s? P?rgjigje: N? jet?n ton?, si n? Shqip?ri, si n? Kosov?, jud?t po i ndeshim p?rs?ri. Ndryshe nga koh? m? par? jud?t nuk mund t? mbeten m? pa u damkosur e pa u d?nuar. Ka ardhur koh? e v?shtir? p?r jud?t. E meritojn? krusm?n q? i pret, si ai q? shpif n? Prishtin? a n? Kozenc?, si ai q? ka spiunuar shkrimtar?t n? Tiran?. Pyetje: T? kthehemi te problemi i stabilitetit q? fol?m pak m? par?. N? gati ?do intervist? ju theksoni domosdoshm?rin? p?r stabilitet mbi gjith?ka. Lidhur me k?t? a mendoni se di?ka u arrit me zgjedhjet e fundit? P?rgjigje: Nuk besoj se e teproj me k?rkes?n p?r stabilitet. Si ?do shqiptar un? e kujtoj me tmerr dhe me pik?llim vitin 1997. Ai ankth ende s'ka kaluar. Shqip?ria pa stabilitet ?sht? nj?lloj sikur ta ket? arkiolin p?rbri. P?r fat keq ka forca q? jan? t? interesuara q? t? jet? k?shtu. P?r fatin dyfish t? keq q?llon q? ato forca gj?nden ndonj?her? jo vet?m midis opozit?s por edhe midis klas?s politike q? ?sht? n? pushtet. Aleanca me krimin ?on n? at? logjik?. P?r zgjedhjet e fundit ?sht? folur aq shum? sa ?sht? v?shtir? t? shtosh di?ka. Mendoj se rruga p?r t'i th?n? lamtumir? dhun?s gjat? kalimit t? pushtetit duhet t? na g?zoj? t? gjith?ve. Nd?rkaq mendoj se nuk ka vend as p?r eufori t? fituesve, e as p?r alibi t? humb?sve. Di?ka ?sht? arritur por shum??ka nuk ?sht? arritur. Dob?simi i opozit?s, ajo q? m?ndjeleht?sisht i g?zon disa, ?sht? humbje p?r t? gjith?. N? k?t? dekad? t? par? t? demokracis? do t'ishte mir? q? pushteti t? kalonte nga nj? forc? politike te tjetra. Do t'ishte mir? q? populli shqiptar t'i provonte t? dy pal?t. K?shtu ai do t? m?sonte se si punon makina e demokracis?. Kalimi pa dhun? i pushtetit, ligji i par? i shoq?ris? civile, ?sht? edhe m? i v?shtiri p?r t'u m?suar. Por kjo nuk mund t? kryhet me urrejtje, verb?ri e bojkot, e natyrisht as me ngaz?llim cinik fitimtar?sh ose k?rc?llitje dh?mb?sh t? t? mundurve. Kur partit? politike do t'i heqin nga vetja militant?t sejmen?, ata q? mbajn? gjall? k?t? psikoz? t? mbetur nga lufta midis feudal?ve dhe qyteteve, q? Europa e ka kryer disa shekuj m? par?, dhe q? nj? pjes? e Ballkanit po e kryen tani, ky do t? jet? nj? frym?marrje leht?suese p?r t? gjith?. Pyetje: ??shtja e Himar?s ishte sipas jush di?ka e re, apo nj? rizgjim i vjet?r i demon?ve nacionalist?? P?rgjigje: Farsa e Himar?s ishte, n? radh? t? par?, theat?r tipik ballkanik plot nerva, mllef, marr?zi dhe b?lb?zime idiot?sh, si? do t? thoshte Shekspiri. Nj? far? kohe nuk e kam kuptuar dot se p?rse b?hej grindje. Kryetari i Partis? t? t? Drejtave t? Njeriut, asaj q? akuzohej si greke ose progreke, deklaroi qart? se ?sht? parti shqiptare, madje theksoi se n? Himar? nuk ka minoritet grek. Nd?rkaq, ata q? pohojn? t? kund?rt?n, duke p?rfshir? edhe v?zhguesit e huaj, as nuk e kund?rshtuan as nuk e p?rkrah?n k?t? kryetar, q? n? k?t? rast mund t? quhej i zoti i pun?s, si? thuhet. At? nuk e p?rfilli as pala shqiptare. Madje nga kjo pal? dol?n ca antigrek? t? zjarrt? q? gjer dje ishin akuzuar si progrek? t? ligj. Prap?sia ishte e till? sa q? s'do t? habitesha po t? dilte ndonj? nacionalist grek q? t? shpallej proshqiptar etj. etj. Teatri absurd i Ballkanit ?sht? i pashtersh?m. K?tu askush nuk habitet q? nj? parti demokristiane i ka an?tar?t musliman?, ose q? partia e t? drejtave t? njeriut, e akuzuar si greke nuk fiton pik?risht n? zon?n ku ka minoritar? grek?. Nd?rkaq, shum? njer?z, duke p?rfshir? edhe ca v?zhgues t? huaj, presin q? ajo t? fitoj? n? nj? zon? ku s'ka t? till?. Lidhur me k?ta t? fundit, ?sht? k?rkuar me t? drejt? nj? minimum njohjeje e vendit ku vijn? t? v?zhgojn?. Aq m? tep?r q? raportues e v?zhgues t? till? kan? qen? shpesh her? t? verb?r n? Ballkan. Nuk u k?rkon kush t? dijn? holl?sira, por ca gj?ra themelore duhet t'i dijn?. K?shtu p.sh. t? din? q? pa llogaritur refugjat?t e sot?m, n? Greqi ka nj?zet her? m? shum? shtetas grek? me origjin? shqiptare, se sa ka shtetas shqiptar? me origjin? greke n? Shqip?ri. E megjithat? asnj? her?, asnj? qeveri shqiptare nuk ?sht? kujtuar p?r ta. V?zhguesit duhet t? din? gjithashtu se n? Greqi, pas luft?s s? Dyt? Bot?rore ?sht? kryer pastrim etnik i shqiptar?ve, (?am?ve) me zjarr dhe me hekur. Ky kujtim i hidhur n? vend q? ta shtyj? Greqin?, drejt nj? shqyrtimi t? nd?rgjegjes, nxit shpesh her? t? kund?rt?n. Pyetje: Ju jepni her? pas here mesazhe shprese dhe optimizmi n? kund?rshtim me nj? frym? pesimizmi q? ndeshet tek ne. N? mbyllje t? k?saj interviste a mund t? na thoni di?ka p?r t? ardhmen? P?rgjigje: Nuk kam dh?n? dhe nuk do t? jap kurr? nj? kumt shprese n? se nuk besoj n? t?. Kam bindjen se kombi shqiptar pavar?sisht nga trazimet e sotme t? m?dha, nuk ka qen? kurr? m? mir? se sot. N? jet?n e tij g?rshetimi i rrethanave, at? q? astrolog?t e mendojn? si skajim t? favorsh?m yjesh, kurr? nuk ka qen? kaq i mbar?. Asnj?her? ora e tij nuk ka qen? n? t? nj?jtin kah me or?n e bot?s s? qytet?ruar. Me fjal? t? tjera ?sht? hera e par? q? zhvillimi shqiptar, prirja e tij, hovzimi i tij, p?rkon me programin e kontinentit. Asnj? aspirat? shqiptare sot dhe asnj? interes jetik nuk bie ndesh me kostumin europian. P?rkundrazi, t? gjitha interesat e tij p?rkojn? me ato t? Europ?s s? nes?rme: zbehja e kufijve, kontaktet e lira, shk?mbimet l?ndore, njer?zore, kulturore. Esht? nj? shans i madh kur nj? popull s'k?rkon ve? zhvillimin e tij natyror. Esht? shans kur ai s'ka nevoj? p?r demon? e p?r fantazma. Prej gjith? k?tyre q? p?rmenda m? lart, prej logjik?s s? brendshme t? gj?rave kusht?zohet natyrsh?m emacipimi i njeriut shqiptar. Ky njeri, me ngecjet, cenet dhe doz?n e njohur t? marr?zis? ballkanase, mbetet tani p?r tani, pengesa e fundit e Shqip?ris?. Por hullija e ecjes s? tij ?sht? p?rcaktuar nd?rkaq dhe jan? t? gjitha gjasat q? ai t? b?j? pjes? n? grupin e par? t? madh t? qytetar?ve europian? n? gadishull. E par? nga ky k?nd, historia jon? moderne k?ndej e tutje mund t? merret si historia e kap?rcimit t? vetvetes. Tetor 2000 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From xheke at email.msn.com Mon Nov 6 00:22:35 2000 From: xheke at email.msn.com (GJEKE) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:22:35 -0800 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] A Sovereign Kosovo Message-ID: <003b01c047b1$93b3ee00$3a98193f@oemcomputer> -----Original Message----- From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu To: Albsa-info at alb-net.com Date: Monday, October 09, 2000 10:22 AM Subject: [ALBSA-Info] A Sovereign Kosovo > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - > > > >Christian Science Monitor >TUESDAY, OCTOBER 03, 2000 > > >OPINION >How to create a sovereign Kosovo >By Julie Mertus > > >BALTIMORE, MD. > >In the face of an election defeat last month, Yugoslav President Slobodan >Milosevic appears all but ready to give way to his opposition successor. No >matter what happens next in Belgrade, however, it is clear that the vote for >the opposition was a necessary first step in giving power back to the people of >Yugoslavia and restoring their hope for a better future. > >The same kind of ballot-driven catalyst for change is needed in Kosovo, where >the people can't govern for themselves because the international community >governs for them. This presents a curious irony: While the UN is there to help, >it's actively preventing self-determination by Kosovars. > >The key to new thinking on Kosovo that could lead to a long-term solution rests >in application of modern concepts of human rights and state sovereignty. These >concepts were played out at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September, >where the fact that state sovereignty is no longer absolute was repeatedly >acknowledged. World leaders heard in speech after speech that preventing war >and fostering the conditions for peace means addressing the root causes of >conflict wherever they occur. What happens inside states, including economic >deprivation and human rights violations, the summit found, is of concern to the >entire international community. > >This developing international consensus on limited state sovereignty has broad >implications for all parts of the world. For those struggling to find a >solution to the ongoing Kosovo crisis, it is crucial. > >Some legal commentators have thought about sovereignty in the context of >military intervention. The argument here is that the NATO military intervention >in Kosovo was justified by the gross and systemic human rights violations >there. Ever since the days of the Nuremberg trials, states have been unable to >justify gross mistreatment of their own citizens in the name of state >sovereignty. States that do so in violation of international standards waive >their claim to sovereignty and open the door to international corrective >measures. > >The same thinking about state sovereignty applied to the intervention question >can be applied to interpretation of the Kosovo peace agreement. To date, >however, this has not been done. > >Any discussion on Kosovo these days is hampered by a fundamental misreading of >UN Security Council Resolution 1244, the document which provides authority for >the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Commentators read this document as resolving >the future status of Kosovo in Serbia's favor. They claim that either >reconstruction efforts must proceed with Kosovo forever being part of >Yugoslavia, or the UN resolution must be changed. This is wrong. Options in >Kosovo need not be limited to these two scenarios. > >Resolution 1244 does confirm the commitment of UN member states "to the >sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." >But the use of the words "sovereignty" and "territorial integrity" does not >automatically resolve the status of Kosovo in Serbia's favor. > >On the contrary, these words invoke human rights principles that weigh not on >the side of any particular group, but in favor of respect for international >human rights standards for all. > >The concepts of "sovereignty" and "territorial integrity" incor- porate the >international standards discussed at the Millennium Summit. Thus, the concept >of "territorial integrity" means more than just passive border maintenance. It >requires states to actively maintain the integrity of their territory through >the observance of international human rights standards. > >Similarly, the concept of "sovereignty" points to the prerogative of states to >act, but only insofar as the state is in line with international standards. The >notion of "sovereignty" today also incorporates the right to popular >sovereignty. States must respect sovereign rights of the people to participate >in society and choose how they should be governed and by whom. > >For more than 10 years, the government of Yugoslavia has violated the integrity >of its own territory and the sovereignty of the people through orchestrated >oppression against Albanians, Croats, Muslims, independent journalists, and >opposition politicians. The task for UNMIK should be to help the people of the >region claim their sovereignty and restore the integrity of their territory by >promoting the human rights of all citizens. > >The international mission must permit the people to decide their future for >themselves. Instead of acting as a colonial-style administrator and imposing >its own will, UNMIK should empower locals to discover their own solutions. >Whether that future is partition or independence, the role of the international >mission is to provide security in the short term and aid the development of >participatory, self-governing, human-rights-abiding institutions for the long >term. > >So far, UNMIK has been afraid to support any local efforts that would upset the >status quo. But the status quo is unacceptable to all parties, and it cannot >endure over the long term. A status-quo solution imposed by an outside force >against the will of locals violates the principle of sovereignty that the UN is >working to uphold. > >By denying Kosovars the right to decide their own fate, UNMIK is violating the >principle of sovereignty, not promoting it. The lessons on limited state >sovereignty, which were heard loud and clear at the Millennium Summit, should >be applied to Kosovo. > > > > >Julie Mertus, a professor of peace and conflict resolution at American >University, is the author of 'Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War' >(University of California Press, 1999). > > > >_______________________________________________________ >ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info > From i_spaho at hotmail.com Sun Nov 5 21:55:08 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 02:55:08 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] PROPOZIM Message-ID: Pershendetje liste! Meqe u be nje kohe e gjate qe s'eshte organizuar ndonje aktivitet dhe shume studente me te drejte pyesin nese Albsa merr fryme akoma apo eshte reduktuar thjesht ne nje mailing list, mendova te hedh nje ide per nje aktivitet qe mund te organizohet me shume me perkushtimin tone sesa me te holla. Fillimisht mund te organizojme ne shkollat ku ka me shume studente shqiptare, BU, BC, Northeastern, panaire te vogla me informacion per gjuhen, kulturen, historine, figurat shqiptare me te shquara boterisht duke filluar nga perandoret romake deri tek Ferid Murat e viagra, e me vone mbase arrijme te marrim vetem per pak ore hollin e bibliotekes publike ne Copley Square, vetem se per kete te fundit do kishim nevojen e mbeshtetjes se komunitetit shqiptar, kishes dhe "Frosines" dhe do donte shume me teper perkushtim e kohe. Nuk do kete asgje pompoze. Thjesht disa stenda me gatime shqiptare (kete barre jua heq une nga kurrizi, mund ta perballoj edhe vetem); artizanat, informacion kulturor e historik, mbase nje broshure shume te thjeshte me informacion te permbledhur per Shqiperine (dhe per kete kam nje punim qe kam bere javen e fundit per te terhequr turiste dhe investitore ne Shqiperi te titulluar "Albania, dhe land of sun and hospitality, the home of a powerful spirit and a beautiful nature", te cilin mund ta shkurtoj dhe e bejme ne shume kopje. Pastaj, ne te gjithe e njohim historine dhe kulturen e vendit tone dhe mund t'i bilbilosim atyre qe do kene nderin te na pyesin. Terbohem kur me afrohen njerez qe kur ju them se jam shqiptare, ma kthejne rusisht, ose qe me shikojne si te shtangur kur i them se Nene Tereza ishte shqiptare. Pa shkuar me tej tek Aleksandri i Madh e figura te tjera. Mund te shperndajme dhe adresa interneti te faqeve me fotografi te mrekullueshme nga Shqiperia si ajo e Ardit (Kanines - besoj se ti Ardi na e jep lejen, apo jo), luajme muzike popullore shqiptareetc. Une kam shume fotografi nga Shqiperia, biles mund te siguroj dhe foto te vjetra te periudhes se komunizmit dhe posters me pamje te mrekullueshme nga Tirana, Berati dhe Apollonia. Gjithashtu kam nje flamur te madh, nje album shume te vjeter arkeologjik dhe ca vogelsira arti nga Shqiperia. Po te kontribuojme te gjithe, besoj se do kemi nje koleksion te kenaqshem. Keto jane vetem disa ide, te cilat mund t'i hidhni poshte ose t'i plotesoni me ide te tjera. Une afrova ato qe mund te bej une, si nje individ. Nqs arrijme te behemi nje grup dhe arrijme te terheqim disa studente te institucioneve qe permenda me siper, nuk ka asgje te pamundshme dhe te veshtire per ta realizuar kete ndermarrje. Mbase e shtrijme dhe ne shkolla te tjera. Nuk besoj te jete problem per te marre nje pjese salloni para mencave (si p.sh ne GSU, meqe e njoh me mire BU-ne), ose ne katin e pare te shkollave, para bibliotekave ose kafeterive. Pastaj, duke qene se shume studente (shqiptare) punojne ne radio, mbase na ndihmojne t'i bejme pak reklame. Une mund edhe te siguroj dike qe te shkruaje per Boston Globe. Hajde pra, te levizim dhe bejme dicka. Plane me te shtrira dhe me te komplikuara (nga ato me safety issues i leme per kur te mbushe kryesia moshen madhore, ose, Eriola/Iris, po qe se njihni ndonje klub qe pranojne nen 21 vjec, i mbledhim atje te gjithe studentet shqiptare, thjesht per t'u krijuar mundesi te njihen me njeri tjetrin. Keshtu s'keni pse shqetesoheni per trazira ose zenka, se cdo klub i ka marre masat per raste te tilla). Perzemersisht, Irma _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From wplarre at bndlg.de Sun Nov 5 15:34:26 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 21:34:26 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: Kosovo Serb leader meets Yugoslav president (BBC, 5 November, 2000) Message-ID: <3A05C452.4435093D@bndlg.de> http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1008000/1008414.stm Sunday, 5 November, 2000, 15:56 GMT Kosovo Serb leader meets Yugoslav president The leader of the northern Kosovo Serbs, Oliver Ivanovic, has gone to Belgrade for talks with the new Yugoslav president, Vojislav Kostunica. The two men are said to have discussed the result of last weekend's local elections in Kosovo and the possible composition of a future council in the northern town of Mitrovica. Kosovo Serbs boycotted the elections, prompting the United Nations administrator for Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, to say he would nominate Serbs to sit on the council as a temporary measure before holding fresh elections in Serb areas of the province. >From the newsroom of the BBC World Service -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> Create your business web site your way now at Bigstep.com. It's the fast, easy way to get online, to promote your business, and to sell your products and services. Try Bigstep.com now. http://click.egroups.com/1/9183/3/_/920292/_/973464698/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From ipilika at hotmail.com Mon Nov 6 11:45:01 2000 From: ipilika at hotmail.com (Iris Pilika) Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 16:45:01 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Prisoners in Yugoslav jail riot Message-ID: Prisoners in Yugoslav jail riot Vojislav Kostunica is expected to pardon some political prisoners November 6, 2000 Web posted at: 1528 GMT BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- More than 1,000 inmates have rioted, setting fire to prison records, over conditions in one of Yugoslavia's largest jails. The riots, which have left four prisoners injured, have also been blamed on news that prisoners could receive an amnesty from the new government. The riot has prompted authorities to negotiate with the prisoners and police to send in reinforcements, a prison official said. It erupted in the prison near Sremska Mitrovica, 75 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of the capital, Belgrade, the official said. Prison authorities and representatives of Serbia's Justice Ministry were engaged in talks with the inmates on Monday and police were guarding the prison entrance. About 100 inmates were positioned on the roof of one of the prison buildings, local reporters said. The unrest began at one of the prison's three buildings, spreading after midnight on Sunday to the second and third building, where about 130 Kosovo Albanian prisoners are held, the state Tanjug news agency reported. The entire prison houses 1,300 inmates, including about 50 foreign nationals and six prisoners on death row. The Mayor of Sremska Mitrovica, Zoran Boskovic, was quoted by the Beta news agency as saying the prisoners were "demanding better conditions inside the jail and something to do with the amnesty law" planned by Yugoslavia's new president, Vojislav Kostunica. No details have been announced about the law, which would affect political prisoners, most of them Kosovo Albanians. Unconfirmed reports said that the prisoners had set fire to the printing press and the carpentry workshop, as well as a file cabinet containing inmate records. Firemen were reportedly denied entrance but attempted to extinguish the flames from the outside. Smoke was seen rising from within the prison compound on Monday. No shooting had occurred inside the prison and prison guards had withdrawn from the immediate vicinity of the inmates, only manning watchtowers inside the prison, said Tanjug. Beta reported that some three or four inmates were injured but did not specify how badly. Tanjug said four inmates were taken to the nearby hospital for treatment. The Associated Press contributed to this report. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From tema at albaniaonline.net Mon Nov 6 12:12:11 2000 From: tema at albaniaonline.net (Mero Baze) Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:12:11 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Memorandum Message-ID: <3.0.32.20001106181204.006b1c30@aol2.albaniaonline.net> MEMORANDUM OF ALBANIAN NON-GOVERNMENTAL NEWSPAPERS PRIME MINISITER META IS ORCHESTRATING A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INDEPENDENT PRESS To: COUNCIL OF EUROPE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT US CONGRESS ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE FREEDOM HOUSE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS FREEDOM FORUM (THE WORLD CENTER) FREEDOM FORUM (THE EUROPEAN CENTER) FIRST AMENDMENT CENTER MEDIA STUDIES CENTER COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS CANADIAN COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNLAISTS INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS ARTICLE XIX DIPLOMATIC CORP ACCREDITED IN TIRANA The Tirana Court has sentenced, within a month, four journalists of the press close to the opposition, whereas seven other legal processes are open, mainly brought forward by senior officials of the Albanian state to penalize the journalists. Tirana Court issued on October 19, 2000, its decision No. 644 ruling that Ndreke Gjini, journalist of "Rilindja Demokratike" (RD) newspaper be sentenced with a two-month term in jail, because in an article he published several months ago, he quoted a report of the High State Control which denounced the misappropriation of the solidarity tax by the police in some border check points. The Court neglected both the fact that the journalists had used the information taken from an official document of the Albanian State, and the fact the Ministry of Interior has fired some police employees who were involved in this abuse. The journalist was sentenced in conditions totally unfavorable having been provided with no legal defense because he was not allowed to make a real confrontation of the real official reports of the State Control at the judicial seance, and moreover, the authorities did not make available to his attorney the file of this case which the Ministry of Interior, accusing the journalist, had opened it. The Editor in Chief of "Rilindja Demokratike" Astrit Patozi, journalist Redin Hafizi, and editor of independent newspaper "Tema", Shemsi Peposhi were fined by a fine of 13 thousand USD, after a legal process demanded by the wife of the Albanian Prime Minister Ilir Meta. In all the seances, the judges did not consider the evidence that the journalists had used as a proof for their articles. The journalists backed their evidence by testimonies that local residents gave the journalists and cameramen (the testimonies are recorded and broadcast by local TV channel in Tirana such as ATN1 and Shijak TV), who said that Monika Kryemadhi, the wife of the Prime Minister, was the real administrator of a stone mine where two workers had lost their lives as a result of the lack of the technical security. Initially, the journalists began to cover this story by investigating on the cause of death of the two workers and, later they found out that the wife of the Prime Minister was the true owner of this stone mine. But the Court refused to consider any of the evidence provided by the journalists. The fine is worth 3 years of work of an Albanian journalist and is totally unaffordable for the journalists and their newspapers. The Editor in Chief of Rilindja Demokratike has previously had 6 processes filed against him and has been fined with a fine of 2 thousand USD. After October 1st, some 7 other legal processes were opened against "Tema" newspaper, "Rilindja Demokratike" newspaper, "55" daily newspaper and ATN1 TV channel. Edi Rama, former Minister of Culture and current Tirana Mayor has sued "Republika" newspaper after it published articles about the misappropriation of state funds by the Ministry of Culture. These legal processes are considered as a sign of the retaliation by the government against the non-governmental journalists following the local government elections. GOVERNMENT CONTROL ON THE PRESS AND ON THE NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Organizations that are supposed to defend the journalists in Albania have done almost nothing to defend them thus showing suspicious results of some measures taken by the government some times ago to sponsor newspapers close to the government and the chiefs of these organizations. The Chairman of the Association of Professional Journalists of Albania, Armand Shkullaku, has openly spoken in favor of the Prime Minister and his wife when asked to comment on the legal processes against journalists at an open television debate. Whereas, two human rights organizations, the Albanian Helsinki Committee and Albanian Group for Human Rights have made no reaction at all. The Journalists League of Albania is at a moment of crises because of government attempts to take it under its control. The government has sought to cause divisions within this journalists' organization, by avoiding the decision of the majority of journalists to have their own organization. The government has declared that it recognizes a pro-government publisher as the chairman of this organization. This publisher receives a total amount of 15 000 USD in a form of advertising from the state institutions and has accepted grant of 50 000 USD from the government right before the electoral campaign for local government elections. Before the electoral campaign, Prime Minister Ilir Meta signed a grant of 450 000 USD for the newspapers backing the government, excluding from the grant the independent daily newspaper "Tema" and refusing to transfer the allocated sum to opposition newspaper "Rilindja Demokratike". All other newspapers received an amount which varied from 50 000 USD to 100 000 USD and are at present totally controlled by Prime Minister Ilir Meta. In such a conditions, the freedom of the press in Albania is at stake because the government has paralyzed both the non-governmental organizations and the independent press. INEQUALITY IN DISTRIBUTING GOVERNMENT SPONSORED ADVERTISING AND GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS The government is seeking to control the Albanian press by an unequal distribution of government sponsored advertisement. Five daily newspapers which heavily back the government publish 7 to 10 pages of advertisement per issue at a time when their circulation is low. "24 Ore" newspaper, a paper owned by the Spokesman of the Prime Minister has normally 10 to 9 pages of advertising when its circulation in the market is 1000 copies. "Tema", an independent newspaper, is a middle size newspaper compared to other newspapers but has no advertisement on its pages because of the government policy not to assist the press which is not under its control. "Rlindja Demokratike" and "55", papers which, are not under government control have a minimal space of advertising. Based on calculations that can be verified every day, the pro-government newspapers receive 20-30 thousand USD a month in a form of advertisement, whereas the newspapers that do not back the government do not receive a single dollar from government sponsored advertisements. This includes notices to tenders, advertisements of state businesses and official announcements. On the other hand, this policy of advertisement distribution threatens the right of citizens to have access to information, because many readers read only non-government newspapers. The same phenomenon is seen in electronic media as well. CONCLUSIONS: The problems that the Albanian press is experiencing after elections held on October 1st are widely seen as part of a retaliation spirit of the government against those who have criticized the electoral process and in general take a critical stand towards the government. Prime Minister Meta and his family are increasingly generating conflict with the press and the politics in general. Their vocabulary is extremely aggressive and is often a source of tension in the country. The journalists are questioning their attempts to take under their control the whole financial activity of the government, the Socialist Party and most recently to control the independent press thus manifesting in a dangerous way the tendencies of a government which, instead of building a law based society, are making a society which is based on the arbitrary use of force, unverified finances and criminal groups. 1. Mero Baze Editor in Chief, "Tema" newspaper 2. Fahri Balliu Director, "55" daily newspaper 3. Agron Bala Director, "Kontakt" Radio 4. Astrit Patozi Editor in Chief of "Rilindja Demokratike" 5. Sokol Olldashi Editor in Chief, ATN1 TV 6. Gezim Ismaili Director, Shijak TV 7. Neritan Alibali Director, "Republika" daily Tirana, November, 6, 2000 Contact: tema at albaniaonline.net, gazetard at albaniaonline.net Fax: 00 355 42 303 29, 00 355 42 51 073 Tel: 00 355 42 320 90, 00 355 4 251 069 From i_spaho at hotmail.com Mon Nov 6 14:01:59 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:01:59 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] News from the Immigration and Refugee Services of America, November 6, 2000 Message-ID: > >News from the Immigration and Refugee Services of America >November 6, 2000 > >================================== >INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS EXAMINES THE HORROR STORIES >OF THOSE CAUGHT UP IN OUR COMPLEX WEB OF IMMIGRATION >LAWS AND AGENCIES: AMERICAN DREAM, AMERICAN NIGHTMARE > >[This program will be aired on A&E on Friday, November 10 at 10PM. >The program has been a year in the making. It should be very >interesting.] > >NEW YORK, NY, November 2, 2000 -- The United States is often called >a "nation of immigrants." Unfortunately, as a result of recent reforms >to our country's immigration laws, some have charged that thousands of >permanent and legal U.S. residents are being unfairly targeted by the >Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), destroying families and >lives in the process. > >Host Bill Kurtis and an Investigative Reports team spent a year looking >into the heart-wrenching stories of those caught up in the inconsistencies >and technicalities of a system where there is little recourse or room >for appeal. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS: AMERICAN DREAM, AMERICAN NIGHTMARE >makes its A&E World Premiere on Friday, November 10 on 10-11pm ET/PT >(The program was previously scheduled to air on November 9) > >Since Congress passed a series of immigration reforms in 1996, some >feel that the INS has been too aggressive in their pursuit of immigrants >who fall under the wide net cast by laws that many feel are overly harsh, >and, at times, exceptionally inhumane. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS puts a >human face on the tragedies that have followed by presenting dramatic >profiles of four immigrants, all of whom are permanent legal residents, >who have been caught in a web of technicalities, and some charge, an >indifferent and inflexible bureaucracy. They are people who are waiting >to be deported because the U.S. government says they are no longer welcome >in their adopted country. > >* Frank Audia is a Youth Minister in Corydon, Indiana (on the outskirts of >Louisville). As a child, he was brought to the U.S. by his mother who was >fleeing war-torn El Salvador. While attending Bible College in Minnesota >four years ago, he mistakenly voted in a local election, only to discover >later, while trying to become a U.S. citizen that only citizens had the >right to vote. The I.N.S. promptly informed him he would not be allowed >to become a citizen and that he was also being kicked out of the country. > >* Joao Herbert was adopted from a Brazilian orphanage more than a decade >ago by an American family outside of Akron, Ohio. After being convicted >of selling marijuana, the federal government decreed that he must be >deported, despite the fact that he was not sentenced and has begun to >turn his life around. Today, Herbert sits in jail, waiting to be deported >back to Brazil -- a country where he no longer has any friends or family. >Furthermore, he will never again be allowed to return to the U.S. to visit >his adoptive parents. > >* Convicted of shoplifting several years ago, the INS informed Rick >Thongdara that he would be deported back to his birth country of Laos. >However, since Laos does not accept INS deportees, Thongdara languished in >jail for more than a year, while he waited to be sent back to a country he >left as a child. When eventually deported, he will also leave behind an >8-year-old daughter. > >* Ybernia Gomez had one brush with the law, and that was 15 years ago when >she was arrested for having two pain pills and two penicillin pills, which >had been given to her by a friend for a toothache. Now, this hard-working >grandmother has learned that this one incident is enough for the U.S. to >consider her a "criminal alien." She has received a deportation order to >the Dominican Republic, a place from which she legally immigrated almost >20 years ago. > >AMERICAN DREAM, AMERICAN NIGHTMARE also spotlights Congress's lack of >action to change the immigration laws that have placed the INS in the >precarious position of enforcing what many feel are poorly drafted >regulations -- and then shows the grim aftermath suffered by those at odds >with the law. Officially, the U.S. is a country which beckons to >immigrants with open arms. Unofficially, however, some of those who want >to call America home are being subjected to worse treatment than they >experienced in their native lands. > >--------------------------------------------- >To learn more about IRSA, visit our website at: >http://www.refugeesusa.org >================================== >The Immigration and Refugee Services of America is a nonprofit, >humanitarian organization that acts to defend human rights, build >communities, foster education, promote self-sufficiency, and forge >partnerships through an array of programs. > >Support us today! >http://www.refugeesusa.org/how_help/how_help.cfm > >--- >You are currently subscribed to irsa-list as: [I_spaho at hotmail.com] >To unsubscribe, forward this message to >leave-irsa-list-395622P at lists.client-mail.com _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From deti at ont.com Mon Nov 6 19:29:15 2000 From: deti at ont.com (etel) Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:29:15 -0600 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] A happy ending. Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20001106182915.006d11c8@mail.ont.com> E lexova me shume vemendje artikullin e "News from the Immigration and Refugee Services of America", dhe me beri te mendoja. Sot isha ne zyren e imigracionit ne Dallas, Texas, ku po perktheja per nje refugjat nga kosova i cili kerkonte azil politik. Ndersa po perktheja deshmine qe ai paraqiti duke iu pergjigjur pyetjeve te avokates se tij mbrojtese, po mendoja per ato qe ai dhe familja e vet kishin kaluar gjate muajve te luftes ne Kosove. Ky ishte nje djale 19-vjecar qe kishte mberritur ne New York dy vjet me pare me nje pashaporte fallco. Tek u ul ne karrigen e deshmimtarit dhe fliste mund te dalloje shume qarte ankthin ne fytyre e ne zerin e ndrojtur. Avokatja mbrojtese, nje avokate me zyrat bamirese katolike, u mundua te nxirrte me ane te deshmise se tij, se perse ishte e pasigurt qe ai te kthehej ne Kosove. Deshmia e tij, disa fotografi qe ai paraqiti te familjes se tij qe jetonte ne nje cader, dhe te disa te njohurve te tij qe ishin vrare nga forcat serbe, deshmia e nje zonje amerikane e cila, bashke me organizaten e saj bamirese kishte udhetuar ne Kosove gjate muajve te luftes, tregonte qarte perse ishte e rrezikshme per kete djale te kthehej ne Kosove. Megjithate, avokatja qe perfaqesonte qeverine ne anen tjeter, shfaqi mosbesim gjate gjithe deshmise. Me nje ton mosbesues, ajo u mundua te tregonte se e gjithe kjo kerkese ishte nje kerkese pa baze. Me erdhi me te vertete shume keq, kur mbasi ceshtja perfundoi, dhe gjykati i dha azil politik, ajo me tha :"Many of these people have suffered, it's not just Albanians, plus the NATO forces are there. I am not saying that the situation is perfect, but what more can WE do? I dont feel good about sending this guy back, but come on...the war is over. WE can't have everybody here. But, unfortunately the judges believe cases like this." Kjo zonja ka nje pozite me se te rehatshme ne zyren e imigracionit, asnje se ka kercenuar apo i ka djegur shtepine. Ajo ngrihet cdo dite ne mengjes pa friken se nuk do te shohe me pjestaret e familjes. Ndersa ky djale vetem kerkonte ndihme per tu strehuar ne "atdheun e imigranteve", per te filluar nje pune, e per te vazhduar shkollen. Ndersa gjykatesi dha vendimin, avokatja mbrojtese nuk i permbajti lotet, ndersa Armendi( djali kosovar)vetem buzeqeshi ndrojtshem ndersa une po i perktheja vendimin e gjykatesit. Edhe une buzeqesha...,u ndjeva e cliruar. Ndersa po largohesha, nje e aferme e tij, u afrua dhe me nje shprehje mirenjohje ne fytyre me tha:"Faleminderit shume!" I pashe te largoheshin nga gjykata te cliruar, te lumtur, dhe me vete mendova: "Yeah, Ms.Cynic attorney, I am happy you were not the one to make the decision today!" Etel H. From aalibali at yahoo.com Tue Nov 7 09:47:27 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 06:47:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Press: Kathimerini, 7/11/2000 Message-ID: <20001107144727.1509.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> Kathimerini A harsher migrant bill Articles on immigrants' rights dropped, draft law offers no second chance A new bill on immigration expected to be tabled in Parliament during the next few days will render it much harder for immigrants and foreign workers to enter Greece, while allowing no second opportunity for the estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants who live in the country and failed to enter the tortuous legalization process begun two years ago. The bill was originally presented to the press last December by Interior Minister Vasso Papandreou, but it has since shed a number of articles intended to secure the rights of Greece's estimated 800,000 economic immigrants. "Foreign nationals who are legally domiciled in Greece are treated in a similar way to locals in matters concerning their access to vocational training, trade unionism and the right to form cooperatives," one of the articles that were removed read, while another noted: "Discrimination on grounds of racial or national descent, nationality or religion is forbidden." Furthermore, the final text does not contain an article allowing the children of immigrants or refugees living in Greece to attend Greek state schools even if their parents' legal status has not been settled. And under the revised bill, state hospitals are obliged to notify local police authorities when they treat illegal immigrants. The new text makes no reference to about half a million people - according to government figures - who did not take advantage of two presidential decrees that allowed illegal immigrants to acquire legal status and be issued with green residence and work cards. Original proposals for a second effort to legalize these immigrants are understood to enjoy the support of Papandreou, as well as Public Order Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and Labor Minister Tassos Yiannitsis. The current text also sets out strict preconditions for the legal entry and sojourn in Greece of new immigrants, and makes it even tougher for foreign workers to enter the country for seasonal employment. Prospective seasonal workers will have to secure a work permit from the prefect of the area they have found employment in, an entry permit from the nearest Greek consular authorities and a residence permit from the regional governor. 