Te drejtat e maqedonaseve ne Shqiperi me ne fund u ndreqen

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Thursday, June 09, 2005
Rights of Macedonians in Albania Finally Addressed with New Political Party
The tables haven't exactly turned, but only 4 years after the Albanians in Macedonia started a war allegedly for "human rights," the small Macedonian minority in Albania, centered around the area of Lakes Ohrid and Prespa, has finally won the right to form a political party. MIA reports:

"...The first Macedonian party has been registered Wednesday in Albania named - 'Macedonian Alliance for European Integration.'

Eftim Mitrevski, President of the Macedonian community in Albania, in the interview with Macedonian Television said that the registration in the Tirana Court passed without any problems. 'The court had finally made a positive decision,' he said.

The first steps of the party, as Mitrevski said, were organizational strengthening in all three areas where Macedonians in Albania live - Golo Brdo, Gora and Prespa.

He said that the first party of Macedonians will provide a positive contribution to successful resolution of problems encountered by Macedonians in Albania, and it will also encourage the democratic processes in the country."

The Greeks have long used the apparent presence of a 'Greek minority' in Albania as a trump card to counterbalance Albanian claims of injustices against their own citizens living in Greece. Macedonia has never been able to do the same, in part because their power of persuasion and international influence are pitiful compared to the Hellenes, and partly because their minority in Albania is smaller (5,000 according to the authorities, up to 350,000 according to the Macedonians) and pacifistic in comparison to the approximately 700,000 Albanians living in Macedonia.

In general, however, Albania has been much more charitable towards its Macedonian minority than has Greece. The Florina-based group Rainbow continues to push for the Macedonian cause in Greece,which continues to ban the return of most of the 'Begaltsi,' Macedonians expelled from Greek Macedonia during the bloody civil war of 1945-48.

For a comprehensive account of this conflict, we recommend Andre Gerolymatos' Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of Soviet-American Rivalry, 1943-1949. We will be reviewing this book later in the summer, and would like to remind readers that by buying your books via the Amazon links and search boxes on the site you are not only enjoying fascinating books, you are also directly contributing to the survival of Balkanalysis.com in a difficult time for independent media.

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posted by Balkanalysis Blog Editor @ 6/9/2005 11:37:00 AM

[Lioness]

Maqedonasit thone se jane 350,000????!!!! Bah, shto dhe minoritetin grek, qe sipas tyre eshte verdalle atij numri, plus dhe ca te tjera.......
Qysh na ka genjyer mendja dhe neve, kujtojme se jemi 3 milione e ca shqiptare ne trojet tona!!!!!!!!

[miki_al2001]

Maqedonasit mund te thone qe jane dhe 3 milion por ata sjane fare.ato pak veta qe e mbajn veten per maqedonas jane bullgar.Sepse maqedonas nuk ka as ne maqedoni.ne maqedoni maqedonasit sllav e kane marre veten nga emri i territorit.pra a ka komb korcar lushnjar tiranas apo shkodran jo pra as maqedonas nuk ka.

[iliria e para]

Nuk duhet te jesh as historian e as doktor i shkencave ta kyuptosh se keta qe e quajne veten "maqedon" jane bullgar/rus te cilet kan invadue pjese te Maqedonise se vjeter dhe keshtu i quajten "maqedon".
Me se miri do te ishte qe ate pjesen qe flasin bullgarisht ta marre Bullgaria dhe kete tjetren ku flitet shqip Shqiperia.
Ate republike fallco e krijoje Tito. Me vdekjen e tij eshte dashur te vdes edhe kjo republike.