Posted on 03/02/2006 4:20:33 PM PST by joan
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro, March 1, 2006 (AFP) - A guerrilla group on Wednesday warned the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) to leave the province, saying it was ready to fight for a "Greater Albania".
The group calling itself the Albanian National Army (ANA), which is active in Kosovo, southern Serbia and Macedonia, "demands from the UN, if they are really a peace organisation, to leave Kosovo gradually," it said in a statement received by AFP.
"This organisation has no democracy within itself and still governs with (the power of) veto as in the Middle Ages. It cannot build democracy anywhere," the ANA said.
"We will fight ... against whatever enemy and traitor until full victory -- the unification of the Albanian nation under the motto 'one nation, one state'," added the group.
The ANA, which the UN mission in Kosovo regards as a terrorist organisation, has in recent years claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks in Kosovo, southern Serbia and Macedonia.
The statement was issued ahead of a scheduled visit to the province on Wednesday by the chief UN mediator in talks on Kosovo's future status, Martti Ahtisaari.
The ANA also vowed to overturn all peace plans brokered by the West in the region.
"Albanians cannot be treated as terrorists and warmongers because they fight for national unification. ... It is their legitimate right, as it was for all nations in the world," the group said.
"The region will not find peace if the Albanian question is not finally resolved."
Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations and NATO since mid-1999, when the alliance's bombing campaign ended a crackdown by Serbian forces against separatist Albanian rebels.
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and these guyz have their asses in the air 5 times a day, right?
Sounds like a good reason to keep the UN force there, then.
And brave Sir Robin ... ran away.
It has always been just a matter of time before they would turn on their protectors. It's just a question of when their desire to continue their criminal enterprises without interference from the UN would outweigh their fear of the return of the Serb Army.
Peace and justice will only return to Kosovo alongside the Serb Army.
Unfortunately, the UN forces were clearly unwilling to prevent the continued ethnic cleansing of non-Albanians by the KLA so they have failed to maintain stability in any meaningful way. At best, they've been able to keep the anti-Serb, Jew, and Roma violence down to a level that the Euros foolishly find acceptable.
Why do you thing that Serbs want to get even?
Serbs just wnt peace christianity and democracy to be restored on their land.
What is wrong with that?
Because we are talking about the Balkans, where blood feuds go on for centuries. Now, if everyone works out a peaceful solution, say with language rights in Albanian but Serbian as the primary language, religious tolerance, and a determination to try and punish everyone on all sides who committed crimes, it could work.
The darned mussies just want EVERYTHING for their own lousey hides!!
Then get stuff and mess it up.
They cannot stand for tiny Israel to have a small piece of LAND IN the ME. Not even a tiny spot!!
WHO WANTS TO TRY TO REASON WITH MUSSIE ALBANIAN IDIOTS IN KOSOVO?? you??
I say throw them out to their precious Albania and be done with it!!
Albanians affter 1945 hade authonomy, assembly, president of asembly, Albanian university, albanian High-schools, TV and Radio, but that wasn`t enough for them.
Serbs don`t have blood-feuds, albanians do.
They actualy banned Serbian during communistr yoke.
And the Bush legacy....since he has kept our troops in that hell hole (as well as Bosnia).
"we were" in Kosovo and Bosnia? Wrong. We "are" in Bosnia and Kosovo and Bush has kept us there thus compounding and expanding upon Clinton's foolish intervention to "spread democracy."
LOL!!!
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