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To report abuse of this service: abuse-taf at mailbits.com From mshkurti at babson.edu Tue Nov 7 11:43:02 2000 From: mshkurti at babson.edu (Marinela Shkurti - Undergraduate Student) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:43:02 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] PROPOZIM Message-ID: <3A07F529@webmail.babson.edu> C'po ndodh keshtu? Mendova se kete propozimin e irmes do ta perkrahnin shume, Ne fakt DUHET ta perkrahim ....gjithe keto studente shqiptare ketu ne New England dhe deri tani shume shume pak aktivitete jane organizuar. Kryesia une edhe pse nuk jam anetare jam gati per pune vullnetare... Marinela P.S. Eriola jam ketu, jam ketu te kjo lulja e mbyllur:)))) >===== Original Message From "irma spaho" ===== > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - > >Pershendetje liste! > >Meqe u be nje kohe e gjate qe s'eshte organizuar ndonje aktivitet dhe shume >studente me te drejte pyesin nese Albsa merr fryme akoma apo eshte reduktuar >thjesht ne nje mailing list, mendova te hedh nje ide per nje aktivitet qe >mund te organizohet me shume me perkushtimin tone sesa me te holla. > >Fillimisht mund te organizojme ne shkollat ku ka me shume studente >shqiptare, BU, BC, Northeastern, panaire te vogla me informacion per gjuhen, >kulturen, historine, figurat shqiptare me te shquara boterisht duke filluar >nga perandoret romake deri tek Ferid Murat e viagra, e me vone mbase >arrijme te marrim vetem per pak ore hollin e bibliotekes publike ne Copley >Square, vetem se per kete te fundit do kishim nevojen e mbeshtetjes se >komunitetit shqiptar, kishes dhe "Frosines" dhe do donte shume me teper >perkushtim e kohe. > >Nuk do kete asgje pompoze. Thjesht disa stenda me gatime shqiptare (kete >barre jua heq une nga kurrizi, mund ta perballoj edhe vetem); artizanat, >informacion kulturor e historik, mbase nje broshure shume te thjeshte me >informacion te permbledhur per Shqiperine (dhe per kete kam nje punim qe kam >bere javen e fundit per te terhequr turiste dhe investitore ne Shqiperi te >titulluar "Albania, dhe land of sun and hospitality, the home of a powerful >spirit and a beautiful nature", te cilin mund ta shkurtoj dhe e bejme ne >shume kopje. Pastaj, ne te gjithe e njohim historine dhe kulturen e vendit >tone dhe mund t'i bilbilosim atyre qe do kene nderin te na pyesin. Terbohem >kur me afrohen njerez qe kur ju them se jam shqiptare, ma kthejne rusisht, >ose qe me shikojne si te shtangur kur i them se Nene Tereza ishte shqiptare. >Pa shkuar me tej tek Aleksandri i Madh e figura te tjera. > >Mund te shperndajme dhe adresa interneti te faqeve me fotografi te >mrekullueshme nga Shqiperia si ajo e Ardit (Kanines - besoj se ti Ardi na e >jep lejen, apo jo), luajme muzike popullore shqiptareetc. >Une kam shume fotografi nga Shqiperia, biles mund te siguroj dhe foto te >vjetra te periudhes se komunizmit dhe posters me pamje te mrekullueshme nga >Tirana, Berati dhe Apollonia. Gjithashtu kam nje flamur te madh, nje album >shume te vjeter arkeologjik dhe ca vogelsira arti nga Shqiperia. Po te >kontribuojme te gjithe, besoj se do kemi nje koleksion te kenaqshem. > >Keto jane vetem disa ide, te cilat mund t'i hidhni poshte ose t'i plotesoni >me ide te tjera. Une afrova ato qe mund te bej une, si nje individ. Nqs >arrijme te behemi nje grup dhe arrijme te terheqim disa studente te >institucioneve qe permenda me siper, nuk ka asgje te pamundshme dhe te >veshtire per ta realizuar kete ndermarrje. Mbase e shtrijme dhe ne shkolla >te tjera. Nuk besoj te jete problem per te marre nje pjese salloni para >mencave (si p.sh ne GSU, meqe e njoh me mire BU-ne), ose ne katin e pare te >shkollave, para bibliotekave ose kafeterive. >Pastaj, duke qene se shume studente (shqiptare) punojne ne radio, mbase na >ndihmojne t'i bejme pak reklame. Une mund edhe te siguroj dike qe te >shkruaje per Boston Globe. >Hajde pra, te levizim dhe bejme dicka. Plane me te shtrira dhe me te >komplikuara (nga ato me safety issues i leme per kur te mbushe kryesia >moshen madhore, ose, Eriola/Iris, po qe se njihni ndonje klub qe pranojne >nen 21 vjec, i mbledhim atje te gjithe studentet shqiptare, thjesht per t'u >krijuar mundesi te njihen me njeri tjetrin. Keshtu s'keni pse shqetesoheni >per trazira ose zenka, se cdo klub i ka marre masat per raste te tilla). > >Perzemersisht, >Irma > >_________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > >Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at >http://profiles.msn.com. > >_______________________________________________________ >ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info **************************************************************************************************************************** "There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself." HERMANN HESSE From kaci at fas.harvard.edu Tue Nov 7 20:10:35 2000 From: kaci at fas.harvard.edu (Liljana Kaci) Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 17:10:35 -0800 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] PROPOZIM References: Message-ID: <3A08A80B.C971154A@fas.harvard.edu> Ideja e irmes me duket e shkelqyer. Une jam gati te perkrah nje aktivitet te atille dhe shpresoj qe shume te tjere do te bashkepunojne. --Liljana irma spaho wrote: > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - > > Pershendetje liste! > > Meqe u be nje kohe e gjate qe s'eshte organizuar ndonje aktivitet dhe shume > studente me te drejte pyesin nese Albsa merr fryme akoma apo eshte reduktuar > thjesht ne nje mailing list, mendova te hedh nje ide per nje aktivitet qe > mund te organizohet me shume me perkushtimin tone sesa me te holla. > > Fillimisht mund te organizojme ne shkollat ku ka me shume studente > shqiptare, BU, BC, Northeastern, panaire te vogla me informacion per gjuhen, > kulturen, historine, figurat shqiptare me te shquara boterisht duke filluar > nga perandoret romake deri tek Ferid Murat e viagra, e me vone mbase > arrijme te marrim vetem per pak ore hollin e bibliotekes publike ne Copley > Square, vetem se per kete te fundit do kishim nevojen e mbeshtetjes se > komunitetit shqiptar, kishes dhe "Frosines" dhe do donte shume me teper > perkushtim e kohe. > > Nuk do kete asgje pompoze. Thjesht disa stenda me gatime shqiptare (kete > barre jua heq une nga kurrizi, mund ta perballoj edhe vetem); artizanat, > informacion kulturor e historik, mbase nje broshure shume te thjeshte me > informacion te permbledhur per Shqiperine (dhe per kete kam nje punim qe kam > bere javen e fundit per te terhequr turiste dhe investitore ne Shqiperi te > titulluar "Albania, dhe land of sun and hospitality, the home of a powerful > spirit and a beautiful nature", te cilin mund ta shkurtoj dhe e bejme ne > shume kopje. Pastaj, ne te gjithe e njohim historine dhe kulturen e vendit > tone dhe mund t'i bilbilosim atyre qe do kene nderin te na pyesin. Terbohem > kur me afrohen njerez qe kur ju them se jam shqiptare, ma kthejne rusisht, > ose qe me shikojne si te shtangur kur i them se Nene Tereza ishte shqiptare. > Pa shkuar me tej tek Aleksandri i Madh e figura te tjera. > > Mund te shperndajme dhe adresa interneti te faqeve me fotografi te > mrekullueshme nga Shqiperia si ajo e Ardit (Kanines - besoj se ti Ardi na e > jep lejen, apo jo), luajme muzike popullore shqiptareetc. > Une kam shume fotografi nga Shqiperia, biles mund te siguroj dhe foto te > vjetra te periudhes se komunizmit dhe posters me pamje te mrekullueshme nga > Tirana, Berati dhe Apollonia. Gjithashtu kam nje flamur te madh, nje album > shume te vjeter arkeologjik dhe ca vogelsira arti nga Shqiperia. Po te > kontribuojme te gjithe, besoj se do kemi nje koleksion te kenaqshem. > > Keto jane vetem disa ide, te cilat mund t'i hidhni poshte ose t'i plotesoni > me ide te tjera. Une afrova ato qe mund te bej une, si nje individ. Nqs > arrijme te behemi nje grup dhe arrijme te terheqim disa studente te > institucioneve qe permenda me siper, nuk ka asgje te pamundshme dhe te > veshtire per ta realizuar kete ndermarrje. Mbase e shtrijme dhe ne shkolla > te tjera. Nuk besoj te jete problem per te marre nje pjese salloni para > mencave (si p.sh ne GSU, meqe e njoh me mire BU-ne), ose ne katin e pare te > shkollave, para bibliotekave ose kafeterive. > Pastaj, duke qene se shume studente (shqiptare) punojne ne radio, mbase na > ndihmojne t'i bejme pak reklame. Une mund edhe te siguroj dike qe te > shkruaje per Boston Globe. > Hajde pra, te levizim dhe bejme dicka. Plane me te shtrira dhe me te > komplikuara (nga ato me safety issues i leme per kur te mbushe kryesia > moshen madhore, ose, Eriola/Iris, po qe se njihni ndonje klub qe pranojne > nen 21 vjec, i mbledhim atje te gjithe studentet shqiptare, thjesht per t'u > krijuar mundesi te njihen me njeri tjetrin. Keshtu s'keni pse shqetesoheni > per trazira ose zenka, se cdo klub i ka marre masat per raste te tilla). > > Perzemersisht, > Irma > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > _______________________________________________________ > ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com > http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info -- MZP From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Tue Nov 7 17:12:58 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:12:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] PROPOZIM In-Reply-To: <3A07F529@webmail.babson.edu> Message-ID: lol marinela. ne fakt kam qene pak e zene keto kohe me ceshtje shkollore, kshuqe nuk kam pasur shume kohe te mendoj per pune organizimesh. Por, nq. keni ndonje plan atehere filloni vete organizimin dhe une do ju perkrah patjeter. Nuk eshte e thene qe ta marri inisiativen 'kryesia' :) ... neve mbeshtesim dhe perkrahim idete e popullit. :) kur te keni ndonje plan te takohemi ndonje fundjave, me thoni dhe mua. ikaaaaa eriola. On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Marinela Shkurti - Undergraduate Student wrote: > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - > > C'po ndodh keshtu? Mendova se kete propozimin e irmes do ta perkrahnin shume, > Ne fakt DUHET ta perkrahim ....gjithe keto studente shqiptare ketu ne New > England dhe deri tani shume shume pak aktivitete jane organizuar. > > Kryesia une edhe pse nuk jam anetare jam gati per pune vullnetare... > > Marinela > > P.S. > Eriola jam ketu, jam ketu te kjo lulja e mbyllur:)))) > > > > > >===== Original Message From "irma spaho" ===== > > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - > > > >Pershendetje liste! > > > >Meqe u be nje kohe e gjate qe s'eshte organizuar ndonje aktivitet dhe shume > >studente me te drejte pyesin nese Albsa merr fryme akoma apo eshte reduktuar > >thjesht ne nje mailing list, mendova te hedh nje ide per nje aktivitet qe > >mund te organizohet me shume me perkushtimin tone sesa me te holla. > > > >Fillimisht mund te organizojme ne shkollat ku ka me shume studente > >shqiptare, BU, BC, Northeastern, panaire te vogla me informacion per gjuhen, > >kulturen, historine, figurat shqiptare me te shquara boterisht duke filluar > >nga perandoret romake deri tek Ferid Murat e viagra, e me vone mbase > >arrijme te marrim vetem per pak ore hollin e bibliotekes publike ne Copley > >Square, vetem se per kete te fundit do kishim nevojen e mbeshtetjes se > >komunitetit shqiptar, kishes dhe "Frosines" dhe do donte shume me teper > >perkushtim e kohe. > > > >Nuk do kete asgje pompoze. Thjesht disa stenda me gatime shqiptare (kete > >barre jua heq une nga kurrizi, mund ta perballoj edhe vetem); artizanat, > >informacion kulturor e historik, mbase nje broshure shume te thjeshte me > >informacion te permbledhur per Shqiperine (dhe per kete kam nje punim qe kam > >bere javen e fundit per te terhequr turiste dhe investitore ne Shqiperi te > >titulluar "Albania, dhe land of sun and hospitality, the home of a powerful > >spirit and a beautiful nature", te cilin mund ta shkurtoj dhe e bejme ne > >shume kopje. Pastaj, ne te gjithe e njohim historine dhe kulturen e vendit > >tone dhe mund t'i bilbilosim atyre qe do kene nderin te na pyesin. Terbohem > >kur me afrohen njerez qe kur ju them se jam shqiptare, ma kthejne rusisht, > >ose qe me shikojne si te shtangur kur i them se Nene Tereza ishte shqiptare. > >Pa shkuar me tej tek Aleksandri i Madh e figura te tjera. > > > >Mund te shperndajme dhe adresa interneti te faqeve me fotografi te > >mrekullueshme nga Shqiperia si ajo e Ardit (Kanines - besoj se ti Ardi na e > >jep lejen, apo jo), luajme muzike popullore shqiptareetc. > >Une kam shume fotografi nga Shqiperia, biles mund te siguroj dhe foto te > >vjetra te periudhes se komunizmit dhe posters me pamje te mrekullueshme nga > >Tirana, Berati dhe Apollonia. Gjithashtu kam nje flamur te madh, nje album > >shume te vjeter arkeologjik dhe ca vogelsira arti nga Shqiperia. Po te > >kontribuojme te gjithe, besoj se do kemi nje koleksion te kenaqshem. > > > >Keto jane vetem disa ide, te cilat mund t'i hidhni poshte ose t'i plotesoni > >me ide te tjera. Une afrova ato qe mund te bej une, si nje individ. Nqs > >arrijme te behemi nje grup dhe arrijme te terheqim disa studente te > >institucioneve qe permenda me siper, nuk ka asgje te pamundshme dhe te > >veshtire per ta realizuar kete ndermarrje. Mbase e shtrijme dhe ne shkolla > >te tjera. Nuk besoj te jete problem per te marre nje pjese salloni para > >mencave (si p.sh ne GSU, meqe e njoh me mire BU-ne), ose ne katin e pare te > >shkollave, para bibliotekave ose kafeterive. > >Pastaj, duke qene se shume studente (shqiptare) punojne ne radio, mbase na > >ndihmojne t'i bejme pak reklame. Une mund edhe te siguroj dike qe te > >shkruaje per Boston Globe. > >Hajde pra, te levizim dhe bejme dicka. Plane me te shtrira dhe me te > >komplikuara (nga ato me safety issues i leme per kur te mbushe kryesia > >moshen madhore, ose, Eriola/Iris, po qe se njihni ndonje klub qe pranojne > >nen 21 vjec, i mbledhim atje te gjithe studentet shqiptare, thjesht per t'u > >krijuar mundesi te njihen me njeri tjetrin. Keshtu s'keni pse shqetesoheni > >per trazira ose zenka, se cdo klub i ka marre masat per raste te tilla). > > > >Perzemersisht, > >Irma > > > >_________________________________________________________________________ > >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > > >Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > >http://profiles.msn.com. > > > >_______________________________________________________ > >ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com > >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info > > **************************************************************************************************************************** > > > "There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself." > > HERMANN HESSE > > _______________________________________________________ > ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com > http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info > From iliri at hotmail.com Wed Nov 8 10:51:18 2000 From: iliri at hotmail.com (F_L_I _R_I) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 10:51:18 EST Subject: [ALBSA-Info] beer Message-ID: Hi Albsa Kete e keni nga Niku:) Over 28 thousand tons of beers imported to Albania in past ten months of 2000 A great amount of locally produced and imported beer from the neighbouring countries is consumed in Albania. During the past ten months of 2000, some 28 512 tons of imported beer was cleared through the Albanian customs. According to the data of the General Customs' Department the amount of the imported beer during June-September is about 29 percent higher than the same period last year. During October, about 3 thousand tons of imported beer has entered Albania mostly through the customs points of Kakavija and Vlora. Along with the imported beers, a considerable place takes the locally produced beer in Albania. According to specialists, with the completion of the process of privatization of the factory Birra Malto in Tirana, which was bought by the Italian Company "Peroni" with 6.5 million dollars, it is expected that the locally produced beer will take a greater share of the Albanian market. According to official statistics, Greece, Holland and Italy occupy the main place in the imported beer in Albania. About 64 percent of the total import of beer comes from Greece, 16 percent from Holland and 15 percent from Italy. << message3.txt >> _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed Nov 8 14:28:22 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:28:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Press: Canberra Times, 08/11/2000 Message-ID: <20001108192822.23280.qmail@web111.yahoomail.com> The Canberra Times November 8, 2000, Wednesday SECTION: A;3 War stories RODERICK BAILEY, historian at the University of Edinburgh, is writing a book about British commando operations in Albania during World War II and is seeking our help. 'I would like to hear from any of your readers who may be able to provide personal experiences in Albania of Allied personnel, of all ranks and whether staff or operational,' he says. 'I'd be especially interested to hear from former servicemen who served in that country or flew RAF special operations flights or otherwise had experience of Albania in 1943-45.' We will happily pass any messages on. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From albania at netzero.net Thu Nov 9 08:06:41 2000 From: albania at netzero.net (Nikoll A Mirakaj) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:06:41 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Albania Ready To Establish Links With Belgrade Message-ID: <002501c04a4d$e84447a0$fe53f6d1@albania> Albania Ready To Establish Links With Belgrade TIRANA, Nov 9, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Albania said Wednesday it wanted to re-establish contacts with Belgrade to reinforce regional stability and cooperation, despite openly supporting Kosovo's independence from Yugoslavia. "The Albanian government wishes to establish contacts with Belgrade to reinforce regional cooperation and resolve outstanding issues between countries in the region," said the Albanian foreign ministry. "These contacts would by very useful for the stability, security and peace in southeast Europe," the foreign ministry added. This is the first time Tirana has declared itself in favor of renewing relations with Belgrade, after they broke down a few years ago over the fate of ethnic-Albanians living in Kosovo. During a speech at a Balkan summit last month, Albanian President Rexhep Meidani referred to elections in Kosovo as "a vital milestone on Kosovo's path to self-government and self-determination," adding that he looked to a future in which Kosovo would be "a new sovereign entity in southeast Europe." A UN Security Council resolution has given the province substantial autonomy but has kept it within Yugoslav boundaries, a ruling that Yugoslavia's new president Vojislav Kostunica firmly points to when questioned over Kosovo's future. Albania's comments come a few days after Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic expressed a desire to "establish the best possible contacts" with Tirana. "If we want Serbs still living in Kosovo to remain there, and encourage others to return, we have to find in Albania partners to resolve this problem," the foreign minister said. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse) -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From albania at netzero.net Thu Nov 9 08:07:52 2000 From: albania at netzero.net (Nikoll A Mirakaj) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:07:52 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Albanian Prime Minister Reshuffles Cabinet Message-ID: <003201c04a4e$12c9e660$fe53f6d1@albania> Albanian Prime Minister Reshuffles Cabinet TIRANA, Nov 9, 2000 -- (Reuters) Albanian Prime Minister Ilir Meta announced a minor cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday in a bid to strengthen his Socialist-led coalition before next spring's general election. The reshuffle is the third since Meta, at 31 Europe's youngest Prime Minister, took office last October. Public Works Minister Ilir Zela was sacked and will be replaced by Public Order Minister Spartak Poci. The new public order minister will be Ilir Gjoni, who was defense minister until now, and Gjoni will be replaced by Ismail Lleshi. "The Prime Minister took this decision to increase the efficiency of the government's work in important sectors," a government spokesman told Reuters. Meta's Socialists were the main winners of local elections in October, Albania's first electoral test since 1997 when the Democrats of former President Sali Berisha were ousted after a popular revolt caused by the collapse of fraudulent pyramid investment schemes. (C)2000 Copyright Reuters Limited. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From kbejko at hotmail.com Thu Nov 9 14:27:10 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 19:27:10 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] US coping with Albanian style feelings Message-ID: *contested elections, alleged fraud..does this ring a bell? What is interesting about this article is how the Americans propose to solve the dispute. It shows a clear gap between the mindset of Albanians and Americans (westerners)* Will America accept the winner? A hyper-close election result, dogged by dispute, could harm the president?s legitimacy. By Peter Grier Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON The most important question arising from the extraordinary presidential election of 2000 may not be who won, but whether the nation will accept that the eventual winner was fairly chosen. A president pursued by doubts about his legitimacy would be hobbled in dealings with Congress, foreign governments, and even (perhaps especially) the press. If the situation festers, it could undermine one of America?s proudest boasts: that it is a nation of orderly laws, not capricious men. Yet it now appears an election in which 100 million votes were cast could be decided by about a condo?s-worth of Floridians. In such a situation, opportunities for missteps by both Al Gore and George W. Bush and their followers abound. The manner in which Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush handle the situation over the next several days could be critical. "This is a once-in-a-century cluster of events that pose an extraordinary challenge to our political class and our political leaders: to manage a situation that has a potential to do serious damage to ... our constitutional system," says Thomas Mann, a government-studies scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington. The last time America faced such an uncertain outcome in its presidential race, in 1960, Richard Nixon conceded to John F. Kennedy and slipped gently into the night ? even though he was convinced that fraud had made the difference. Nixon lost to Kennedy by only 0.2 percent of the vote. Although Nixon was not a man known for giving political quarter, he quickly forswore any court challenge. In later years, he said he was both worried about the nation and his own image. It proved a shrewd move: a "sore loser" tag might have made his 1968 comeback victory impossible. For his part, JFK acknowledged the slimness of his margin by appointing Republicans as secretary of Defense and secretary of the Treasury. Such a show of bipartisanship might help soothe lingering bitterness from this year?s vote. If George W. Bush wins, for instance, "he might be smart to appoint some Democrats to the Cabinet," says Thomas Cronin, a presidential scholar and president of Whitman College in Walla, Walla, Wash. The electoral effect The relationship between the popular vote totals and the election?s possible outcome is one factor creating the current delicate situation. At time of writing it appeared possible that the candidate who received the most ballots will not be the one who sits in the Oval Office come January, thanks to the arcane US Electoral College system. Americans schooled on the virtues of majority rule might find this difficult to accept. The last time a similar situation occurred was in the election of 1888, in a far different political and cultural era. The disparity could increase pressure to adapt an 18th-century political mechanism to modern times. But the candidates ran their campaigns under the existing system, and to try to change the rules in retrospect would be grossly unfair. In any case, the positive aspects of the Electoral College still apply, note scholars. It forces candidates to try to appeal to a wide swath of the nation. If the election was determined by popular vote, there might now be recounts under way in 50 states, not one. "If we switched systems, I?m pretty sure people would quickly get nostalgic for the Electoral College," says Thomas Cronin. More problematic in coming days may be the situation in Florida. It is virtually without precedent in American history and has the potential to explode into a lasting controversy which colors the entire term of the nation?s next chief executive. At time of writing, the state?s recount was not yet complete. It might yet provide a definitive answer to the question of who won Florida?s decisive 25 electoral votes. Or the question might not be settled until next week, after the deadline for the arrival of absentee ballots from state residents currently out of the country. Palm Beach?s ballots Or it might not be settled even then. The fracas in Palm Beach County, where some voters, are complaining that poorly designed ballots caused them to vote for Pat Buchanan instead of Gore, could be the subject of legal challenges that hold the very outcome of the election in question. Mr. Buchanan, the Reform Party candidate, did do disproportionately well in Palm Beach, at least nominally a Democratic area. Privately, Democrats maintain that the ballots, marked with a misleading arrow, caused 2,000 voters to cast mistaken ballots ? more than enough to swing the presidency itself. The result might be that millions of Americans will believe Gore won Florida, but that Bush will be awarded Florida and thus the Oval Office. "Bush and Gore need to get together to figure out how to deal with this enormous feeling of injustice," says Paul Light, vice president and director of governmental studies at the Brookings Institution here. "There was a problem with the way that ballot was configured." Staff writers Gail Russell Chaddock and Abraham McLaughlin in Washington contributed to this report. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From kbejko at hotmail.com Fri Nov 10 10:21:55 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:21:55 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] COOL_ALBANIAN Heil to the Fathers Message-ID: Europe's 10 founding 'fathers' More than 95% of European men alive today are descended from 10 ancient "fathers", according to new genetic evidence. Scientists believe two of the 10 founding fathers migrated into Europe from the Near East before the end of the last ice age, some time between two million and 13 thousand years BC. The other male ancestors, who were probably early farmers, are likely to have arrived in Europe in the later part of the Stone Age, between seven thousand and three thousand years BC. The evidence comes from a new study of the male (Y) chromosome, which is passed from father to son. Geneticists are able to trace male ancestry back through history by studying tiny variations in the genetic sequence of the Y chromosome. An international research team studied genetic information from the Y chromosomes of 1,007 men from 25 communities across Europe and the Middle East. DNA clues An analysis of 22 small genetic markers revealed that nearly all of the men could be grouped into 10 different categories, each representing a different paternal lineage. The evidence suggests that nearly all European men living today can trace their genetic roots to these ten ancient "fathers". "Ten lineages account for more than 95% of the 1,007 European Y-chromosomes studied," the team write in the journal Science. "Geographic distribution and age estimates of alleles (alternative forms of a gene) are compatible with two Paleolithic and one Neolithic migratory episode that have contributed to the modern European gene pool." Ancient settlers The scientists, from eight European countries and the US, believe that two of the male ancestors arrived in separate waves of migration during the Paleolithic period (two million to 13 thousand years BC) from the Middle East and Asia. They probably formed different clans, isolated by glaciers and other geographical features until the last ice age ended. The other eight founding fathers probably arrived in one migration during the Neolithic period (seven thousand to three thousand years BC). By this time, humans had learned the technology for simple agriculture. This, together with the melting of the glaciers, enabled these early farmers to spread further afield. The new data adds to previous evidence that modern European populations arose from the merging of local Paleolithic groups and Neolithic farmers arriving from the Near East after the invention of agriculture. Similar studies of mitochondrial DNA, a scrap of genetic material that is passed from mother to child, have traced the maternal ancestry of modern European women back to seven female founders. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/3/_/_/_/973872600/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Cool_Albanian-unsubscribe at egroups.com From arenc at idt.net Fri Nov 10 14:54:48 2000 From: arenc at idt.net (Arenc Leka) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:54:48 -0800 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Concert Inva Mula & Friends Message-ID: Concert -- Inva Mula and Friends Nov 12. 2000 Information -- www.arencpro.com From kosova1 at hotmail.com Fri Nov 10 12:07:46 2000 From: kosova1 at hotmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?B?UUlLU0ggq0FsYmV1cm9wYbs=?=) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:07:46 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Artikull per pavarsine e Shqiperise Message-ID: -----Messaggio Originale----- Da: Albert Ramaj A: Data invio: venerd? 10 novembre 2000 17.00 Oggetto: [FES] Artikull per pavarsine eShqiperise T'nderuem Artikulline fjale u kane i parapam vitin e kalume per me botu me nji reviste, per 28 nandor, por nuk arritem ne kohe me perkthy Perkthyes asht Blerim Canaj. Pra ky artikull ende nuk asht i botuem kerkun dhe pasi po afrohet dita e 28 nandorit po e qes ne liste, ma mire me qite pak perpara se se sikur vjet. Me nderime Alberti _____________________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Karl Kaser, Graz Austrohungaria dhe pavar?sia e Shqip?ris? Kur m? 29 korrik 1913 u konfirmua formalisht suvereniteti i principat?s s? posaformuar t? Shqip?ris?, ishte ky nj? angazhim rreth 35 vjeqar i vendeve t? banuara me shqiptar? dhe shqiptare p?r t? ardhmen dhe nj? angazhim i till? paraprakisht u p?rfundua. Ky proces n? nj?r?n an? ishte i karakterizuar nga proceset sqaruese t? shoq?ris? s? brendshme shqiptare, por n? an?n tjet?r edhe nga konfliktet e interesave internacionale, n? t? cilin ishin t? involvuara shtetet Evropiane si: Anglia, Franca, Gjermania, Italia, Austro-hungaria, Rusia por edhe perandoria Osmane. P?r shkak t? orientimit t? ri t? tij t? politik?s s? jashtme n? drejtim t? Evrop?s lindore q? nga viti 1866 dhe p?r shkak t? gjendjes gjeopolitike - me okupimin e Bosn?s dhe Hercegovin?s, si dhe t? vendosjes s? ushtris? n? Sangjak n? Novi Pazar n? vitin 1878 gjeografikisht zonat e banimeve shqiptare i ishin ardhur mjaft af?r - Austro-Hungaria luante nj? rol mjaft t? r?nd?sish?m. Kjo b?n t? mendohet dhe do duhej t? shikohet mir? edhe roli t? cilin e luajti monarkia e Habsburg?ve rreth ??shtjes s? pavar?sis? s? Shqip?ris?. N? k?t? pikpamje 28 n?ntori i vitit 1912 sh?nohet si dat? e shpalljes s? pavar?sis? t? pushtetit provizor shqiptar, mesetap? e cila me siguri ?sht? m? e r?nd?sishmja. N? bisedimet internacionale t? cilat pasonin pastaj deri n? fund t? korrikut t? vitit 1913 duhej q? shteti i ri shqiptar? t? ishte i organizuar, konstrukcioni i brendsh?m politik i k?tij shteti duhej t? ishte prej nj? kohe t? shkurt?r; kufinj?t natyrisht t? shikuara nga nd?rprerje t? shkurt?ra-vlejn? edhe sot. 1) Situata kalimtare n? vitin 1878 Viti 1878 sh?non nj? hap m? tej drejt r?njes s? shpejt? t? perandoris? Osmane si fuqi n? Evrop?n Lindore, perandori e cila deri n? vitin 1918 mbushi mjaft etapa. Pas Serbis? dhe Malit t? Zi, t? cilat n? ver?n e vitit 1876 Perandoris? i kishin shpallur luft?, n? prill t? vitit 1877 hyn? n? luft? edhe Rusia, e pak m? von? edhe Rumania. Trupat Ruse dep?rtuan thell? deri n? lagjet e periferis? s? Stambollit, ku n? fund t? janarit 1878 u vendos nj? arm?pushim, dhe pastaj n? mars pasoj nj? marr?veshje paraprake p?r paq? (marr?veshja e Sh?n Stefanit). Disa rregulla t? k?saj marr?veshje prek?n thell? dhe drejtp?rdrejt trojet shqiptare. P?rpos njohjes s? pavarsis? s? plot? shtetit rumun nga perandorija Osmane duhej t? lindte edhe nj? principat? autonome Bullgare, kufijt? e s? cil?s duhej t? shtriheshin nga deti i zi deri n? detin egje e n? per?ndim deri mbi liqenin e Ohrit, duke p?rfshir? p?rtej qytetit dhe territorit t? Kor??s. Mali i Zi do duhej t? zgjerohej n? d?m t? territoreve shqiptare, deri n? Liqenin e Shkodr?s. Kat?r vilajetet me popullat? m? t? madhe t? shqiptar?ve - Shkodra, Shkupi, Manastiri dhe Janina ishin t? prekura drejtp?rdrejt?. Kjo marr?veshje e cila nga ana ruse ishte arrir? me t? keq u vu n? veprim dylloj?sh: S? pari fuqit? e tjera t? m?dha, t? cilat n? ver?n e k?tij viti Rusin? e shtr?nguan p?rs?ri t? ulen n? tavolin?n e bisedimeve n? Berlin (Kongresi i Berlinit), dhe s? dyti formimi i rezistenc?s shqiptare kund?r implikacioneve territoriale t? paqes s? Sh?n Stefanit. Rezultatet m? t? r?nd?sishme q? u arrit?n n? kongresin e Berlinit ishin si vijon; u konfirmua pavarsia e plot? e Malit t? Zi, Serbis? dhe Rumanis?; shtrirja territoriale e principat?s autonome Bullgare natyrisht u rikthye prap; kat?r vilajetet shqiptare ishin mjaft shum? t? goditura nga nj? t?rheqje t? till? kufijsh. Populli shqiptar nuk ishte i p?rfaq?suar nga reprezentant?t e vet n? k?t? kongres; pjesmarr?sit e Kongresit shkonin pas nj? logjike sipas s? cil?s, popullit shqiptar nuk i ?sht? miratuar statusi i nacionalitetit t? vet. Sipas k?ndshikimit t? sotsh?m ky q?ndrim duket i paqart?; sipas nj? perspektive t? at?hershme ky vler?sim nuk ishte aq absurd. Duhet t? p?rkujtojm? se v?rtet brenda kufijve t? Perandoris? Osmane ekzistonte populli shqipfol?s - natyrisht me t? shkruarin dhe t? folurit e panormuar ende -, por q? n? k?t? moment, p?r nj? d?shir? t? shprehur p?r shtetin e pavarur Shqiptar, nuk mund t? b?hej ende fjal?. Kjo ishte e lidhur edhe me at? se sepse nj? pjes? e madhe e popullit shqiptar i p?rkisnin konfesionit islam. Sulltani Osman n? Stamboll nuk ishte vet?m sundimtari i tyre laik, por si kalif nj?koh?sisht ai ishte edhe udh?heq?si i tyre shpirt?ror. T? kapnin arm?t kund?r tij ishte me t? nj?jtin kuptim sikur katolik?t t? kapnin arm?t kund?r Pap?s n? Rom?. Si pasoj? e k?saj? gjat? shekullit -XIX- kishte nj? vrull t? kryengritjeve shqiptare kund?r disa pushteteve, por megjithat? jo kryengritje nacionale t? cilat e rrezikonin sundimin e Perandoris? Osmane. Popullata shqiptare deri n? k?t? moment ishin krejt?sisht lojal kundrejt Perandosis? Osmane. Nj? humbje t? par? ky q?ndrim lojal p?soj vet?m p?rmes marr?veshjes s? Sh?n Stefanit, p?rmes t? cilit, sipas k?ndshikimit shqiptar nxjerr n? pah q? perandoria si e till? nuk ishte n? gjendje q? trojet e shqiptar?ve t? i shp?tonte n? rast t? nd?rhyrjes s? shteteve kristiane fqinje. Ky ishte edhe shkas q? tri dit? para takimit t? Kongresit t? Berlinit (13 qershor 1878) m? 10 qershor?, 43 figura udh?heq?se shqiptare, (n? mesin e tyre edhe pes? t? besimit katolik) themeluan t? ashtuquajtur?n "Lidhja e Prizrenit". Si mas? e par? u mor vendimi q? t? formohet nj? ushtri e cila do t? pengonte ndonj? falje t? mundshme t? territorit t? tyre vendeve fqinje kristiane. N? fush?n e p?rfitimeve politike, ishte e qart? q? p?r nj? vendim shk?putjeje nga Perandoria Osmane nuk kishte arritur ende koha. N? statutet e dekretuara t? Lidhjes, m? 18 qershor u mor vendim q?:  T? k?rkohet nj? autonomi n? kufijt e Perandoris? Osmane. P?r k?t? q?llim duhej q? t? kat?r vilajetet t? bashkohen n? nj? nj?si autonome administrimi.  T? ndalohej ndarja e pjes?ve t? vendit Serbis?, Malit t? Zi dhe Greqis?.  Q? t? formohet nj? delegacion p?r Kongresin e Berlinit (?ka nuk u akceptua).  Q? t? mos d?rgohen regrut? n? ushtrin? Osmane, por t? formohet nj? ushtri shqiptare.  Nuk duhet t? i paguhet asnj? tatim Perandoris? Osmane. N? t? v?rtet? Lidhja e Prizrenit ushtarakisht nuk ishte e suksesshme - ata u shuan nga ushtria Osmane n? vitin 1881 - por ajo ngjalli t? par?n shkall? t? fort? t? nj? vale t? solidaritetit, e cila e shpejtonte mjaft nxitsh?m nj? vet?dije nacionale n? popullin shqiptar. Me k?t?, trojet shqiptare dal?ngadal? u b?n? nj? faktor i cili kryq?zonte interesat e politik?s internacionale, posaq?risht t? Austro-Hungaris?, Italis? dhe Rusis?, interesat e t? cil?ve kryq?zoheshin me problemin e shqiptar?ve. P?r t? thjesht?suar k?t?, interesat e k?tyre fuqive evropiane do t? mund t? p?rmblidhen si vojon: Rusia p?rpiqej q? t? ndihmonte t? zgjeronte territoret e vendeve fqinje sllave n? d?m t? territoreve shqiptare (dhe me k?t? t? n? m?nyr? indirekte t? zgjeronte edhe fuqin? e vet). Italia k?rkonte nj? zot?rim n? tokat shqiptare si kompenzim p?r at? q? Austro - Hungaria n? vitin 1878 i mori asaj? administrimin n? Bosnj? dhe Hercegovin?. Austro - Hungaria synonte pavarsin? e trojeve shqiptare edhe at? n? v?llim sa m? t? madh, n? m?nyr? q? t? mund t? ndalonte nj? ekspansion t? shteteve sllave t? ballkanit. 2) N? drejtim t? pavarsis? Italia dhe Austro - Hungaria ishin dy fuqi me ndikim, t? cilat gjithashtu edhe p?r shkak t? interesave t? tyre, nd?rhynin p?r nj? pavar?si t? trollit shqiptar t? cil?n e mendonin ta arrinin me ?fardo forme. ?sht? ve? e qart?, q? asnj?ra nga k?to dy shtete katolike nuk synonte p?r k?t? moment nj? kontroll? direkte mbi trojet shqiptare, sepse p?rmes k?saj do shtinin n? dor? nj? vend ku shumica e popullat?s i takonte besimit islam, e posaq?risht p?r Austro - Hungarin? ky duhej t? paraqiste nj? problem, p?r m? shum?, n? nd?rkoh? n? Bosnie - Hercegovin? kishte p?r t? zgjidhur nj? num?r t? madh t? problemeve t? m?dha n? mes t? zot?rinj?ve musliman dhe rrog?tar?ve katolik. N? vitin 1876 t? dy shtetet kishin vendosur p?r nj? veprim t? p?rbashk?t p?r sa i p?rkiste trojeve shqiptare, n? r?njen e fuqis? k?rc?nuese t? perandoris? Osmane n? Evrop?. Ato ishin t? pajtimit p?r emrimin e nj? autonomie ose statusit t? pavar?sis? p?r krahinat shqiptare, n? m?nyr? q? t? thyhej sundimi i Perandoris? Osmane n? Evrop?. Prej vitit 1882 e derin? vitin 1896 Italia dhe Austro - Hungaria q?ndruan n? nj? federat? t? p?rbashk?t diplomatike dhe ushtarake me Gjermanin? (e ashtuquajtura "Dreibund"(Federata tre) ). K?tyre dy shteteve p?r sa i p?rket Shqip?ris? kjo nuk u la hap?sir? p?r veprim. Por Italia n? vitin 1887 ia arriti - p?rderisa bisedohej p?r zgjatjen e Federat?s - t? sjell? k?rkes?n ndaj Austro - Hungaris? q? ajo, pra Italia, duhej q? n? Ballkan t? merrte kompenzim, poq?se do duhej q? status quo e at?hershme do t? nd?rronte n? t? mir? t? Austro - Hungaris?. Aty mund t? supozohej p?r pretendimet e turbullta t? Italis? ndaj trojeve shqiptare. Pas shp?rndarjes s? Federat?s ishin dy mund?si: ose t? vendosej nj? rivalitet i pafrenuar dhe i p?rforcuar n? mes t? k?tyre shteteve rreth tokave shqiptare ose ishte vendosur nj? marr?veshje e re. Marr? n? esenc? q? t? dyja ishin t? mundura. N? vitin 1897 n? Monza, nga p?faq?suesit e t? dy shteteve u mor vendim q? t? provohej q? aq sa t? ishte e mundur situata politike n? ballkan t? mbahej stabile. Por poq?se do t? vinte deri te nj? ndryshim i territorit at?her? t? dy shtetet kishin vendosur p?r nj? veprim t? p?rbashk?t. Kjo marr?veshje parimisht inkludonte me at? q? formalisht t? dy shtetet mbronin sundimin osman n? tokat shqiptare. Poq?se do t? ndryshonte situata, at?her? t? dy shtetet do t? p?rpiqeshin q? t? arrinin nj? marr?veshje sa i p?rket nj? statusi t? trollit t? shqiptar?ve; por kjo nuk p?rmbante pavar?sin? e Shqip?ris?. Por gjithashtu nj?koh?sisht u vendos nj? lloj konkurrence n? fushat e kultur?s n? zemrat dhe shpirt?rat e shqiptar?ve, mir?po ajo n? popullat?n katolike t? vendeve t? veriut ishte dhe duhej t? q?ndronte e kufizuar. Popullata katolike duhej t? paraqiste nj? lloj bilete hyr?se n? tokat shqiptare. N? k?t? pikpamje m?nyra e ngjarjeve nga t? dyja shtetet ishte e nj?jt?: Nd?rtimi dhe/ose financimi i shkollave; Ndikimi n? em?rimin e klerit katolik, nd?rtimi i kishave dhe dhurata t? tjera t? m?dha apo t? vogla t? cilat te popullata do t? kishin ndikim pozitiv. P?r ndryshim nga Italia, Austro - Hungaria mund t? tregohej - nga funksioni i saj? oficiel - si fuqi mbrojt?se e popullat?s katolike (i ashtuquajturi "Protektorat kulturor?"), k?shtu q? n? tokat shqiptare ndihmat financiare vjetore nuk ishin t? pakta. Marr? n? baz?, me k?t? politik? subvencionale veprohej me nj? koncept mjaft t? kufizuar t? politik?s s? jashtme gjegj?sisht (p?rkat?sisht) me nj? t?r?si instrumentesh e cila nuk mundte t? arrinte kurrfar? ndryshimesh vendos?se n? nj?r?n apo an?n tjet?r. Ishte tejet e qart? q? ndryshimet duhej patjet?r t? vinin nga jasht?. Nj? vlug kryengritjesh nga shqiptar?t gjat? vitit 1878 nuk e rrezikonin me t? v?rtet? sundimin Osman n? trojet shqiptare. M? s? shumti veprohej me revoltat lokale, me k?rkesat specifike ose kryengritje kund?r futjes s? tatimeve t? reja apo kund?r sundimit arbitrar t? disa funksionar?ve administrativ turq. N? vitin 1903 n? Mirdit? u k?rkua rikthimi i udh?heq?sit t? fisit Prenk Bib Doda i cili ishte d?buar pas shpartallimit t? Lidhjes s? Prizrenit. N? vitin 1909 / 1910 n? Kosov? pati prap kryengritje kund?r futjes s? tatimeve t? reja p?rkat?sisht kund?r regrutimeve. N? vitin e ardhsh?m pati nj? kryengritje t? madhe n? veri, m? n? fund p?r dor?zimin e nj? memorandumi nj? p?rfaq?suesi t? akredituar t? fuqive t? m?dha n? kryeqytetin e Malit t? Zi, ku k?rkohej njejt? sikur n? vitin 1878 dh?nja e t? drejtave t? autonomis? brenda Perandoris? Osmane por jo edhe pavar?sia; n? k?t? rast popullata muslimane q?ndruan t? p?rmbajtur. Edhe n? vitin 1912 n? veri u lind nj? situat? e njejt? ku prap u ngrit?n k?rkesat p?r autonomi. Shtytja e fundit n? drejtim t? nj? suvereniteti shtet?ror? erdhi nga jasht?. N? n?ntor t? vitit 1912 filloi lufta e par? Ballkanike; Nj? aleanc? e p?rb?r? nga Mali i Zi, Serbia, Greqia, dhe Bullgaria p?r nj? koh? t? shkurt?r gati t?r?sisht m?njanuan Perandorin? Osmane nga Evropa: Epiri, Maqedonia dhe Thrakia veriore ishin t? pushtuara nga konkurrenca e fuqive fitimtare. P?rmes k?saj? udh?heq?sit shqip?tar? u vendos?n n? nj? situat? t? r?nd?. Ose t? p?rfundonin s? bashku me Perandorin? Osmane ose t? ndaheshin nga ajo. Koha nuk priste ngase suksesivisht vendi ishte pushtuar nga aleat?t. N? jug trupat Greke marshuan n? Epirin verior, Serbia zaptoj Kosov?n, Maqedonin? veriore dhe Shqip?rin? e mesme, Mali i Zi Shkodr?n me rrethin?. Pas konsultimeve me ministrin e jasht?m t? Austro - Hungaris? Graf Berchtold, Ismajl Qemal Beu, i cili ishte nj? nd?r udh?heq?sit shqiptar n? emigrim, udh?toi p?r n? Durr?s, e prej atje p?r n? qytetin e madh t? fundit shqiptar i cili ende nuk ishte pushtuar nga trupat e vendeve fqinje, n? Vlor?. M? 28 N?ntor? 1912 nj? qeveri provizore e formuar shpejt shpalli pavarsin? e Shqip?ris?. K?shtu u b? hapi i par? n? pavarsi, m? shum? nga ngjarjet detyruese se sa nga d?shira. Krejt tjetra ishte ??shtje e bisedimeve t? ministrave t? akredituar t? fuqive t? m?dha n? Lond?r. P?rderisa erdhi deri te nj? grindje n? mes t? ish-partner?ve t? federat?s rreth ndarjes s? Maqedonis? dhe pasoj lufta e dyt? Ballkanike, n? Lond?r tashm? ishte biseduar p?r kufijt e Shqip?ris?. Nga t? gjith? partner?t e bisedimeve, Austro - Hungaria ishte ajo e cila u angazhua m? vendosm?risht p?r nj? zgjidhje sa m? bujare p?r Shqip?rin?. Rusia e cila i p?rkrahte shtetet sllave ishte kund?rshtari m? i madh n? k?t? drejtim. I v?shtir? b?hej problemi i Shkodr?s qytet i cili ishte i pushtuar nga trupat e Malit t? Zi, por n? k?t? problem Austro - Hungaria futi n? loj? t?r? r?nd?sin? e saj? dhe ia arriti t? relizonte q?llimin e saj?, pra q? Shkodra t? i mbetej Shqip?ris?. Por rreth problemit t? kufirit lindor Austro - Hungaria nuk mundi t? ia arrinte q?llimit, k?shtuq? e t?r? Kosova dhe Maqedonia per?ndimore iu dor?zua Serbis?. P?r kufirin kontestues jugor? me Greqin?, ujdia u arrit vet?m nj? vit m? von?. Pra Austro - Hungaria p?r interesa t? veta nd?rhynte p?r nj? Shqip?ri me nj? madh?si maksimale. Por partner?t e tjer? t? bisedimeve megjithat? nj? zgjidhje ideale e pan? vet?m me nj? minishtet shqiptar. P?rfundimi ishte nj? kompromis. Deri te kjo nuk do t? vinte sikur dikush t? mos kishte p?rkrahur maksimumin. Ky ishte roli t? cilin luajti Austro - Hungaria p?r historin? e shqip?ris?, por n? k?t? rast edhe p?r t? ardhmen e saj?. Perktheu nga gjermanishtja: Blerim Canaj _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/3/_/920292/_/973875951/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? 