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BYZANTINE SACRED ART (CANADA)
The Numbers Game
How Many Kosovo Albanians Are There Really?
One would be hard pressed to find a single Western media article about
Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija without the brief passage stating,
in one way or the other, that there are some 2 million ethnic Albanians in
the province. This most commonly repeated falsity has been so firmly
ingrained in the minds of the Western politicians and public, that no one
even thinks of questioning the veracity of the claim.
Playing with numbers to boost one side's quasi arguments in the absence of
real ones is the all-times' favorite game of the propagandists. It is
virtually impossible to verify in most cases, it is almost undetectable and
the easiest type of manipulation-you simply state and keep repeating that
Serbs have "executed" 7,000 "Muslim men and boys" in Srebrenica and killed
10,000 Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija province, that 500,000 Muslim women were
raped in Bosnia, that Serbs just killed 100,000 Albanians in a football
stadium in Pristina, that 500,000 Muslims were killed during the Bosnian
civil war... that there are 2 million, or 90 percent of Albanians in Kosovo
province.
Since no one is expected to go there after reading about it in NY Times,
Washington Post, London Times et al and count those who were allegedly
executed, killed, raped and stuffed in mysterious mass graves no one has
been able to find after ten and 18 years of digging, or count the actual
number of ethnic Albanians in southern Serbian province, such outright lies
remain the most stubbornly repeated, unquestioned Western mainstream media
staples.
In November 2007, after the UNMIK-organized elections, viewed as a form of
referendum where Kosovo Albanians were expected to vote in droves to confirm
their dedication to Kosovo independence, Western MSM reported a "record-low
turnout", citing the OSCE observers and UNMIK chief administrator Joachim
Ruecker, who said that "only between 40-45 percent of ethnic Albanians
voted". That would mean that only some 800,000 Albanians out of 2 million
took part in the elections they considered crucial.
However, adviser of the Serbia's prime minister Aleksandar Simic pointed
this was clearly not the case of a "low turnout", but the case of the
exposed number rigging, since there are no more than 1,1 - 1,2 million of
ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province, including the illegal immigrants
who are continually freely crossing the non-existent border between Albania
and Kosovo-Metohija province, which NATO was supposed to guard. Therefore,
the actual turnout in these elections was as high as expected, with more
than 70 percent of ethnic Albanians taking part. Of real ethnic Albanians,
not the imaginary ones.
No More Than 1,2 Million of Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija Province
Responding to a recent article in Serbian media which cited the same
disinformation about the number of ethnic Albanians in Serbian province,
Zvonimir Trajkovic, a political commentator, reporter and adviser to several
Yugoslav and Serbian presidents wrote:
"There has never been, nor is there today more than 1,2 million Shiptars
[ethnic Albanians] in Kosovo and Metohija province, so please be careful not
to naively adopt Shiptar propaganda that there are 2, or even 2,5 million of
them.
"There are six cities in Kosovo and Metohija, or rather small towns:
Pristina with 180,000 residents, Mitrovica with 75,000 residents, Pec -
60,000, Prizren - 55,000, Gnjilane - 45,000 and Urosevac - 40,000. Each of
these includes the suburbs and surrounding municipalities, because the data
covers the total number of municipal residents. Those are the estimates from
1998, since Shiptars boycotted and obstructed every census in
Kosovo-Metohija from 1971 till present, precisely in order to be able to
continuously exaggerate their ethnic presence in the province.
"Before the mass ethnic cleansing in 1999, there were 320,000 Serbs in
Kosovo-Metohija, 45,000 Roma, 17,000 Gorani (Slavic Muslims, loyal to
Serbia)... At the same time [right before NATO marched in allowing massive
pogroms and expulsion of non-Albanians], 38 percent of the residents of
province's capital Pristina were Serbs.
"If we add to this the fact that Kosovo and Metohija is an area almost twice
smaller than Vojvodina [northern Serbian region with population of 2
million], where have those 1,9 million Shiptars you are talking about
squeezed in? If their electoral lists contains 1,08 million voters,
including the deceased Shiptars and the illegal immigrants who came from
Albania alongside NATO, then it follows that there are 820,000 Shiptar
children. Then calculate how many schools should there be for so many
children, and there is a total of 6 of them in Pristina, with classes
consisting not of 200 children each, but around 30, like in Belgrade.
