[NYC-L] Re: Macedonian President's website, What's the point?

[Mentor Mala]

Dear Mr. Berisha and others,

I was impressed with your response to the previous message. It entailed a 
lot of details and the main reason why fighting has expanded in Macedonia 
and the Presheva Valley. It is obvious that the Macedonian government is 
trying to hide the correct composition of the people in Macedonia. The main 
reason for this, to my belief, is that if it comes out that 35% or more of 
the entire population consists of one ethnic group, that ethnic group can 
not be considered a minority, but a "constituent" part of the population 
with the other ethnic group of the same or similar percentage. This will 
automatically allow for a publicly funded university on that language, 
participation in a lot more governmental institutions and so many other 
rights that can be denied to a minority. With that being a fact, no wonder 
why the government is afraid, so to speak, of a census governed by an 
International body.

Speaking of the website of the Macedonian President.. I could not help 
myself, as curiosity is a virtue of us humans, but to visit it, and surely 
it was in Macedonian and English. This is another proof that the Macedonian 
government, or at least the president of Macedonia, is literarily not 
interested in reaching out to the Albanians and explain their/his views on 
the language of their own. You said it right, Mr. Berisha, he seems more 
interested in reaching out to the World media, than to the people of its own 
State.

Needless to say, most of us have read the previous messages in this mailing 
list, and I posted a letter sent to President Bush. Amongst others, I stated 
in that letter, that "Revolution is a result of repression, not the other 
way around." Dayton Peace accord in 1995 left the issue of the Albanians in 
the former Yugoslavia, untouched. In 1998, NATO managed to secure an 
agreement with an indicted war criminal, Milosevic, in Kosova. They again, 
didn't address the issues of the Albanians living outside Kosova.

When will it end? I hope it will soon. But my guess tells me otherwise. I, 
in no way, support violence, but am a firm believer that it is everyone's 
God given right to protect themselves from an aggressor, and stand up to 
that aggressor with whatever means available.

Mentor Mala
Saint Petersburg, FL USA

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