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Name: Image4.gif Type: image/gif Size: 39242 bytes Desc: not available URL: From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri Nov 10 21:28:35 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:28:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Press: Shekulli, 8/11/2000 Message-ID: <20001111022835.8820.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> [] An Albanian newspaper has said that Albania is now a protectorate of the international community but this state was not created by foreigners but by the country's own politicians. The paper said that it was time for both main parties to stop looking abroad for approval and to start looking to the public and each other. The following is the text of a commentary by Kleo Lati entitled "Is Albania a protectorate?", published by the Albanian newspaper 'Shekulli' on 8th November The Albanian press writes day in and day out about the future status of Kosovo and gives different opinions about what it should be, underlining that it is now being governed as a protectorate by Kfor [Kosovo Force] troops and the UN administration. But what is Albania's "status"? The question sounds incongruous, but it is not exactly so. For some years now there has existed in Albania an absurd reality, a reality that has nothing in common with the democratic society we claim to be. Our politicians (without excluding every individual of our society, either) are to blame for Albania being turned into a protectorate. We know from history that smaller and weaker countries have been protectorates of bigger and more powerful countries. If Albania is a protectorate, one must specify the state or country it depends on. The peculiarity of Albania's situation is that it is a protectorate not of this power or that, but of the entire international community. It is 10 years now since Albania found itself in this peculiar status, utterly unworthy of an independent country, but very convenient for those who have ruled or are ruling it. Albanian politicians are unable to make decisions according to their own judgment without previously soliciting foreigners for their opinion and, more often than not, do nothing without the "permission" of foreigners. This might have been justifiable in the first years of pluralism. At that time Albania and the Albanian politicians were leafing through the ABC-book of the dreamed of and still inexperienced democracy for the first time, and were in need of international support and assistance. This kind of protectorate - if we may give it that name - should not have circumscribed, much less, excluded the role of the Albanian political class in the management of the political, economic and cultural life of the country. However, the unexpected happened: even after 10 years have gone by, which means that the Albanian politicians have 10 years of experience, they continue to behave like little children. After the demise of communism, Albanian politics has a 10-year history, but instead of a positive experience, it has gone through major crises, scandals and failures. All this shows us the bitter truth that we lack a mature and responsible political class, which would proceed from the major interests of the advance of the country and the progress of democracy. Let us be reminded of the 1997 events, which forced the international community to send the ALBA mission to Albania to establish law and order and distribute humanitarian aid. The OSCE ambassador, Daan Everts, and the well-known Vranitsky, were in fact the political "arbiters" of the international community who ruled over Albania's amateurish and quarrelsome politics. Ambassador Everts had the last word on any political problem, big or small, and ruled on any problem or friction between the government and the opposition. Vranitsky's saying at his repeated press conferences in Tirana has remained proverbial: "I have been here several times, but I have not yet figured out who is the angel and who the devil!" Consider what is happening to this day: we have to wait for Ambassador Ahrens' last word over any problem, of major or trifling importance. Without his "signature" and "seal" (which are actually the signature and seal of an important part of the international community), our current rulers would not compliment themselves very much on the new Election Code. The pronouncements of the representatives of the international community carry great weight with the politicians of "protectorate" Albania, which, although it is not called this name by the civilized world, is treated as such by our politicians due to their ineptitude, subservience and provincialism. The party in power feels happy at the positive assessments of the current government on the part of the international politicians and bodies, seeing them as arguments in support of their political stands, without bothering much about what the opposition or part of public opinion says. The opposition does the same. It celebrates and uses for its boisterous propaganda any word coming from foreigners (be they individual personalities or international bodies) and criticizing the government for its blunders or expressing concern about various problems of the disturbed Albanian reality. This kind of vassalage, typical of countries under a foreign protectorate, has now become an insult for the Albanian intellectuals and the civilized part of Albanian society. Albania is no protectorate, but it is treated as such, not by foreigners, but by Albanian politicians. Source: 'Shekulli', Tirana, in Albanian 8 Nov 00 p 13 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Sat Nov 11 16:34:41 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 16:34:41 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Conference: The Balkans Forum, 20.11.2000, Washington Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at seep.ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] Conference: The Balkans Forum, 20.11.2000, Washington Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:30:42 +0100 Size: 4917 URL: From aalibali at yahoo.com Sun Nov 12 10:42:21 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 07:42:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] News: AIM, 7/11/2000 Message-ID: <20001112154221.28025.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> *** An Albanian Family's Ordeal With Greek Authorities AIM Athens, November 7, 2000 As a Greek Helsinki Monitor advocate for migrants' human rights in Greece, I have encountered a plethora of cases that show the arbitrary treatment of migrants by Greek authorities. One of this cases, where I helped an Albanian family draft a complaint to the Greek Ombudsman, the only state institution in Greece that consistently defends human rights when violated by state agencies, sounds almost like the "history of Albanian migration to Greece." The complaint reprinted below is eloquent and self-explanatory. To the Ombudsman Hatziyanni Mexi 5, 11528 Athens Athens 30 October 2000 Complaint of Nevruzete Gjoni Gentlemen, I am an Albanian citizen. I hold a green card, number 101206/8624, which was issued by the Manpower Employment Organization on 01-10-2000. I have been living in Greece with my family since 1997 at the following address: Agisilaou 35-37, Koumoudouros Square, Athens (tel. 093-7684525). On 14-05-2000 I went to Albania, to the city of Vlora, in order to fetch my older son (who had gone to see his grandmother) and return with him to Greece. At that time I had my green card certification on which my husband and two children, age 17 and 15, were also registered. On 16-05-2000 my son and I arrived at the customs control at Kakavia in order to return to Greece. An employee, who boarded the bus to make an inspection (subsequent to the electronic inspection), told me that I had to get off the bus because the photograph in my passport, number 0155712, was not the original one (I had crossed the border many times with the same passport). My son and I got off the bus, and we were taken to an office where I was given a document to sign. Under the pressure of their threats ("We'll tear up your papers") and without understanding what the document said, I signed it (afterwards I realized that it was a statement of admission of my "guilt"). They retained my green card certification, telling me that I was persona non grata in Greece. I kept emphatically denying my guilt. I absolutely had to return to Greece because I would have lost my job (I work for the newspaper "Ethnos"). Furthermore, my husband is disabled and my younger son is a minor, so neither can work. I returned to Vlora and obtained a new passport. Again I tried to cross the border, but this time my green card certification did not correspond to my passport. I was told that I could now only enter Greece on a visa. Meanwhile, I sent my old passport to my husband in Greece. Through a lawyer, he submitted it to the proper authority, which (after 2 months) certified in writing that it was indeed legitimate. Armed with the new passport and the necessary supporting documents, I went to the Greek Embassy in Tirana to get a visa. I entered the embassy three times for a visa (after many weeks of sleeping on the sidewalk outside the embassy in +40-degree temperatures), but it was impossible for me to get one. The reason: "?it's impossible to give all Albanians visas." The fourth time, after paying 400,000 drachmas I managed to enter the embassy, obtain a visa on 17-07-2000, and on 19-07-2000 I crossed the border into Greece with my older son. The ordeal I went through resulted in my emergency admittance to hospital on 07-08-2000, where I was treated for 7 days. On 01-09-2000 my lawyer returned my green card certification to me, with a notation on it from the Manpower Employment Organization recognizing that an error had been made at my expense. On 04-09-2000 my family and I went to the Manpower Employment Organization to pick up our green card. However, the clerk delayed us (bureaucratically), causing the date of receipt to be postponed to 01-10-2000. On 05-09-2000 at 7:00 a.m. my younger son, Ervis Gjoni, 15 years old, set out for work. At the first stop in Holargos the police took him off the bus to inspect his papers. He had on him a photocopy of the green card certification (without the notation) and his birth certificate. At 5:00 p.m. his father and I became worried and started looking everywhere for him (he'd been picked up 3 times before but was released after being inspected). First we went to the police station on Socratous Street, then to Alexandras Ave. There they told us: "since you sent your kid out to wash windshields what do you expect? the boy's disappeared and you'll never find him." But Ervis was working on a construction site. At 21:30 we arrived at the Aghia Paraskevi police station. When we questioned the officer on duty, he told us there was no boy from Albania here. After a lot of pressuring, the officer opened the police blotter and found the name Ervis Gjoni written there. He told us that the boy had been deported at 3:00 p.m., because his papers were not in order. I then showed them the certification with the notation, which I had with me. I explained to them that they were in error since, apart from everything else, the boy is a minor and they were obliged to at least have notified us. We pleaded with them to bring him back, since the bus hadn't yet crossed the border, and also because they had made an error. The officer in charge responded, "it's not my concern?let all the Albanians go back to Albania." On the morning of 06-09-2000 we telephoned the border at Kakavia. The response we received was: "6 buses have passed through but there isn't anyone with that name." We were desperate. We didn't know what had happened to our child. Ervis didn't have any money on him?we don't have a home or family in Albania? Four days later our son called us to tell us that he was fine and was staying at the home of a female journalist from the newspaper "Koha Jone". On 1-10-2000 we went to the Manpower Employment Organization in Amaroussion to receive our green card - but without Ervis. Therefore, his name does not appear on his mother's green card. Thus, even though Ervis Gjoni is registered on his mother's passport, and even though the police admit their error, Ervis is unable to return to Greece, to live with his family, because none of the authorities will take the responsibility to correct the wrong done to him. I request that Ervis be allowed to return immediately and that those responsible for my illegal deportation in May and that of my son's in September be held accountable. The above complaint is submitted through the Greek Helsinki Monitor. Sincerely, Nevruzete Gjoni # Eda Gemi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ From ereci at yahoo.com Mon Nov 13 11:55:55 2000 From: ereci at yahoo.com (Elida Reci) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:55:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [AMBO_News] Roundtable: The Future State Of Stability In The Balkans: NYC: 14 November Message-ID: <20001113165555.13651.qmail@web206.mail.yahoo.com> --- AMBO LLC wrote: > To: AMBO_News at egroups.com > From: " AMBO LLC" > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 01:10:05 -0000 > Reply-to: AMBO_News-owner at egroups.com > Subject: [AMBO_News] Roundtable: The Future State Of > Stability In The Balkans: NYC: 14 November > > Eurasia Project in conjunction with the World Policy > Institute is > pleased to announce a roundtable: > > THE FUTURE STATE OF STABILITY IN THE BALKANS > > > with > > Misha Glenny, former BBC > Correspondent > > > and > > James O'Brien, Special Advisor to the > President > and > Secretary of State for Democracy in the > Balkans > > > Moderator: > > Gordon Bardos, Senior Associate, Eurasia Group > > > > DATE: Tuesday, 14 November 2000 > TIME: 8:30am - 10:30am > PLACE: New School University > 65 Fifth Avenue (between 13th and 14th Street) > Wolff Conference Room > New York, New York > > How can an integrated approach to the Balkan region > address specific > state issues as well as forge regional stability? > What is the role > of economic and diplomatic cooperation in a region > where rule of law > and accountability are a weak? And how can the West > rekindle ties > with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia while > helping to foster a > stable transition? > > > EURASIA FORUM - > The Future State of Stability in the Balkans > New School University ? 65 Fifth Avenue, Wolff > Conference Room > Tuesday, 14 November 2000 at 8:30am-10:30am > > Name: > > > Title: > > > Company: > > Address: > > E-Mail: > > > Phone: Fax: > > > > This event is an informal discussion with > international media groups, > U.S. and foreign policy makers, and senior level > executives from > companies active or interested in the region. If > you have any > questions please contact Arrun Kapoor of Eurasia > Group at tel: > 212.366.9560; Fax registration forms to Jonathan > Whitmore at > 212.366.9699. > > Please register at your earliest convenience as > seating is limited. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Tue Nov 14 12:46:20 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:46:20 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Call for Papers: Life and Times of F.W. Hasluck, Wales, November 2001 Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at seep.ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] CfP: Life and Times of F.W. Hasluck, Wales, November 2001 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:50:12 +0100 Size: 5474 URL: From kbejko at hotmail.com Tue Nov 14 14:33:46 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:33:46 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Albanian Studies Registry Message-ID: For all you scholars out there: http://www.ipfw.edu/hist/albania/k1.htm#inre _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From ipilika at hotmail.com Tue Nov 14 16:55:31 2000 From: ipilika at hotmail.com (Iris Pilika) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:55:31 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fall 2000 Colloquim Series at HLS Message-ID: The Fall 2000 Visiting Scholar and Visiting Researcher Colloquium Series at Harvard Law School presents: "National Minority Issues in the European Union: the Case of Italy and Greece" By Agron Alibali Visiting Researcher Wednesday, November 15, 2000 (12:00 - 1:30 PM Lewis International Law Center, 211) Both Italy and Greece are important members of the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO. Both countries have national minorities within their territories. The talk will inquire comparatively the level and degree of legal protection ensured to these minorities in both countries by means of international law, respective constitution and, when appropriate, domestic legislation. The way in which both countries treat their own minorities is very important, since it carries significant impact within and outside the European Union, especially in Southeastern Europe. Lunch will be served at 12:00 PM. Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Graduate Program _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Wed Nov 15 08:23:13 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:23:13 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Book Review: Fleming, The Muslim Bonaparte, reviewed by Isa Blumi Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at seep.ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] Book Review: Fleming, The Muslim Bonaparte, reviewed by Isa Blumi Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:32:39 +0100 Size: 15095 URL: From kbejko at hotmail.com Wed Nov 15 12:52:39 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:52:39 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] CSMONITOR:Life and crimes of a smuggler Message-ID: WORLD PEOPLE SMUGGLERS: PART 2 OF THREE PARTS The life and crimes of a smuggler By Mario Kaiser Special to The Christian Science Monitor VLORE, ALBANIA His name is Dushan, and if you ask him what he smuggles, he will smile and tell you, "Whatever yields the highest profit." Previously in this series ?Part one: On Europe's 70 m.p.h. smuggling route ?Part two: The life and crimes of a smuggler Dushan, who would only give his first name, was 16 when he was expelled from school for bad behavior. He started dealing cannabis. At 19, he bought his first speedboat and began smuggling guns, drugs, and people across the Adriatic, a business so profitable that it allowed him to support his nine siblings. It is the typical r?sum? of a skafist, as Albanians call smugglers. On this morning, Dushan is driving along the coast from Vlor? to Radhima, where many of the smugglers hide and repair their speedboats during the day. "My father is a poor blacksmith," he says, "he cannot support our family." In Vlor?, a city so poor that even manhole covers are stolen and resold, Dushan saw smuggling as the only career to provide him with a substantial income. "There is no other way to make a living here," he says. By most measures, Albania is the poorest nation in Europe. One in 5 Albanians scrapes by on $20 a month. One in 7 has simply left the country. Out of the economic ruins left behind by Enver Hoxha, the Communist dictator who ruled Albania for four decades, organized crime has flourished. Initially, Durshan lined his pockets by smuggling cannabis, but when the market saturated and prices dropped, Dushan changed his strategy. He started smuggling people. He teamed up with another smuggler and together they bought a speedboat for $90,000. REACHING ITALY: Some 1,200 Kurdish refugees were brought ashore last week when their ship, bound from Albania, was caught in bad weather and was towed to Otranto, Italy, by the Italian Navy. MARIO LAPORTA/REUTERS In the beginning, night after night, Dushan steered the boat across the Adriatic. But then a close friend was killed during a collision with an Italian police boat. Another smuggler friend disappeared during a crossing from Vlor? to Otranto, Italy. His boat was never found. Dushan says the incidents left him so shaken that he couldn't steer his own boat anymore and had to hire a skipper. "I was 19," Dushan says, "my life was too precious." Asked about the lives of those who board his speedboat every night, he only says, "It is much more dangerous for the skipper. As long as we had passengers on board, the Italians never tried to hit us." There came a time, not long after that, when Dushan wanted to get out of the business. He yearned for a quiet life and wanted to get married. How does a young skafist find a woman to settle down with? Durshan went to Macedonia and bought himself a young Moldovian woman for $5,000. She was 19, and he liked the way she looked. The two went to Bari, Italy, hoping to start all over again. He began learning Italian; she started selling her body. It was supposed to be only for a while. But the girl started using cocaine, and it worried Dushan. It concerned him even more that she never made more than $125 a night. He took her back to Macedonia and returned to Vlor?, alone. At 22, Dushan's face still looks like that of a boy, too young for the many turns his life has already taken. He has sparse facial hair, as if he has not yet shaved, and his voice is high-pitched like a child's. The Marlboro Lights cigarette between his fingers seems like an awkward attempt to look manly in the company of men. And when he tells his story, it sounds more like someone else's story, perhaps that of an elder brother (which it is, in a way, as his brother is currently on trial in Italy for smuggling illegal immigrants). JOAN RAPAPORT - STAFF But Dushan says he knows what he is doing and claims that he is only offering a service. "I am not a criminal," he insists, "this is just my way of living." The real crooks, he says, are shooting each other in the streets of Vlor?. Indeed, the Vlor? smugglers are on edge, and not because of the police. At lunch time, they sit next to Italian police officers on the sun-drenched terrace of the Hotel Bologna, the toniest address in town. The smugglers, wearing gold-rimmed sunglasses and open white shirts revealing their chest hair, come for the pasta at the hotel restaurant. The police officers, stationed in Vlor? to restore order, also like to watch the smugglers' girlfriends. From the hotel terrace they have a beautiful view of the sea and the ostentatious villas the smugglers have built along the promenade, in colors matching the bikinis of their girlfriends. Not all of them, however, get to finish building their dream homes. The villa of a famous smuggler known as Tozo stands on the sea front like a monument to the short-lived business, half-built and deserted. Tozo was assassinated. And tension in the city has been palpable ever since a recent shooting in front of the club "Chateau." Vlor?'s boss of bosses lost his best man in the shooting and took a bullet himself. The man - known as Zani and worshiped by his cronies as "the sultan" - survived the assassination attempt by a rival gang, but a few days later his brother's body was found in the woods outside the city. He was executed in such gruesome fashion that even the people of Vlor?, who have seen more than their share of cruelty, shuddered. According to the coroner's report, the killers shot Zani's brother 18 times in the chest. Then they put a rope around his neck, tied it to a car and dragged him through the forest. Then they mutilated his body. Now the city is bracing for Zani's revenge. REPARING TO MAKE A RUN: Smugglers gather offshore each afternoon to repair their boats, tune their engines, and refuel for the evening?s voyage to Italy. An estimated 150 boats operate out of Vlor?, Albania. JOHN GIANNINI/FILE "It is frightening," says Eric Filipink, who monitors the situation in Vlor? for the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. "Criminals have become mythical figures in this town. And people admire them. They envy them for their golden necklaces, their cars, their drugs, their women." The smugglers have created a shadow economy of businesses that depend on them: guest houses where their customers stay, cafes and bars where the smugglers arrange deals, skippers who navigate their speedboats, drivers who deliver gasoline for the boats. "They claim that all they do is take people to the country of their dreams," says Filipink. "I say they are parasites who suck the blood out of desperate people." Police estimate there are about 150 speedboats, worth up to $100,000 each, in and around Vlor?. The fleet, they say, is one of the biggest private investments in Albania. Last January, the new Vlor? police chief, vowing to crack down on immigrant smugglers, confiscated nine of the boats. In turn, the smugglers confiscated the police chief, held a gun to his head, and asked him if he would care to live a little longer. He nodded and returned the boats as soon as he was released. He left the city a few days later and hasn't returned. Such is the spasmodic nature of the enforcement effort. In late July, after two Italian policemen died when their boat was rammed by an Albanian smuggler, the prime ministers of both countries met in Tirana to bolster antismuggling efforts. Afterward, Albania's Prime Minister Ilir Meta cited the 170 smugglers captured to date this year and promised to pass new legislation to tighten regulations on the boats used for smuggling. Italian Prime Minster Giuliano Amato noted that the number of refugees has dropped significantly from last year (thanks largely to the end of a "bubble" of Kosovars fleeing Serb "ethnic cleansing" in 1998). He vowed that Italy would continue its logistical support to the Albanians and to maintain the joint Albanian-Italian crews on its police boats. But Italian police say more needs to be done, and want to change the rules of engagement so they can fire on the smugglers. Often when immigrant smugglers from Eastern Europe talk about their countries, they mourn the loss of law and order upheld by the iron-fisted rulers of the past. Dushan says he still admires Enver Hoxha. The Communist dictator died in 1985, but during his rule he kept Albania in virtual solitary confinement. Dushan still remembers the heroic songs they had to sing back then. "We were even poorer than today," he says, "but at least there was order. No crime, no prostitution, no drugs." A case in point, Dushan says, is the day he was arrested for drug dealing by the security police of Mr. Hoxha's successor, Sali Berisha. The agents beat him badly, and that was expected. But what happened next, he says, would have been unimaginable under Hoxha. "We bribed the judge, and he let me go." Dushan slows down the car and turns into a narrow gravel road. Passing rows of cedars and orange groves, he drives halfway up a hill. He has bought a piece of land here, with a beautiful view of the turquoise sea. He says he would like to build a hotel here someday, when tourists will dare to travel to Albania. As the car reaches the end of the road, it becomes obvious that a flock of particularly reclusive guests is already staying here. A fleet of speedboats, eight altogether, is parked on trailers behind the cedars. Shirtless men, tanned from days of working in the Albanian sun, are bent over the boats, repairing damaged hulls, servicing engines. A Kalashnikov rifle leans against a trailer tire. The sun has begun to set, and the skafisti, sleep-deprived, are yawning. Their bodies have adapted to the rhythm of the smuggler's life; they are creatures of the night. A tall, red-haired man with a protruding belly and a cigarette dangling from his lips slouches toward Dushan. They kiss each other on both cheeks and then take a walk between the boats, touching hulls and engines along the way. They are talking about Kokthi, the smuggler killed in a collision with a police boat. "We'll make them bleed for it," says the red-haired giant, referring to the Italian police. Kokthi's death must be avenged, he says and suggests sending poisoned heroin to Italy. He tells Dushan that a comrade of Kokthi's was badly injured during the collision and is said to be in critical condition in an Italian hospital. ?Meet Shaqir, 'travel agent' to illegal immigrants For a moment, there is a distant look in the giant's eyes. He pulls on his cigarette. He will go out on the sea again tonight. Getting killed is part of the game, he says, but so far it has always been somebody else's turn to lose. He shrugs. Then he drops the cigarette in the dust and extinguishes it with his bare foot. "The sea gives," he says, "and the sea takes." The next day in Vlor?, the city seems frozen in prayer, staring in silence as a black hearse slowly rolls through the dusty streets. Behind the windows, in a sea of fresh flowers, Kokthi is lying in his open coffin. A motorcade of various Mercedes models and several buses filled with mourners follows the hearse. People on the sidewalks crane their necks, trying to catch a glimpse of the dead. As the motorcade approaches the outskirts of the city, it moves up a steep hill toward the cemetery. The hearse passes through the gate of the cemetery and comes to a halt. A group of young men wearing dark suits and sunglasses lift the coffin, now closed, and rest it on their shoulders. As they carry Kokthi to his grave, they pass a row of 89 tombstones decorated with white flowers. They are the graves of refugees who drowned two years ago when their overloaded ship capsized off the Italian coast. In death, Kokthi the ferryman returns to the victims of his trade. The skafisti have brought a wreath for their fallen comrade. "Shokut te paharuar" read the words on the red ribbon, "for our unforgettable friend." Kokthi's mother, kneeling before the coffin, is holding on to it, not wanting to let go. Then the coffin is lowered into the earth. Fresh flowers rain onto it. The skafisti put on their sunglasses and return to their cars. One by one they speed back to the city. Down by the sea, tonight's passengers are waiting. Tomorrow: Ride of the refugees. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From kbejko at hotmail.com Wed Nov 15 13:24:18 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:24:18 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Meet Shaqir Message-ID: WORLD Meet Shaqir, 'travel agent' to illegal immigrants By Mario Kaiser Christian Science Monitor In Tirana's Street of the Martyrs, the bustling promenade of Albania's capital, a man wearing three gold rings is waiting in the shadow of a plane tree. His name is Shaqir, and to shake his hand will cost you $150. That's his minimum commission. He sells the illusion of a comfortable life, and issues the fake passports to enter it. If you are rich, he will book you a flight to Paris; if you are poor, he will reserve a spot for you on a speedboat to Italy. ?The life and crimes of a smuggler Caressing his gold Breitling watch, he smiles and swears he is only there to help. "In my opinion, every Albanian should go to Europe," says Shaqir, who would only give his first name, "because there they will learn how to work hard, look proper, and things like that." Shaqir discovered his appreciation for good manners in Freiburg, Germany. He spent three years in prison there, after severely injuring a man during a fight at a night club. In jail, Shaqir says, he learned how to behave like a "good German." But when he was released, German authorities immediately put him on a plane to Albania, expelling him for life. Nevertheless, he is still close to Germany, Shaqir says, especially to its Embassy staff in Tirana. The Embassy, as most Embassies in Tirana, has an Albanian interpreter on its staff who is involved in the issuing of visas and knows the intricacies of the process well. The interpreters have two choices, Shaqir explains. "Either they cooperate and take my money," he says, "or they don't cooperate and get a taste of my fists." But he rarely has to use force, he adds, "because every person has a price, right?" An Embassy spokesperson declined to discuss the details of the application process, but insisted that visas were issued based on merit. As he strolls past sidewalk cafes here, Shaqir is constantly greeted by young men who firmly shake his hand and kiss him on both cheeks. They are assistants who get $50 for every customer they bring. One assistant tells him that he has two friends who want to take the ferryboat to Italy. "Come back tomorrow," Shaqir says, "and don't forget the photographs." Shaqir uses a passport with a valid visa three to four times, as long as he can change the photograph without damaging the page. "The Italian immigration officers can't tell," he says, "but the Albanians always want to see money." He calculates the price for smuggling a person according to the amount of work and the customer's preferences. "If you have a lot of money," he says, rubbing his thumb and index finger, "you can fly." For a flight to a European country, Shaqir charges $4,000 for a package that includes airfare, visa, and bribing the Albanian authorities. "We call it a luxury smuggling," he says. He offers a standard smuggling by ferryboat to Italy for $2,000, on the condition that the fake passport must be returned to him after arrival in Italy. The cheapest way to get to Italy is to take a speedboat from Vlor? or Durr?s for $600. "But that is just for idiots," Shaqir says. "They're paying for their death." There was a time when Shaqir made his living as a bricklayer. That is the job he was trained to do. But the money he made wasn't enough to get by, Shaqir says. "You come home, and your child looks at you and says, 'Daddy, I'm hungry. Did you bring some chocolate?' What am I supposed to do? Steal from people? Kill somebody?" Shaqir, like so many smugglers, insists there is nothing criminal about the business. "All I do is to show my customers the way," he says. "I don't force anybody to take that road." _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From olsi at rocketmail.com Wed Nov 15 05:39:37 2000 From: olsi at rocketmail.com (Olsi) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 02:39:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: 50 years in an atheistic dungeon Message-ID: <20001115103937.11774.qmail@web2904.mail.yahoo.com> >50 years in an atheistic dungeon >Emergence, challenge and resistance > > >In the slightly over three years of the Communist turned >Socialist party government in Albania, Islam has been >facing problems just when Albanian Muslims, who form the >bulk of the population, were beginning to enjoy the freedom >to rebuild their shattered Islamic identity. Though not >comparable to the worst excesses of the brutal Communist >regime, the obstacles and restrictions have been piling on >frustrations. The problems of endemic corruption, grinding >poverty, high level of unemployment, law and order >breakdown and cultural destabilization have already made >life intolerable. > >Since the left wing press raised the bogey of 'Islamic >fundamentalism' in 1998 Muslim organizations in Albania >have been finding it very difficult to get help from fellow >Muslims from abroad. The protracted press campaign had led >to the arrest of many such Muslims who were working with >them. The surge of Islamic activities that swept over >Albania after it emerged from the long twilight of >Communist rule is being impeded, and also challenged by the >evangelizing missions. > >In Tirana, the capital, private television stations have >mushroomed, some 17 of them, most of them recently; in >every city there are at least two. It is very difficult to >organize Islamic programs, though, especially in Tirana, >unless thousand of dollars are paid to somebody, at a time >when television stations report everything connected with >Christians . The media are focused on the Europianization >of Albania a mainly Muslim country - the only one in Europe >[excluding Turkey]. > >The government of Albania that is held responsible by the >European Union for the appalling level of poverty, >corruption and smuggling is impervious to criticism. The >Socialist administration, as far as the Muslims are >concerned, is even engaged in efforts to whittle away the >Muslim character of the nation. If its dubious statistics >are to be accepted, Muslims form only 50% of the population >of Albania - the correct percentage is 75. > >It is hardly surprising the government is not bothered >about the spiritual welfare of the 300,000 Albanian >emigrants who are working in Greece, and obliged to abandon >their Muslim names for Orthodox (Christian) ones. How can >one expect any better of the Socialist government that is >biased against Islam? > >Even the previous Democratic government that lost power in >the June 1997 election was - out of sheer naivet6 or >ignorance - receptive to the onslaught of Albania by >foreign governmental and non governmental organizations and >Christian foundations. Some 120 of them put down roots in >Tirana alone, each with their own program, in contrast to >Muslim humanitarian organizations which were only 25. > >When the 50 years of Albania as 'fortress Communism' ended >and the walls of atheism and Stalinism tumbled ushering in >freedom, the country was fair game for NGOS, foreign >governments and organizations. The Albanian government >became their biggest supporter helping them in their >activities and, in the process, helping in the destruction >of the social, cultural and religious identity of the >nation. The streets, institutions, including schools and >universities, and other places were transformed - they >became the parade ground of the European-style women. > >The economic growth in 1996 was followed by indifference to >the recent gains of Islam, as the West-oriented economic >and cultural pressure increased. The Orthodox Christian >community represented by Greek Orthodox Bishop Janullatos >was very active, in collaboration with some very important >political personal ties, in opposing every single aspect of >the Islamic identity of Albanians. > >In 1995 acts of vandalism in Orthodox churches by some >unidentified people led the government of Prime Minister >Alexsander Meksi to order the closure of five madrassahs in >the south of Albania just what the Greeks wanted! Five >-students of the Korca (a southern city) madrassah (Islamic >schools) had been accused of spoiling the religious >pictures. > >Examples of discrimination against the Muslims were plenty. >There was not much restoration by the state of waqf >(Islamic religious foundations) land and property seized by >the previous Communist dictator Enver Hoxha. But the >authorities were meticulous about returning to the church >all the Christian properties. The building of a mosque in >Tirana near parliament was not allowed. The opening of a >new madrassah was blocked. Money received from the Muslim >world for investment in Islamic work in Albania was >controlled by the Albanian secret service. > >Ignorance of Islam and weakness of the Albanian Muslim >community, which are at the root of their problems, showed >up in the pyramid investment schemes in 1995-96 that >attracted Albanians like bees to a honey pot. Money was >raked in from the people and alluring percentage of >interest paid out; at first interest rates were 20-30%; >towards the end of 1996, a phenomenal rise in the number of >pyramid schemes interests rate shot up to 70 per cent. This >incredibly absurd form of economic activity was allowed by >the government. The opposition Socialist party leader Fatos >Nano, a former Communist, had nothing to say either. The >European 'friends' were very late to comment on this >dangerous economic activity. > >Every day hordes of 'investors' arrived. More than 50% of >the population fell into the trap of making quick money. >Two billion dollars were in the pyramid hole. As was bound >to happen, at the end of 1996, the pyramid investment >schemes collapsed, because they were unable to pay the >increasing number of 'investors'. Some operators of the >pyramid schemes, mostly former Communist and pro-Greek >elements, fled Albania taking the money; others could not >do anything. > >President Berisha and Prime Minister Meksi, who failed to >prevent the economic collapse, returned 50% of their >investment to the pyramid 'investors', which was not >enough. It was a recipe for disaster. There was chaos in >Vlore, a city in the south, where the people fought with >police forces. Violence and chaos visited other cities. > >In March 1997 some unidentified groups brought in arms, >which as later reported, came from Greece, and spread to >the people. Soon mobs raided military arms stores and stole >thousands of guns, Kalashnikovs, bombs etc. The same >scenario was seen in all the other cities. The country was >in a state of rebellion. Economic collapse became >inevitable. > >Socialist party and its leader openly supported the >rebellion against the elected government of a state that >had only recently become democratic. They spared no efforts >to destroy everything that was connected with the ruling >Democratic Party. Prime Minister Meksi and his government >resigned. President Sali Berisha had no choice but to agree >to fresh election so relentless was the pressure from the >Council of Europe represented by the left political forces, >and in Albania by Franz Wranicky and Katherine Lalyrnier. > >The 30 June 1997 general election brought to power the >Socialists who obtained two-thirds of the seats in >parliament. It is beyond comprehension how a genuine >election could be held in a country of only 3.5 million >awash with a million weapons, hundreds of murders in >polling stations, and the leaders of the left sharing - as >reported by the press - dollars with armed gangs. It was >obvious Albania then had everything but democracy and >democratic election. However, for the Council of Europe and >its representatives in Albania, Franz Wranicky and >Katherine Lalymier the polls were democratic and >acceptable. > >There are many opinions why the European Community was >agreeable to the re-labelled Communists - Socialists taking >power in Albania. Some link it directly with the pyramid >schemes. In the view of most Albanians pyramid schemes were >organized to destabilize the economy and the country since >the five years of economic stability was paving the way for >the rehabilitation of Islam, which growing numbers of the >younger generation were embracing. Some even think it was >done to render Albania impotent to act in a potential >conflagration in Kosova that showed all the signs of >occurring. > >However far fetched the opinions may seem, there is no >doubt that Albania nestling in the southeast corner of >Europe with its European Muslim identity in deep coma was >stirring into life, thanks to the end of the worst >Communist regime in the world in March 1991. The Albanian >student movement played a pivotal role in taking on the >regime. As in most other East European countries Albanian >students organized the biggest post Communist movement and >held demonstrations in several cities. > >In April 1985 Enver Hoxha had died, but it was not the end >of the dictatorship. He was replaced by another committed >Communist, Ramiz Alia who was as relentless in tightening >his grip on the country as in cracking down on those trying >to escape from Albania; hundreds of them were jailed and >killed. However the people's uprising in Romania and the >failure of the Communist system in Eastern Europe shook the >Alia regime. > >The first riots that took place in Shkodra in the north >were followed elsewhere. The regime saw the writing on the >wall and he hastened to create new political parties >with,-former Communist leaders to support him in the new >plural political system. In December announcement was made >of the first multi-party election on 10 February 1991 which >was held on 31 March. > >The setting up of the Democratic Party of Albania (DPA) was >the first genuine Albanian opposition party after nearly 50 >years of totalitarianism. Sali Berisha was elected leader >who led the party in winning nearly one third of the seats >in parliament. Failure by the old Communists in governing >the new Albania resulted in fresh election in March 1992 >that put DPA in power, which had secured two thirds of >parliamentary seats. > >The first freely elected democratic government led by >President Sali Berisha was a milestone in the history of >post-war Albania for it was the death toll of atheistic >Communist rule and the revival of the Islamic spirit that >Enver Hoxha had tried to destroy. > >The old mosques were opened. Those destroyed were being >rebuilt. The Albanian Muslim community was taking shape and >coalescing around its spiritual leader Hafiz Sabri Koci >Effendi who emerged as the Grand Mufti after languishing in >Communist prisons for 25 years. New books, magazines and >newspapers began publishing. Some 25 Muslim organisations >became active, and engaged in rebuilding mosques in >villages and cities. > >After half a century of isolation and persecution under >Communism, the people were at last finding what they had >long been deprived of reconnecting to Islam at all levels. >Muslims - as well as Christians - found on 28 November 1944 >that the liberation of Albania from the Nazi Germans was a >false dawn; life under occupation had been replaced with >life tinder Communist totalitarianism. (The Communist Party >of Albania was founded on 8 November 1941 by a group of >Albanian Communists.) > >Politicians and leaders were executed, religious scholars >and leaders were not spared either. Every religious, >national and cultural value connected with the past was >denied. A new collective, Communist life was imposed. Every >private activity was outlawed. All the wealth and property >seized by the state. > >In 1967 Enver Hoxha achieved the destruction of 2169 >mosques and churches; what remained were turned into >storage places, sport palaces and public toilets. A law was >passed prohibiting religious practices and prescribed jail >sentences for those who did and public execution for those >who tried to leave the country. > >A whole generation grew up without faith, without seeing a >mosque in their life, not knowing their identity. Communism >reigned supreme casting its shadow on every aspect of life. >But Islam, the marvelous faith remained deep in the hearts >of the people. Islamic ceremonies were organized in secret. >Fasting was carried out on the quiet during the holy >Ramadan month. Salat was offered in private. > >Although Islam faces difficulties and pressures today in >Albania under Socialist rule Muslims are making efforts to >rebuild their Islamic identity. A hopeful sign is that the >Islamic spirit still remains in the heart of Albanians even >if they lack the knowledge of Islam. Sons are inviting >their parents to Islam and more Islamic books are being >sold. Equally significant, if not more, mosques are >frequently filled by more people, especially by the younger >ones. > >Redi Shehu > >impact INTERNATIONAL >VOL 30 NO 9 SEPTEMBER 2000 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Thu Nov 16 08:15:29 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 05:15:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Press: The Independent, 16/11/2000 Message-ID: <20001116131529.14919.