Roaming "Residents": Using Old Yugoslav IDs to Rig the Numbers in the Region
"In order to gain the right to become a constitutive nation in Macedonia,
they needed to cross the 25 percent of the population threshold. There are
between 17 and 19 percent of Shiptars in Macedonia, but they managed to rig
that number up to 26,3% through the Western-orchestrated census.
"So, how are they doing it? Being that they have the old [Yugoslav] ID
cards, whenever there is a census or elections in Macedonia, half of the
Kosovo-Metohija and Presevo Albanians surge to Macedonia to be counted or to
vote. When there is a similar thing happening in Kosovo-Metohija, all the
Shiptars from surrounding areas of former Yugoslavia [Montenegro, Macedonia,
Presevo region in Serbia] go to Kosovo province to cast their votes.
"In conclusion, don't buy the Shiptar propaganda which aims to present its
population as numerically absolutely dominant, with the purpose of
justifying their claims upon others' territories. Listed as Shiptars in the
books of Yugoslav citizens in Kosovo-Metohija are 830,000 ethnic Albanians
and that is the realistic number, perhaps with additional 50-100,000. But
talking about millions is entirely incorrect and a pure propaganda which can
serve only the Shiptars, who wish to send a totally distorted picture into
the world.
"Therefore, I appeal to all to refrain from publishing completely false data
which is harmful to Serbia. This is written by a man who was born in
Pristina and who lived there until 1982. I was also an adviser to several
presidents, in a position from which I had access to all the data state has
to make public. This is not being done today, because a number of the
politicians in power have failed to realize the importance of making this
sort of information publicly available in regular, orderly fashion. Our
current leadership is not publishing this data at present, because it does
not suit the Western agenda, so even our own-let alone the foreign-public is
unaware of the real figures and facts."
Cartoon by Aleksandar Klas (Serbia)
Posted by BBlog Staff on April 10, 2008 10:20 PM
BYZANTINE SACRED ART (CANADA)
The Numbers Game
How Many Kosovo Albanians Are There Really?
One would be hard pressed to find a single Western media article about
Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija without the brief passage stating,
in one way or the other, that there are some 2 million ethnic Albanians in
the province. This most commonly repeated falsity has been so firmly
ingrained in the minds of the Western politicians and public, that no one
even thinks of questioning the veracity of the claim.
Playing with numbers to boost one side's quasi arguments in the absence of
real ones is the all-times' favorite game of the propagandists. It is
virtually impossible to verify in most cases, it is almost undetectable and
the easiest type of manipulation-you simply state and keep repeating that
Serbs have "executed" 7,000 "Muslim men and boys" in Srebrenica and killed
10,000 Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija province, that 500,000 Muslim women were
raped in Bosnia, that Serbs just killed 100,000 Albanians in a football
stadium in Pristina, that 500,000 Muslims were killed during the Bosnian
civil war... that there are 2 million, or 90 percent of Albanians in Kosovo
province.
Since no one is expected to go there after reading about it in NY Times,
Washington Post, London Times et al and count those who were allegedly
executed, killed, raped and stuffed in mysterious mass graves no one has
been able to find after ten and 18 years of digging, or count the actual
number of ethnic Albanians in southern Serbian province, such outright lies
remain the most stubbornly repeated, unquestioned Western mainstream media
staples.
In November 2007, after the UNMIK-organized elections, viewed as a form of
referendum where Kosovo Albanians were expected to vote in droves to confirm
their dedication to Kosovo independence, Western MSM reported a "record-low
turnout", citing the OSCE observers and UNMIK chief administrator Joachim
Ruecker, who said that "only between 40-45 percent of ethnic Albanians
voted". That would mean that only some 800,000 Albanians out of 2 million
took part in the elections they considered crucial.
