[GeraldP]

>>>There was over 400 000 citizens of Albania who used the chaos in 1999 to illegally settle in Kosovo province

400 000 really?? Wow, this is great stuff! Considering that North Albania is sparsely populated to begin with, this would mean that the north of Albania is virtually a desert. Also the 2000 census counted a population of 3 500 000, in line with the expectations after taking into account emigrants to Greece, Italy etc. Of course, I am not taking into account any "cover-up" by the Albanian gov't here, so feel free to enlighten me if there is any. Also I am not taking into account the fact that Albanians are "breeding like cattle", as you and some others here claim. Let's do the math on that for a second shall we?
Taken from the library of Congress:
Albania had a population of 3,335,000 in July 1991, compared with 2,761,000 in mid-1981 and 1,626,000 in 1960.
So in the 10 year period from 1981 to 1991 the population of Albania increased by under 600 000. However from 1991 to 2000 we have an increase of 200 000, add to that 500 000 emigrants to Greece and Italy, we have 700 000 more people. Where did these other 400 000 Albanians that emigrated to Kosova come from? When you read anti-Albanian propaganda, please try to do a little bit of analysis to make sure it makes some sort of sense


I believe in the right of Kosovars to self-determination, and I choose to represent that by calling the place by the name over 90% of its inhabitants call it, Kosova. You want to call it Kosovo, that is your prerogative.

[joan]

http://pages.albaniaonline.net/repoba/zyra_shtypit/prel_eng.htm

While comparing the figures of the last Census with the ones of Aprile 1989, it is noticed that the population has been decreased by about 3% equal to 95258 persons.

1989 = 3,182,400

2001 = 3,087,200