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> The Independent (London) November 16, 2000, Thursday FOREIGN NEWS; Pg. 16 ANGER AS EU LIFTS TRAVEL BANS ON MILOSEVIC ALLIES Vesna Peric Zimonjic In Belgrade And Stephen Castle In Brussels THE EUROPEAN Union provoked anger and bemusement in Belgrade yesterday when it included a notorious former secret police chief and an army chief on the list of those now permitted to travel to the EU without visas. The decision to relax the EU's visa ban imposed on associates of the former president, Slobodan Milosevic, was taken to help to improve relations with Serbia. But the lifting of the entry ban on the head of Serbia's secret police, Radomir Markovic, provoked consternation in Belgrade. Mr Markovic's secret police are believed to have been involved in a series of politically motivated killings and abductions that still remain unsolved. The cases include the death last year of Slavko Curuvija, a journalist, and the car crash that killed four aides of the opposition leader, Vuk Draskovic. Mr Markovic is also thought to have been implicated in the abduction of Ivan Stambolic, the president of Serbia who was toppled by Mr Milosevic in 1987. Others now free to visit the EU include Nebojsa Ravkovic, the army chief of staff, who led the army in Kosovo during Nato's air campaign last year, when hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees fled in fear of repression. The relaxation of the visa ban also includes Momir Bulatovic, the former federal prime minister. Zarko Korac, one of the leaders of Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) told The Independent: "The decision of the EU is completely unreasonable and counter-productive. It seems that someone totally incompetent worked on it." He said DOS was not consulted by the EU about the list. Zoran Djindjic, another DOS leader, said: "It looks like the suggestions on lifting the visa ban were given by someone sympathetic to the former regime of Slobodan Milosevic." EU officials suggested that the new President of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, had been consulted and pointed out that no one indicted by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague was included. Diplomats see the concession to Mr Markovic as a reward for his refusal to risk a bloodbath in defence of Mr Milosevic's regime in September's uprising. They believe that Mr Kostunica wanted to make the gesture to help to stabilise the political climate inside Serbia. They added, however, that the decision was not irreversible and that the list could be amended at regular intervals. In Belgrade there was intense interest in the list, which was published in newspapers. The names of the former Serbian justice minister Dragoljub Jankovic and a journalist, Tatjana Lenard, were also among those removed. Under Mr Jankovic, the Serbian judiciary routinely ran mock trials. Ms Lenard was, until 5 October, editor of the information programme of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), which was renowned for fuelling nationalist, pro-war sentiments. She is a close ally of Mr Milosevic's wife, Mira Markovic. The reaction to yesterday's relaxation illustrates the difficulties facing EU policy-makers as they attempt to improve ties with Mr Kostunica's Serbia. Almost as soon as Mr Kostunica was installed, Hubert Vedrine, the Foreign Minister of France -which holds the rotating EU presidency and which has long backed the removal of sanctions - visited Belgrade. Meanwhile, the European Commission pointed out that it was not responsible for drawing up the visa ban list, which is compiled by the member states in the Council of Ministers. Most sanctions are being dismantled, although there remains an asset freeze on about 600 of Mr Milosevic's closest allies and financial sanctions against some specific institutions. The UN arms embargo also remains in place. t President Kostunica used a debut appearance at the European Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday to press Yugoslavia's case for joining the EU, but he said it first needed support to rebuild its shattered economy. Diplomats in Brussels said the EU had agreed on aid to Serbia worth "about two billion euros" (pounds 1.2bn) through to 2006. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ From endril at rocketmail.com Thu Nov 16 10:38:02 2000 From: endril at rocketmail.com (Endri Leno) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 07:38:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: 50 years in an atheistic dungeon Message-ID: <20001116153802.15635.qmail@web2903.mail.yahoo.com> Kesaj i thone "fshati digjet, k... krihet". Po pse ore feja na ngeli neve tani se pak probleme te tjera ka per te zgjidhur? A s'do te ishte me mire sikur t'i nxirrnin te gjtiha fete jashte ligjit se fundi i fundit s'di te kemi pare ndonje te mire prej tyre dhe sic ky artikull sugjeron po krijojne me shume probleme. --- Olsi wrote: > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List > --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: > http://www.albstudent.org - > > >50 years in an atheistic dungeon > >Emergence, challenge and resistance > > > > > >In the slightly over three years of the Communist > turned > >Socialist party government in Albania, Islam has > been > >facing problems just when Albanian Muslims, who > form the > >bulk of the population, were beginning to enjoy the > freedom > >to rebuild their shattered Islamic identity. Though > not > >comparable to the worst excesses of the brutal > Communist > >regime, the obstacles and restrictions have been > piling on > >frustrations. The problems of endemic corruption, > grinding > >poverty, high level of unemployment, law and order > >breakdown and cultural destabilization have already > made > >life intolerable. > > > >Since the left wing press raised the bogey of > 'Islamic > >fundamentalism' in 1998 Muslim organizations in > Albania > >have been finding it very difficult to get help > from > fellow > >Muslims from abroad. The protracted press campaign > had led > >to the arrest of many such Muslims who were working > with > >them. The surge of Islamic activities that swept > over > >Albania after it emerged from the long twilight of > >Communist rule is being impeded, and also > challenged by > the > >evangelizing missions. > > > >In Tirana, the capital, private television stations > have > >mushroomed, some 17 of them, most of them recently; > in > >every city there are at least two. It is very > difficult to > >organize Islamic programs, though, especially in > Tirana, > >unless thousand of dollars are paid to somebody, at > a time > >when television stations report everything > connected with > >Christians . The media are focused on the > Europianization > >of Albania a mainly Muslim country - the only one > in > Europe > >[excluding Turkey]. > > > >The government of Albania that is held responsible > by the > >European Union for the appalling level of poverty, > >corruption and smuggling is impervious to > criticism. The > >Socialist administration, as far as the Muslims are > >concerned, is even engaged in efforts to whittle > away the > >Muslim character of the nation. If its dubious > statistics > >are to be accepted, Muslims form only 50% of the > population > >of Albania - the correct percentage is 75. > > > >It is hardly surprising the government is not > bothered > >about the spiritual welfare of the 300,000 Albanian > >emigrants who are working in Greece, and obliged to > abandon > >their Muslim names for Orthodox (Christian) ones. > How can > >one expect any better of the Socialist government > that is > >biased against Islam? > > > >Even the previous Democratic government that lost > power in > >the June 1997 election was - out of sheer naivet6 > or > >ignorance - receptive to the onslaught of Albania > by > >foreign governmental and non governmental > organizations > and > >Christian foundations. Some 120 of them put down > roots in > >Tirana alone, each with their own program, in > contrast to > >Muslim humanitarian organizations which were only > 25. > > > >When the 50 years of Albania as 'fortress > Communism' ended > >and the walls of atheism and Stalinism tumbled > ushering in > >freedom, the country was fair game for NGOS, > foreign > >governments and organizations. The Albanian > government > >became their biggest supporter helping them in > their > >activities and, in the process, helping in the > destruction > >of the social, cultural and religious identity of > the > >nation. The streets, institutions, including > schools and > >universities, and other places were transformed - > they > >became the parade ground of the European-style > women. > > > >The economic growth in 1996 was followed by > indifference > to > >the recent gains of Islam, as the West-oriented > economic > >and cultural pressure increased. The Orthodox > Christian > >community represented by Greek Orthodox Bishop > Janullatos > >was very active, in collaboration with some very > important > >political personal ties, in opposing every single > aspect > of > >the Islamic identity of Albanians. > > > >In 1995 acts of vandalism in Orthodox churches by > some > >unidentified people led the government of Prime > Minister > >Alexsander Meksi to order the closure of five > madrassahs > in > >the south of Albania just what the Greeks wanted! > Five > >-students of the Korca (a southern city) madrassah > (Islamic > >schools) had been accused of spoiling the religious > >pictures. > > > >Examples of discrimination against the Muslims were > plenty. > >There was not much restoration by the state of waqf > >(Islamic religious foundations) land and property > seized > by > >the previous Communist dictator Enver Hoxha. But > the > >authorities were meticulous about returning to the > church > >all the Christian properties. The building of a > mosque in > >Tirana near parliament was not allowed. The opening > of a > >new madrassah was blocked. Money received from the > Muslim > >world for investment in Islamic work in Albania was > >controlled by the Albanian secret service. > > > >Ignorance of Islam and weakness of the Albanian > Muslim > >community, which are at the root of their problems, > showed > >up in the pyramid investment schemes in 1995-96 > that > >attracted Albanians like bees to a honey pot. Money > was > >raked in from the people and alluring percentage of > >interest paid out; at first interest rates were > 20-30%; > >towards the end of 1996, a phenomenal rise in the > number > of > >pyramid schemes interests rate shot up to 70 per > cent. > This > >incredibly absurd form of economic activity was > allowed by > >the government. The opposition Socialist party > leader > Fatos > >Nano, a former Communist, had nothing to say > either. The > >European 'friends' were very late to comment on > this > >dangerous economic activity. > > > >Every day hordes of 'investors' arrived. More than > 50% of > >the population fell into the trap of making quick > money. > >Two billion dollars were in the pyramid hole. As > was bound > >to happen, at the end of 1996, the pyramid > investment > >schemes collapsed, because they were unable to pay > the > >increasing number of 'investors'. Some operators of > the > >pyramid schemes, mostly former Communist and > pro-Greek > >elements, fled Albania taking the money; others > could not > >do anything. > > > >President Berisha and Prime Minister Meksi, who > failed to > >prevent the economic collapse, returned 50% of > their > >investment to the pyramid 'investors', which was > not > >enough. It was a recipe for disaster. There was > chaos in > >Vlore, a city in the south, where the people fought > with > >police forces. Violence and chaos visited other > cities. > > > >In March 1997 some unidentified groups brought in > arms, > >which as later reported, came from Greece, and > spread to > >the people. Soon mobs raided military arms stores > and > stole > >thousands of guns, Kalashnikovs, bombs etc. The > same > >scenario was seen in all the other cities. The > country was > >in a state of rebellion. Economic collapse became > >inevitable. > > > >Socialist party and its leader openly supported the > >rebellion against the elected government of a state > that > >had only recently become democratic. They spared no > efforts > >to destroy everything that was connected with the > ruling > >Democratic Party. Prime Minister Meksi and his > government > >resigned. President Sali Berisha had no choice but > to > agree > >to fresh election so relentless was the pressure > from the > >Council of Europe represented by the left political > forces, > >and in Albania by Franz Wranicky and Katherine > Lalyrnier. > > > >The 30 June 1997 general election brought to power > the > >Socialists who obtained two-thirds of the seats in > >parliament. It is beyond comprehension how a > genuine > >election could be held in a country of only 3.5 > million > >awash with a million weapons, hundreds of murders > in > >polling stations, and the leaders of the left > sharing - as > >reported by the press - dollars with armed gangs. > It was > >obvious Albania then had everything but democracy > and > >democratic election. However, for the Council of > Europe > and > >its representatives in Albania, Franz Wranicky and > >Katherine Lalymier the polls were democratic and > >acceptable. > > > >There are many opinions why the European Community > was > >agreeable to the re-labelled Communists - > Socialists > taking > >power in Albania. Some link it directly with the > pyramid > >schemes. In the view of most Albanians pyramid > schemes > were > >organized to destabilize the economy and the > country since > >the five years of economic stability was paving the > way > for > >the rehabilitation of Islam, which growing numbers > of the > >younger generation were embracing. Some even think > it was > >done to render Albania impotent to act in a > potential > >conflagration in Kosova that showed all the signs > of > >occurring. > > > >However far fetched the opinions may seem, there is > no > >doubt that Albania nestling in the southeast corner > of > >Europe with its European Muslim identity in deep > coma was > >stirring into life, thanks to the end of the worst > >Communist regime in the world in March 1991. The > Albanian > >student movement played a pivotal role in taking on > the > >regime. As in most other East European countries > Albanian > >students organized the biggest post Communist > movement and > >held demonstrations in several cities. > > > >In April 1985 Enver Hoxha had died, but it was not > the end > >of the dictatorship. He was replaced by another > committed > >Communist, Ramiz Alia who was as relentless in > tightening > >his grip on the country as in cracking down on > those > trying > >to escape from Albania; hundreds of them were > jailed and > >killed. However the people's uprising in Romania > and the > >failure of the Communist system in Eastern Europe > shook > the > >Alia regime. > > > >The first riots that took place in Shkodra in the > north > >were followed elsewhere. The regime saw the writing > on the > >wall and he hastened to create new political > parties > >with,-former Communist leaders to support him in > the new > >plural political system. In December announcement > was made > >of the first multi-party election on 10 February > 1991 > which > >was held on 31 March. > > > >The setting up of the Democratic Party of Albania > (DPA) > was > >the first genuine Albanian opposition party after > nearly > 50 > >years of totalitarianism. Sali Berisha was elected > leader > >who led the party in winning nearly one third of > the seats > >in parliament. Failure by the old Communists in > governing > >the new Albania resulted in fresh election in March > 1992 > >that put DPA in power, which had secured two thirds > of > >parliamentary seats. > > > >The first freely elected democratic government led > by > >President Sali Berisha was a milestone in the > history of > >post-war Albania for it was the death toll of > atheistic > >Communist rule and the revival of the Islamic > spirit that > >Enver Hoxha had tried to destroy. > > > >The old mosques were opened. Those destroyed were > being > >rebuilt. The Albanian Muslim community was taking > shape > and > >coalescing around its spiritual leader Hafiz Sabri > Koci > >Effendi who emerged as the Grand Mufti after > languishing > in > >Communist prisons for 25 years. New books, > magazines and > >newspapers began publishing. Some 25 Muslim > organisations > >became active, and engaged in rebuilding mosques in > >villages and cities. > > > >After half a century of isolation and persecution > under > >Communism, the people were at last finding what > they had > >long been deprived of reconnecting to Islam at all > levels. > >Muslims - as well as Christians - found on 28 > November > 1944 > >that the liberation of Albania from the Nazi > Germans was a > >false dawn; life under occupation had been replaced > with > >life tinder Communist totalitarianism. (The > Communist > Party > >of Albania was founded on 8 November 1941 by a > group of > >Albanian Communists.) > > > >Politicians and leaders were executed, religious > scholars > >and leaders were not spared either. Every > religious, > >national and cultural value connected with the past > was > >denied. A new collective, Communist life was > imposed. > Every > >private activity was outlawed. All the wealth and > property > >seized by the state. > > > >In 1967 Enver Hoxha achieved the destruction of > 2169 > >mosques and churches; what remained were turned > into > >storage places, sport palaces and public toilets. A > law > was > >passed prohibiting religious practices and > prescribed jail > >sentences for those who did and public execution > for those > >who tried to leave the country. > > > >A whole generation grew up without faith, without > seeing a > >mosque in their life, not knowing their identity. > Communism > >reigned supreme casting its shadow on every aspect > of > life. > >But Islam, the marvelous faith remained deep in the > hearts > >of the people. Islamic ceremonies were organized in > secret. > >Fasting was carried out on the quiet during the > holy > >Ramadan month. Salat was offered in private. > > > >Although Islam faces difficulties and pressures > today in > >Albania under Socialist rule Muslims are making > efforts to > >rebuild their Islamic identity. A hopeful sign is > that the > >Islamic spirit still remains in the heart of > Albanians > even > >if they lack the knowledge of Islam. Sons are > inviting > >their parents to Islam and more Islamic books are > being > >sold. Equally significant, if not more, mosques are > >frequently filled by more people, especially by the > younger > >ones. > > > >Redi Shehu > > > >impact INTERNATIONAL > >VOL 30 NO 9 SEPTEMBER 2000 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! > http://calendar.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________________ > ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com > http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ From albboschurch at juno.com Thu Nov 16 12:30:50 2000 From: albboschurch at juno.com (Albanian Orthodox Church) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:30:50 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] St George Cathedral Honored by "The Bostonian Society" Message-ID: <20001116.123533.13798.7.albboschurch@juno.com> Cathedral Honored by The Bostonian Society The Saint George Cathedral Foundation is pleased to announce that "The Bostonian Society" has selected our church for distinction as a notable Boston landmark. As such, a special plaque has been installed on a granite stantion in front of the church to inform tourists and passersby of this honor. The Bostonian Society is a respected organization of architects, historians and scholars whose purpose is to foster greater awareness of our city's exceptional history. This latest award accompanies similar recognition to The Cathedral by the United States Department of the Interior in Washington,. D.C., the Massachusetts Historical Commission and Historic Boston, Incorporated. On Sunday, November 19th at 1 pm, the Cathedral Foundation hosts a Reception honoring the completion of Phase One of our Restoration Project. All Donors and interested friends of this ongoing endeavor are most welcome. RSVP: Ms. Denise Lymperis at (617) 924-7295. --------- End forwarded message ---------- From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Fri Nov 17 16:21:20 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:21:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] help needed Message-ID: Hi all, I have a small package that I want to send my grandfather in Albania as soon as possible. It is very important to me that he gets this package because he is very sick. If any of you are going to Albania these coming few weeks and don't mind carrying this small package please let me know. All you need to do is call my grandparents once you get there and someone will come pick it up. I'd be very thankful... thanks for your help, eriola. From aalibali at yahoo.com Thu Nov 16 23:13:17 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:13:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Nga Saranda Message-ID: <20001117041317.27916.qmail@web120.yahoomail.com> 10 mije USD ndihme falas per shkollen e mesme "Antoni Athanas" SARANDE, 16 nentor/ATSH-SH.Hajno/.- Biznesmeni i njohur shqiptaro-amerikan, Antoni Athanas, i dhuroi te enjten shkolles se mesme teknike-ekonomike dhe hoteleri-turizem ne Sarande qe mban emrin e tij, nje shume prej 10 mije USD. I derguari nga Bostoni (SHBA), i ketij biznesmeni, Stefan Koci, ne nje takim te organizuar me kete rast ne mjediset e shkolles "Antoni Athanas", vuri ne dukje se, "kjo ndihme ishte nje kontribut simbolik qe Athanas jepte ne shenje mirenjohje per kete shkolle, me deshiren e mire qe ato te jene nje ndihmese per zhvillimin e metejshem te infrastuktures mesimore te saj". Koci i dhuroi me kete rast drejtorit te shkolles se mesme "Antoni Athanas", Perparim Musai, nje koleksion me fotografi nga jeta dhe veprimtaria e Antoni Athanasit. Shkolla e mesme "Antoni Athanas" eshte nje nga shkollat profesionale te vendit, e cila nje vit me pare u profilizua ne drejtimin hoteleri dhe turizem ne perkim me dimensionin e zhvillimit turistik te rajonit te Sarandes. Gjate tre vjeteve te fundit ne kete shkolle po zbatohen disa projekte nga fondacioni gjerman GTZ, projekti austriak "Kulture-kontakt" dhe fondacioni SOROS. /A.KE/ Copyright ? 1999 Albanian Telegraphic __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri Nov 17 07:02:08 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 04:02:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Shteti i Arberit Message-ID: <20001117120208.18765.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com> SHEKULLI Ekspedita e g?rmimit nxjerr eshtrat e ipeshkvit t? kish?s s? sh?n Andonit Kepi i Rodonit, zbulon d?shmi t? shtetit t? Arbrit Kepi i Rodonit befason s?rish arkeolog?t dhe antropolog?t. Para tri dit?sh, ka p?rfunduar nj? ekspedit? g?rmimi, n? kish?n katolike t? sh?n Andonit n? Kepin e Rodonit dhe tashm? dalin rezultatet e para mbi zbulimin. " Nga kjo ekpedit? u p?rftua nj? d?shmi e re, e cila flet shum? p?r periudh?n e medializmit shqiptar",-tregon drejtori i Insitutit t? Monumenteve, Artan Shkreli. Konkretisht, ekpedita, e cila p?rb?hej nga specialist? t? Insitutit t? Monumenteve dhe atij Arkeologjik, ka g?rmuar n? dy varret e zbuluara pran? altarit t? kish?s. Sipas nj? hierarkie t? koh?s, vendodhja pran? altarit u rezervohej njer?zve t? r?nd?sish?m religjioz?, duke vazhduar m? tej me murgjit e murgeshat dhe njer?zit e thjesht?, jasht? saj. K?shtu, pas g?rmimit t? nj?rit prej varreve, specialisti antropolog, Aleksand?r Dhima, ka zbuluar se i varrosuri ishte nj? prelat i lart? (udh?h?q?s fetar) i asaj kohe, gj? q? u v?rtetua nga elementet q? e shoq?ronin at?, nj? kryq i madh, i cili q?ndronte mbi kockat e kraharorit dhe pozicioni i duarve, t? kryq?zuara mbi gjoks. Sipas Shkrelit, specialist?t kan? zbuluar se flitet p?r nj? njeri t? ushqyer mir? dhe q? nuk ka vuajtur nga s?mundjet reumatizmale. Nd?koh?, n? laborator po punohet m? tej p?r t? p?rcaktuar mosh?n n? t? cil?n ka vdekur personi p?r t? arritur m? tej n? t? dh?nat e tjera, mbi emrin e tij. Deri tani, specialist?t mendojn? se kemi t? b?jm? me nj? ipeshkv, i cili ka jetuar n? gjysm?n e dyt? t? shekullit t? 17-t? deri n? fillimet e shekullit t? 18-t?. N? historikun e saj, kisha e sh?n Andonit njeh tri periudha paleokristiane, periudh?n benedikte e cila n? dokumentet veneciane t? koh?s, njihet si kisha e sh?n Anastazis? dhe n? shek.e 16-t? kish?n e marrin franceskan?t t? cil?t e shugurojn? me emrin e sot?m, kisha e sh?n Andonit. Sipas Shkrelit, kisha e Rodonit ka qen? kustodi e provinc?s shqiptare dhe ?sht? i njohur kuvendi fran?eskan i sh?n Andonit. Edhe m? par?, n? k?t? monument jan? zbuluar d?shmi autentike t? cilat flasin p?r fillesat e shtetit t? Arbrit. K?shtu, n? afreskun e apsid?s qendrore t? k?saj kishe ?sht? gjetur elementi shqiponj?, simboli i Sk?nderbeut. Po k?shtu, nj? tjet?r afresk, n? brendi t? tij, paraqet Mamica Kastriotin mbi kal?. Kjo kish? katolike ndodhet pran? kalas? s? Sk?nderbeut, e vetmja fortes? bregdetare e tij. Vitin e shkuar, n? k?t? monument kulture u b?n? nd?rhyrje restauruese, pas nj? fondi prej 3 milion? lek?sh t? reja, q? Ministria e Kultur?s vuri n? dispozicion. Sivjet ka qen? ambasada gjermane ajo q? ka financuar 100 mij? marka p?r nd?rhyrje t? tjera restauruese, t? cilat jan? udh?hequr nga arkitekti i Institutit t? Monumenteve, Sulejman Dashi. Kjo kish?, e drejtuar nga pat?r Zef P?llumbi i kryen funksionet e saj shum? rrall?, vet?m n? raste festash t? m?dha fetare. A.Xhakollari. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ From eribudo at hotmail.com Fri Nov 17 15:25:58 2000 From: eribudo at hotmail.com (ERI Budo) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:25:58 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Notice of Revocation of Independence Message-ID: My feelings exactly > > < > REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE Nov2000.doc>> > > > > > > > <> _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE Nov2000.doc Type: application/msword Size: 22016 bytes Desc: not available URL: From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri Nov 17 17:48:21 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:48:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Conference in Toronto Message-ID: <20001117224821.15194.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS BORDERS: Issues and prospects for successor states of former Yugoslavia A multidisciplinary, graduate student conference on current issues in Southeast Europe March 30-31, 2001, at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Toronto As the 21 st century begins, the citizens of the successor states of former Yugoslavia are at an important crossroads: behind them, the material, social and political devastation of civil war, ahead, many challenges. Reconstruction cannot be achieved without coming to terms with the past, deciding on the content of national identity, and reflecting on the nature of international interactions in Southeastern Europe. To address some of these issues, the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto will host a multidisciplinary conference entitled ?Borders?. Panelists will be encouraged to reflect on the paradigm of borders ? geopolitical, cultural, historical, linguistic, social and religious ? in the presentation of their work on the successor states of former Yugoslavia. The conference will take place over one-and-a-half days and will consist of four panels of an hour and a half each. A brief videoconference with colleagues from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia is planned for the closing of the conference. The conference will be organized around the following themes: LEGACY - What is the legacy of various periods of Yugoslav History ? for example, the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian occupations, the first Yugoslavia, the second World War, the recent wars of secession? - What models from the past can be useful in the creation of new Southeast European identities and institutions? IDENTITY - In what ways are the new states defining national identity? - What is the future of a Southeast European identity? - What is the status of ethnic minority-majority relations in current-day Southeastern Europe, particularly with reference to population displacements caused by recent wars? BEYOND ETHNICITY - What is the status of women in the new states? - How are the concerns of urban and rural populations managed? - Which social groups are marginalized in the region, and why? How can they be reintegrated? INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS - What challenges does the international community face in current-day Southeastern Europe? - What role should different international institutions play, and what policies should they pursue? * Other panel topics may be considered SUBMISSIONS The conference is open to graduate students, post-doctorate students and independent scholars. Those interested should submit a one-page abstract and short CV: - by e-mail: brigitte.lenormand at utoronto.ca Please send the abstracts as an attachment in Word 97 (or an earlier version of Word) - by fax: (416) 946-8939 - by mail to: Borders Conference Center for Russian and East European Studies Munk Center for International Studies 1 Devonshire Place Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7 Please make sure to include your full name, address, phone number and e-mail. You may submit abstracts for as many panels as you wish, but will only be allowed to participate in one. Applications must be received no later than December 31 st , 2000. Notification of participation will be sent out no later than January 31 st , 2001. Invited panelists will have to cover their travel costs. Some meals will be provided. Any new information will be posted on the conference website: http://www.utoronto.ca/crees/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ From albania at netzero.net Fri Nov 17 06:29:23 2000 From: albania at netzero.net (Nikoll A Mirakaj) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 06:29:23 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Greece Says More Democracy Needed In Albania Message-ID: <000a01c05089$a427fe80$10a39840@albania> Greece Says More Democracy Needed In Albania ATHENS, Nov 17, 2000 -- (Reuters) Greece dispatched a senior foreign ministry official to the Albanian capital of Tirana on Thursday to discuss the treatment of minority Greeks during Albania's local elections last month. Foreign Ministry General Secretary George Savaidis will have talks with Albanian Prime Minister Ilir Meta and Foreign Minister Paskal Milo about what Greece sees as poor treatment of ethnic Greeks during the election. "We will transfer our message for more democratic changes, the respect of the Greek ethnic minority and its property, and for a stronger control of illegal immigrants," Foreign Ministry spokesman Panos Beglitis said on Thursday. Greece had reacted to alleged voting violations during last month's local elections in and around the city of Himare. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had said the second round of voting had been "less transparent and inclusive" than the first. Southern Albania has a large ethnic Greek population with close ties to Athens and ethnic Greeks in Albania have complained about police keeping them away from polling stations. Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou wrote to European Commissioner for External Relations Chris Patten about what he said was a serious lack of democracy in Albania and a need to respect the rights of the Greek minority. "We want good relations and we believe that Greece can contribute to the European route of Albania," Beglitis said. "The letter sent to Commissioner Patten is just to stress the need for changes in the country." The EU is expected to send a committee in early 2001 to discuss a cooperation agreement with Albania. (C)2000 Copyright Reuters Limited -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From wplarre at bndlg.de Fri Nov 17 15:22:19 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:22:19 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: VICTORY COULD TURN SOUR FOR RUGOVA (part of IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 196, November 17, 2000) Message-ID: <3A15937B.55DFD665@bndlg.de> Betreff: IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 196 Datum: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:39:23 -0000 Von: Institute for War & Peace Reporting WELCOME TO IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 196, November 17, 2000 VICTORY COULD TURN SOUR FOR RUGOVA Comment: Ibrahim Rugova's victory in last month's local elections could prove costly should his LDK councillors fail to deliver real improvements ahead of general elections next year By Shkelzen Maliqi in Pristina Having scored a convincing victory in last month's local elections, Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, now faces the rather unenviable task of tackling Kosovo's myriad and deep-seated problems. Pressure on the party and its leader is intense. The LDK has little time to deliver much needed improvements in people's everyday lives before facing next year's crucial general election. The LDK's success in the recent local poll - in which it won 58 per cent of the vote, nearly 30 per cent ahead of its nearest rival the Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK - has been attributed by some to voters' conservatism and mistakes by political opponents. Others suggest Rugova's great charisma and ten years of political experience ensured voter support. Few point to LDK campaigning issues, platforms or policies. Faced with the reality of governing Kosovo's local administrations, the LDK and Rugova's decade of political experience may well prove more of a hindrance than a help. The party's new officials need to act decisively, show initiative and flexibility, not qualities the LDK is renowned for. The party's years of political experience, it seems, are no guarantee it can adapt to its new role and duties. During the LDK's years under the Belgrade occupation, the party's strategy was one of inertia, lack of action - even after the Kosovo Assembly declared independence in September 1990. The LDK appeared afraid of brave initiatives, and avoided changes to internal party organisation or policy. Rugova refused, for example, to allow the Kosovo parliament - elected by Kosovo Albanian voters in 1992 - to function. He kept his distance from party institutions at home and in exile, and has remained aloof to this day. The LDK's leader has demonstrated an authoritarian leadership style in the past, which has contributed to the movement's atrophy over the years. A decade on and the party still has to demonstrate it is capable of moving forward without the pull of other forces to drag it along. The current LDK leadership still has to live up to the policy, political and moral authority of the party's late leader Fehmi Agani - murdered as he tried to leave Kosovo in May 1999. Agani was proactive unlike the party's present leaders. Meanwhile, other prominent LDK figures too have left the party, leaving it populated by 'aparatchiks' too timid to challenge Rugova's grip. The election victory could seriously shake the LDK, exposing its lack of profile, beyond that afforded by Rugova, and a dependence on authoritarian decision making processes. The LDK's councillors need to take decisions on their own and not defer to their party leader at every turn. The new local administrations have to resolve concrete issues such as schooling, rubbish collection, medical facilities, the paying of pensions and unemployment assistance. And although the United Nations administration's chief Bernard Kouchner retains a veto over the key responsibilities devolved to the local governments, the LDK will have to deliver results if it is to revive and become a serious political force in a future Kosovo democracy. Rugova, meanwhile, has ventured out of his 'ivory tower' more frequently in recent months. Although he undeniably enjoys majority support among Kosovo Albanians, many say they voted for him only because he was more acceptable than his rivals. At one time he commanded 98 per cent of Kosovo Albanian votes. Against this last month's 58 per cent could be interpreted as a marked slump in support. The LDK also needs to make clear their stance towards Kosovo's Serb population and the new government of Vojislav Kostunica in Belgrade. Last week, Rugova said Serbia should have no say in Kosovo's future. In an interview with the German magazine "Focus", Rugova said, "Our independence should not be dependent on the democratic development of Serbia... After this awful war, the intervention and the presence of NATO in Kosovo, Belgrade should not have anything to say." Rugova dismissed any thoughts of the Serbian general election, scheduled for December 23, being held in Kosovo. "Kosovo is not part of Serbia," he said. The LDK leader did, however, reiterate his belief in co-operation with Kosovo's Serb minority, "It's not just their security which should be guaranteed, but also their political, economic and social integration." Kosovo Serbs have welcomed Rugova's victory - he is seen as more moderate than his main rival Hashim Thaci, leader of the PDK and former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army. How to handle the PDK is another question Rugova must answer. So far the defeated parties have expressed only anger and disillusionment over the results. The signs are they will be obstructive towards Rugova, whose policy they dismiss as 'soft'. They face a dilemma - to stay out of the municipal government or to participate. The local elections were just a preliminary bout ahead of the main event - next year's general election. Having swept to victory on October 28, the LDK has won the right to govern at municipal level. Should the party beat the odds and produce results, it could reap great rewards in 2001. But Rugova may also have won a poisoned chalice, which could yet cost his party dear at the ballot box. Shkelzen Maliqi is a publicist and in charge of Radio Free Europe correspondents in Pristina. -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/3/_/920292/_/974576763/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From albania at netzero.net Sat Nov 18 14:00:37 2000 From: albania at netzero.net (Nikoll A Mirakaj) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:00:37 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Albania Tells Greece It Will Improve Minority Laws Message-ID: <00b001c05191$d755b500$81a19840@albania> Albania Tells Greece It Will Improve Minority Laws TIRANA, Nov 18, 2000 -- (Reuters) Albania pledged on Friday to draw up improved citizens' rights legislation after Greece complained about the mistreatment of the ethnic Greek minority in the south of the small Balkan country. "The prime minister expressed his conviction that Albania will compile and apply an advanced legislation, one of the most progressive in Southeastern Europe," an Albanian government spokesman said in a statement. "The legislation would further improve the rights of all Albanian citizens." Greece reacted strongly this week to what it saw as unfair treatment of ethnic Greeks in Albania during last month's elections. Greece's Foreign Ministry General Secretary George Savaidis on a visit to Tirana told Albanian Prime Minister Ilir Meta that Tirana had to review its legislation on minorities if it wanted to get closer to the European Union. EU member Greece has cited alleged voting violations during October local elections in and around the Greek speaking town of Himare, on Albania's western coast. Ethnic Greeks in Himare complained that police kept them away from polling stations. