[DTA]

Mark,

You failed to check that when Albania was formed for the first time in history in 1912, Shiptars (a.k.a. Albanians) were barely 50% of population. The rest were Serbs, Montenegrins, Greeks, Turks and Tzintzars. In 92 years since then Shqiptars have assimilated,KILLED and outbred the rest. According to CIA FACTBOOK

Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Roma (Gypsy), Serb, Macedonian, and Bulgarian) (1989 est.) note: in 1989, other estimates of the Greek population ranged from 1% (official Albanian statistics) to 12% (from a Greek organization)

So, your opionion is either ignorant one (you did not know that it was not only Shqiptars who were left outside of national borders) or racist one (you care only for Shqiptars to the point of condoning the genocide they commited in Albania)

Shqiptar claims of being left out of the borders are comparable to MENENDEZ BORTHERS claim of being orphans!

[followerofchrist]

That's INSANE. I knew the indo-Albanians and the indo-Serbs had quite alot of tribal warfare during the Ottoman days. I assumed the population explosion was due to Serbian westernization (low birth rate) and Muslim fecundity. The Shqiptars would be an interesting case study. They are one of the few European groups who are not below replacement fertility. It is interesting that Clinton chose to paint them as victims at the expense of Christian Serbs to show the Muslim world that they don't only bomb Muslims. We were on the wrong side of that war.

[GeraldP]

"The basis of the map is the situation around 1910"