http://en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=867
Strategic Cultural Foundation
July 25, 2007
“Great Albania”: A Project for Europe
Pyotr Iskenderov
So, the secret is out.
The “premier” of the Kosovo government, the former
ringleader of the terrorist “Kosovo Liberation Army”
Agim Ceku has named the date, to which the Albanian
leaders of the province would time their declaration
of independence.
That is slated for November 28, 2007, when
neighbouring Albania will celebrate its principal
state holiday - Day of the Flag.
But the holiday has to do with Albania but indirectly.
It has long been viewed by the Albanian diaspora
scattered all over the world as Day of All Albanians.
To understand what Kosovo separatists mean by
selecting this particular date for declaring
independence, suffice it to recollect the two key
events in ALBANIAN history, not the history of a state
of Albanians but rather of their ethnic origins.
The first milestone is the period when the
All-Albanian Prizren League worked in 1878-1881.
Prizren is a town in Kosovo.
In September 1878 the leaders of the Prizren League
adopted a programme of unification of ALL Albanian
provinces into a single autonomous state and political
formation, introducing Albanian as the language to be
used for making official documents and for educational
purposes, as well as creation of the Albanian national
army.
Following that was the demand to establish a single
Albanian vilayet under the formal suzerainty of the
Turkish Sultan for the above purposes.
Using the slogan “United Albania for all Albanians”
their troops clashed with Turkish and Montenegro
armies that attempted to implement the decisions of
the 1878 Berlin Congress on the territorial rebuilding
of the Balkans.
The idea of the creating of an ethnic Albania was
rejuvenated in the autumn of 1912 when the armed
forces of the Balkan states led by Serbia liberated
the originally Slav lands from Turkey.
On November 18, 1912 leaders of the Albanian national
movement presented to diplomats from the great powers
in Istanbul what was called “The Call of the Albanian
Nation”.
It expressed the firm resolve of Albanians to fight
with an eye to “guaranteeing to the Albanian people
its ethnic and political existence.”
What the reference to “guarantees” meant was the
establishment of Albania in its ethnic borders and its
further international recognition.
A few days later in Vlera the National Assembly
gathered to declare Albania’s independence under the
banner of the Middle-Age Albanian hero Skanderbeg, a
black double-headed eagle on the red background.
Since then residents of Albania and Albanians in
Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Southern Serbia and
Greece regard this flag as their national symbol.
As early as 1913 a multi-colour map of “Ethnic
Albania” was disseminated in the Balkans that was
drawn by someone named Ahmet Gasi, also known as
“doctor” and “professor”.
The map showed the international borders of the
state-to-be that included Albania, all of Kosovo, the
greater part of Macedonia, a part of Greece and
Montenegro. Nowadays, all the bookstores in Pristina,
the administrative centre of Kosovo, feature this map
so that it could [attract] anyone willing to purchase
it.
The price is 5 euros.
The danger of such ethno-demographic “novelties” by
“professor “ Gasi and his present-day Albanian
followers should in no case be underestimated.
....
So far, they in most European capitals prefer to
disregard the danger that is looming over the European
continent.
They believe (or pretend to believe) the tales that
Kosovo Albanians would be satisfied enough to have
independence under the international supervision.
Meanwhile, they continue to believe that Albanian
riots in 2000-2001 in Macedonia and the Presevo valley
in the south of Serbia were caused by the oppression
of Skopje and Belgrade rather than viewing them as a
test of their muscles by the Great Albania
strategists.
Individual concerned voices are drowned out in the
choir of bombastic diplomats the likes of British
Foreign Secretary David Milliband, who calls on the EU
to take the “single and strong” stance on Kosovo,
supporting the “Ahtisaari” plan that suggests granting
independence to the Kosovo residents.
As for the date, November 28, Europeans have grown
accustomed to associate it with age-long history, if
they ever recollect it.
However, history has a habit of repeating itself, and
frequently in a more terrifying manner than before.
No one in the United States saw any tragic meaning of
the figures 9 and 11 only six years ago.
Is it absolutely out of the question for Europe, so
vain of its civilization, to begin writing its
comprehensive history from the date 11/28 ?
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