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had said there were "serious irregularities" in the area. Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou has written to European Commissioner for External Relations Chris Patten about what he said was a serious lack of democracy in Albania and a need to respect the rights of the Greek minority. The EU is expected to send a committee in early 2001 to discuss a cooperation agreement with Albania. (C)2000 Copyright Reuters Limited -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From wplarre at bndlg.de Sat Nov 18 14:54:12 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:54:12 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: part of Text: Holbrooke Speech on 5th Anniversary of Dayton Agreement (17 Nov 2000) Message-ID: <3A16DE64.80A445FE@bndlg.de> Betreff: Text: Holbrooke Speech on 5th Anniversary of Dayton Agreement Datum: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:45:11 -0500 Von: US Dept of State Listserv Manager An: WF-EUROPE at LISTS.STATE.GOV Text: Holbrooke Speech on 5th Anniversary of Dayton Agreement (...) Everything in the Balkans will be affected by the revolution in Belgrade. Everything. Take Montenegro after its heroic resistance against Milosevic, Montenegro now has an opportunity to reconcile with Belgrade in an outcome that is mutually agreeable. President Kostunica has told me that he is prepared to move forward with such discussions. And in Kosovo, we have renewed hope for reconciliation. The fact that Dr. Rugova and Hashim Thaci are with us today symbolizes Dayton's importance to wider regional stability. During Dayton, we were well aware of Milosevic's repression of Kosovo, and we raised this issue with him repeatedly. On one memorable day, while we walked around Wright-Patterson, I urged him to meet with some Albanian-American protestors who had gathered outside Wright-Patterson's fences, and whose brave voices of protest were clearly audible to us. But of course he refused. Indeed, all three leaders there refused to discuss Kosovo; they had come for other reasons and we had to stop the big war. In the end, Kosovo followed its own destiny -- and today its people are finally free of Serb oppression. To President Kostunica, we've extended the hand of hope and friendship and a new beginning, I spent two hours with him three weeks ago in Skopje. I was greatly encouraged by his strong commitment to the rule of law and democracy. I told him that we looked forward to a future of peace and cooperation. To be sure, we will not agree on everything. But he offers his people a historic opportunity to rebuild their lives in peace and freedom and join, for the first time, an integrated, peaceful Europe. Since our meeting, President Kostunica has begun the process of leading his country back into the international community. It is in the OSCE and, just sixteen days ago, Yugoslavia became the United Nations' newest member. This decision ended one of the most sterile debates of the past decade, and finally brought Tito's flag down from in front of the UN's headquarters. Just yesterday, Yugoslavia's Charge d'Affaires at the UN participated in a Security Council discussion on Kosovo. And, the United States will shortly establish full diplomatic ties with Yugoslavia. But President Kostunica and the people of Yugoslavia have an enormous amount of work to do. Milosevic's corrupt legacy remains, and Serbia's wounds are deep. He has many questions left to deal with. He has many difficult decisions ahead, and a critical parliamentary election in Serbia on December 23. We also look to President Kostunuica's leadership in the implementation of Dayton. He told me in Skopje that he sees Dayton as one of his three constitutions -- along with the 1992 FRY constitution and UN Security Council Resolution 1244 for Kosovo. This is a positive sign. But we should expect more. Dayton is more than the words negotiated here five years ago. Like any constitution, it is a living document, one that must adapt to new realities and confront new challenges as Bosnia grows and matures. Dayton can and should be improved -- not by reopening it, but by bolstering it with agreements like last year's New York Declaration. (...) -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/3/_/920292/_/974669384/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? 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Alcatel, world leader in DSL solutions. http://www.nytimes.com/ads/email/alcatel/index.html \----------------------------------------------------------/ Sending Kosovars Home, an Awkward German Moment http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/20/world/20GERM.html November 20, 2000 By ROGER COHEN MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 17 The girl is pale-skinned and green- eyed with blond hair cut to frame her face. Now 12, she arrived in Germany from Kosovo almost two years ago; her German is now near perfect. At home in her adoptive land, she seems a model immigrant, bright and integrated. But Lumturije Bytyqi is to be expelled from Germany on Monday. She must leave with her two brothers, 15 and 9, and her parents. They have been told to gather outside their Munich asylum-seekers' home for transport to the airport, where a special flight to Pristina, Kosovo's capital, awaits the family and others like them. "I like my life here," the girl says, sitting in a room where half- packed suitcases are piled in a corner. "German was not difficult to learn. But now I am being sent back and I don't understand why." Her father, Zymber, a crumpled unshaven figure, says the family's only plan once in Kosovo is "somehow to survive the winter." For German authorities, this is a clear-cut case. The Bytyqi family, like about 160,000 other Kosovo Albanians, was admitted to Germany as a refugee family because of persecution and a war; the war is now over, so the Kosovars must return home. "Legal alternatives are exhausted," said Stefanie Weber, a Bavarian Interior Ministry official. "They must go." Deportation has become a non- word in German since Hitler and no official here would ever use the term, "deportieren." But departures, forced or not, have been proceeding briskly in the southern state of Bavaria, where about 22,000 Kosovo Albanians remained at the start of the year. Of these, 16,000 have now left, said Hermann Weishaupt, an official dealing with foreigners. About 12,000 flew out "voluntarily," another 3,000 chose freely to go overland, and 1,000 were "sent back." That drastic measure, and the linguistic contortions dictated by history that surround it, illustrate the highly charged nature of an intensifying debate about immigration in Germany, the European country with the largest population, and, at seven million, the largest number of foreigners. As elsewhere in Europe, that debate centers on whether foreigners like the Bytyqis should be allowed to stay, and if so how far they should adapt to the local culture. The discussion goes deeper: should Germany, where nationhood has long been associated with blood lines and where it was more traditional to emigrate than to integrate strangers, view itself as a "land of immigration" at all? These questions reflect what is now the fundamental divide in many European countries, accentuated in Germany both by its past and the size of the foreign minority. On one side stands a resurgent band of patriots angered by what they see as the dilution of German national identity through an influx of foreigners; on the other, the German "Europeans" forged by postwar culture who say the German nation state died with Hitler and the only future for the country is as a multi-cultural unit of the European Union. This month, Bavaria's dominant Christian Social Union, a sister party to the opposition Christian Democrats, made its position clear. "Germany is not a classical country of immigration and must not be in the future," it stated. The party added that any foreigner in Germany must adapt to a "Leitkultur," or "guiding culture" it defined as having a "European western foundation of values rooted in Christianity, the Enlightenment and Humanism." Given that the more than two million Turks in Germany are Muslims, as are most Kosovars (albeit few of them very religious), the reference to a western and Christian guiding culture was provocative. But similar language has been used recently by several Christian Democratic politicians. Laurenz Meyer, the new party secretary general, declared this month that, "I am proud to be a German" the exact language used on many badges of far-right parties. The reactions have been vigorous and included an extraordinarily angry outburst this month by the leader of the largest association of German Jews. `What is all this talk about guiding culture?" Paul Spiegel demanded. "Is it German guiding culture to hunt down strangers, set fire to synagogues, and kill homeless people? What is the point of turning the immigration question into a campaign theme, of babbling about so- called `useful' and `useless' foreigners?" Mr. Spiegel was referring to the tiny fringe of rightist Germans who have this year committed the acts he described, and to discussion about how to prevent the entry of unqualified foreigners like the Bytyqis while promoting that of educated immigrants able to spur high- tech industries. But his fury reflected Germany's growing unease. Danijela Karic, the daughter of immigrants who came to Germany from Yugoslavia in the 1960's under the country's former gastarbeiter (or guest worker) program, now works for the Interior Ministry in Bavaria, the most conservative and Roman Catholic of Germany's states. She has no doubts about her current mission to send Kosovo Albanians home. "You cannot compare the reasons why people like my parents came and why those now here from Kosovo came," she said. "My father came as a guest worker, with the idea that he would work for a few years and then go back. But he had the will to stay and the readiness to learn the language and accept the ground rules of German society. The Kosovars are not working, the war is over, and German society is supporting them." A colleague, Michael Ziegler, added that Germany itself was a very different place from the country of the 1960's, when the economy was booming. How, he asked, can you have "guest workers" today when there are more than three million Germans unemployed? In Canada, Australia or the United States, he said, immigrants "were wanted and needed to civilize the country." But Germany, he suggested, was in danger of losing its civilization by becoming a place where people of different cultures lived beside each other with no binding thread. All the Bytyqis know is their immediate fate: forced return to a Kosovo where their home has been destroyed by the Serbs and no job awaits. Zymber Bytyqi carries a bag full of official correspondence informing him of the repeated rejection of his requests for asylum. A recent letter, dated Sept. 5, told him that if he was still in Germany after Oct. 5, he and his family must reckon with "Abschiebung" that is, "sending away." On appeal, this deadline was extended to Nov. 20. Mr. Bytyqi has been in Germany, at first illegally, then with temporary papers, for seven years. He fled from Kosovo after the Albanians in his factory in Urosevac were replaced by Serbs and he found himself jobless. Since arriving in Munich, he has worked on building sites and, most recently, at an Italian restaurant, earning about $1,000 a month. Some of this money was sent home, where his wife and three children remained until the end of 1998. Then, as conflict and killing between Serbs and Albanians intensified, he paid about $4,000 to Albanian people-smugglers to bring the family to Germany. Under Germany's welfare system, the newly reunited Bytyqi family was housed and fed and, as Lumturije explains, given about $40 a month spending money for each adult and $20 for each child. Her education, and that of her brothers, was paid, as were medical and dental bills. Mr. Weishaupt of the Bavarian Interior Ministry put the cost to the German taxpayer at about $450 a month per immigrant a sum that, together with high unemployment, helps explain German reluctance to embrace mass immigration, although it is a fact of postwar German life. As in France, the large Muslim presence stirs particular unease. This month, a D?sseldorf court sentenced Muhammad Metin Kaplan, a radical Islamic leader from Turkey often referred to as the "caliph of Cologne," to four years' imprisonment for ordering the killing in Berlin of a rival, more moderate religious leader. Mr. Kaplan heads a Cologne-based group called "Islamic State" that has called for the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate in Anatolia. Volker Brinkmann, the state prosecutor, said Mr. Kaplan and his followers "believe they live in a state within a state in the Federal Republic of Germany and attempts to adapt, to integrate, are foreign to these fundamentalists." Mr. Bytyqi, a Muslim in name but not much more, says that he has tried to integrate, although he speaks no German, and would like to become a German citizen. Alexander Schmidt, who runs the asylum-seekers' home where the family has been housed, described him as an honest hard worker who had never given trouble. "I would at least have liked to stay the winter," said Mr. Bytyqi. "I was even ready to send my family home, if I had been allowed to stay. But it seems there is no way for people like us to get permanent papers or citizenship." In Germany, as in most of Europe, the uncertain quest for asylum is the only way for a foreigner with no special qualification to be allowed to remain. Because he will not face persecution in a largely Serb-free Kosovo, Mr. Bytyqi's asylum request was refused. In official terms, he is going willingly no police escort will be required to get the family to the airport. So they will be listed among the voluntary departures rather than the deported. As such, they will qualify for a last payment of about $600 from German authorities to help them on their way. Asked if it was not difficult for her, as the daughter of immigrants, to do this work, Ms. Karic of the Interior Ministry replied, "No, I am a functionary, and as such can only pose myself one question: do they have a right to stay, according to the law, or do they not?' 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Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Mon Nov 20 13:46:43 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:46:43 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Ignatieff on Kosova Message-ID: On Wednedsay, November 29, at 4:15 p.m. in HA 103, Michael Ignatieff, author of "Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond" and other works on ethnicity, conflict and human rights; member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and Visiting Professor, Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government, will speak on "Self-Determination, Secession, and Kosovo." From mehollim at hotmail.com Mon Nov 20 14:24:18 2000 From: mehollim at hotmail.com (Mimoza Meholli) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:24:18 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: Brandeis forum on Kosovo Message-ID: >Dear Friends of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public >Life, > >On Tuesday December 12, 2000, Brandeis will host a roundtable discussion on >the 1999 conflict in Kosovo and its lessons for the future, featuring >members of the Independent Commission on Kosovo, chaired by Judge Richard >Goldstone of South Africa. We can accommodate a limited number of >observers for this event. This message briefly describes the event, and >offers you the opportunity to request a more detailed letter of invitation. > >The occasion for this forum is the release of the report by the >Independent Commission on Kosovo, a 13-member panel sponsored by the >government of Sweden. The report was presented to Secretary-General Annan >on October 23, 2000, and it is now available on the Commission's web site >at http://www.kosovocommission.org. The report examines key developments >prior to, during and after the Kosovo war, including systematic violations >of human rights in the region. > The Brandeis roundtable will include Judge Goldstone and several other >members of the Commission, in conversation with a distinguished group of >scholars, diplomats, journalists, and activists. Event sponsors are the >International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, the Center for >German and European Studies, and the Department of Politics. > >The cost of the event is $30, which includes lunch. To sign up, please >reply by email to Jennifer Rouse at jrouse at brandeis.edu and send your >address or FAX number to request a more detailed letter of invitation. Space is limited, so reservations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. > > >Best, > >Daniel Terris >Director >International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life > >Daniel Terris >Director, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life >Brandeis University, MS 086 >Waltham, MA 02454-9110 USA > >(781) 736-8577 >(781) 736-8561 (FAX) > >terris at brandeis.edu >http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics > > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From kbejko at hotmail.com Mon Nov 20 14:31:42 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:31:42 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Tirana/Shqiptaret/Zagreb Summit Message-ID: Tirana n? konsultime me partit? shqiptare t? rajonit 20.11.2000 17:00 (CET) Tirana zyrtare filloi sot serin? e takimeve konsultuese me p?rfaqesuesit politike shqiptare n? rajon. Ministri i jasht?m, Paskal Milo, tha se Shqip?ria synon q? n? takimin q? do t? zhvillohet k?t? jav? n? Zagreb t? mbroj? interesat e t? gjith? shqiptar?ve, pavar?sisht se ku jetojn? ata. Kryetari i Partis? s? Properitetit Demokratik n? Maqedoni, Ymer Ymeri, tha se kjo k?rkes? nuk ka asgj? t? p?rbashk?t me tez?n e krijimit t? Shqip?ris? s? Madhe _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From kbejko at hotmail.com Mon Nov 20 15:54:04 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:54:04 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] News:Albania/Greece Message-ID: [10] Albania pledges to improve human rights legislation TIRANA, 18/11/2000 (ANA/Reuters) Albania pledged on Friday to draw up improved citizens' rights legislation following Greece's complaints over the mistreatment of the ethnic Greek minority in the south of the small Balkan country, which culminated in violence during the October local elections. "The prime minister expressed his conviction that Albania will compile and apply an advanced legislation, one of the most progressive in Southeastern Europe...The legislation would further improve the rights of all Albanian citizens," an Albanian government spokesman said. Greece reacted strongly to the unfair treatment of ethnic Greeks in Albania during last month's elections warning that country that such behavior could damage its relations with the European Union. Ethnic Greeks in Himara complained that police kept them away from polling stations. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had said there were "serious irregularities" in the area. Greece's Foreign Ministry General Secretary George Savaidis on a visit to Tirana told Albanian Prime Minister Ilir Meta that Tirana had to review its legislation on minorities if it wanted to get closer to the EU. EU member Greece has cited alleged voting violations during October local elections in and around the Greek speaking town of Himare, on Albania's western coast. Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou has written to European Commissioner for External Relations Chris Patten about what he said was a serious lack of democracy in Albania and a need to respect the rights of the Greek minority. The EU is expected to send a committee in early 2001 to discuss a cooperation agreement with Albania. [11] Papandreou answers Karatzaferis charges of altering Greek-Albanian border Athens, 18/11/2000 (ANA) Foreign Minister George Papandreou said on Friday that Albania's failure to respect the principles on which its bilateral relations with Greece were built would not only create problems in its relations with Greece but also with its European course. Papandreou was responding to a question put by independent deputy George Karatzaferis about delineating the Greek-Albanian border. Answering Karatzaferis' question more specifically, Papandreou said that Greece and Albania had both signed an friendship and cooperation agreement proclaiming their intention to preserve existing borders between their countries in 1996. This was followed by a 1998 initiative, the minister explained, to step up cooperation between the Greek and Albanian defense ministries on maintaining and increasing border lookouts. Under this agreement, he said, a joint Greek-Albanian committee met every four months to discuss this issue, with the next meeting scheduled to take place in Ioannina on November 22-23. Papandreou stressed that there was no issue of changing borders. Karatzaferis responded with very strong words and accused the minister of lying, claiming that through the above process, one border post, water-supply pipes, fields and property had passed over to the other side of the border. Papandreou replied in more low-key fashion, saying that "Greece is now a country that is proud and independent, which wins its battles in a more effective way than in older times which brought the country to tragic moments, such as Cyprus." At another point, Papandreou also said that agreements between Greece and Albania specifically stress respect for fundamental human and minority rights as a condition for good bilateral relations. "This also means the Greek minority, whether they live in Himare or anywhere else," he said. [12] Albanian government spokesman publicises Albanian PM's replies to Greek PM's letter GJIROKASTER, 18/11/2000 (ANA - P. Barkas) Albanian government spokesman Thoma Gelci on Friday publicized the replies given by Albanian Prime Minister Ilir Meta to a letter by Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis, delivered on Wednesday by Greek Foreign Ministry Secretary General Savvaidis. On the question of Greece's position on Albania's foreign policy, Gelci said Meta clarified the Albanian government's position which "considers Greece, as well as Italy, as strategic partners of Albania." Referring to the cancellation of the military agreement between the corresponding defense ministries (resulting in the withdrawal from Albania of the Greek force in Tirana last August) which constituted another part of Simitis' letter, Meta clarified that "this was the result of technical and not political problems." Gelci also said the Albanian Prime Minister did not accept that "there are blocked Greek investments in the country, because Albanian reality by itself speaks of Greek investments on the increase." _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. From albtartari at yahoo.com Mon Nov 20 08:01:58 2000 From: albtartari at yahoo.com (alban tartari) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:01:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Mbas Mortit Message-ID: <20001120130158.15287.qmail@web5503.mail.yahoo.com> Mbas Mortit nga alban tartari Dhe e ndame buken bashke,Vella, Dhe kripen, Dhe zemren, Dhe lotet, Bujaria e shqiptarit Nuk mbeti thjesht shkruar ne vargje poetesh... Se ne jemi dy rruaza te te njejtit gjak, Vella, Dy kokat e Shqipes, qe s'bejne dot pa njera-tjetren... Ne, dhimbjen ndajme bashke, Vella, Se nje Nene kemi: Shqiptarine, Ate te miren,te dashuren, te vjetren... (Shkurt, 1999-tetor 2000) Ne vertete u pame mbasi ra ky mort, thote Kadreja, atehere kur gjysma e kombit, i shkoi gjysmes tjeter per vizite...Dyert dhe zemrat u hapen... per Vellezrit... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Mon Nov 20 17:29:08 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:29:08 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: Rugova's Supporters Miffed at Snub from EU-Balkans Summit (AFP, Nov 20, 2000) Message-ID: <3A19A5B4.42722E9E@bndlg.de> http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=222241§ion=Kosovo Rugova's Supporters Miffed at Snub from EU-Balkans Summit GENEVA, Nov 20, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) An aide to Ibrahim Rugova criticized European leaders Monday for not inviting the Kosovo Albanian leader to a Balkans summit later this week. Edita Tahiri of the Kosovo Democratic League also said that governments were too quick to embrace new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, who she said had yet to show that he was taking a new approach to Kosovo. "Mr. Rugova should have been invited to the Zagreb summit," Tahiri, Rugova's foreign policy adviser, told journalists here. European leaders are convening in Zagreb on Friday for the summit that is expected to intensify steps to bring Yugoslavia, under the new leadership of Kostunica, into the fold. The Kosovo Democratic League won the lion's share of votes in municipal elections held in Kosovo on October 28. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse) -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> Create your business web site your way now at Bigstep.com. It's the fast, easy way to get online, to promote your business, and to sell your products and services. Try Bigstep.com now. http://click.egroups.com/1/9183/3/_/920292/_/974761270/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From albania at netzero.net Mon Nov 20 21:41:03 2000 From: albania at netzero.net (Nikoll A Mirakaj) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:41:03 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Qeveria greke po miraton nje amendament per legalizimin e emigranteve ne Greqi. Ai eshte pritur me rezerva nga shqiptaret. Message-ID: <013601c05364$85ab3980$d805b3d8@albania> Radio Kontakt Qeveria greke po miraton nje amendament per legalizimin e emigranteve ne Greqi. Ai eshte pritur me rezerva nga shqiptaret. Ne Greqi eshte rihapur diskutimi i ceshtjes se emigraneteve, kur eshte njoftuar se nje tjeter ligj do te diskutohet ne parlament. Zyrtare greke thone se behet fjale per nje amnedament te qeverise greke, prej te cilit perfitojne emigrantet e paligjshem, pjesa dermuese e te cileve ne Greqi prbehet nga shqiptaret. Nga ky projektamendament, i cili do te kaloje per miratim gjate kesaj jave, mund te perfitojne vetem ata emigranteqe deri me daten 145 Nentor kane mbushur dy vjet qendrim ne Greqi. Nese amenadmenti miratohet , brenda gjashte muajsh te interesuarit duhet te dorezojne nje deshmi penaliteti dhe nje vertetetim se jane ne marredhenie pune ne shtetin grek. Korrespondentet ne Atrhine thone se emoigrantet shqiptare nuk i kane pritur mire diskutimet e fundit per legalizmin e tyre, pasi ata thone se kjo ceshtje eshte shtyre per me vone qe prej disa vitesh dhe se qeverite greke ne jo pak raste kane miratuar ligje per legalzimin e emigranteve, te cilat nuk kane gjetur asnjehere zbatim. Nga ana tjeter Greqia ende nuk ka ratifkuar nje marreveshje per punesimin sezonal, e firmosur qe ne vitin 1996 me qeverine e atehershme dhe qe i krijonte disa kushte sigurie perfituesve te kesaj marreveshje. Nderkaq komuniteti shqiptar ne Greqi, i cili perben mbi 50 perqind te emigranteve te huaj, nuk ehste ende i konsoliduar dhe interesat e shqiptareve ne Greqi, mbeten te paperfaqesuar, keshtu qe edhe kerkesat e tyre injorohen nga qeveria greke. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From kbejko at hotmail.com Tue Nov 21 10:15:26 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:15:26 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] INS on H1-Bs Message-ID: For those of you who are not fortunate to have permanent residency in the US the following stats might be of some interest. It sounds like the INS approves about 90% of the applications of aliens seeking temporary employment under the sponsorship of a company. Suffice it to say apply early! http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/services/employerinfo/report2.pdf _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. 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Name: albsa.doc Type: application/msword Size: 24576 bytes Desc: albsa.doc URL: From albanianpride at hotmail.com Wed Nov 22 08:18:38 2000 From: albanianpride at hotmail.com (ardian kanina) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:18:38 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Turistet Angleze zbulojne Shqiperine Message-ID: Dje kanali televiziv nderkombetar BBC WORLD i kushtoj rendesi njoftimit te disa agjensive turistike Angleze si "Regent" dhe "Sun Travel " te cilat ne filalet e tyre ghitheandej Britanise se Madhe turisteve do t'ju servirin edhe Shqiperine si destinacion Turistike. Nuk mund te mos perfshinim Shqiperine ne destinacionet turistike u shpreh pronari i agjensise Regent per BBC WORLD .Duhet te kemi parasysh qe Riviera Shqiptare eshte nje nga perlat e Detit Mesdhe dhe qytetet Antike te civilizimeve te ndryshme ndodhen shume prane kesaj Riviere te cilat do te terheqin shume turiste Angleze shprehej pronari i "Regent Agensi". Kemi kontaktuar me Ministrine e Jashtme Angleze per heqjen e Shqiperise nga lista e vendeve jo te sigurta per Turistet.Une dhe disa agent turistike kemi qene ne Shqiperi dhe kemi konstatuar nje situate normale pra Ministria e Jashtme Angleze duhet ta ndryshoje qendrimin ndaj sigurise ne Shqiperi shprehej pronari i Regentit. Kemi pergatitur disa mijera broshura me informacion turistike nga Albania te cilat do ti hedhim tek filialet tona ne Britani shprehej ky pronar per BBC WORLD.Ne do te fillojme pranveren tjeter edhe me organizimin e turisteve ne grupe apo individe dhe kemi realizuar kontaktet me hotelet atje.Mendojme qe te ndertojme edhe Hotele , fusha Golfi per te tehequr sa me shume turiste Angleze . Emisioni i BBC WORLD kushtuar Shqiperise shoqerohej gjithashtu me film nga Riviera Shqiptare dhe qyteti Antik i Butrintit.Nga Butrinti paraqitej nje gazetar i BBC WORLD-it i cili shprehej ne perfundim : "Dielli ketu nuk perendon kurre dhe per turistat Angleze (edhe te huaj ) Butrinti dhe Shqiperia nuk ka per te perenduar kurre si vend turistike". Kur gazetarja e BBS WORLD-it po thoshte keto fjale ne sfond ishte "Live" amfitetari i Butrintit ,Liqeni perreth , deti Jone , kodrat me pyeje si dhe djelli qe po perendonte ne bregdetin Shqiptar sikur kishte krijuar nje kartoline te arte ne ekranin televiziv. Personalisht ky emision mu duke shume objektive larg atyre emisioneve qellimkeqe te disa kanaleve televizive te huaja qe paraqesin vetem disa rruge me balte apo disa lagje periferike te Tiranes te cilat i gjene ne cdo qytet te vendeve te zhvilluara. me nderime ardi... p.s Para pak kohesh degjova qe Ministria e Turizmit ne Shqiperi do te fillonte me nje kampanje imazhi ne bote rreth Shqiperise,nder te tjera disa video me film turistiko- kulturor nga Shqiperia do te transmetoheshin ne rreth 40 vende .Nuk e di nese eshte realizuar nje gje e tille por shoh qe ministria e Turizmit akoma nuk po paraqitet me nje Web-Page per te pasqyruar bukurite e atdheut dhe informacion pozitiv nga Shqiperia, dhe kjo nuk mund te tolerohet kur 20gazeta Shqiptare kane web-page dhe nje ministri e tille nuk ka as e-mail. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Tue Nov 21 15:33:28 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 21:33:28 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: Kosovo Politician Doubts Bush Would Be Isolationist (Reuters, November 21, 2000) Message-ID: <3A1ADC18.F2DA7E@bndlg.de> http://news.excite.com/news/r/001121/12/politics-yugoslavia-bush-dc Kosovo Politician Doubts Bush Would Be Isolationist Updated 12:56 PM ET November 21, 2000 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kosovo politician Veton Surroi said on Tuesday he doubted a U.S. administration led by Texas Gov. George W. Bush would withdraw from the Balkans. But a Bush administration might not share the enthusiasm of the outgoing administration of President Clinton for intervention in southeastern Europe. Surroi, speaking at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, said such radical changes in U.S. policy usually took decades. Bush's senior national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told The New York Times in an interview last month that under a Bush administration, the United States would no longer participate in peacekeeping in the Balkans. The Bush campaign later assured NATO that he would not withdraw U.S. peacekeeping forces unilaterally. Surroi, an independent politician and publisher who took part in the Rambouillet negotiations before the Kosovo war last year, said: "To get to a point of isolationism in U.S. behavior in the Balkans it will take very much (time). "I don't think, from what I know of some of the people in the Republican advisory group ... I don't think there is a willingness to make these abrupt changes in foreign policy. "What may probably happen, if there is a Bush administration, is a continuation, maybe not with fervor or with the same passion," he added. Two weeks after the U.S. presidential elections on Nov. 7, the campaigns of Bush and Vice-President Al Gore are wrangling over the crucial counting of votes in the state of Florida, which holds the key to victory in the Electoral College. Surroi said that a U.S. withdrawal from peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Kosovo was less about the Balkans than about the credibility of the North Atlantic alliance, which successive U.S. administrations have seen as a key element in U.S. national security. Surroi said he was skeptical about the extent of change in Serbia since the electoral defeat of president Slobodan Milosevic, the man who tried to suppress ethnic Albanian nationalism in the province of Kosovo. He said that the new president, Vojislav Kostunica, continued to depend on the military and security personnel who helped keep Milosevic in power -- such as army chief of staff Nebojsa Pavkovic and state security chief Rade Markovic. "Milosevic's departure has shown the possibility for Serbs to make changes, but the changes have not been made," he said. "Serbia will have to go through a very painful experience of, not only economic transformation, but something that is much harder and harsher and that is de-Nazification," he added. -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/3/_/920292/_/974899251/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From ipilika at hotmail.com Wed Nov 22 12:32:38 2000 From: ipilika at hotmail.com (Iris Pilika) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:32:38 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Five dead in Kosova Message-ID: Five dead in latest Kosovo violence Investigators search for clues after the explosion at Yugoslavia's chief representative in Pristina, Kosovo, on Wednesday November 22, 2000 Web posted at: 1336 GMT PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Five people, including four police officers, have been killed in the latest outbreak of violence in Kosovo. One man has died following a bomb blast at the official residence of Yugoslavia's chief representative in Kosovo. The dead man was one of at least two injured in the explosion at the home of Stanimir Vukicevic -- who was not hurt -- in Pristina on Wednesday morning. The independent Beta news agency said Vukicevic's driver was severely injured in the explosion and that a committee security guard was slightly wounded. The incident was confirmed by Bernard Kouchner, the head of the United Nations-led administration in Kosovo, who said one of the men had died, though he did not say whether the dead victim was the driver. The bombing came after four Serb policemen were killed in a clash with an armed ethnic Albanian group near the village of Konculj, in a tense area of southern Serbia near Kosovo on Tuesday night. Zoran Djindjic, coordinator of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia bloc, said one policeman had been confirmed dead while three others were reported missing. "Yesterday afternoon and overnight there was an intrusion of commandos from Drenica (in Kosovo) into the area around Bujanovac and Presevo and there were widescale clashes which could grow into a real war," Djindjic told a news conference on Wednesday. He said that according to the latest information 400 "Albanian terrorists" entered a five km (three mile) security zone by the Kosovo boundary. Kouchner: Bomb was "carefully executed act of violence" He said local Serb police had intercepted guerrilla communication according to which the three missing policemen were also dead. "According to our information so far four policemen were killed," Djindjic said. Beta said the police officers' bodies were found following a clash with members of the Liberation Army for Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB). The UCPMB, named after three predominantly ethnic Albanian municipalities in the region, is believed to have been involved in several clashes with Serb police over the last year. Vukicevic heads Yugoslavia's government's liaison committee with Kosovo's international administration. A U.N. spokeswoman said Vukicevic had been among seven people in the house when the bomb exploded, but that he was not injured. Kosovo's minority Serbs have been targets of numerous attacks by ethnic Albanians after Yugoslav forces withdrew from the province last year following 78 days of NATO air strikes. And Kouchner said: "This was not a random act of violence; it was well-prepared and very carefully executed. "This was a professional job, and the perpetrators were willing to take enormous risks to achieve their ends. "As I have repeatedly said, Kosovo remains in crisis. The conflict between the two communities is not over." Kouchner said a "trend of premeditated violence" had begun with the murders less than two weeks ago of four Roma gypsies who had returned to their homes in Kosovo. He said there were also reports of attacks on Serb police in the boundary area between Kosovo and Serbia proper on Tuesday. