Orhan Pamuk's book "Istanbul-Memories and the City" in
Albanian was introduced at the
Albanian Parliament.
"Within a year of her visit," notes Emma Johnson, "she had become a national hero in Albania, praised by both Christians and Muslims, and was featured on
Albanian postage stamps and in its history books."
Sava Janjic of the Decani monastery in Kosovo, "Kosovo
Albanians have an obsession to create an ethnically clean
Albanian state, and believe that as long as there is a single Serbian Orthodox church either from the Middle Ages or the modern age, they would never be able to say Kosovo fully belongs to them." They see churches and monasteries also as marks of Serbian culture, statehood, and tradition" (National Post, Apr.
The riots were fueled by rumors--demonstrated to be utterly false--that a gang of Serbs with dogs had driven three
Albanian boys into a river, where they drowned.
After months of escalating clashes between Macedonian security forces and armed
Albanian guerillas demanding greater rights for the country's
Albanian minority, a shaky, ceasefire holds while the country's leaders debate a last-ditch peace plan.
Italy is the destination of choice for many
Albanian immigrants.
Serb forces have tried to suppress Kosovo's ethnic
Albanian rebels for more than a year.
In 1994, when the KLA was an embryonic menace, France's Observatire Geopolitique Des Drogues (a counter-narcotics bureau working with the European Commission) reported that "heroin shipment and marketing networks are taking root among ethnic
Albanian communities in Albania, Macedonia, and the Kosovo province of Serbia, in order to finance large purchases of weapons destined ...
