Tirana, March 6, 1998
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Citizens of Tirana,
We are gathered today
at the Scanderbeg Square, at the of the call of our national
courage, to show to the two million Albanians
in the Republic of Kosova, its political
leadership and President Rugova, that Albanians
wherever they are its their land and in
Diaspora, that now at the time of the great test
of consciousness and our national being,
are decided to react as one nation against the
barbarism of the centuries-long and most
savage enemy, against the primitive Serb nationalism
that is massacring innocent civilians
is Kosova, that are cleansing from their houses,
from their lands women and children, that
are destroying their houses. Nations are like
the individuals, one can split parts of its body,
but can never split its spirit. We are a nation
and against any danger to our nation, one can
never split our spirit, one stand. This is the
call of the leaders of our National Revival, this
is the call of the Albanian spirit. Long live
the Albanian Nation!
Sisters and Brothers!
We are now at the Scanderbeg
Square to tell Albanians in Drenica that suffer the Serb
barbarism and massacres that their blood, the
blood of their children is out blood; it is the
blood of our children bleeding!
We are here to tell them
that the tears and calamity in their houses, means mourning in
our own houses, that the loss of their people
is a deep grief in our hearts, that their
massacred and killed people are the martyrs of
the Albanian Nation.
ONE NATION, ONE STAND!
HONOR TO THE DRENICE MARTYRS, TO THE MARTYRS
OF OUR NATION!
The time of danger to
our nation is the time of the call of its consciousness, it is the time
of the appeal of consciousness of each Albanian
to raise up bravely and courageously.
Thanks to this bravery and courageousness we
have survived through centuries. But
today, from this square, we make it clear to
all the great-serbians in Belgrade that seven
million Albanians is their ethnic lands in the
Balkans and million of other Albanians
throughout the world are decided to raise up
in the legend of their resistance and to
defend at the cost of their dead and alive ones,
their homes, their honor, their flag, each
stone of the Albanian land, each step of the
Albanian land. ONE NATION, ONE STAND!
This is the appeal of the Albanian spirit, this
is the condition to conquer the barbarians. We
are united! We will conquer them!
ALBANIANS LOVE PEACE. ALBANIANS KNOW TO
FIGHT, ALBANIANS
LOVE LIFE,
THE ALBANIANS KNOW HOW TO DEFEND IT!
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are gathered today
to denounce the inhuman massacres, the ugly crimes and the
barbarisms that the great serbians committed
in Skenderaj, Gllogovc, Klina and other
communes of Kosova, where a hundreds of Albanians
were killed or remained injured,
where hundreds of houses were destroyed, where
thousands of Albanians children and
women were kicked off their homes. On this occasion
we demand the butcher of the
Balkans to stop his massacre against Drenica,
he will pay it dearly, we tell him that his
massacre is denounced not only by millions of
Albanians in the Balkans, but also other
millions of Albanians all over the world, also
all the Western world, all the international
institutions and all the friends of the Albanian
nation in the Balkans, in Europe and
throughout.
Likewise, from this square,
we request Miloshevic to interrupt immediately the
massacre in Kosova, he will enjoy no single peace
of the Albanian land. The Albanian land
belongs to the Albanians. God has bestowed it
to them! The Albanians have inherited their
land from the predecessors, they will not allow
Serbs to conquer them!
ONE NATION, ONE STAND!
We are here today to
call the European Union, the USA, the member countries of the
European Union, France, Germany, Great Britain,
Italy, Spain and other member countries
to defend two million innocent civilians from
the great Serbs violence and massacres. Not
later that two years ago the great-serbians killed
half a million Europeans in Bosnia.
During the war period
in the Balkans, the Albanians tolerated Serb repression and
violence, not because they merited it, not because
they are unfairly separated as a nation,
and not because they could not organize an armed
resistance against the aggressors, but
because as a nation they were selected for a
peaceful solution of their cause in
accordance with the international rules. They
are confident in Europe, they are confident in
the US, their are confident in the European and
US engagement for a fair solution of the
Kosova problem.
Today, we are appealing
to them for offering their assistance to conduct elections in the
Republic of Kosova, to stop massacres and to
organize an international conference to
resolve the Kosova problem.
It would be an unjustified
award, a great disillusionment for the oldest nation in the
continent, in case Europe and the USA together
with their powerful institutions might
tolerate the scenario of the great serbians,
the repeat of the Bosnia example in Kosova.
The South of the Balkans is vital for the peace
and the stability in Europe. We call on the
NATO and the Western European Union to play their
role and to avoid the tragedy that
might be of unimaginable scale.
We call on President
Clinton and the USA as the only superpower in the world and as
the leading country in the North Atlantic Alliance,
to punish Miloshevich-the Sadam of the
Balkans, who by breaking the red line determined
by President Bush and later on by
President Clinton in person, has hurled tanks
and cannons on innocent unarmed civilians
in Kosova.
We call on the friends
of Albania and the Albanian nation in the Balkans, in Europe and
throughout the world to help the Albanian nation
in its struggle fro life or death with the
great serbian barbarians.
By appealing to the international
community, I reiterate my conviction that the Albanians
will not allow a new Bosnia and that every hour
and every day they will work to face
courageously and forcefully the aggressor in
the Republic of Kosova.
GOD BLESS THE ALBANIANS, THEIR FLAG AND THEIR
LAND!
LONG LIVE TIRANA, LONG LIVE ALBANIA!
senden