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the blast in Pristina, which happened at 0440 (0340GMT). Captain Charles Valdes-Scott, a spokesman for KFOR, the United Nations' NATO-led peacekeeping force, said: "The first floor of the back of the house is destroyed. "It is a deliberate attack, it is not a leak from the gas main." The explosion sent glass and debris flying up to 150 yards and nearby buildings suffered broken windows, including one housing the academy of the Kosovo Protection Force, the successor of the now formally disbanded rebel Kosovo Liberation Army. Beta named Vukicevic's driver as Goran Jeftic, and said the security guard was Goran Popovic. The bomb was thought to consist of between five and 10 kg of explosives placed behind the two-storey house, said Captain Valdes-Scott. He said both injured were taken to a British military hospital near Pristina. A leader in the reformist alliance in Belgrade backing new Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica condemned what he described as a typical terrorist attack against the federal Yugoslav state. Momcilo Trajkovic of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia bloc is coordinating plans by the Yugoslav government to set up a commission dealing with the issue of Kosovo's status. "The blast was a clear message to the federal government and its intention to establish a commission for Kosovo," he said. The Associated Press & Reuters contributed _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Thu Nov 23 14:28:32 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:28:32 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: ABC/AFP: Authorities complete exhumation of bodies from war in Kosovo / With Exhumation over, Clearer Picture of Atrocities in Kosovo Emerges (Nov 23, 2000) Message-ID: <3A1D6FE0.1CED0CBB@bndlg.de> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-22nov2000-98.htm Authorities complete exhumation of bodies from war in Kosovo The task of exhuming the bodies of victims of the war in Kosovo is now complete and the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal is in a position to draw up a clearer picture of the atrocities committed, the chief prosecutor said today. "We have finished our exhumation program and can now build up a complete picture of the extent and pattern of crimes," Carla del Ponte said. She said almost 4,000 bodies or parts of bodies have been exhumed and examined. But she accepted that even after two years work, the final death toll from the 1999 Serb terror campaign against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo could not be fully established. "It will never be possible to provide an accurate figure for the number of people killed, because of deliberate attempts to burn the bodies or to conceal them in other ways," she said. This year, the tribunal's team of workers in Kosovo have located 325 mass graves and exhumed 1,577 bodies, having dug up 2,108 corpses at 15 sites in 1999. A spokeswoman for Ms del Ponte said: "The task of the tribunal is not to provide complete figures. We have enough evidence with the exhumations conducted until now." ? 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation _______________________________________________________________________ http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=223314§ion=Kosovo With Exhumation over, Clearer Picture of Atrocities in Kosovo Emerges THE HAGUE, Nov 23, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) The grisly task of exhuming the bodies of victims of the war in Kosovo is now complete and the UN war crimes tribunal is in a position to draw up a clearer picture of the atrocities committed, the chief prosecutor said Wednesday. "We have finished our exhumation program and can now build up a complete picture of the extent and pattern of crimes," Carla del Ponte said, adding that "almost 4,000 bodies or parts of bodies have been exhumed and examined." But she accepted that even after two years' work, the final death toll from the 1999 Serb terror campaign against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo could not be fully established. "It will never be possible to provide an accurate figure for the number of people killed, because of deliberate attempts to burn the bodies or to conceal them in other ways," she said. This year, the tribunal's team of workers in Kosovo have located 325 mass graves and exhumed 1,577 bodies, having dug up 2,108 corpses at 15 sites in 1999. A spokeswoman for del Ponte said here: "The task of the Tribunal is not to provide complete figures. We have enough evidence with the exhumations conducted until now." Although del Ponte's announcement was made in an address to the UN security council in New York on Monday, its contents were published by the tribunal here Tuesday. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse) -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/3/_/920292/_/975037500/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Thu Nov 23 14:39:16 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:39:16 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: Kostunica Slams International Community Over Kosovo Violence (AFP, Nov 23, 2000) Message-ID: <3A1D7264.39EB6BBA@bndlg.de> http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=223307 Kostunica Slams International Community Over Kosovo Violence BELGRADE, Nov 23, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) New Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has accused the international community of failing to provide security in Kosovo after deadly attacks by ethnic Albanian separatists on Serb targets. The Yugoslav authorities warned Wednesday of the risk of "a new war" in the Balkans, comments echoed by the head of Kosovo's UN administration Bernard Kouchner who warned that "dark days are coming back" to the region. In the first attack early Wednesday, a powerful bomb ripped through the home of Yugoslavia's top representative in Kosovo, killing a member of his staff in an attack which Kouchner denounced as a deliberate blow against peace. Stanimir Vukicevic, Kostunica's representative in the breakaway province escaped unscathed, UN officials said. Later Guerrillas ambushed Serbian police near the border with Kosovo, wounding four and leaving three others missing, presumed dead, after two days of clashes, Serbian officers told AFP Wednesday. No-one claimed responsibility for the attack, which international officials believe was the work of ethnic Albanians opposed to Yugoslav rule. "The wave of violence is a warning to the UN mission and to the international community. The extremists are now ready to step up the targeting of the Serb community," Kouchner said, noting that the attack took place two days before a Balkans Summit in Zagreb, where he is expected to meet Kostunica. The Yugoslav government, in a statement released on state television, demanded an emergency session of the UN security council, to condemn "the escalation in terrorist acts by Albanian extremists" which risked "provoking a new war in the region." The Security Council swiftly met, condemned the bombing and called for those responsible to be brought to justice. In a statement expressing its shock, the council also condemned the attack on Serbian policemen, describing both incidents as "criminal attacks". The United States also condemned the anti-Serb attacks, saying the violence threatens stability in the region. "The United States strongly condemns these attacks and calls upon all parties to cease violent confrontations," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said in a statement. Kostunica himself accused the international community of failing to ensure security in Kosovo and the surrounding security zone. "I note with regret that despite the victory of the democratic forces and our nation's opening up to the world, the international community has failed in its obligations regarding Yugoslavia," he wrote in a letter addressed to NATO Secretary General George Robertson. Zoran Djindic, leader of Kostunica's Democratic Opposition of Serbia, claimed at a Belgrade news conference that between 10 and 15 local police officers had been ambushed and pinned down by about 100 ethnic Albanian fighters. NATO sources confirmed the fighting continued Wednesday. The commander of Kosovo's NATO-led peacekeeping force, Lieutenant General Carlo Cabigiosu, said: "This is not an isolated action and we need to determine if the security situation is now degenerating because of an overall plan." Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority population launched an armed rebellion against Yugoslav rule in 1998. Yugoslav forces responded with a brutal campaign of murder and mass eviction which led to the intervention of NATO, which launched airstrikes and forced Belgrade's troops to quit the province in June last year. In the Presevo area of southern Serbia, where a 70,000 strong ethnic Albanian population forms the majority of the population, an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group continued the fight, hoping to unite the area with Kosovo. The Serbian authorities have attributed the attacks, and several others in recent months, to ethnic Albanian separatists of the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB). All the attacks have taken place within the so-called Ground Safety Zone, a five-kilometer (three-mile) security zone along the border with Kosovo. The zone is out of bounds for Serb troops and NATO peacekeepers but is patrolled by armed Serb police. NATO peacekeepers stopped a group of rebels and a truck-load of arms from crossing from Kosovo into Serbia-proper on Wednesday, a force spokesman told AFP. "At 9:00 am (0800) troops intercepted a group of ten people attempting to by-pass a checkpoint and go into (the rebel held village of) Dobrosin," Flight Lieutenant Mark Whitty said, "They were unarmed but carried radios and were wearing black uniforms. Later US troops attached to Kosovo's KFOR force stopped a truck carrying rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds, anti-personnel mines, a heavy machine gun and 5,000 rounds of ammunition from heading towards the village. "KFOR will not tolerate Kosovo being used as a base for insurgent activity," Whitty said. 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Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Thu Nov 23 14:32:15 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:32:15 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: BBC/AP: US condemns Albanian rebels in Serbia / Albright Condemns Kosovo Violence (22 November, 2000) Message-ID: <3A1D70BF.7B22BD02@bndlg.de> http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1036000/1036327.stm Wednesday, 22 November, 2000, 23:02 GMT US condemns Albanian rebels in Serbia The United States has strongly condemned a series of border attacks by ethnic Albanian rebels on police stations in southern Yugoslavia, in which four officers were killed. A communique from the State Department said the attacks -- and the bombing of the Yugoslav government mission in the Kosovo capital, Pristina -- were a threat to the stability of the southern Balkans. The statement said that, if Kosovo's leaders did not repudiate the militants, they would risk losing international moral sympathy. Yugoslav officials say several hundred rebels have infiltrated across the border from Kosovo and are besieging three police stations. Belgrade has warned it might be forced to send in the army. >From the newsroom of the BBC World Service _______________________________________________________________________ http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001122/wl/brf_us_kosovo_1.html Wednesday November 22 4:18 PM ET Albright Condemns Kosovo Violence WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (news - web sites) condemned the bombing of a building used by the Yugoslav representative in Kosovo and attacks by Albanian insurgents against Serbian police in southern Serbia. At a Wednesday news conference, Albright demanded an end to the violence, which she said constitutes a threat to the stability of Kosovo, a Serbian province, and the Balkan region. ``Continued violence erodes the moral support Kosovo has traditionally held in the international community,'' Albright said. The bombing in Pristina rocked a building used by Stanimir Vukicevic, the Yugoslav representative in Kosovo. A staff member was killed and at least four other people were injured, Albright said. Vukicevic reportedly was uninjured, she said. Copyright ? 2000 The Associated Press. -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/3/_/920292/_/975037501/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From info at trepca.net Thu Nov 23 13:37:02 2000 From: info at trepca.net (Trepca.net) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:37:02 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Top Rugova Aide, Xhemail Mustafa, Assassinated Message-ID: <005901c0557c$5f70af60$c5bfe6c2@kosovainfo> Top Rugova Aide, Xhemail Mustafa, Assassinated Prishtina, 23 November, Kosova Information Center (KIC) - Xhemail Mustafa (1954), a close aide to LDK leader Ibrahim Rugova, was shot and killed in Kosova capital Prishtina today (Thursday) afternoon. Mr. Mustafa was killed, reportedly by two as yet unidentified gunmen, in front of his home in Dardania district in downtown Prishtina shortly after 15:00 hrs. He was declared dead upon admission in Prishtina hospital. Hospital sources said he had recevived four to five gunshots to his chest and head. KFOR and the UN police sealed off the scene pending site investigations. The late Mustafa leaves behind his wife and two children. A prominent journalist and writer, Xhemail Mustafa was born in Gllamnik village, municipality of Podujeva, northeast of Kosova, in 1954. He studied humanities at the University of Prishtina. In the eighties, Mr. Mustafa was a journalist and editor with the culture section of the Rilindja newspaper, then the only daily in Albanian in Kosova. In the nineties, he was a leading KIC writer. Author of two books - a collection of literary essays and a diary of the spring 1999 war in Kosova - Mr. Mustafa was distinguished as a refined observer of literary and political phenomena. Xhemail Mustafa was one of the co-founders of the Democratic League of Kosova (LDK), the first noncommunist and democratic party formed in Kosova in December 1989. For a time, he was a member of the LDK Presidency. Since 1992, he was a spokesman and press advisor to Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the LDK and the President of the Republic of Kosova (1992-1999). Xhemail Mustafa is the second KIC member to have been assassinated. Enver Maloku, Mustafa's long-time friend and colleague, head of the KIC, was likewise assassinated in a similar fashion in Prishtina on 11 January 1999. A soft-spoken person, Mr. Mustafa will be missed sorely by his colleagues. "Xhemail Mustafa's killing is heavy blow to the efforts of the people of Kosova for freedom, democracy and independence", the LDK leadership said in its first reaction to the news of Mustafa's assassination. ----------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: info at trepca.net http://www.trepca.net ................................................................. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From wplarre at bndlg.de Thu Nov 23 14:40:16 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:40:16 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} PRESS: Serbs raise spectre of renewed Kosovo war (Times, NOVEMBER 23 2000) Message-ID: <3A1D72A0.AF995368@bndlg.de> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,40295,00.html THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23 2000 Serbs raise spectre of renewed Kosovo war BY RICHARD BEESTON, DIPLOMATIC EDITOR BELGRADE gave warning yesterday that it could be on the verge of a "large-scale war" with Kosovo, after suspected ethnic Albanian rebels carried out a two-pronged attack on Serb targets, leaving half a dozen people dead. In the most serious outbreak of fighting since moderates replaced the Milosevic regime in September, hundreds of ethnic Albanian separatist guerrillas reportedly crossed the administrative border from Kosovo and raided police units. Hours later in Pristina, capital of the province, a building used by the Yugoslav representative was ripped apart by a huge bomb explosion early in the morning. Nato's Kfor peacekeeping force said that one man had been killed in the attack and two injured. Lieutenant General Carlo Cabigiosu, the Kfor commander, said that more Nato troops would put on street patrol to deter further actions. Bernard Kouchner, the United Nations chief administrator in Kosovo, said that the bombing had been well-prepared and was aimed at blocking attempts at Serb-Albanian reconciliation. "The extremists are now ready to step up their targeting of the Serb community," M Kouchner said. In the earlier incident, four Serb policemen were reportedly killed at the border village of Konculj, in the Presevo Valley, in a raid by Albanian fighters that began on Tuesday and continued overnight. Zoran Djindjic, a moderate in the newly elected Government of President Kostunica, said that the guerrillas had surrounded scores of policemen. He said the situation was so serious that the special police - earlier accused of war crimes in Kosovo - should be brought back to help restore security. "Those are big clashes," said Mr Djindjic, claiming that the Albanians were armed with mortars and other heavy weapons. "This could lead to a large-scale war . . . We are warning the international community that if it tolerates this, there could be another flashpoint in the Balkans." He said that the rebels were operating in the three-mile demilitarised zone along the administrative border, from which Serb troops are barred. Nato acknowledged that it was trying to seal the rugged border, which runs along the American eastern sector of Kosovo. However, it insisted that the actions were taking place outside its area of operations. The group responsible for the raid is probably the Liberation Army of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedjam, a splinter group which surfaced after the Kosovo Liberation Army was disbanded last year. There have been fears of an upsurge in Albanian attacks ever since Mr Kostunica ousted Slobodan Milosevic during presidential elections. The West has welcomed Mr Kostunica, provided money for Serbia and reopened diplomatic relations with Belgrade. Kosovo Albanians fear that the rapprochement makes their chances of winning independence ever more remote. The former KLA leaders, who have stockpiled weapons despite Kfor's attempts to disarm them, suffered a second setback last month when the moderate Albanian nationalist Ibrahim Rugova won municipal elections in Kosovo. The danger is not only that the region could be plunged back into war, but that this time Kfor peacekeeping troops could be caught in the middle. Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Ltd -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/3/_/920292/_/975037506/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From kbejko at hotmail.com Fri Nov 24 13:01:30 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:01:30 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Albania disappointed by EU Message-ID: EU-BALKANS: SUMMIT, PRESIDENT MEJDANI DISAPPOINTED, ALBANIA FORGOTTEN (ANSA)- Zagreb, 24 NOV- The Albanian president Rexhep Mejdani during his speech at the EU-Balkans summit has expressed his disappointment over the failure of EU to keep its promises to Albania. This was confirmed by sources inside the Albanian delegation in Zagreb. According to Mejdani "none of the promises made were kept" and now the process of Albania's application for admission in the EU will be prolongued even further. For Albania the EU has forseen to mandate a commission that would set the means and time for a future ascenssion of Albania to the EU. After the opening remarks of the French president Jacques Chirac and of the president of European Commission Romano Prodi, the summit continues in a closed door session. Balcani news UE-BALCANI: VERTICE, PRESIDENTE MEJDANI DELUSO, ALBANIA DIMENTICATA (ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 24 NOV - Il presidente albanese Rexjep Mejdani durante il discorso al vertice Ue-Balcani di Zagabria ha espresso la sua ''delusione'' per ''le promesse non rispettate'' dell'Unione europea. Lo si e' appreso da fonti della delegazione albanese a Zagabria. Secondo Mejdani ''tutte le promesse fatte non sono state rispettate'' e ora l'Albania dovra' aspettare ancora molto tempo per l'adesione all' Ue. Per l'Albania l'Unione europea ha previsto di istituire una commissione che dovra' stabilire i modi e i tempi per una futura associazione ai Quindici. Dopo i discorsi di apertura del presidente francese Jacques Chirac e del presidente della commssione europea Romano Prodi, i lavori del vertice proseguono a porte chiuse. (ANSA). VD/MGA 24-NOV-00 12:35 NNNN 24/11/2000 14:32 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Mon Nov 27 04:35:20 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:35:20 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} PRESS: Albanians flee as Serb deadline nears (Guardian, November 27, 2000) Message-ID: <3A222AD8.BD34615E@bndlg.de> http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,403311,00.html Albanians flee as Serb deadline nears Refugees fear new offensive as tanks arrive at buffer zone. Nicholas Wood in Konculj Monday November 27, 2000 Hundreds of Albanian refugees were fleeing from south-eastern Serbia to Kosovo yesterday fearing an offensive by Yugoslav forces. A ceasefire between Serbian interior ministry police and a rebel Albanian group is due to end tonight. Dozens of cars and tractors carrying mainly women and children were queuing at the Kosovan border late last night. The UNHCR office in Kosovo said that at least 1,200 people had crossed into the province during the day. Tension has increased in the region since fierce fighting occurred last week between the Serb authorities and the Preshevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac Liberation Army, an offshoot of the Kosovo Liberation Army The guerrilla group, which receives arms and men from Kosovo, wants three Albanian-speaking towns in south-eastern Serbia to become part of an independent Kosovo. Last week's clashes were the most intense that the area has seen since the fighting began in February. There are consistent claims that the Yugoslav army has deployed tanks and troops in the region and local people are afraid that the Serbs are preparing for a new offensive. "There are lots of army, tanks and people digging trenches. We are all surrounded," said Burim Sylejman, 17, from the village of Oslare, who was taking 18 members of his extended family by tractor and trailer to Kosovo. He said that Yugoslav interior police and regular army troops were being sent to Bujanovac and the surrounding villages. Some families were unable to leave. "They've put sandbags in the streets and they have blocked the roads out of Ternovac, and they are turning people back." Behind him in the trailer his sister Amire Sylejman, 22, tried to comfort a boy. Both were crying. "Everyone has left their houses, we were forced to leave ours, too," she said. Near Konculj, the key village captured by the guerrillas last week, another man driving a tractor said he had seen seven tanks near by. Using tanks to retake ground lost to the Albanians would breach Serbia's agreement with K-for, the peacekeeping forces in Kosovo. The Yugoslav army is banned from entering a three-mile zone on the Serb side of the provincial border. A spokesman for K-For said it was unable to confirm or deny whether there had been any troop movements, because it was too far away. The refugee influx comes at an awkward time for the UN chief administrator in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner. He was due to meet the new Yugoslav president, Vojislav Kostunica, in Vienna today. They are both attending a summit held by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Belgrade has been putting more pressure on the UN in Kosovo to clamp down on the guerrillas. On Friday afternoon it announced its own three-day deadline - due to end today - for attacks to cease. Earlier last week Zoran Djindjic, one of Yugoslavia's most senior politicians, warned that if the international community continued to tolerate the situation it would lead to "full-scale war". K-For's spokesman, Flight Lieutenant Mark Whitty, said that the guerrillas and the Serbian authorities held talks at the weekend. K-For officials helped to broker the ceasefire signed on Friday. The guerrillas showed no sign of relinquishing any territory as the deadline approached on Sunday. Groups of soldiers carrying an assortment of machine guns and mortars manned the hilltops around Konculj. A local commander, Vullnet Ibishi, said nine tanks and 10 armoured personnel carriers, plus two trucks carrying paramilitaries, were seen on Saturday afternoon near Lucane, the next village down the valley. "We'll have to see what will happen. We are not going to do anything but we don't trust them," he said. On a hillside track dozens of men and boys equipped with spades were filling the potholes. "We have to improve it in case of casualties," one of the men said. The track led to guerrilla headquarters in the village of Dobrosin. Guardian Unlimited ? Guardian Newspapers Limited 2000 -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/3/_/920292/_/975324610/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From albania at netzero.net Mon Nov 27 06:21:43 2000 From: albania at netzero.net (Nikoll A Mirakaj) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 06:21:43 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Albania "Not So Happy" With Zagreb Summit Message-ID: <001a01c05864$3a136f60$6f67f6d1@albania> Albania "Not So Happy" With Zagreb Summit TIRANA, Nov 26, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Albania is "not so happy" with the results of Friday's Zagreb summit between European Union and Balkans leaders, Albanian Foreign Minister Paskal Milo said in Budapest Saturday. "Albania thinks that the European Union must take much more decisions in the pro-integration process in southeastern Europe," Milo said, speaking in English. "We expected to have much more support in the integration of Albania," he said. Albania, as well as four states of the former Yugoslavia -- Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and Macedonia -- are viewed as potential candidates of membership in the European Union. "Albania is not so happy with Zagreb," Milo told a press conference after a summit of the prime ministers of the 16 states of the Central European Initiative (CEI) which gathered Saturday to welcome Yugoslavia back into its ranks. In a joint declaration, the states of the regional cooperation organization nevertheless "welcomed the Final Declaration adopted by the Zagreb summit," and stressed the importance of the Croatian meeting between EU states and potential membership candidates "which enhances the stability and economic prosperity throughout the region". Only two of the CEI states -- Austria and Italy -- are EU members. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse) -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From wplarre at bndlg.de Sun Nov 26 15:58:13 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:58:13 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: KosovA/O news on 26 Nov 2000 from FreeB92/FreeSerbia Message-ID: <3A217965.6D06079F@bndlg.de> http://www.freeb92.net/archive/e/index.phtml?Y=2000&M=11&D=26 FreeB92 Last update: Nov 26, 2000 20:59 CET Albanians flee Serbia 18:44 GNJILANE, Sunday - More than a thousand Albanians fled southeast Serbia for Kosovo today in fear of a Yugoslav army attack. The UN High Commission for Refugees chief in Gnjilane Peter Beck told France Presse the refugees feared a Yugoslav attack in response to violence by the Liberation Army of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja. Crisis is test for international community says Simic 17:43 BELGRADE, Sunday - The crisis in southern Serbia is set to continue and will test Yugoslavia and the international community to its limits, Radio B92 was told today. Institute for International Policy and Economy co-worker Predrag Simic warned that Albanian extremists are hindering the democratic process and putting NATO in the same position as Milosevic, who fought his first and last battle in Kosovo. He pointed out that, like Milosevic, NATO and the US have miltary but not political power in the region. Simic continued that the international community was heading in the right direction but the UN and its partners must act more decisively. "If the crisis carries on, I think NATO would face the same fate Slobodan Milosevic did," he concluded. Spotlight on police crimes 20:59 BELGRADE, Sunday - The Humanitarian Law Centre is to hold a round table discussion about police abuses of power tomorrow with the aim of bringing those responsible to justice. The discussion will be attended by dismissed judges, Otpor activists and possibly the co-ministers of Justice and the Police. Centre official Duska Anastasijevic told Radio B92 the organisation had already published a report detailing illegal actions by the police between May and the September elections. She said that the centre aims to establish who was responsible so that legal action can be taken against them. Both sides as bad as each other, says Albanian leader 16:56 KOSOVO, Sunday - The Albanian leader in the southern Serbia villages at the centre of the recent clashes has told Radio B92 that both sides are guilty for the violence. Party for Democratic Action president Riza Halimi said the demilitarisation of the region was necessary, and that the very presence of the police was leading to tension. He added that the attacks on the internationally agreed patrols and checkpoints were absolutely unacceptable. Trajkovic: Serbian parliamentary elections in Kosovo 15:42 KOSOVO, Sunday - Democratic Opposition of Serbia co-ordinator for Kosovo and Metohija Momcilo Trajkovic said today that the Serbian parliamentary elections scheduled for December 23 would also be held in parts of Kosovo populated by Serbs regardless of UNMIK's stance against this. "Head of the UN Civil Mission Bernard Kouchner's stance that there are no technical conditions for the Serbian parliamentary elections to be held in the province and his view that clashes could be provoked because of the Albanian population's opposition are both contradictory and politically incorrect", Trajkovic told SRNA. Trajkovic said that the will of the Serbian population in Kosovo to exercise their right to vote was legal and legitimate. Trajkovic accused Kouchner of a pro-Albanian bias during his mandate in the province, labeling him the generator of the crisis in Kosovo. Growing tension as deadline draws near 15:19 BUJANOVAC, Sunday -- The situation in the demilitarised zone between Kosovo and southern Serbia remains calm today but B92 reports growing tension as the expiry of the 72-hour deadline for the withdrawal of armed Albanians imposed by the Serbian Government draws near. There have been reports of heavy artillery around the Albanian base and the Serbian police have expressed their readiness to take action should the order be given. Mayor of Bujanovac Stojance Arsic accused KFOR of being responsible for the latest clashes in the region. The citizens of Bujanovac have organised guards to protect themselves from any eventual attacks by Albanian extremists. Eyewitnesses have reported sightings of Albanian women and children from the area moving towards the Macedonian border. Commission for Missing Persons delegation in Yugoslavia 14:30 BELGRADE, Sunday - Representatives from the International Commission for Missing Persons arrived in Yugoslavia today. The delegation will hold talks with the Yugoslav authorities and associations representing the families of missing persons concerning this issue. The commission is planning to open a center in Belgrade where they will collect blood samples from the relatives of all missing persons to be compared at a later date with the remains of those who died during clashes in the former Yugoslavia. Ivanovic in favour of talks with Rugova 14:00 KOSOVO, Sunday - President of Kosovska Mitrovica Serbian National Council Oliver Ivanovic told the press today that talks with leader of the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova could be a positive move towards the solution of the current crisis in the Presevo valley in southern Serbia. Ivanovic said that such talks should be preceded by contact between Albanian representatives and the EU, NATO and the US whose role it would be to explain the current situation and point them towards a peaceful solution to the Kosovo problem. "Resolution 1244 is a sound framework and its full implementation would offer a solid basis for such talks", concluded Ivanovic. No official response to Kostunica's invitation 13:19 KOSOVO, Sunday - There has been no official response to date to Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's invitation to leader of the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova to begin urgent talks regarding the resolution of problems in Kosovo. Pristina's Albanian daily Koha ditore today published Kostunica's letter to Rugova in both Serbian and Albanian in which the Yugoslav president urged basic dialogue between Serbs and Albanians in order to deal with the problems in the region as soon as possible so as to ensure indefinite peace and stability. Prelevic: Force as a last resort 11:25 BELGRADE, Sunday -Solving the current problems in southern Serbia in co-operation with KFOR would be much more useful than responding with force, Internal Affairs Co-Minister Bozo Prelevic told B92 last night. Prelevic said that there was no doubt as to whether the Serbian police could take control of the security zone, but the question was should that be done and if so when. Prelevic said that talks with KFOR were held on a daily basis and they had shown willingness to be involved in solving this current crisis. "Force should only be used as a last resort after all other means have failed but the decision of whether to use such force is in the hands of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica", concluded Prelevic. Albanian separatists seek political solution 11:20 BUJANOVAC, Sunday - Albanian separatists in southern Serbia last night expressed their willingness to find a political solution to the current crisis in the region, reports Beta. "We are not out for blood and we do not want to kill or be killed", the leader of the so-called Liberation Army of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja Jonus Musliu told France Press last night. Musliu said that they had accepted the cease-fire but did not specify how long it would last, adding that their forces would remain in position. KFOR reported last night that Albanian rebels had accepted the cease-fire on the demilitarised zone between Kosovo and Serbia. _______________________________________________________________________ http://www.freeb92.net/archive/e/index.phtml?Y=2000&M=11&D=25 FreeB92 Last update: Nov 25, 2000 21:50 CET Bodies of policemen handed over 20:26 MERDARE, Saturday - The bodies of the three policemen killed on Wednesday by Albanian extremists were handed over by K-For representatives today. The dead men have been named as Dusko Gligoric, Dusko Djogovic and Jovan Cvetan. Radio B92 learned from unofficial sources close to the police that their bodies were found by members of the Liberation Army of Medvedja, Presevo and Bujanovac. High security surrounded the handing over of the three bodies. Police blocked the Nis-Pristina road near the village of Rudare and the border crossing Merdare. Journalists were not allowed to the check-point, and police in Kursumlija did not issue an official statement. _______________________________________________________________________ http://128.121.251.38/bnews/bnews.php?language=english Free Serbia Latest News 11/26/2000 18:30 GMT+1 -- State Security brings heavy weaponry Tension in Southern Serbia growing With the end of deadline given by Serbian Government for withdrawal of armed Albanian groups from the Bujanovac crisis region, tension in Serbian South is increasing. State Security Forces are bringing heavy weaponry and getting ready to intervene in the direction of Lucane, Mali Trnovac and Brezica fronts where the armed Albanian extremists are fortified, unless the ultimatum be proved to work out. The ultimatum of Serbian Government to the armed Albanians ends tomorrow at 19 o'clock. Source: FoNet 11/26/2000 13:46 GMT+1 -- Yugoslav President's appeal to Albanian leader No official reactions as yet For the time being there have been no official reactions to the Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's appeal addressed to the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo leader Ibrahim Rugova calling for an urgent dialogue aimed at resolving the Kosovo problem. However, the appeal was published today by the most of the Pristina Albanian-language dailies, Deutsche Welle reports. Source: FreeSerbia 11/26/2000 12:37 GMT+1 -- South Eastern Serbia: Tensions in Presevo valley There was a tense calm yesterday in Presevo valley. KFOR spokesman told BBC that cease-fire was observed by both sides. He went on to say that KFOR closed one of the crossings leading towards Presevo valley and stepped up control of the area along administrative border endeavouring to prevent illegal crossing of men and weapons to the territory of Serbia proper. KFOR will not intervene in the demilitarised zone as it had no mandate to operate there. Source: FreeSerbia -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/3/_/920292/_/975324607/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Mon Nov 27 04:31:54 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:31:54 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: Yugoslav Army Bolsters Boundary (AP, Nov. 27, 2000) Message-ID: <3A222A0A.36691ECF@bndlg.de> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001127/aponline011424_000.htm Yugoslav Army Bolsters Boundary By Aleksandar Vasovic Associated Press Writer Monday, Nov. 27, 2000; 1:14 a.m. EST BUJANOVAC, Yugoslavia -- Yugoslavia has bolstered its forces near the U.S.-patrolled boundary with Kosovo ahead of a deadline for NATO to crack down on ethnic Albanian militants who killed four Serb police. The new democratic government of Vojislav Kostunica believes the attacks in southern Serbia were launched by ethnic Albanian extremists operating from Kosovo. Belgrade is threatening to launch counterattacks on its side of the border if NATO cannot curb the infiltration's by Monday afternoon. "Police and the army are coordinating activities," said Vladan Batic, a leading Kostunica ally who visited the area Sunday. "... It is obvious that they are confronting sheer terrorism, undisguised separatism. They are terrorists and bandits and will be treated as such." Kosovo is a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia's main republic, but it has been under international control since last year and many residents want full independence. The crisis erupted last week when ethnic Albanian militants of the "Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac" attacked Serb positions in the Presevo Valley to unite the area with Kosovo. Although the area has a substantial ethnic Albanian population, the valley was not considered part of Kosovo and therefore was not included in the June 1999 agreement that sent NATO peacekeepers into Kosovo. The incidents cast doubt on NATO's ability to control Kosovo and also present a major crisis to the Kostunica government, which must defend the area without provoking the same international condemnation that erupted after Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on Kosovo rebels in 1998. That provoked the 78-day NATO bombing of Yugoslavia last year, which ended with Belgrade handing over the province to the United Nations and NATO. On Sunday, Yugoslav army T55 battle tanks and armored personnel carriers could be seen maneuvering near the three-mile buffer zone separating Kosovo from the rest of Serbia, Yugoslavia's main republic. The reinforcements were kept away from the zone, under terms of the agreement which bars heavy weapons from the buffer area. American troops patrol the Kosovo side. Nevertheless, the presence of additional tanks, armored personnel carriers and infantry was seen as a demonstration of Belgrade's resolve to prevent ethnic Albanian rebels from seizing and holding Serbian territory. Kosovo television reported one rebel fighter was wounded Sunday but gave no further details. The Yugoslav interior ministry estimates that about 1,000 ethnic Albanians were involved in the recent attacks and were receiving support from ethnic Albanian sympathizers in nine villages on Serb-controlled territory. Yugoslav officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the militants had smuggled small artillery pieces and more than 100 small mortars across the U.S.