Albanians and the European Injustices

By separating the Albanian history from the direction of the European history,by separating the Albanian
culture from the native cultural tradition and Western European culture,the Turkish conquests will be the reason why the
Albanian people will lose a great amount of historical time,why it will be late in its development,why it will be late it the
Balkan and European tables on which it will be decided about its fate.Deparature from Europe,with all the consequen-
ces it had brought to the Albanian life,will be the main reason why Europe will behave at times without any interest,
and at times without any justice for the Albanian people.Facts on such behaviour of the European politics and
diplomacy towards the Albanian people,are unfortunately,far too many.
Not only for the reason of an artifical balance,that made the Albanians to be victims of conquering
aspirations of their Balkan neighbours,but also for the reason of religious bias that were still preserved in Europe,
Great European Powers after the beginning of the Eastern Crises,behaved towards them as if they were not
a European people at all.
The demands of the Albanian intellectuals that their people be recognized the right " to enter - as they stated - the
big European family to which we belong ",will be met by the refusal of the acceptanse that there exists an Albanian
nation,which vould be allowed to have its national state !
The rights which at the time were recognized to Greeks,Romanians,Serbs,and Montenegrins were not recognized
to the Albanians.Europe,which had reduced its interests for them only into language,ethnographic,and folkloric interest,
not only will not show readiness to accept them within itself,but it will be ready to sentence them to death within the
Ottoman Empire.It can never be explained with certainty why Europe behaved as it did towards the Albanian people;
because that's the way the strategic interests of the Great Powers wanted it;or because it could not evade the pressure
of Russia,which in the name of pan-sllaism had taken the role of the supporter of Serbia and Montenegro;or because
it indeed could not make a distinction between religion and nationality,therefore it equalled Albanians with Turks.
Still,it may be said that the Great Powers (France,England,Germany,Italy,Austro-Hungary) are supervisers of the
historic injustices that will be exercised by the Balkan kingdoms against the Albanian people in the 19th century and in
the beginning of th 20th.They will watch in silence the extermination of the Albanians in Southern Serbia during the
Russian - Turkish War,respectively the Serbian - Turkish War in 1877-1878;they will begin themselves the partition
of the ethnic Albanian territories in the Congress of Berlin in 1879;they will watch in silence the occupation of the
Albanian lands by Serbia and Montenegro during the Balkan Wars;they will watch in silence the occupation of Albania
during the Second Balkan War and First World War;they will watch in silence:exterminating of the Serbian and
Montenegrin army against the Albanian people during 1912 - 1915;punitive military and police expeditions of Serbia
throughout Kosova between the two world wars;colonization of Kosova with Serbs and Montenegrins;the neverending
caravan of the Albanians which Serbia compelled to move to Turkey;violation of the most elementary human and
national rights and liberties of the Albanians under the military - police regime of the Yugoslav Kingdom!They will pass
without punishing the project of the Serbian Cultural Club in 1937 on the extermination of the Albanians from Kosova,
Macedonia, and Montenegro.They will legalize in silence the Yugoslav - Turkish agreement for moving the Muslims
(Albanians) in 1938!
If such behaviour shows with that intensity Europe watched the sufferings of the Albanians in the Congress
of Berlin(1878),at the Conference of Ambasadors in London (1912-1913),and at the Peace Conference in Paris
(1918-1919) shows even more;it proves that it never hesitated to take an active part in its drama,which will be the
greatest national drama in its continent - in the partition of the Albanian territories! Europe of the second half of the19th
century and of the first half of the 20th century,indeed,morally wounded to death because of powerful political
contradictions will give enough reason to Albanians to fall into despair for its justice and moral,to live,afterwards,in
anger towards its politics and justice.
Why can we say this?
We can say this because,as an intellectual of the time wrote,in order to reduce the lands of the Albanian nation it would
sufice that the Serbian politicans take o journey to Europe.
The ethnic right as a natural right on which national states were created or were being created in its
continent,Europe will be denying to the Albanians;the right to self-determination as a right recognized to the nations
of Europe,which had created or were creating their national states during the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century,
Europe will be denying to the Albanians;the right to the state-forming majority,as a right on which borders were
determined in the states of its continent,Europe will be denying to the Albanians in the three above - mentioned meetings:
in Berlin,London,and Paris! For these reasons,the borders of the Albanian state,in fact,of the state of half of th Albanian
people and half of the Albanian teritories - although perfect borders exist nowhere - are the strangest borders,most
illogical,therefore the most unjust ones in the world.And , they are so illogical and so unjust borders precisely because
during their determination Europe treaded the rights of the Albanian people and defended the interests of its defendant -
Greece and the defendants of Russia ! - Serbia and Montenegro.Over the ethnic right of Albanians , Europe put the
ineterests of the policy of an artificial balance;over the live natural right of Albanians,Europe put the dead right of history;
over the ethnic and natural and moral,and finally historical right of Albanians,Europe put the unjust right of the winner of
war,and this means of their new conquerers.By violatingn this way its own juridical,and moral norms,in fact,by violating
the principles of its own civilization,Europe will make a great historical injustice,which it never tried to juridically justify,
because it cannot be justified.Here are som facts that comprise that injustice:from around 75,000 square kilometres of
the ethnic trunk (with 54,000 km2),where Albanians were the only and absolute majority,and its side strip
(with 31,000 km2),where Albanians made less then half of the population,Albania will take 28,000 km2,while the other
part will be given to Serbia(around 21,000 km2),Montenegro around 2,000 km2 and Greece around 5,000.
From around 1 million and 552 thousand inhabitants - that were living at the time in the lands of the ethnic trunk,
740,000 will remain in Albania and around 5 per cent others,while in other Albanian territories,which remain outside
the borders of Albania 802,000 inhabitants - 662,000 Albanians and 180,000 others:Serbs,Montenegrins,Muslims,
Greeks,Wallachians,and others.In its side strip,outside of Albania,190,000 Albanians will remain.
Serbia will be given Kosova and Dukagjini,where 5 per cent Serbs lived;the towns will be given to it:Gjakova with its
vicinity where there were no Serbs at all;Peja with its vicinity,where out of 45,000 Albanians of the Muslim faith around
400 orthodox lived;Ohri and its vicinity,where (in 1866) around 105,000 inhabitants of the Muslim faith lived,i.e.
Albanians and around 20,000 Christians,the majority Albanians.
Dibra with 26,000 Muslim Albanians and 2,000 Christians,and other towns and places in which there were no Serbs at
all,nor Macedonians,or where Albanians made the overwhelming majority.Montenegro will be given territories in which
not a single Montenegrin lived: like Hoti and Gruda,Plava and Gucia,and prior to it Ulqini and its vicinity;Greece will be
given Albanian territories of Chameria up to Preveza,where Albanians were an overwhelming majority.
In the Conference of Ambassadors in London,Europe will be giving the neighbours of the Albanians the most productive
land,low-lands that were used to feed the population,and waters of the rivers that were used to water those lands!
Borders will be separating towns from mountainlands that were used to supply them with farming products,and the
mountainlands from towns that used to supply them with articles produced in towns.And ,thus, the 500 year long
Turkish occupation was replaced by Europe with the Slavic occupation: still more severe!