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Albanians are not guests in Kosovo, but an indigenous people in Dardania! Serbian propaganda and calls for ethnic cleansing do not change history
2026-07-17 12:02:00 / KOSOVA
There are statements that are not simply political provocations. There are statements that constitute a pure act of hatred against a people and an attempt to legitimize crimes that shocked the conscience of the world. Such are the statements of the Serbian minister, Snezana Paunovic, who declared that the Albanians of Kosovo should have been ethnically cleansed in 1998. Meanwhile, even more serious is the defense made by the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Ivica Dacic, presenting the deportation of Albanians to Albania as something normal. When a government protects people who speak the language of ethnic cleansing, we are no longer dealing with a diplomatic incident. We are dealing with the continuation of an ideology that has cost the Balkans rivers of blood. Therefore, Albania should not be satisfied with formal statements. The Albanian state must react with dignity and determination, declaring these two officials 'non-grata'. Not for revenge, but for principle. Not to incite tensions, but to show that there are boundaries that no one can cross without facing political consequences.
But what is most disturbing is not only the hate speech. It is the continuous attempt to distort history. Dacic and other politicians in Serbia continue to feed the myth that Albanians are newcomers to Kosovo. This is not history. It is propaganda. The historical truth is completely different. Albanians are autochthonous in Dardania. They are the descendants of the Illyrian population that lived in these lands many centuries before the arrival of the Slavs in the Balkans. Dardania was one of the most important centers of Illyrian civilization, with cities, state organization, culture and development. When the ancestors of Albanians were building cities and giving emperors to Rome, the Slavic tribes had not yet arrived in these lands. This is not a patriotic slogan. It is a historical reality supported by numerous sources and by the cultural and linguistic continuity of Albanians in these lands. History is not rewritten according to the interests of current politics and is not changed by the statements of politicians who still keep the spirit of Milosevic alive.
For this reason, any claim that Albanians should "return" to Albania is absurd. No one can return to a country from which they have never left. Albanians are not guests in Kosovo. They are masters of their own home, on the land where they have lived generation after generation, where they have built their civilization and where they have survived despite invasions, repression and continuous attempts to eradicate them. The crimes of 1998-1999 are not a chapter that can be relativized. Over 13 thousand Albanians were killed, thousands of women were raped, hundreds of thousands were expelled from their homes. These are not statistics. They are human lives. They are children, women, the elderly and men, whose only fault was that they were Albanians. When a Serbian minister today says that that purge should have been complete, she is not only insulting the victims. She is insulting all of humanity. And when a deputy prime minister defends that statement, he takes on the political and moral burden of that hate speech. Albania does not have the luxury of silence. Diplomacy is not submission. Good neighborly relations are not built by accepting every insult, every historical distortion and every attack on national dignity. Respect is earned only when it respects itself. It is time for Tirana to show that national dignity is not negotiable. That the memory of the victims of Kosovo is not desecrated. That no one can call for ethnic cleansing against Albanians and act as if nothing happened. Albanians do not need anyone to give them permission to live in Dardania. They are an indigenous people in these lands, their roots are deeper than any propaganda and stronger than any chauvinistic ideology. History does not begin with Serbia. And it certainly does not end with the statements of those who have not yet broken away from the shadow of Milosevic.
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