[PEN-L:4603] Albanian Separatists' Reactionary Views on Women + Dream of "Ethnically Pure" Kosovo

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

The supporters of the KLA, the NATO, and the USA, take note. You guys have
a very short-term memory. Back in 1987, even the New York Times reported
this, but they can count on American Amnesia for not remembering what they
reported. Yoshie

The New York Times
November 1, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
SECTION: Section 1; Part 1, Page 14, Column 1; Foreign Desk

HEADLINE: In Yugoslavia, Rising Ethnic Strife Brings Fears of Worse Civil
Conflict

BYLINE: By DAVID BINDER, Special to the New York Times

DATELINE: BELGRADE, Yugoslavia

Portions of southern Yugoslavia have reached such a state of ethnic
friction that Yugoslavs have begun to talk of the horrifying possibility of
''civil war'' in a land that lost one-tenth of its population, or 1.7
million people, in World War II.

The current hostilities pit separatist-minded ethnic Albanians against the
various Slavic populations of Yugoslavia and occur at all levels of
society, from the highest officials to the humblest peasants.

A young Army conscript of ethnic Albanian origin shot up his barracks,
killing four sleeping Slavic bunkmates and wounding six others.

The army says it has uncovered hundreds of subversive ethnic Albanian cells
in its ranks. Some arsenals have been raided.

Vicious Insults

Ethnic Albanians in the Government have manipulated public funds and
regulations to take over land belonging to Serbs. And politicians have
exchanged vicious insults.

Slavic Orthodox churches have been attacked, and flags have been torn down.
Wells have been poisoned and crops burned. Slavic boys have been knifed,
and some young ethnic Albanians have been told by their elders to rape
Serbian girls.

Ethnic Albanians comprise the fastest growing nationality in Yugoslavia and
are expected soon to become its third largest, after the Serbs and Croats.

Radicals' Goals

The goal of the radical nationalists among them, one said in an interview,
is an ''ethnic Albania that includes western Macedonia, southern
Montenegro, part of southern Serbia, Kosovo and Albania itself.'' That
includes large chunks of the republics that make up the southern half of
Yugoslavia.

Other ethnic Albanian separatists admit to a vision of a greater Albania
governed from Pristina in southern Yugoslavia rather than Tirana, the
capital of neighboring Albania....

Worst Strife in Years

As Slavs flee the protracted violence, Kosovo is becoming what ethnic
Albanian nationalists have been demanding for years, and especially
strongly since the bloody rioting by ethnic Albanians in Pristina in 1981 -
an ''ethnically pure'' Albanian region, a ''Republic of Kosovo'' in all but
name.

The violence, a journalist in Kosovo said, is escalating to ''the worst in
the last seven years.''...

Attacks on Slavs

Last summer, the authorities in Kosovo said they documented 40 ethnic
Albanian attacks on Slavs in two months. In the last two years, 320 ethnic
Albanians have been sentenced for political crimes, nearly half of them
characterized as severe.

In one incident, Fadil Hoxha, once the leading politician of ethnic
Albanian origin in Yugoslavia, joked at an official dinner in Prizren last
year that Serbian women should be used to satisfy potential ethnic Albanian
rapists. After his quip was reported this October, Serbian women in Kosovo
protested, and Mr. Hoxha was dismissed from the Communist Party.

As a precaution, the central authorities dispatched 380 riot police
officers to the Kosovo region for the first time in four years.

Officials in Belgrade view the ethnic Albanian challenge as imperiling the
foundations of the multinational experiment called federal Yugoslavia,
which consists of six republics and two provinces....