-Caveat Lector- from http://www.beograd.com/kosovodossier/ GOAL OF COMMUNISTS AND FASCISTS - GREATER ALBANIA If you take into consideration very different engagements of the Albanian communists, who have been coming from Albania to Kosovo and Metohija for variety of reasons since 1941, you will inevitably get the impression that the so-called Djakovica group has been systematically preparing party and political secession of Kosovo from Yugoslavia and that it managed to realize it, at least to some extent, at the Conference in Bujane (31 December 1943 - 2 January 1944). Namely, the resolution adopted at that Conference stressed the significance of the people's liberation war in that part of the Yugoslav territory and expressed the resolve to achieve, on the basis of the right to self-determination, "the centuries old aspirations of Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija to accede to Albania." That was the price of the "internationalist solidarity" of Albanian communists of Kosovo descent who were sent to help Yugoslav communists in the organization of the anti-fascist movement in Kosovo and Metohija. The Conference adopted a resolution, part of which reads as follows: "Kosovo and Metohija is an area populated mostly by the Albanian people that wants, now as ever before - wants to unite with Albania. Accordingly, we feel it incumbent upon us to point to the right track to be taken by the Albanian people in order for them to achieve their aspirations. The only way the Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija can unite with Albania is to fight the occupier and his collaborators together with other Yugoslav peoples. For, it is the only way to win freedom, when all the peoples, and Albanians as well, will be able to decide on their fate with the right to self-determination up to secession." "The point in question is the survival of our people and freedom. There are very few Albanians in Kosovo who think now that we cannot win freedom. There is no such power which can stop Albanian patriotism." --13/14 June 1998 The leadership of the Second Prizren League appealed to Hitler: "YOUR EXCELLENCY, "The Main Committee of the Second Prizren League has ordered me to draw the attention of your esteemed and gracious Excellency to the following: 1. Militarization of Kosovo and liberated Albanian areas under the German leadership The Main Committee of the Second Prizren League, taking into account this highly charged and tense phase in which the Albanian problem has found itself owing to the demands of the present stage of the war, and in full agreement with the government and the people, has decided to carry out the militarization of Kosovo and all Albanian areas which, thanks to the heroism of the German Army, were annexed to Albania in 1941. That would secure the final liberation of the Albanian people on the side of the German Reich in the coming battles. This militarization is aimed at raising an army of a total strength of 120,000 - 150,000 combatants willing to fight, and which would be able to successfully take upon itself fighting against Serbian and Montenegrin Partisans throughout the present war. It would be able to defend the Albanian cause under any circumstances which might arise after the war owing to the difficult and dangerous situation." By the end of June 1941, 11,168 Serbian and Montenegrin families, primarily settlers under the 1919 Land Reform and Colonization Law, were removed from Kosovo and Metohija. Through this exodus which lasted to August 1944, many settlements of Serbs and Montenegrins were destroyed and razed to the ground. The abandoned houses and farms were taken by immigrants from Albania and neighbouring Albanian families. In such a manner, the main part of the plan for establishing ethnic links between Kosovo and Albania was realized already during the war, and the Second Prizren League, formed in September 1943 as a military and political organization entrusted with the defence of areas annexed to Albania in 1941, became a guarantor of the unity and defence. Crimes committed by the Kosovo regiment and 21st SS division "Skenderbeg" in their attempts to attain this objective have shown the pathological obsession of the considerable portion of the Albanian population with defence of "ethnic Albania." Afraid that they might lose the "state" which was created for them by Mussolini and for whose defence since 1943 German military forces were responsible, the Albanians in Yugoslavia, involved in almost every form of collaboration, were very reserved toward anything that might bind their further political destiny to Yugoslavia. Popular resistance for national liberation in Kosovo and Metohija was considered to be purposeless sacrificing for the preservation of Yugoslavia, and they made no difference between Partisans and Chetniks. This conviction was shared by collaborators, nationalists and few Albanian communists, all of them overwhelmed by the preservation of Albania, as big as possible. Support to the secessionist aspirations of the Kosovo Albanians who traditionally looked for their patrons among enemies of Serbia, reached its climax in 1941, when after the partition of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, on 12 August 1941, Kosovo and Metohija in conjunction with a part of north-western Macedonia became part of Greater Albania, an Italian protectorate. The county of Mitrovica, because of the Trep~a mine, remained within Serbia, and eastern parts of Kosovo were handed over to Bulgaria. In the remainder of Kosovo and Metohija, the Albanian-Italian administration was introduced, schools were opened and the Albanian flag could be seen everywhere. The old ethnic dissensions were encouraged anew. Ethnic Albanians started attacking military units and colonists as early as 1941, in the April War. About 10,000 settlers' houses were set on fire and their owners, almost without exception, expelled to Serbia and Montenegro. According to the statistics of the commissariat in Serbia, some 100,000 inhabitants were forced to migrate. The estimates are that the Albanian volunteer militia "Vulnetari" (around 5,000 men), aided by various other paramilitary formations, killed about 10,000 Serbs, mostly civilians, during the four-year war. Colonists and autochthons in and around Pej were the worse for it: before shooting the victims, perpetrators gouged their eyes out, cut off their ears and other vital organs. In the wave of violence, several dozen Orthodox churches were demolished, set on fire and looted, priests were killed and persecuted, and many graveyards were desecrated. The settlements of colonists were systematically razed to the ground in order to provide evidence to be submitted to the Delineation Commission after the war which would prove that Serbs have never lived in Kosovo. The remaining Serbs were frequently warned to move out as soon as possible. The ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and Metohija was triumphantly announced in 1943, by one of the most influential Albanian leaders, Ferat-beg Draga: "The time has come to destroy Serbs ... there will be no more Serbs under the sun of Kosovo." Dusan Bajakovi, Historian DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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