2009-09-30, 14:42
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Macedonian Encyclopaedia To Be Changed
In an emergency session on Wednesday the editorial committee of Macedonia's Academy of Sciences and Arts's, MANU, that prepared the country's first encyclopaedia decided to revise the disputed parts of the book that refer to the history and present life of the large Albanian community living in Macedonia.
After receiving heavy flak from the country’s Albanians, as well as objections from neighboring Kosovo and Albania who all disputed the book's historical analysis and accused MANU of stirring ethnic intolerance, the academy head Georgi Stardelov announced that while partly rewritten, the edition as a whole will not be withdrawn.
The book promoted last week as one of the highest academic achievements of the country in the presence of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, was quick to cause political outrage that quickly spilled over into the neighbouring countries.
On Monday, Albanian NGOs and political parties in the country demanded that MANU should immediately withdraw its newly published Macedonian Encyclopaedia and apologise to Albanians for referring to them as “settlers” in the book.
The demonstrators said it is not true that Albanians were settlers who arrived in western Macedonia in the 16th century.
The protesters also objected to the way that the leader of the country's 2001 ethnic Albanian insurgency, Ali Ahmeti, is described as a “war crimes suspect”. Ahmeti now leads the junior coalition partner in the government, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI.
In the meantime the US and UK embassies also reacted. They urged MANU to change the part in which the book says theat their military personel took part in training of the Albanian insurgents in 2001.
In an emergency session on Wednesday the editorial committee of Macedonia's Academy of Sciences and Arts's, MANU, that prepared the country's first encyclopaedia decided to revise the disputed parts of the book that refer to the history and present life of the large Albanian community living in Macedonia.
After receiving heavy flak from the country’s Albanians, as well as objections from neighboring Kosovo and Albania who all disputed the book's historical analysis and accused MANU of stirring ethnic intolerance, the academy head Georgi Stardelov announced that while partly rewritten, the edition as a whole will not be withdrawn.
The book promoted last week as one of the highest academic achievements of the country in the presence of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, was quick to cause political outrage that quickly spilled over into the neighbouring countries.
On Monday, Albanian NGOs and political parties in the country demanded that MANU should immediately withdraw its newly published Macedonian Encyclopaedia and apologise to Albanians for referring to them as “settlers” in the book.
The demonstrators said it is not true that Albanians were settlers who arrived in western Macedonia in the 16th century.
The protesters also objected to the way that the leader of the country's 2001 ethnic Albanian insurgency, Ali Ahmeti, is described as a “war crimes suspect”. Ahmeti now leads the junior coalition partner in the government, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI.
In the meantime the US and UK embassies also reacted. They urged MANU to change the part in which the book says theat their military personel took part in training of the Albanian insurgents in 2001.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/22416/
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Macedonia Condemns Burning of Flag in Kosovo
Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned the burning of the national flag at a football match in neighbouring Kosovo.
The reaction came after Macedonia’s A1 TV broadcast pictures of ethnic Albanian football fans setting alight a Macedonian flag at a match held two days ago between two Kosovar teams, Vlaznimi and Prishtina.
Macedonian officials in Kosovo urged the authorities there to identify and punish the perpetrators. “We expect Kosovo, as the youngest state in the region, to […] contribute accordingly towards the building of good neighbourly relations and regional stability,” a statement read.
Plisat, the fan club of Pristina, on their website, took responsibility for the September 27 burning of the flag and for the display of an offensively worded banner referring to Macedonia’s controversial new encyclopaedia.
Both Kosovo and Albania and Macedonia’s large Albanian community expressed outrage last week after the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. MASA, published the encyclopaedia.
The book described Albanians living in Macedonia as “settlers” who had arrived in the 16th century and referred to them as “Shiptari” – a term Albanians deem offensive. As a result of the row, the Academy has offered to rewrite the book’s problematic sections. However, Officials from both neighbouring countries have demanded the complete withdrawal of the state-funded book.