-patrolled boundary into positions on the Yugoslav side. According to an interior ministry report obtained by The Associated Press, ethnic Albanian militants were sending out nighttime patrols from sympathetic villages to gather intelligence information about Serb positions. The interior ministry report said Serb police "cannot hold out long unless they receive reinforcements from Serbia proper." The report recommended mobilizing Serb men of military age and using them to augment police units in the area. In Bujanovac, one of the towns in the contested area, Mayor Stojanca Arsic blamed the attacks on the Kosovo Liberation Army, the ethnic Albanian rebel group that fought Yugoslav forces in Kosovo last year but which NATO gave assurances had been disbanded. He urged NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo to "really disarm the supposedly demilitarized Kosovo Liberation Army" and prevent more weapons from reaching the buffer zone between Kosovo's boundary and Serbia proper. ? Copyright 2000 The Associated Press -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/3/_/920292/_/975324609/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Sat Nov 25 06:57:39 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:57:39 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: Kosovo is Europe's Biggest Problem, Kostunica Claims (AFP, Nov 25, 2000) Message-ID: <3A1FA933.F091DD33@bndlg.de> http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=224138§ion=Kosovo Kosovo is Europe's Biggest Problem, Kostunica Claims ZAGREB, Nov 25, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) The situation in Kosovo is the "biggest problem in Europe" which could spark more conflicts in the Balkans and beyond, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica warned participants at the EU-Balkan summit here Friday. "Kosovo today is certainly the biggest problem in Europe, which could provoke many other conflicts that seem to have been put out, in the Balkans and elsewhere," he declared. A fresh outbreak of violence in Kosovo and southern Serbia which has claimed the lives of several people in recent days cast a pall over the summit in the Croatian capital which brought together leaders from the European Union, former Yugoslav states and Albania in a bid to boost regional cooperation. "Kosovo is the only region where terror still reigns and the exodus of people from their ancestral homeland continues," said Kostunica, referring to violence against the ethnic Serbian minority by Kosovo's Albanian majority. UN Security Council resolution 1244 on Kosovo "remains a dead letter which cannot achieve what it must: the preservation of a multi-ethnic Kosovo and creating secure conditions for all" in the province, he declared. "Without complete respect for this resolution, then we won't have peace in Kosovo, the Balkans or Europe" said Kostunica. But he emphasized that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia -- made up of Serbia and Montenegro -- and other Balkan countries "shouldn't wait for the resolution of the Kosovo problem to begin reinforcing their cooperation." Kostunica hailed the Zagreb summit as the "most important political gathering in the Balkans in a decade." ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse) -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/3/_/920292/_/975200628/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From iliriana at usa.net Sat Nov 25 20:33:11 2000 From: iliriana at usa.net (Iliriana Mushkolaj) Date: 25 Nov 00 20:33:11 EST Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Kerkohet nje perkthyes Message-ID: <20001126013311.16957.qmail@nwcst283.netaddress.usa.net> Kerkohet nje perkthyes Anglisht-Shqip dhe anasjelltas ne Dartmouth University per nje peridhe disaditore. Mundesisht perkthyesi duhet te jete student i mjekesise dhe nga Manchester. Te interesuarit te kontaktojne Susan.C.Linsey ne: Susan.C.Linsey at Dartmouth.EDU ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 From wplarre at bndlg.de Sun Nov 26 02:57:00 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 08:57:00 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} PRESS: A LOOK AT. . . War Crimes and Punishment, By Diane F. Orentlicher - By Gary J. Bass (Washington Post, November 26, 2000) Message-ID: <3A20C24C.8C5B6542@bndlg.de> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56814-2000Nov25?language=printer A LOOK AT. . . War Crimes and Punishment By Diane F. Orentlicher Sunday , November 26, 2000 ; Page B03 When Yugoslavia's new president, Vojislav Kostunica, said last month that arresting ousted leader Slobodan Milosevic was not a priority for his fledgling government, his defiance seemed all too familiar. Long before Milosevic himself was indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague for atrocities in Kosovo, the former president reveled in denouncing the court and made Yugoslavia a haven for indicted war criminals from across the Balkans. But Kostunica has done something that Milosevic never did: Acknowledge Yugoslav responsibility for war crimes. Tribunal officials should respond with a new strategy--one that builds on Kostunica's avowed commitment to dealing with the past. Kostunica has indicated that Yugoslav war crimes should be addressed by a national truth commission. Officials in the new government have also hinted that Milosevic may face trial. At least for now, though, the government refuses to send Milosevic to The Hague. And so while Western countries have raced to embrace the new Yugoslav leader, the tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, has responded sharply. "Whatever President Kostunica may say," she said last week, "the surrender of Milosevic is a priority." That's true, but consider a larger point. The new situation in Serbia opens up possibilities for a transformed relationship between The Hague and Belgrade--one that could benefit the tribunal considerably. Kostunica is more susceptible than Milosevic to Western pressure to cooperate with the tribunal--and surely more disposed to confront Yugoslavia's responsibility for crimes committed in its name. While The Hague tribunal should complete its work, including its prosecution of Milosevic, it should find a way to include--and not displace--Yugoslavia in its pursuit of justice. The tribunal could take several steps to foster a new, more productive relationship with Belgrade. First, tribunal officials should be willing to consider holding at least some hearings in Serbia. While this possibility must be handled with care, it should not be rejected outright. Both the Hague court and its sister tribunal for Rwanda have been faulted for operating at a remote distance from the societies directly affected by their work. Barely known and widely misunderstood in the Balkans and Rwanda, the two U.N. tribunals have squandered precious opportunities to nurture national processes of reckoning. Belatedly, the tribunals have launched outreach programs in the Balkans and Rwanda. Building on these efforts, tribunal officials should take steps to bridge the distance between The Hague and Yugoslavia, thereby ensuring that international justice contributes to that country's ability to confront its past. Second, the office of the prosecutor should make greater efforts to include citizens of the Balkans on its staff--something it has been reluctant to do lest it be tainted by partisan bias. Finally, while del Ponte is right to insist on Kostunica's duty to arrest Milosevic, it might make sense to allow some flexibility on the timing of his transfer. (Whether Kostunica should delay in arresting Milosevic, who threatens the stability of the fledgling Yugoslav government, is another matter.) Far from undermining the tribunal, allowing Serbia to play a meaningful role in bringing war criminals to account will enable the U.N. court to fulfill its mandate--to secure justice for victims of "ethnic cleansing" and thereby help foster lasting peace in the Balkans. Of course, the tribunal cannot surrender its own responsibilities to the fragile and untested government in Belgrade. Kostunica is still under siege from Milosevic loyalists, including a senior Interior Ministry officer who says it is his "duty . . . to protect all Yugoslav citizens" from being arrested by the tribunal. It may be some time before Kostunica can tackle explosive prosecutions. Besides, allowing Kostunica to bypass The Hague would imperil the tribunal's progress elsewhere in the Balkans. Western countries' rush to embrace Kostunica without demanding his full cooperation with the tribunal has undermined Croatian President Stipe Mesic's bold policy of cooperation. Hard-line critics in Croatia have painted Mesic a fool for cooperating with the tribunal while Serbia, which harbors the largest number of publicly indicted suspects, seems to have gotten a free pass since Kostunica's inauguration. Western governments should emphasize to Kostunica that Yugoslavia remains bound to comply with orders of the tribunal. Kostunica, a constitutional scholar known for his devotion to the law, has indicated that he would not lightly defy international obligations. Besides, if Kostunica is to surrender Milosevic and other indicted suspects to The Hague, he may need the political cover of Western pressure. Whatever the precise timing of Milosevic's transfer, del Ponte should press for the immediate surrender of other senior suspects at large in Serbia. These include Gen. Ratko Mladic, twice indicted on charges of genocide for atrocities committed in Bosnia, and three senior military officials indicted for war crimes committed during the Serbs' assault on Vukovar, Croatia, in the early 1990s. Their transfer to The Hague tribunal would go a long way toward improving Yugoslavia's fractured relations with its neighbors. As a first step, the arrest of these suspects would also go a long way toward ensuring that the tribunal meets its own cherished aims--which are, in the words of its president, Judge Claude Jorda, "restoring a peace of reconciliation in the Balkans." Diane Orentlicher, a visiting scholar in the program in law and public affairs at Princeton University, is a professor of law and director of the War Crimes Research Office at American University. ? 2000 The Washington Post _______________________________________________________________________ http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56816-2000Nov25?language=printer A LOOK AT. . . War Crimes and Punishment By Gary J. Bass Sunday , November 26, 2000 ; Page B03 Even at the height of his power and influence, Slobodan Milosevic hated the idea of war crimes indictments for Serbian atrocities. In a 1995 meeting with American officials, he went out of his way to ask them to postpone a decision on whether indicted war criminals could hold high office in Bosnia. "In the house of a man just hanged," he said, "don't talk about rope." Today, the rope--in the form of a trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague--is dangling before Milosevic's own eyes. And the question is: How hard should the West try to get Yugoslavia's former ruler in the dock? Over the past century, diplomats have wrestled with the issue of what to do with war criminals. The case for international justice is not just a legal one but a political one, and the politics have often been appallingly messy. Much as someone like Milosevic deserves to be punished, the 20th century's experience with war crimes trials suggests that they pose real political risks. There is a powerful argument to be made for them in the end, but that argument must take into account the limitations and pitfalls of international justice. Ultimately, war crimes trials are the right choice not because they are too morally pure to be questioned, but because they are the least bad of a number of bad choices before us. We should reject the only alternatives--summary execution or ignoring the atrocities. There are reasons to be skeptical of war crimes tribunals. The democratic world's desire to bring the orchestrators of wartime savagery to justice by legal means actually says more about us than it does about the criminals. It may be that the likes of Milosevic do not really deserve the benefit of a trial, since no punishment can actually fit their crimes. In domestic law, we weigh different gradations of criminality: manslaughter, second-degree murder, first-degree murder, etc. But how can such scrupulous standards be properly applied to the massive slaughters that have wracked the Balkans? There is no such thing as truly appropriate punishment for something as hideous as the Srebrenica massacre, in which Serbian forces killed some 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men. As political theorist Hannah Arendt wrote of the Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials: "For these crimes, no punishment is severe enough. . . . this guilt . . . oversteps and shatters any and all legal systems." Extending due process to mass killers also opens up the risk of acquitting butchers who richly deserve punishment, but who have managed to hide the relevant evidence--or kill or terrify the witnesses. After World War I, there were two series of war crimes trials--one in Leipzig for Germans, and one in Constantinople for Turks who led the 1915 massacre of Armenians. Both were failures, ending in only a handful of minor convictions, because the Allies could not meet proper legal standards of evidence and responsibility. In 1919, the British high commissioner in Constantinople complained that a prominent Turk "was undoubtedly deeply implicated in the crimes of which he is accused . . . . There is, however, a lack of definite proof against him, and it will probably be a matter of considerable difficulty to prove his individual responsibility." The sheer scale of genocidal crimes--requiring thousands upon thousands of killers--can overwhelm almost any judicial system. Milosevic, after all, did not act alone. But what tribunal could hope to punish all the guilty? Gerard Prunier, a French scholar and expert on Rwanda, estimates that there were between 80,000 and 100,000 murderers in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of "Hitler's Willing Executioners," estimates that there were at least 100,000 perpetrators of the Holocaust. But by 1948, according to the American chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, only 3,500 Germans had been tried. Finally, tribunals can be politically risky. After World War I, German and Turkish backlash against Allied-imposed war crimes trials proved destabilizing. As the Ottoman Empire spiraled into civil war, Britain's efforts to punish Turkish war criminals became a particularly sore point. In 1921, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the great Turkish nationalist, demanded and got the release of war crimes suspects in British custody (in exchange for a handful of British soldiers). Many Germans, left and right, resented British and French demands for trials of Kaiser Wilhelm II and others. In a grotesque irony, Hermann Goering--who would end up as the most prominent Nazi suspect at Nuremberg--first crossed paths with Adolf Hitler at a 1922 right-wing protest of WWI war crimes trials. The alternatives to trial, however, are worse. The idea of summary execution of alleged war criminals has a long and undistinguished history. In 1943, at the Tehran Conference, Joseph Stalin proposed shooting 50,000 to 100,000 German military men. The Soviet dictator was playing true to form, but even democratic states can be sorely tempted to dispense with legalistic mechanisms and punish war criminals the easy way. In 1944, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt's influential treasury secretary, pushed hard for the summary execution of as many as 2,500 leading Nazi war criminals. Winston Churchill preferred the idea of shooting the top 50 to 100 Axis war criminals within six hours of capture. Cooler heads prevailed, chief among them U.S. War Secretary Henry Stimson, who insisted that the punishment of the Nazi leaders reflect "at least the rudimentary aspects of the Bill of Rights." If there's a risk that war crimes trials will prompt a nationalist backlash, that risk is likely doubled by unrestrained summary executions. Ignoring war crimes is an equally unappealing option. The victims, above all, may not want to "forgive and forget." The international community may be able to shrug at the suffering of the Bosnians or Rwandans, but we can't expect them to do the same. Perhaps the most chilling example of the consequences of expecting victims to forget is what happened upon the collapse of the Constantinople war crimes tribunal. When Britain freed its Turkish prisoners in the Ataturk exchange, determined Armenian assassins took over. In 1921, Talaat Pasha, one of the masterminds of the Armenian slaughter, was gunned down on a Berlin street by a young Armenian, while the Turkish grand vizier at the time of the genocide, Said Halim Pasha, was killed by an Armenian in Rome. Some of the same passions are alive in the Balkans and Rwanda today. After the Rwandan genocide, many of the Hutu Power genocidaires fled to Congo, where the Tutsi-led Rwandan government has pursued them. This cross-border warfare--a legacy of the genocide--has helped spark the massive war that now engulfs Congo. In Yugoslavia, lingering Kosovar Albanian bitterness at Serbian war crimes is one of the biggest impediments to the United Nations' plans for a multiethnic Kosovo. Both Bosnia and Rwanda are running their own war crimes trials, alongside the two respective U.N. tribunals that handle the most prominent suspects. But Rwanda's courts are overwhelmed by the vast number of suspects; as many as 130,000 people sit in jail and most may never make it to court. Some of Bosnia's efforts have sparked crises, like the 1996 incident in which the Bosnian government infuriated Serbian nationalists by apprehending Djordje Djukic, a Bosnian Serb Army general; the crisis abated only after Djukic was flown to The Hague (where he was indicted, but released just before dying of cancer). The Hague provides useful oversight for local Balkan war crimes prosecutions, which are not always up to international judicial standards. There are some real virtues to war crimes tribunals. Nuremberg yielded a staggering record of the operations of the Nazi machine: The SS's files alone filled six freight cars, and the American chief prosecutor assembled more than 5 million pages of documentation. To this day, that record fortifies us against denial. There are many Serbian nationalists who still believe that nothing happened at Srebrenica. The Hague tribunal can help fight that. In the end, however, we shouldn't expect too much. Any situation in which there is a need for a war crimes tribunal is a situation that has gone horribly wrong. Having stood by as the slaughters in Bosnia and Rwanda took place, the West can hardly expect that holding war crimes trials will make up for the countless lives that were cut short. After atrocity, all options are awful. War crimes tribunals are simply--in both moral and political terms--the least awful option we have. Gary Bass is an assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and the author of "Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals" (Princeton University Press). ? 2000 The Washington Post -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/3/_/920292/_/975238551/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Sun Nov 26 19:07:04 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:07:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Military Agreement Message-ID: <20001127000704.10199.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com> [08] GREECE, YUGOSLAVIA TO SIGN MILITARY AGREEMENT Belgrade, 26 November 2000 (17:34 UTC+2) A military cooperation agreement between Greece and Yugoslavia will be signed in Belgrade on November 27, covering bilateral cooperation in the said sector, as well as regional security. Greece's Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos will meet with his Yugoslav counterpart Slobodan Krapovic in Belgrade tomorrow for the signing of the agreement. A.F. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From kbejko at hotmail.com Mon Nov 27 17:04:52 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:04:52 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Festimet ne Tirane Message-ID: Metropoli shqiptar n? Dit?n e Flamurit Nes?r dollin? e par? do ta ngre p?r Kosov?n dhe Mitrovic?n, me dhimbset edhe Presheva... Tiran?, 27 n?ntor (Kosovapress) - Tirana vet?m pak or? para ceremonis? s? ngritjes s? flamurit, ka marr? nj? pamje tep?r mahnit?se. N? t? gjitha bulevardet, rrug?t dhe institucionet e shtetit, shkollat dhe universitetet, mbizot?rojn? qindra flamuj. E kremtja e sivjeme e Dit?s s? Flamurit do t? shoq?rohet me dhjet?ra veprimtari. Sonte, n? ambientet kryesore kulturore t? kryeqytetit, po zhvillohen mbr?mje muzikore, teatrore dhe letrare, nd?rkoh? q? ?sht? p?rkujtuar edhe figura e ndritur e komandantit legjendar t? Ushtris? ?lirimtare t? Kosov?s, Adem Jashari, n? 45-vjetorin e lindjes s? tij. N? mesin e shum? njer?zve, q? b?jn? xhiron e zakonshme n? bulevardin kryesor t? kryeqytetit, takuam nj? n?n?, e cila pavar?sisht nga mosha e thyer, ndjente k?naq?sin? e kremtes s? madhe. "Un? - biro, k?t? t? kremte t? flamurit, si? i thon?, n? k?to dy vitet e fundit e kam ndjer? n? shpirt. Tani shqiponja jon? dy-krenare mbulon gjith? qiellin shqiptar. N? Kosov? s'kam qen?, ama at? e mbaj? n? shpirt. Nes?r dollin? e par? do ta ngre p?r Kosov?n dhe Mitrovic?n, m? dhimbset edhe Presheva. Po t? ishte gjall? plaku i Vlores dhe Isai i Buletin?ve, nes?r ata do ta ngritnin flamurin n? Mitrovic?", - rr?fen k?shtu kjo n?n?, e cila n? ?astet e bashk?bisedimit ton?, t?rhoqi v?mendjen e dhjet?ra kalimtar?ve kryeqytetas. N? grumbujt e njer?zve, q? vazhdonin xhiron e mbr?mjes, takuam disa t? rinj, kryesisht student? nga Presheva, Bujanoci, Prishtina, Tetova. T? gjith? ata po ktheheshin nga manifestimi kushtuar dit?lindjes s? komandantit legjendar Adem Jasharit. Kjo n?n?, - q? foli kaq mir?, dha mesazhin m? t? fuqish?m p?r ne t? rinjt?. "Un? jam nga Presheva, v?llain tani e kam n? male, por edhe atje s? shpejti shqiponja jon? do t? valvitet lirsh?m", - dhe vazhdon bashk?bisedimi po me k?t? frym?. Nd?rkoh?, nes?r, grupe student?sh dhe nx?n?sish, jo vet?m nga Tirana, por edhe nga qytete t? tjera shqiptare, n? mesin e tyre edhe nx?n?sit e Gjimnazit "Sami Frash?ri" t? Prishtin?s, do ta nderojn? solemnitetin qendror t? Dit?s s? Flamurit n? Vlor?. Ata q? nuk do t? shkojn? atje do t? mblidhen n? sheshin "Sk?nderbej", ku do t? organizohet nj? spketak?l me artist?t m? t? njohur t? muzik?s dhe sken?s shqiptare. /asllan bajrami/ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Mon Nov 27 18:15:44 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:15:44 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fellowships Message-ID: Subject: Nobel Fellowships crossposted from the Coexistence Noticeborad, www.coexistence.net Norwegian Nobel Fellowships: US/West European Relations with the Soviet Union/Russia from the Late 1970s to the Present The Norwegian Nobel Institute runs a small research program on issues related to peace and war. This program is accepting applications from scholars for a limited number of guest researcher fellowships. Scholars of any nationality in history, political science, or international law are invited to apply. Two types of fellowships are available: senior fellowships for distinguished scholars with a substantial record of publication in their fields and general fellowships for scholars in the earlier stages of their post-doctoral careers. Organization: The Norwegian Nobel Institute Date: Spring, 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Application procedure: Submission of proposal and documentation. See website or contact organization. Application deadline: February 1, 2001 CONTACT: Dr. Olav Njlstad, Research Director, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Drammensveien 19, 0255 Oslo, Norway. T: 47-22-12 93 30, F: 47-22-12 93 10 Email: on at n..., Website: www.nobel.no/Fellowship_prog_2002.html From albsa99 at hotmail.com Mon Nov 27 19:01:17 2000 From: albsa99 at hotmail.com (albsa ALBSA) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:01:17 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Flag Day @ Anthony's Pier 4 Message-ID: We are sorry to inform you that the Flag Day celebration at Anthony's Pier 4 on Tuesday, November 28th is cancelled due to unpredicted circumstances. We apologize for the inconvinience and we are looking forward to have you participate in our future events. ALBSA _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Tue Nov 28 09:03:47 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 06:03:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Abramowitz at Washington Post Message-ID: <20001128140347.574.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com> The Washington Post November 28, 2000, Tuesday, Final Edition OP-ED; Pg. A27 Old Issues For the New Serbia Morton Abramowitz The overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic has greatly improved prospects for democracy in Serbia. But democracy and stability will not prevail if Serbia continues to insist on controlling Kosovo, with its overwhelming Albanian majority, and, to a much lesser extent, Montenegro. Can Serbia free itself? Once again, much depends on what Western countries do. Their recent actions are not entirely encouraging. With incredible speed, and without conditions, the West brought the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia--until last month Milosevic's illegitimate enterprise--into most international institutions. It virtually ignored the events of the past decade and simply passed over the questionable legal basis of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (It raises the question: What would happen if Milosevic's henchmen were to retake power?) Why did the West act so precipitately? For two reasons. It wanted to give a quick boost to newly elected Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica to help stabilize his coalition's control and make it easier to remove Milosevic holdovers. And it sought, as it tried unsuccessfully to do in 1991, to freeze borders in the former Yugoslavia, fearing what changing them would do to Bosnia and Macedonia. Thus Montenegro could not be permitted to go its own way, because without Montenegro there would be no federal republic for Kostunica to preside over. Moreover, without the federation, U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 declaring Kosovo a part of the federation would be impaired. It is always questionable when democratic states conspire to preserve unrealities, such as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In this case the impulse is understandable: Serbian democracy is fragile; its leaders need to focus on keeping the poverty-stricken, energy-short country intact and facilitating democratic change. But the accumulation of memberships in international institutions does not give Yugoslavia reality. The fact is that the federal republic is Serbia and has been for a number of years. Moreover, in pursuing its Serbia policy, the United States has unceremoniously begun to dump the friendly republic of Montenegro, uneasily federated with Serbia. Indeed, for the past three years the U.S. government has talked incessantly about plucky little Montenegro standing up to Milosevic and has helped keep the country alive financially. Montenegro had achieved virtual independence. But with Milosevic gone, Montenegro has become for us a Montecristo, a good cigar we enjoyed. Not only have our diplomats instructed its government that they can't have independence, they warned recently that they would cut off some badly needed technical assistance if Montenegro persisted in pursuing independence. Only congressional intervention reduced U.S. diplomatic pressures. There is another way to deal with Montenegro. After the Serbian elections on Dec. 23--which should produce a government free of Milosevic's flunkies--fresh talks can be held between Serbia and Montenegro. If the two agree to a continuation of a federal arrangement or some other kind of union such as a commonwealth, so much the better. In any event the peoples of Montenegro and Serbia need to vote on their relationship. The West has no business denying Montenegro what it has accepted for the other former Yugoslav republics, none of which is any more deserving than Montenegro. Kosovo is a far more difficult issue. European Union leaders proclaim that its fate lies with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. So does Milosevic's successor, Kostunica. The problem is that Kosovo's people regard such a fate as unacceptable. Any effort by the West to permit the return of Belgrade's institutions or forces to Kosovo would produce major violence. But this doesn't mean some arrangement can't be worked out. An immediate and dangerous issue coming up will be the Serbian elections next month. Will the United Nations allow Belgrade authorities into Kosovo to conduct the voting? Or will the U.N. administration in Kosovo run elections on behalf of Belgrade? The first action--perhaps either--would lead to violence. But there is still an opening for a serious dialogue between Pristina and a democratic government in Belgrade. It will require the establishment of a Kosovo government committed to protecting minorities and the emergence of Kosovo interlocutors with the legitimacy that comes from democratic elections. Successful local elections in Kosovo last month bode well for elections to create a functioning government. This voting--which has been promised by the international community--needs to happen early next year. Once two new governments are in place, talks are possible. Effective management of its own affairs is the essential requirement for Kosovo at this time. And as long as independence is possible down the pike, Kosovars may well accept some sort of loose union as a first step. That would be more acceptable to the outside world and thus more fitting, given Kosovo's dependence on the West. The prospects for such cooperation might be better if the West stopped encouraging Belgrade to believe it still has a future in ruling Kosovo. Whatever happens between the two sides, Western military forces will be needed in Kosovo for a long time. Serbia now has an excellent chance of climbing out of its misery and becoming the most dynamic state in the area. That will not happen if Serbian nationalism regains ascendancy. While many nationalist leaders are still around, the Serb people--though largely supportive of Milosevic's treatment of Kosovo--seem tired of violence, poverty and exclusion. Many, it appears, are not all that concerned about what happens to Kosovo. Serbia has shown it can't integrate a highly antagonistic Albanian population into its polity. As an aspiring democratic state, it needs to begin talking to Kosovo on a regular basis, maintaining ties if possible but also preparing to accept an independent Kosovo if necessary. To insist on more will mean more violence, much less democracy and exclusion of the Serbs from European integration. The writer is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From Staff Tue Nov 28 10:56:26 2000 From: Staff (Staff) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:56:26 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] *COOL_ALBANIAN * Gezuar Message-ID: -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/3/_/_/_/975427223/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> -------------------------------------------------- Please delete emails that include pics after seeing them, because they can cause your account size too large(especially if email is more than 100k). 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Ky sulm eshte ne vazhden e njoftimeve te herepashereshme te nje klani ekstremist ne drejtimin e Partise Demokratike se do ta rrezojme pushtetin edhe me dhune. Para disa ditesh ne nje takim me ambasadorin amerikan Limpreht, me perfaqesuesin e Bashkimit europian, ambasadorin francez si dhe me ambasadorin e OSBE, une i vura ata ne dijeni lidhur me rrjedhimet konkrete te deklaratave te tilla destabilizuese. Forcat e rendit ne rrethin e Tropojes, ne mbrojtje dhe zbatim te Ligjit nuk kane lejuar dhunimin e komisariatit te policise . Ato kane kundervepruar me force ndaj banditeve te cilet sulmuan me arme. Si rezultat i perplasjes se armatosur me policine ka disa te vrare nga radhet e banditeve si dhe disa te plagosur. Qeveria e cila u mblodh para pak minutash diskutoi mbi situaten e krijuar.Qeveria eshte e vendosur te mbroje me gjithe forcen qe i njeh Ligji institucionet e shtetit,Kushtetuten,jeten dhe pronen e qytetareve. Qeveria edhe njehere thekson se te gjitha perpjekjet per te rrezuar me dhune institucionet demokratike te shtetit shqiptar do te perballen me gjithe forcen e Ligjit dhe dhunuesit me pasojat. Qeveria eshte sot nje me forcat e rendit , u jep atyre gjithe perkrahjen e nevojshme dhe ka urdheruar zbatimin deri me nje te te gjithe rregullave dhe Ligjeve. Forcat e rendit dhe ato speciale kane marre urdher te veprojne me gjithe vendosmerine e duhur per mbrojtjen e institucioneve te shtetit dhe te kushtetutes. Sot eshte dita e flamurit dhe njekohesisht edhe dita e Kushtetutes. Ne u deklarojme te gjitheve provokatoreve bandite se e kane zgjedhur keq diten e provokimit te tyre. Sot eshte pikerisht dita kur edhe ne shqiptaret duhet te tregojme se dime te bejme shtet dhe ta mbrojme ate. Dialog me bandite dhe kriminele nuk ka dhe nuk do te kete. Prandaj I bejme thirrje prinderve dhe femijeve,njerezve te mashtruar,demokrateve te ndershem, qe te distancohen nga banditet dhe kriminelet te cilet fshihen pas tyre. Qeveria eshte e vendosur te zbatoje Ligjet, Kushtetuten e republikes se Shqiperise, eshte evendosur te mbroje rendin publik, jeten dhe pasurine e te gjithe shtetasve te Republikes se Shqiperise. Asnje bandit apo grup banditesh ,asnje politikan bandit nuk do te lejohet te cenoje stabilitetin e vendit. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From i_spaho at hotmail.com Tue Nov 28 16:56:40 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:56:40 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Need Help-Urgent Message-ID: Po ndihmoj nje reporter ne hartimin e nje libri me gatime nderkombetare dhe po mundohem te fus aty dhe informacion per kuzhinen dhe amvisat shqiptare. Do me vlente pak informacion per gatime tipike te trevave te veriut se e njoh shume pak ate zone. Me mjaftojne sikur edhe emrat e gjelleve, se per te tjerat kujdesem vete. Faleminderit, Irma _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From kbejko at hotmail.com Tue Nov 28 11:57:08 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:57:08 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] 5 die in shootout in Tropoje Message-ID: Berisha's gift to the nation on the occasion of the 88th aniversary of the declaration of independence is to show the world that the Albanians are an unruly bunch, undeserving of even the half-assed state they have. Five killed in northern Albanian police shootout TIRANA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Five Albanians were killed on Tuesday in the northern Albanian town of Bajram Curri after gunmen attacked the local police station, police said. "Today at midday a group of bandits attacked the police station and some other state institutions. As a result of the clashes there have been some killed and some injured on the side of the bandits," Prime Minister Ilir Meta told reporters. Police said separately that the dead included one policeman and that the gunmen had been participating in a rally of the opposition Democratic Party of former President Sali Berisha. Bajram Curri lies in the mountainous region of Tropoje which borders on the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, and which is largely outside government control. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Tue Nov 28 13:49:18 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:49:18 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: 3,000 Ethnic Albanians Have Fled To Kosovo (Reuters, Nov 28, 2000) Message-ID: <3A23FE2E.3F1BBF17@bndlg.de> http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=224947§ion=Kosovo 3,000 Ethnic Albanians Have Fled To Kosovo GENEVA, Nov 28, 2000 -- (Reuters) About 3,000 ethnic Albanians have crossed into Kosovo from southern Serbia in the past four days, fearing a possible military offensive by Serbian forces, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. The Geneva-based agency said that more people could flee depending on the outcome of Belgrade's deadline to KFOR for stamping out cross-border raids by guerrillas. It was extended from 1800 GMT on Monday. The displaced people, who are staying with relatives in the the Gnjilane area southeast of Pristina in the troubled province, told UNHCR that they saw tanks in their villages amid a "military build-up", but no fighting, spokesman Kris Janowski told a news briefing. A recent upsurge in violence in Serbia's Presevo Valley, a mostly ethnic Albanian area just outside Kosovo, has alarmed Western powers. "We have now about 3,000 people who have left the Presevo Valley in southern Serbia for Kosovo since last Friday. Yesterday (Monday), about 200 vehicles with ethnic Albanians from the Presevo and Bujanovac area crossed into Kosovo," Janowski said. "Most of these people actually crossed before the Serbs announced the extension of their deadline which basically said that they would take military action unless Kosovo rebels clear out of the area," he added. Local Albanian leaders have urged the people to leave ahead of a possible offensive by Serbian forces, the spokesman said. Janowski, asked whether UNHCR expected a greater exodus, replied: "Some kind of a deadline is still there and a sense of tension is still there, so we have to reckon with more people crossing, basically." Kosovo has been a de facto international protectorate since Yugoslav forces withdrew in June 1999 following NATO's bombing campaign to halt Belgrade's repression of its ethnic Albanian majority. UNHCR has sent a convoy carrying mattresses and stoves for the western Serbian town of Bujanovac where some 200-250 people, both Serbs and ethnic Albanians have converged from surrounding villages, according to the spokesman in Geneva. (C)2000 Copyright Reuters Limited. -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/3/_/920292/_/975445805/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From kbejko at hotmail.com Tue Nov 28 17:03:07 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:03:07 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Western concerns about Albania Message-ID: http://www.janes.com/regional_news/europe/sentinel/balkans/albania.shtml August 10, 2000 Albania After some encouraging indicators in 1999, particularly as the security forces successfully managed to tackle the lawless north and curb the influence of the armed gangs, criminals in Albania seem to be fighting back. The Chief of Police in the troubled northern city of Shkodra, Arben Zylyftari, was killed on 3 July 2000 in a shoot-out with an armed gang. Shkodra remained tense but avoided plunging into chaos as has happened on two previous occasions in 1997 and 1998. The unifying effect of the Kosovo crisis, which had forced the bitterly opposed Albanian internal factions to temporarily reconcile, has since abated; both the Socialist and Democratic parties have changed their policies to prepare for the anticipated internal confrontation. This trend was clearly indicated in October 1999, when influential moderates in both camps were sidelined in high-level meetings to ensure that there would be no internal opposition to the collision-course policies set by both parties. This proves that, despite substantial Western efforts, there is neither the willingness nor the wisdom within the Albanian hierarchy to start solving the real problems, indicating that the country, may, at any point, revert back to anarchy. The removal of Genc Pollo, deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party, and Leonard Demi, president of the Committee for International Relations, both advocates of moderate policies and rapprochement with the Socialists, has enabled Sali Berisha to consolidate his grip on power within his party. With no moderates of sufficient standing remaining in a position of influence from which they could challenge Berisha's views, the Democratic Party is obviously preparing for another bid at unseating the current Socialist government, with a view to return to power. The fact that such an attempt may once again vent onto the streets does not seem to worry Berisha and the hardliners. Berisha's main opponent, Fatos Nano has taken pains to consolidate his position by ensuring scant support for pro-European Prime Minister Pandeli Majko within the party, thus forcing Majko to resign in October 1999. His successor, Ilir Meta, is perceived to have less strength of character, which should allow Nano to maintain a firm hold on the party reins. The focus of domestic political activity is once again the expected confrontation between Berisha and Nano. Albania managed to steer through the enormous crisis created by the military action in neighbouring Kosovo and the massive exodus of Kosovar refugees into its territory without ever coming to a point where its internal security as a whole would be endangered, particularly given the poor state of law and order in the country. However, the end of the conflict and NATO deployment in Kosovo do not automatically mean the end of Albania's problems. In one of the most amazing returns of refugees ever recorded, over 500,000 refugees who flooded northern Albania between early April and late May 1999 returned to Kosovo as soon as NATO-led KFOR troops opened the borders. This eased the enormous pressure on the Albanian authorities, the Albanian and international security forces, and the country's extremely poor infrastructure. Fears that the lawless Albania is providing a `safe haven' for international terrorism continue. US Secretary of Defense William Cohen abruptly cancelled a scheduled trip to Albania in mid-July after US officials determined that supporters of Osama bin Laden were looking to strike at a "high-profile target". Cohen was not believed to be a target but his travel plans to Albania were apparently cancelled on the advice of NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Wesley Clark. US sources claimed US intelligence officials had received reports indicating that bin Laden's operatives may have planned to use Albania as "the staging area for an attack" against a "target of opportunity." In the summer of 1999 the Majko government took steps to bring the Has and Tropoja districts in the lawless north of the country under control. While several local warlords were arrested, there was no backlash from their member gangs - possibly because most of them were across the border in Kosovo trying to take advantage of the lack of order. The north will remain troubled for the foreseeable future and it would be unwise to disregard the possibility of some sort of attempted takeover by gangs in the near future. The border between Albania and Kosovo, often referred to both in Albania and in Kosovo as the "inter-Albanian border", remains open and uncontrolled, despite a token international and local presence. With the border between Kosovo and the rest of FRY not policed for