However, adviser of the Serbia's prime minister Aleksandar Simic pointed
this was clearly not the case of a "low turnout", but the case of the
exposed number rigging, since there are no more than 1,1 - 1,2 million of
ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province, including the illegal immigrants
who are continually freely crossing the non-existent border between Albania
and Kosovo-Metohija province, which NATO was supposed to guard. Therefore,
the actual turnout in these elections was as high as expected, with more
than 70 percent of ethnic Albanians taking part. Of real ethnic Albanians,
not the imaginary ones.
No More Than 1,2 Million of Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija Province
Responding to a recent article in Serbian media which cited the same
disinformation about the number of ethnic Albanians in Serbian province,
Zvonimir Trajkovic, a political commentator, reporter and adviser to several
Yugoslav and Serbian presidents wrote:
"There has never been, nor is there today more than 1,2 million Shiptars
[ethnic Albanians] in Kosovo and Metohija province, so please be careful not
to naively adopt Shiptar propaganda that there are 2, or even 2,5 million of
them.
"There are six cities in Kosovo and Metohija, or rather small towns:
Pristina with 180,000 residents, Mitrovica with 75,000 residents, Pec -
60,000, Prizren - 55,000, Gnjilane - 45,000 and Urosevac - 40,000. Each of
these includes the suburbs and surrounding municipalities, because the data
covers the total number of municipal residents. Those are the estimates from
1998, since Shiptars boycotted and obstructed every census in
Kosovo-Metohija from 1971 till present, precisely in order to be able to
continuously exaggerate their ethnic presence in the province.
"Before the mass ethnic cleansing in 1999, there were 320,000 Serbs in
Kosovo-Metohija, 45,000 Roma, 17,000 Gorani (Slavic Muslims, loyal to
Serbia)... At the same time [right before NATO marched in allowing massive
pogroms and expulsion of non-Albanians], 38 percent of the residents of
province's capital Pristina were Serbs.
"If we add to this the fact that Kosovo and Metohija is an area almost twice
smaller than Vojvodina [northern Serbian region with population of 2
million], where have those 1,9 million Shiptars you are talking about
squeezed in? If their electoral lists contains 1,08 million voters,
including the deceased Shiptars and the illegal immigrants who came from
Albania alongside NATO, then it follows that there are 820,000 Shiptar
children. Then calculate how many schools should there be for so many
children, and there is a total of 6 of them in Pristina, with classes
consisting not of 200 children each, but around 30, like in Belgrade.
Roaming "Residents": Using Old Yugoslav IDs to Rig the Numbers in the Region
"In order to gain the right to become a constitutive nation in Macedonia,
they needed to cross the 25 percent of the population threshold. There are
between 17 and 19 percent of Shiptars in Macedonia, but they managed to rig
that number up to 26,3% through the Western-orchestrated census.
"So, how are they doing it? Being that they have the old [Yugoslav] ID
cards, whenever there is a census or elections in Macedonia, half of the
Kosovo-Metohija and Presevo Albanians surge to Macedonia to be counted or to
vote. When there is a similar thing happening in Kosovo-Metohija, all the
Shiptars from surrounding areas of former Yugoslavia [Montenegro, Macedonia,
Presevo region in Serbia] go to Kosovo province to cast their votes.
"In conclusion, don't buy the Shiptar propaganda which aims to present its
population as numerically absolutely dominant, with the purpose of
justifying their claims upon others' territories. Listed as Shiptars in the
books of Yugoslav citizens in Kosovo-Metohija are 830,000 ethnic Albanians
and that is the realistic number, perhaps with additional 50-100,000. But
talking about millions is entirely incorrect and a pure propaganda which can
serve only the Shiptars, who wish to send a totally distorted picture into
the world.
"Therefore, I appeal to all to refrain from publishing completely false data
which is harmful to Serbia. This is written by a man who was born in
Pristina and who lived there until 1982. I was also an adviser to several
presidents, in a position from which I had access to all the data state has
to make public. This is not being done today, because a number of the
politicians in power have failed to realize the importance of making this
sort of information publicly available in regular, orderly fashion. Our
current leadership is not publishing this data at present, because it does
not suit the Western agenda, so even our own-let alone the foreign-public is
unaware of the real figures and facts."
Cartoon by Aleksandar Klas (Serbia)
Posted by BBlog Staff on April 10, 2008 10:20 PM
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