The junior partner in Macedonian’s ruling coalition, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, has threatened to leave Nikola Gruevski’s centre-right government if the prime minister continues to sit on the fence regarding the book.
Several ethnic Albanian parties from Macedonia, Thursday will stage a protest in front of the government building to express their objections to the new publication of the Macedonian encyclopaedia.
Gruevski’s VMRO-DPMNE party, the senior party in the coalition, condemned the burning of the Macedonian flag but described it as an “isolated incident”, which it said should not affect Kosovo’s and Macedonia’s “positive relations”.
However, one of the men behind the flag-burning incident in Kosovo, a member of Plisat, suggested that might not be the end of the matter.
“The burning of the flag was a protest against the encyclopaedia that shows we won’t stay quiet in cases like this,” he said.
“We're ready to go further if need be. The Macedonians have provoked us, so they’ve got no right to condemn anything. They need to act and remove this encyclopaedia.”
Ethnic Albanians make up about one-quarter of the population in Macedonia. In 2001, the country suffered a short-lived Albanian insurgency. The same year, a peace deal was struck granting greater rights to the community. In return, the insurgent leaders abandoned the armed struggle and entered the political process, forming the DUI.
Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned the burning of the national flag at a football match in neighbouring Kosovo.
The reaction came after Macedonia’s A1 TV broadcast pictures of ethnic Albanian football fans setting alight a Macedonian flag at a match held two days ago between two Kosovar teams, Vlaznimi and Prishtina.
Macedonian officials in Kosovo urged the authorities there to identify and punish the perpetrators. “We expect Kosovo, as the youngest state in the region, to […] contribute accordingly towards the building of good neighbourly relations and regional stability,” a statement read.
Plisat, the fan club of Pristina, on their website, took responsibility for the September 27 burning of the flag and for the display of an offensively worded banner referring to Macedonia’s controversial new encyclopaedia.
Both Kosovo and Albania and Macedonia’s large Albanian community expressed outrage last week after the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. MASA, published the encyclopaedia.
The book described Albanians living in Macedonia as “settlers” who had arrived in the 16th century and referred to them as “Shiptari” – a term Albanians deem offensive. As a result of the row, the Academy has offered to rewrite the book’s problematic sections. However, Officials from both neighbouring countries have demanded the complete withdrawal of the state-funded book.
The junior partner in Macedonian’s ruling coalition, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, has threatened to leave Nikola Gruevski’s centre-right government if the prime minister continues to sit on the fence regarding the book.
Several ethnic Albanian parties from Macedonia, Thursday will stage a protest in front of the government building to express their objections to the new publication of the Macedonian encyclopaedia.
Gruevski’s VMRO-DPMNE party, the senior party in the coalition, condemned the burning of the Macedonian flag but described it as an “isolated incident”, which it said should not affect Kosovo’s and Macedonia’s “positive relations”.
However, one of the men behind the flag-burning incident in Kosovo, a member of Plisat, suggested that might not be the end of the matter.
“The burning of the flag was a protest against the encyclopaedia that shows we won’t stay quiet in cases like this,” he said.
“We're ready to go further if need be. The Macedonians have provoked us, so they’ve got no right to condemn anything. They need to act and remove this encyclopaedia.”
Ethnic Albanians make up about one-quarter of the population in Macedonia. In 2001, the country suffered a short-lived Albanian insurgency. The same year, a peace deal was struck granting greater rights to the community. In return, the insurgent leaders abandoned the armed struggle and entered the political process, forming the DUI.
Hur länge kan detta land hålla på med historieförfalskning?
Bör albanerna och grekerna ta till vapen och dela upp detta patetiska slaviska land?
varför har man sådan hat inom sig. du kommer fan få hjärtinfark snart chill out dra inte alla över en kam.
det är annan sak om det flyttar in idag folk från grannländer då har ni rätt o kiucka ut de men inte de övriga som levt där inann fyrom skapades.