political reasons, it is only a question of time before organised crime establishes connections with their counterparts in FRY to exploit the situation for the smuggling of drugs, arms, and people. The problem is further exacerbated by the lightly guarded Bosnian-FRY and Bosnian-Croatian borders, which provide an opportunity for establishing a major contraband route straight to the doorstep of Central Europe and the EU. In February 2000 Federal Customs deployed a 300-strong force at the main crossing point into Kosovo, to fight smuggling and organised crime. De-mining of the border started in June 2000 by an international non-governmental organisation and is expected to be completed by October 2000. While reducing risk to civilians, de-mining will further increase the vulnerability of the border. The need for regional co-operation in crime fighting was highlighted by the seizure of two significant shipments of Albania-bound heroin in Bulgaria and the presence of several arms caches in the hands of ethnic-Albanians in Macedonia. The prime ministers of the regional countries addressed this issue at several meetings and agreed to establish closer co-operation between their respective interior ministries. Albania's security services remain poorly organised and are often undermined by political and clan allegiances. The government managed to create an almost credible, small, core force, but despite some success in the summer in dealing with the warlords in the northern areas bordering Kosovo, the security services cannot be considered fully professional or reliable. In October 1999, eight anti-contraband teams, equipped and trained with external assistance, began operating in Albania; however, it is too early to offer an impartial assessment of the impact that this force might make, given the prevailing conditions in the country. Head of the anti-smuggling department in the Ministry of Public Order, Kastriot Bruka, was gunned down on 7 June 2000 by what appear to be professional killers. Authorities believe that the killing might be an act of revenge for the seizure of a huge fuel shipment, considered to be part of an illegal consignment from Italy, in an operation conducted during Bruka's previous posting as police chief in the port of Durres. The murder might have been an `insider job', which would indicate that criminals have infiltrated into police ranks. The loyalty of members of the Secret Service (DSK, formerly ShIK) remains, for the most part, uncertain. There were suggestions that officers from the Tirana branch of the ShIK were implicated in the September 1998 murder of Ahmed Krasniqi, a `defence minister' in the shadow Kosovo government. The agenda of the DSK is not clear either. In August 1999 Sali Berisha accused the DSK of operating Majko's agenda in Kosovo, rather than doing their job in Albania itself. The DSK's real agenda and loyalties were subjected to scrutiny again in late 1999 and early 2000, when one of the leaders of a Kosovar Albanian political faction, Bujar Bukoshi, openly accused Albania's secret services of de-stabilising Kosovo. Just what Berisha considers their job within Albania to be, remains as questionable as the nature of their business in Kosovo. The exodus of refugees initially threatened to overwhelm the poorly organised Albanian authorities. After initial chaos and mayhem in the north, in April Italian NATO troops went out to provide emergency assistance to the refugees while civilian agencies were gearing up to the task. The resources in the north soon became too thin for the swelling number of refugees, and security was becoming a problem due to shelling and VJ (Yugoslav Army) incursion, so camps were established further south to relocate some of the refugees. Despite their unwillingness to be moved away from Kosovo, the situation at the border has been somewhat relieved, particularly after an airstrip of sorts was hurriedly built at Kukes. Weapons smuggling increased in frequency prior to NATO intervention, despite nominal efforts of the government to control it and despite VJ's widening and reinforcing of the border belt inside FRY territory. A number of UCK fighters crossed the border back into Albania with weapons, and with the need to re-arm the UCK widely accepted within the Albanian society, more weapons flowed into Albania. Many of these weapons remained in northern Albanian UCK training camps, practically annulling two years of efforts by the Albanian government and the international community to bring in the guns looted in the 1997 riots. Several weapons shipments intended for the UCK, originating from Austria, Bosnia and Croatia, were intercepted in the course of 1999 by Croatian and Italian authorities. In June 2000 Albanian authorities released the latest revised estimates of the fate of weapons looted in 1997. Only 21 per cent of the near one million assorted arms have been recovered. Interior Minister Spartak Poci believed that most of the remaining weapons were no longer in Albania, having found their way into Kosovo. One of KFOR's main tasks in Kosovo was to demilitarize and disarm the UCK within the three-month deadline. Although this has been nominally successful, it is unclear if all the weapons have been handed over and put into KFOR-controlled storage. There is a possibility - particularly given the numbers and types of arms handed in - that substantial quantities of weapons were moved back across the practically non-existent border and are now stored in secret locations in northern Albania. With the military threat removed, the priority for the international force is to establish an organised, credible, professional and properly equipped police force. Training assistance is underway from MAPE and INTERFORZA and in August the European Union Council of Ministers has agreed to spend over US$3 million to re-establish a viable police force by providing training and advice to the country's existing officers and the Ministry of Public Order. NATO's AFOR mission to Albania, which reached a strength of 8,000 during the conflict in the FRY, officially ended on 1 September 1999. A 2,000-strong follow-on force, mainly composed of Italian troops, remains in support of KFOR's Communication Zone West. In response to the Kosovo crisis, the Albanian Army has attempted to reconstitute itself as something of a fighting force; troops have been moved to border areas in high profile deployments and live-fire exercises have been held within sight of the border, to the dismay of aid workers. The US and other countries have provided a measure of practical and material assistance, notably through Partnership for Peace (PfP) arrangements. Despite these efforts, it is clear that without a major infusion of financial and training assistance, the Albanian Army would have been unable to defend itself against an enemy of any kind. Italy, Greece and Turkey are also providing modest amounts of assistance. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Wed Nov 29 04:14:11 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:14:11 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: Ethnic Albanians Mark Flag Day (AP, Nov. 29, 2000) Message-ID: <3A24C8E3.B478BA25@bndlg.de> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001129/aponline010159_000.htm Ethnic Albanians Mark Flag Day By Fisnik Abrashi Associated Press Writer Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2000; 1:01 a.m. EST DOBROSIN, Yugoslavia -- On a day all Albanians salute their flag, hundreds of children and soldiers gathered around a crude wooden pole and snapped to attention as Albania's black and red colors were raised. Trouble is, this is not Albania. Nor is it even Kosovo. It is Yugoslavia, and herein lies the problem. Ethnic Albanian militants who live in this area along the boundary with Kosovo are fighting for independence. Both Yugoslavia's army and the NATO-led peacekeeping force a few miles away disagree. They are urging the Albanians to halt an offensive that has killed five people - including four Serb policemen and an Albanian child whose tractor triggered a land mine. But rebel leaders like Sami Azemi told the hundreds gathered at Liria elementary school Tuesday for Albanian Flag Day celebrations that the attacks are only the start of their struggle to be free. "Today is a holy day," Azemi said. "The flag is waving free on these hills." The talk is of war in this tense region between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia. Ethnic Albanians make up the overwhelming majority of the 100,000 people who live in the area - and they seem sure they know what is coming. Hundreds have fled the area in recent days, terrified of clashes between the militants and the Serb police. On the sidelines, are NATO-led peacekeepers. They moved into the Serbian province of Kosovo after the alliance bombed Yugoslavia last year to force former President Slobodan Milosevic to stop a crackdown on ethnic Albanians. The peace deal that ended the war created a buffer zone that puts a three-mile swath of territory between the Kosovo boundary and Serbia proper. The rebels say they are victims of lines on a map - and that they want to be part of Kosovo. They also want to be independent of Serbia, Yugoslavia's main republic. They say Serb police forces have harassed them and that they are afraid for their lives. "We cannot live like that any more," Azemi said. "We want to tell everyone that we will not accept to live under slavery." Nowhere was this feeling more bluntly expressed than at the school, where 100 fighters ranging in age from 15 to 65 years old lined up in four rows, creating stripes of camouflage patterns along the soccer field. Chains of bullets crisscrossed their necks and bodies. Their shoes and boots were covered in mud. They sang the Albanian national anthem, and patriotic songs used by the Kosovo Liberation Army, the rebels who fought for Kosovo's independence. The rebels, who go by the name of the "Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac," simply substituted their initials for those of the KLA. It's not really clear how strong their following is in the region, but the impact of their decision to step up attacks against the Serbs was clear. Villages have been emptied, mostly by refugees anxious to flee the onset of fighting. The few elderly people who have stayed behind warn of sniper fire along the rugged road to Dobrosin, 175 miles south of the capital, Belgrade. Police outposts are all but vacated, with guerrillas entrenching themselves inside. Their weapons are now pointed away from Kosovo, and toward the rest of Serbia. In villages like Koncul, just outside of Dobrosin, only stray dogs, and guerrillas with Kalashnikov rifles wander freely on the streets. Slogans for the new rebels are spray-painted in black on the white walls. The abandoned Serb police checkpoint remained fortified by sandbags in the center of the village, on the road that leads to Kosovo. It was riddled with bullets, but there was no sign of fresh fighting. A cease-fire had been declared. Many were in Dobrosin, at the school, parading and celebrating their equivalent of Albanian independence day. One soldier, who wouldn't give his name, sat at the edge of Dobrosin's mosque after the end of the ceremony, tightly gripping his rifle. "There is no turning back," he said. On the opposite hill, another flag was flying - at the U.S. Army checkpoint, just a few miles away on the Kosovo side of the line. Both sides observe each other constantly. The flags mark their positions. Only a few miles to the east, yet another flag flies. 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Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Wed Nov 29 04:09:49 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:09:49 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} PRESS: Kouchner to quit UN post in Kosovo in three weeks (Guardian, November 29, 2000) Message-ID: <3A24C7DD.E5DAC066@bndlg.de> http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,404233,00.html Kouchner to quit UN post in Kosovo in three weeks Nicholas Wood in Pristina Wednesday November 29, 2000 The head of the UN mission in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, has told UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, that he plans to leave his job in less than three weeks, western diplomatic sources in New York say. Dr Kouchner passed the message to Mr Annan on Monday through the undersecretary general in charge of peace-keeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno, according to a report by a diplomatic mission to the UN. It said his resignation was effective from December 15. Dr Kouchner, who had told colleagues that he planned to leave by Christmas, previously said that he would stay until a replacement was found. He told journalists earlier this month that he had already told Mr Annan of his wish to leave Kosovo. "I always said I will be free, but I don't want to resign or corner anyone." The spokeswoman for the UN mission in Kosovo, Claire Trevena, maintained that Dr Kouchner did not yet know when he was going. "He feels after the [recent municipal] elections was a good stage to talk about leaving. He has said he won't go until his successor is named." Dr Kouchner's departure may come as a disappointment to the province's majority Albanian population. In recent weeks he has argued strenuously in the face of international opposition that the municipal elections in October should be followed by elections for a provincial government next spring. Speculation about a successor has been rife for months. The former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown was seen as strong possibility, but UN aides say that, opposed by the US, he has out himself out of the running. Guardian Unlimited ? Guardian Newspapers Limited 2000 -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/1/_/920292/_/975500740/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Wed Nov 29 04:10:56 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:10:56 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: Albanian opposition leader detained (BBC, 29 November, 2000) Message-ID: <3A24C820.86FDA83B@bndlg.de> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1046000/1046167.stm Wednesday, 29 November, 2000, 05:28 GMT Albanian opposition leader detained The leader of the opposition in Albania, the former president Salih Berisha, was briefly detained by police overnight. Police arrested him outside the headquarters of the opposition Democratic Party, where they believed wanted criminals were hiding. It's the first time the government has taken any action against Mr Berisha, who has refused to accept the result of municipal elections in October. He described the detention as kidnap and a shameful act of intimidation. The arrest follows the killing of at least two Albanians yesterday, after an attack on a police station in the northern town of Bajram Curri, one of the Democratic Party's few remaining strongholds. >From the newsroom of the BBC World Service -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/1/_/920292/_/975500740/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Wed Nov 29 07:48:11 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:48:11 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?CfA:_NATO=92s_Enlargement-European_Defence___and_US-Stability_Pact_S.E._Europe,_Athens_13-17.12.2000?= Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at seep.ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] CfA: NATO?s Enlargement-European Defence and US-Stability Pact S.E. Europe, Athens 13-17.12.2000 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:02:15 +0100 Size: 12582 URL: From askende at ati.com Wed Nov 29 12:47:30 2000 From: askende at ati.com (Andi Skende) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:47:30 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] 5 die in shootout in Tropoje Message-ID: These events should not come to us as a surprise. Frankly, I was expecting things to eventually take a bloody turn. The responsibility lies with both side of the political spectrum, the democrats as well as the socialists. I agree with Prime Minister Meta when he says that all the efforts to overthrow the democratic institutions by force will be met with force. That is the way a democratic state should act. But isn't exactly this that his Party (socialist party) did in March of 1997 with that "Bolshevik" style coup-d'eta that they staged. I do not see any difference in these two parties. They are made out of the same fabric. I am disgusted with the present Albanian political class. God help Albania because Albanians are not ! -andi -----Original Message----- From: Kreshnik Bejko [mailto:kbejko at hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:57 AM To: albsa-info at alb-net.com Cc: alb-club at alb-net.com Subject: [ALBSA-Info] 5 die in shootout in Tropoje ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - Berisha's gift to the nation on the occasion of the 88th aniversary of the declaration of independence is to show the world that the Albanians are an unruly bunch, undeserving of even the half-assed state they have. Five killed in northern Albanian police shootout TIRANA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Five Albanians were killed on Tuesday in the northern Albanian town of Bajram Curri after gunmen attacked the local police station, police said. "Today at midday a group of bandits attacked the police station and some other state institutions. As a result of the clashes there have been some killed and some injured on the side of the bandits," Prime Minister Ilir Meta told reporters. Police said separately that the dead included one policeman and that the gunmen had been participating in a rally of the opposition Democratic Party of former President Sali Berisha. Bajram Curri lies in the mountainous region of Tropoje which borders on the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, and which is largely outside government control. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com _______________________________________________________ ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info From ipilika at hotmail.com Wed Nov 29 13:46:56 2000 From: ipilika at hotmail.com (Iris Pilika) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:46:56 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Serbs capture strategic village from rebels Message-ID: Serbs capture strategic village from rebels There were no clashes as the Serbs entered Lucane November 29, 2000 Web posted at: 1802 GMT LUCANE, Yugoslavia -- Serbian police have retaken a strategic village on the edge of a contested zone between Serbia and Kosovo from ethnic Albanian rebels. There were no clashes with the rebels on Wednesday when police, backed up by two armoured vehicles and armed with automatic weapons, entered Lucane. Most of Lucane's 1,000 ethnic Albanians had earlier fled the village, leaving behind only elderly residents. The capture of the village -- the first regained by Serbian forces since last week's rebel offensive which left five dead -- brought security troops and the ethnic Albanian militants into positions some 500 yards from each other. The escalation in violence last week triggered Serb threats of a strong counter-attack -- though they backed off under NATO pressure to give diplomacy a chance. Rebel spokesman Tahir Dalipi warned the Serbs "not to start any action that would be rebuffed and thus break the fragile peace," adding: "Otherwise we cannot predict what will happen." There was no immediate comment from NATO-led troops based in nearby Kosovo, who have been trying to diffuse tensions in talks with Yugoslav officials and the rebels. A high ranking Serbian police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said his forces would set up a "permanent presence" in Lucane, located on a main road to Kosovo leading through the buffer zone. Militants in the zone, which has a large ethnic Albanian population, are demanding to join Kosovo and want independence from Serbia, Yugoslavia's largest republic. Smoke from the destruction of a weapons cache found by NATO forces last week Meanwhile, members of NATO's peacekeeping force KFOR on Wednesday seized a truck carrying weapons as well as uniforms of an ethnic Albanian militant group. KFOR spokesman Major Peter Cameron said Norwegian peacekeepers detained three Albanians in the operation in the Drenica valley in western Kosovo -- a former stronghold of the Kosovo Liberation Army which fought Serb rule in 1998-99. The peacekeepers found 20 mortar rounds, 20 anti-personnel mines, 1,000 rifle rounds, one anti-tank weapon and a number of uniforms of the guerrilla group calling itself the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac. In an attempt to prevent a serious crisis developing in the area, NATO detailed a plan on Wednesday to stamp out violence in the zone, but said joint allied and Yugoslav army patrols were not envisaged. Alliance Secretary General George Robertson praised new Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica for his co-operation on the Presevo Valley crisis zone and denounced illegal acts by "a minority of extremists." Kostunica expressed his concern on Monday that KFOR was not doing its part to bar separatist gunmen from the demilitarised zone, where Serbian security forces are forbidden from patrolling with heavy weapons. Robertson said he had replied to Kostunica that NATO shared his grave concern and pointed out that KFOR was already taking steps to tackle the problem. In addition to brokering a ceasefire, arresting 10 would-be infiltrators and arranging the return of the bodies of four slain Serbian policemen, additional measures were being taken. These included a public information campaign to highlight the criminal aspects and politically damaging effects of extremist activity in the Presevo Valley, mobilisation of Kosovo Albanian politicians who may be able to moderate guerrilla groups and encouraging contacts between Presevo Albanians and Serb authorities. Robertson said NATO would also encourage closer contacts between KFOR and local Serb police, closer monitoring of any violence in the five kilometre ( three mile) wide demilitarised zone and deterrence and disruption of illegal or terrorist related activity inside Kosovo near the Presevo border. The Associated Press contributed to this report. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From i_spaho at hotmail.com Wed Nov 29 19:18:06 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:18:06 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] A Great Deal !!! 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FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From shkrelim at aol.com Wed Nov 29 14:06:25 2000 From: shkrelim at aol.com (shkrelim at aol.com) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:06:25 EST Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} Festivali Shqiptar ne New York Message-ID: <66.9b9a854.2756adc7@aol.com> N J O F T I M Te dielen, me 10 dhjetor, 2000, ne 6 te mbremjes, Qendra Kulturore "Nena Tereze", prane Kishes Katolike "Zoja e Shkodres", paraqet FESTIVALIN E DHJETE SHQIPTAR., ne Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard, Bronx, New York. Biletat: $10, $12, $15 per person. Per informata thirrni: (914) 761-3523, ose albchurch.com. -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/1/_/920292/_/975528594/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From kbejko at hotmail.com Wed Nov 29 15:58:51 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:58:51 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Death toll lowered to 2 Message-ID: Death toll in Albania shootings lowered to two TIRANA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Albanian police on Wednesday revised down the death toll in a shooting incident in the north of the country to two from five, while Western diplomats appealed for calm after a spate of political violence. Tension has risen in the volatile Balkan nation since local elections in October which the opposition Democrats of former President Sali Berisha claim were rigged by the Socialist-led government. International monitors said the elections were generally fair despite some irregularities. Daily opposition rallies in Tirana since then have grown increasingly violent, with protesters throwing stones and petrol bombs at government buildings. In the most serious incident so far, two people were killed in the northern district of Tropoje on Tuesday in a shootout when Democratic supporters attacked a police station and other government institutions, police said, revising down the first reports of five dead. The lawless mountain region of Tropoje borders the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. Berisha was briefly detained by police in Tirana during the night but later released. He said the police had provoked Tuesday"s shootings. Western diplomats appealed for calm. "All political forces in Albania must convince their supporters that armed struggle does not solve any problems, only aggravates them," Council of Europe Secretary-General Walter Schwimmer said in a statement. "DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENT" Describing Tuesday"s violence in the north as "a sad and dangerous development" that gave cause for concern, he added: "At the same time, the authorities should ensure full respect for the rule of law. Renewed violence does not bring Albania forward but risks delaying the further development of democracy and the rule of law in the country." Albania has experienced periodic upsurges of political violence since the collapse of communism in 1991. The country descended into outright anarchy in 1997 after the collapse of fraudulent investment schemes triggered nationwide violence. Order was restored after the intervention of an Italian-led international force. The situation has been mainly calm for the last two years and diplomats said Socialist Prime Minister Ilir Meta, who enjoys Western support, appeared firmly in control. The brief detention of Berisha suggested the prime minister, who has not so far used police against Democratic supporters in Tirana, wanted to show he was prepared to get tough, diplomats said. The 31-year-old prime minister on Wednesday defended the police, saying: "Berisha should understand the time has come for police to suffer no longer the consequences of the irresponsibility of the policy of crime." Albanian President Rexhep Meidani, who rarely intervenes in party politics, said the "opposition could not keep society hostage to its wishes" and appealed for national unity. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Wed Nov 29 14:39:36 2000 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:39:36 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} PRESS: Kostunica turns to diplomacy to stop rebel invaders (Christian Science Monitor, NOVEMBER 29, 2000) Message-ID: <3A255B78.3CF89148@bndlg.de> http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/11/29/p7s1.htm WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2000 Kostunica turns to diplomacy to stop rebel invaders Tensions were high Tuesday in Yugoslavia. Serbian forces vow a counterattack. By Alex Todorovic Special to The Christian Science Monitor BUJANOVAC, YUGOSLAVIA The head of the Yugoslav Army, Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic, spent Tuesday reviewing tank and artillery positions in the wind-swept hills overlooking southern Serbia's Presevo Valley. The turrets are trained on several ethnic-Albanian villages that were occupied nearly two weeks ago by a well-armed regional rebel force, the Presevo Medvedja and Bujanovac Liberation Army, known by its Albanian-language initials, UCPMB. In a major offensive, the rebels drove out lightly armed Serb police, leaving the sensitive buffer zone between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia effectively under rebel control. Four policemen were killed in a clash with the rebels last week. Fearing Serb reprisals, ethnic Albanian villagers fled for the safety of Kosovo. United Nations refugee officials estimate some 2,000 have arrived so far. The border crisis presented Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica with the first test of his leadership since taking office less than two months ago. The differences between Mr. Kostunica, a moderate nationalist, and ousted Balkan strongman Slobodan Milosevic were evident as the new leader attempted to defuse an explosive situation and committed to finding a diplomatic solution. Kostunica also had to allay the fears of Serbs in the ethnically mixed border district of Bujanovac. They are furious that rebels now control a piece of Serb territory. "It's not enough that Albanians got all of Kosovo. Now they want a piece of Serbia as well," says Rade, a Bujanovac resident. International peacekeepers in Kosovo, especially the Americans, have made clear that Yugoslavia would face serious consequences if its Army moved inside the security zone to fight the guerrillas. The agreement that ended last year's NATO bombing campaign allows only lightly armed Serb police to patrol the area. Kostunica sharply criticized the NATO-led KFOR force for allowing the rebels to smuggle heavy weapons into the security zone, but pledged to stick by the accord. "We have abided by the international agreements, but Kosovo peacekeepers are not doing their job." Though critical of the West's role in Kosovo, Kostunica is also careful not to strain his newly established diplomatic ties. The situation remains potentially explosive. Serb forces have threatened to enter the security zone to remove the rebels if Kosovo peacekeepers don't act. But a Monday-night deadline passed without incident. A KFOR spokesman said on Tuesday that the rebels and Serbian authorities had agreed to suspend fighting in the Kosovo-Serbia boundary region indefinitely. KFOR encouraged both sides to seek a peaceful resolution to the crisis, he added. The normally peaceful Bujanovac, just five miles from the security zone, now looks like a town preparing for war. Tanks and busloads of special forces rumble through town, while machine-gun-toting police chat with citizens on street corners. Crowds of Serbs cheered "Serbia" as heavy artillery rolled along main streets this week. Ethnic-Albanians, who constitute 65 percent of the population, were nowhere to be seen. A crowd of nearly 1,000 Serbs gathered in the cold to catch a glimpse of Mr. Kostunica Monday. They wanted action. They demanded guns. After meeting with the head of the Yugoslav Army and local leaders, the president addressed the crowd, stressing that Bujanovac would be defended. But Kostunica later told journalists that diplomacy was the only weapon that could be used to disarm the guerrillas. "This is a multiethnic community, and cohabitation must be preserved," he said. Local ethnic-Albanians complain that they are not equal citizens. "We don't have jobs, there are no Albanian police officers in this majority Albanian town, and we are subject to harassment and provocations by Serb police," says Shaip Kamberi, a local Albanian leader. Such complaints contributed to the formation of the rebel army nearly a year ago. The movement was formed by locals, but supported by former members of the disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army. Most Yugoslav analysts are impressed by Kostunica's handling of his first crisis. "Our policies have been impetuous over the past decade under Slobodan Milosevic. We must correct the militarized public opinion and get the nation used to diplomatic solutions," says Dusko Batakovic, a professor of political science. In further contrast to the previous regime, Serb leaders acknowledge the neglect of Albanian citizens in southern Serbia. Nebojsa Covic, a leader in the transition government, met with local Albanian leaders and stressed the need to rectify the mistakes of the past. "This is an area that was neglected by the former regime, which greatly contributed to the current crisis. Serbia now has a democratic government, and we will find democratic solutions to our problems," Mr. Covic said. Material from the wire services was used for this report. -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/1/_/920292/_/975535178/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From kosova at iol.it Wed Nov 29 19:21:03 2000 From: kosova at iol.it (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Engj=EBll_Koliqi?=) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 01:21:03 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} [ALBANIAN] Majko: 28 Nentori ne Janine Message-ID: <01c501c05a63$6d03c680$27801897@ekoliqi> -----Messaggio Originale----- Da: Leka Gjergji A: Data invio: marted? 28 novembre 2000 3.50 Oggetto: [ALBANIAN] Majko: 28 Nentori ne Janine __________________________Albanian Discussion List________________________ Archives: http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/albanian.html __________________________________________________________________________ Emigrantet shqiptare festojne ne Janine Mes shqiptareve qe jetojne ne Janine te Greqise, sot do te jete edhe ish-kryeministri Pandeli Majko per te festuar festen kombetare te Shqiperise, ne nje ceremoni qe organizohet nga konsulli shqiptar atje Ilirjan Zhupa. Ne vendin qe mban emrin "Divani i Ali Pashes" Konsulli i Shqiperise ne Janine ka organizuar gjithcka. Shqiptaret emigrante qe prej vitesh banojne ne Janine do te mblidhen per te festuar diten e ngritjes se flamurit shqiptar. I ftuar nga Tirana eshte ish-kryeministri Paneli Majko, i cili ka konfirmuar pjesemarrjen ne kete feste te dites kombetare te Shqiperise qe festohet mes emigranteve ne Janine. Pritet qe festa kombetare e Shqiperise ne Janine te kaloje ashtu si gjithe atmosfera festive ne Shqiperi, pasi edhe klima e mire e diteve te fundit mes Tiranes dhe Athines do te ndihmoje per kalimin sa me mire te festes shqip sot ne Janine, ku shqiptaret do te kendojne dhe urojne njeri-tjetrin shqip. Presidenti i Greqise Kostas Stefanopullos i ka derguar presidentit Meidani nje urim per festen kombetare te Shqiperise, ku uron mbare popullin shqiptar. Por, ashtu sic do te festoje sot Shqiperia, shqiptaret kudo gjenden ne bote do te festojne diten e flamurit. Ne shtetin fqinj, ne Greqi, pervec Janines, ne te gjitha qytetet ku banojne shqiptaret, do te kete sot kenge dhe urime ne gjuhen shqipe, ashtu si ne te gjitha shtetet e botes ku gjenden shqiptaret KOHA JONE ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/1/_/920292/_/975545198/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Thu Nov 30 11:51:10 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:51:10 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] CfP: Minorities in Europe, HU Berlin Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... 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Responding to a relevant question in Parliament, tabled by a main opposition New Democracy deputy, Apostolakis said during work performed to maintain and place new border markers no Greek territory was lost, adding that reports, that a Greek border post was lost to Albania, were groundless. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Thu Nov 30 19:40:25 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:40:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Arbereshs and Arberores Message-ID: <20001201004025.29933.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> The Times 30 November 2000 The Leverhume Trust Awards ........ Professor R King (University of Sussex), Albanians in Italy and Greece: a study in migration dynamics and social exclusion, Pounds 115,398, 24 months. ........ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From kosova1 at hotmail.com Thu Nov 30 17:01:04 2000 From: kosova1 at hotmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?B?UUlLU0ggq0FsYmV1cm9wYbs=?=) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:01:04 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} TEMA: Intervista Message-ID: Intervista P?r Ju zgjodhi QIKSH Albeuropa Ekskluzivisht p?r Tem?n flet Nicolas Vllahakis, k?shilltar p?r shtypin i Ambasad?s s? Greqis? n? Belgjik?, i P?rfaq?sis? s? P?rhershme t? Greqis? pran? Bashkimit Evropian dhe pran? NATO-s Paskal Milo ?sht? p?rfaq?sues i minoritetit grek Reagimi i qeveris? aktuale shqiptare, me t? cil?n Greqia ka patur marr?dh?nie shum? t? mira, ?sht? krejt i papritur. Ky mund t? isht? reagimi i zotit Berisha dhe jo i qeveris? aktuale shqiptare. P?r ne ?sht? pothuajs? nj? gjendje shoku. Personalisht mendoj s? nuk ?sht? nj? q?ndrim i kryeministrit Ilir Meta, por i disa prej an?tar?ve t? Partis? Socialist? si Fatos Nano, Gramoz Ru?i, apo i mikut tim Luan Rama Si e komentoni shqet?simin e qeveris? tuaj rreth zhvillimeve gjat? raundit t? dyt? t? zgjedhjeve lokale t? Shqip?ris? n? Himar? ? ?sht? nje diskriminim q? i ?sht? b?r? minoritetit grek n? Himar?. Himara ?sht? e njohur si qytet jugor i Shqip?ris?, i cili ?sht? i populluar nga minoritet grek dhe k?t? e din? t? gjith?. Rasti i zgjedhjeve nuk p?rb?n her?n e par? t? shtypjes s? t? drejtave t? minoritetit grek n? Shqip?ri. Ne jemi shum? t? shqet?suar p?rsa i p?rket edukimit t? banor?ve t? k?saj zone, pasi k?rkesa p?r hapjen e nj? shkolle greke p?r minoritetin grek t? k?saj zon? ?sht? refuzuar nga shteti shqiptar. Gjithashtu, pjes?marrja e minoritar?ve grek? n? administrat?n shtet?rore dhe n? sistemin juridik t? Shqip?ris?, nuk pranohet. Mbase mund t? thuhet q? nj? p?rfaq?sues i minoritetit grek ?sht? ministri Paskal Milo, por ai nuk e pranon k?t?. Ka nj? tjet?r k?ndv?shtrim p?r k?t? ??shtje, t? cil?n un? e respektoj sepse ?sht? krejt?sisht personale. ??shtja e diskriminimit t? minoritetit grek nuk na shqet?son vet?m n? marr?dh?niet bilaterale Shqip?ri- Greqi , por b?het m? tep?r serioze, e par? n? dimensionin evropian, sepse p?rb?n shkelje t? t? drejtave t? njeriut. N? k?t? kontekst ?sht? dhe deklarata e ministres s? Jashtme t? Greqis? Panagotis Beglitis, e cila thot? se Greqia nuk mund t? rrij? apatike p?rball? shkeljes s? t? drejtave t? rregullave q? duhet t? ndjekin t? gjitha vendet, n?se ato i kan? v?n? vetes p?r q?llim t? nd?rtojn? marr?dh?nie t? q?ndrueshme me Bashkimin Evropian dhe natyrisht Greqin?. Qeveria shqiptare konsideron se 8 deputet?t greke kan? mb?rritur n? Himar? p?r t? b?r? propagand? p?r kandidatin e "Omonias ". Cili ?sht? reagimi juaj? Jo, nuk ?sht? e vertet? q? deputet?t grek? kan? qen? n? Himar? p?r t? b?r? propagand?. Qeveria shqiptare nuk ka pasur asnj? sinjal q? t? tregonte p?r q?llimin propagandistik t? ardhjes s? deputet?ve grek? n? Himar? Nuk ka fakte t? cilat e provojn? k?t?. Ata jan? paraqitur aty p?r t? v?zhguar procesin e zgjedhjeve. Pra, b?het fjal? p?r v?zhgim. K?t? t? fundit e v?rteton edhe raporti i OSBE-s?, i cili tregon qart? s? raundi i dyt? i zgjedhjeve nuk ka qen? transparent dhe se zgjedhjet n? Himar? jan? zhvilluar n? nj? klim? tensioni me vendin fqinj, pra Greqin? dhe se jan? v?n? re ?rregullime t? r?nda. Sipas jush, cila ?sht? arsyeja e ndodhjes s? k?saj ngjarjeje n? Himar? ? Nuk arrij ende t? kuptoj arsyen e k?tij q?ndrimi t? qeveris? shqiptare, nd?rkoh? q? b?het fjal? p?r t? nj?jtin kandidat t? partis? s? minoritetit grek n? Shqip?ri "Omonia", i cili ka qen? edhe n? koh?n e qeverisjes s? zotit Sali Berisha. Gjat? qeverisj?s s? Berish?s, q?ndrimi i tij nacionalist ka q?n? shum? i theksuar dhe vazhdon t? jet? i tille. Zoti Berisha ka shprehur hapur nje q?ndrim antigrek, q? shpjegon dhe tensionet e shumta q? ka pasur midis pal?s greke dhe qeveris? shqiptare deri n? 1997. Por,reagimi i qeveris? aktuale shqiptare, me t? cil?n Greqia ka patur marr?dh?nie shum? t? mira, ?sht? krejt i papritur. Ky mund t? isht? reagimi i zotit Berisha dhe jo i qeveris? aktuale shqiptare. P?r ne ?sht? pothuajs? nj? gjendje shoku. Personalisht mendoj s? nuk ?sht? nj? q?ndrim i kryeministrit Ilir Meta, por i disa prej an?tar?ve t? Partis? Socialist? si Fatos Nano, Gramoz Ru?i, apo i mikut tim Luan Rama. K?ta t? fundit, kan? ndjekur t? nj?jt?n politik? si zoti Sali Berisha duke p?rvet?suar t? njejtin q?ndrim nacionalist. Ata kan? shfryt?zuar momentin e zgjedhjeve n? bashkin? e Himar?s, p?r t? b?r? t? ditur s? jan? politikan? socialist? me nje q?ndrim nacionalist , n? m?nyr? q? t? t?rheqin sa m? shume elektorat rreth vet?s. Un? mendoj s? kjo l?vizje e k?saj pj?se t? Partis? Socialiste ?sht? b?r? p?r t? mbuluar gj?ra t? cilat kan? ndodhur n? gjirin e k?saj partie. N? Shqip?ri ?sht? shum? e leht? t? luash me kart?n e nacionalistit dhe mendoj q? k?ta politikan? e kan? p?rdorur p?r t? fshehur ??shtje t? brendshme, p?r t? justifikuar s? ?'far? ndodh n? t? v?rtet? n? Shqip?ri . Nga ana tjet?r, mendoj q? ka lindur nj? lloj frike p?r l?nie n? harres? nga ana e qeveris? shqiptare. Pas ndryshimeve t? fundit n? Ballkan, Bashkimi Evropian dhe SHBA e kan? shprehur qart? pozicionin dhe angazhimin e tyre p?r t? ndihmuar Serbin? Demokratike me n? krye zotin Koshtunica. Ndihma politike, ekonomike dhe financiare q? do t'i jepet Serbis? ?sht? b?r? publike. ?sht? e qart? se pas k?tij ndryshimi, gj?rat do t? ndryshojn? shum? si p?r Shqip?rin?, ashtu edhe p?r Kosov?n. Fakti q? Serbia do t? ndihmohet dhe do t? jet? gjithashtu n? grupin e shteteve q? do t? integrohen n? Bashkimin Evropian ashtu si Maqedonia dhe Shqip?ria, nuk ?sht? nje sinjal i mire p?r qeverin? shqiptare, e cila tutet se nuk do t? mund t? p?rfitoje si m? par? ndihm? dhe asistenc? nga BE. Tani n? pjes?n e tort?s q? i ?sht? ofruar nga Bashkimi Evropian rajonit t? Ballkanit, pra midis t? tjer?ve dhe Shqip?ris?, ?sht? futur dhe S?rbia. Duke u nisur nga deklarata e kryeministrit grek Kostas Simitis, i cili ka d?nuar ashp?r zhvillimet n? Himar?, qeveritar?t shqiptar? i tremben nj? kund?rreagimi t? q?veris? greke. A do t? ket? nj? kund?rreagim? Jemi n? dijeni t? z?rave q? qarkullojn? p?r nj? acarim t? marr?dh?nieve dypal?she, dhe nj? kund?rreagim t? qeveris? greke ndaj popullsis? shqiptare q? jeton n? Greqi. Kjo nuk ?sht? e v?rtet?. Qeveria greke nuk do t? marr? asnj? mas? ndaj shtetasve shqiptar? q? zhvillojn? veprimtarin? e tyre jet?sore n? Greqi. Me k?t? dua t? them se nuk do t? ket? asnj? lloj pasoje p?r refugjat?t shqiptar?, t? cil?t jan? q? prej nj? kohe t? konsiderueshme n? 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