[Prishtina-E] Discrimination against Albanians in Macedonia/Poloce/Army

[A. Springhetti]

What is the solution?
--- Imer Berisha <imerprishtina at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear friends and compatriots,
> 
> The very core of the problem in Serbia was/is not
> only Milosevic as a single 
> individual/criminal or whatever you may call him.
> 
> The main problem in Serbia was and still is the
> Milisevic in the heads of 
> too many Serbs. I am afraid but it is the majority
> of Serbs that have agreed 
> and some of them participated in Serbian policy of
> killings and deportations 
> in Kosova.
> 
> It was Serbs that is "ordinary serbs" (again the
> vast majority) who brought 
> Milosevic in power and kept him for so long, until
> there was no seat left 
> for him to try.
> 
> It is all to well to be politically correct.  But
> the truth is that 
> Milosevic did not loose elections because of what he
> did in Kosova but
> MILOSEVIC LOST ELECTIONS IN SERBIA BECAUSE HE DID
> NOT COMPLETE WHAT HE 
> STARTED/THAT IS THE EXPULSION OF ALBANIANS FROM
> KOSOVA.
> 
> Not only that, he brought NATO in Kosova too, these
> are the reasons why 
> Milosevic lost, not because Serbs changed their mind
> towards attrocities 
> committed against Albanians in Kosova. They still
> pretend it was a theatre, 
> it did not happen.
> 
> The same  explenation applies to Macedonia.  Every
> single Albanian no matter 
> where he/she is from, knows (or should know) how
> much Macedonians hate 
> Albanians and Albanian language in general.  It is a
> said truth that 
> majority of Macedonians does share this feeling, of
> course together with the 
> government.  So I agree that as in Serbia, in
> Macedonia too the problem is 
> not only with the governmental structure, it is
> wider.
> 
> Of course if the Govrnment is a progressive one it
> can affect the change in 
> peoples attitudes by opting in favor of democratic
> solutions and towards 
> accepted standards in relations to its citizens, or
> towards Albanians in 
> this case.
> 
> The example of Montenegro shows how much can a
> government do if it decides 
> to distinguish itself and the country from a
> faschizoid policy, i.e. of 
> Milosevic.  It was unimaginable some years ago to
> talk of differences 
> between Serbian and Montenegrin policy, but this is
> reality now. As was it 
> unimaginable for Albanians to escape the attrocities
> of Milosevic and seek 
> refuge in Montenegro (about 50.000).  I think this
> is appreciated by 
> Albanians and shows that we do know and can
> distinguish "goodies" from the 
> "bedies".
> 
> The EU and others are slowlly becoming familiar (if
> they did not know that 
> before,I doubt they didn't know) about the position
> of Albanians in 
> Macedonia. No matter how much they are condemning
> the rebels they do mention 
> more and more the problems that need to b addressed.
> Unfortunattely, as this 
> problems are nearly 10 years old and EU did not care
> for this, this showa 
> that they have no prevention mechanism, and they
> will only act if the there 
> is a war. If only few figures are mentioned it is
> obvious that Albanians in 
> Macedonia have been marginalized to the extreme:
> 
> Tetova 90% Albanian population,
> mind you 80% Ethnic Macedonians as policemen,
> 
> Workforce in Macedonia:
> 
> - Ethnic Macedonians......................84,5%
> 
> - Ethnic Albanians.........................9,4%
> (potential workforce is................. 18,5%)   
> (Source: BBC)
> 
> 
> Army and Police Force employees:
> 
> _ Ethnic Macedonians......................93,9%
> 
> - Ethnic Albanians.........................3.1%    
> (Source BBC
>   (Ethnic Albanian Solders/not employees..40%   
> (Source: Karl Bild)
> 
> Only from this data one can easily infer what are
> the reasons for the 
> unhappiness of Albanians in Macedonia.
> 
> Macedonian stance seems to be:
> 
> "We did not kill you every day as Serbs killed
> Albanians in Kosova, so you 
> (Albanians in Macedonia) should be lucky to alive"
> 
> I'm afraid Albanians do know what are modern
> standards of a civilized 
> society towards ethnic communities and they will not
> rest until they reach 
> them.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Imer Berisha
> 
>
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