NEW ESCALATION OF PM BERISHA AGAINST NORTHERN EPIRUS IONIAN COSTAL REGION

DURING HIS VISIT FOR THE THIRD TIME IN HIMARA, BERISHA MADE A DANGEROUS DECLARATION TO CONQUEST WITH NEW METHODS LANDS AND PROPERTIES UNDER THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM, HE SAID THAT: "MY GOVERNMENT WILL SUPPORT WITH FUNDS TO HELP INHABITANTS OF THE REGION FROM SARANDA TO HIMARA, TO REBUILD NEW HOUSES (ABUSIVE) FOR TOURISM NEXT YEAR".

Photo: July 2008, himara people protest for the lands and properties

ACCORDING TO ALBANIAN MEDIA, THIS DECLARATION OF PM SALI BERISHA WHO IS ACTUALLY "THE SUPERMAN OF THE ALBANIAN STATE" WHICH HAS CORRUPTED ALL THE ALBANIAN POLITICS INCLUDING OPPOSITION, CONTINUES TO SFIDE THE WORLD BANK INVESTMENT ON THE REGION.

ON JULY 10, 2009, THE ALBANIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVED FUNDS TO INVEST INTERNAL ROADS OF IONIAN COAST, FROM HIMARA TO LUKOVO AND SARANDA REGIONS, WITH OUT AUTHORISATION OF INHABITANTS OF THE REGIONS. THIS STRATEGY SIGNS THE NEW ESCALATION OF SUPER POPULATION OF REGIONS INHABITED BY GREEKS, CHANGING THE ETHNIC RAPORTS, SUPPORTING ABUSIVE HOUSES TO BUILD ON THE TERRITORIES AND LANDS OF THE GREEK POPULATION OF THE REGION.

SEE VIDEO AND NEWS FROM ALBANIAN PRESS:

http://www.balkanweb.com/sitev4/lajme.php?id=41594

http://www.balkanweb.com/sitev4/newsadmin/video1.php?id=41594
http://www.gazetatema.net/index.php?gjuha=0&category=0&id=6105&PHPSESSID=8c49f1f83c6b0f70344d4f95d2511803

Left (Southern Albania) Confederation against Berisha Government

Paskal Milo and Erion Veliaj call for new Confederation. Socialist Party will propose to Congress to leave the new Albanian Parliament

After former Foreign Albanian Minister Paskal Milo to configure new "Left Confederation" is the leader of "G 99" Erion Veliaj who calls the left coalition to be united for new batlle against Berisha Government, wich is composed with efforts of SMI of Ilir Meta, a Politic left represent in Albania.

On August 29, 2009 the Congress of Socialist Party will decide if the new parlamentary socialist group will joint the albanian parliament or no. Annyway according observers, the Socialist Party will defend the vote of left coaliotion bused on the report wich is prepared to be public from OSCE next days.

Albanian Helsinki Committee assesses election

AHC: Albanian Elections, No standards

26/08/2009TIRANA, Albania -- The Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC) said in a report Tuesday (August 25th) that violations marred the June 28th general elections, which it says failed to meet international standards.

The panel says that in some municipalities, family members were allowed to enter the voting booths together and vote as a group, rather than separately, a trend that was tolerated by regional polling stations' commissions.

The AHC also criticised the Central Election Commission for announcing results before all the votes were counted. The AHC had 150 monitors deployed during the election.

Say My Name (Greece - Epirus - Albania)

Australian Macedonian Advisory Council

August 24, 2009
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names," Chinese Proverb.Modern Greeks don´t generally hold Northern Epirotes in high esteem. They tend to equate them to Albanians, a people generally considered as culturally inferior in the common consciousness. This particular trait of self-loathing is nothing new by the way. When the Asia Minor refugees arrived in Greece, expecting to find a safe haven from persecution and intolerance, they too were segregated, isolated, and made subjects of derision.

The irony is greater however, in the case of the Northern Epirotes, because their ancestor´s endeavours and bequests are responsible for the construction of most of the landmarks of Athens and the foundation of some of its most enduring educational and financial institutions.Having endured some of the harshest forms persecution for approximately seventy years, which they did stoically, their eyes forever fixed upon Greece as a symbol of hope, Northern Epirotes generally find that apathy at best is their compatriots´ response to their plight. Sometimes, that apathy inexplicably turns into hostility, as is the sorry case among some insular Epirot groups here in Melbourne, unaffiliated to the Panepriotic Federation of Australia, and as was recently attested to in a bizarre incident in Canberra where a representative of a Sydney Epirot group purported to tear up Australian Hellenic

Council submissions to Parliament on the subject of human rights for Northern Epirotes, claiming that "there is no issue," and implying that he had been asked by ´higher Hellenic powers," to commit such a heinous act..The human rights of ethnic Greeks in Northern Epirus seems to be of secondary concern when it comes to Greek government policy on bilateral relations with Albania. Just three months after the official state visit of Greek PM Karamanlis to Albania, a visit touted as a great success by his government, and his undertaking to support Albania´s accession to the EU, the Albanian PM, Sali Berisha, former doctor of the paranoid Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha, has chosen to reciprocate, by announcing his plans to change all Greek toponyms in Albania to ones derived from "ancient Albanian.

"The ludicrousness of such a decision is immediately apparent. Firstly, no archaeological or literary records exist, attesting to an ancient Albanian language. Secondly, no amount of name changing can mask the fact that Northern Epirus has formed part of the Greek cultural world for over two millennia. The vast majority of toponyms in Southern Albania and coastal Albania are of Greek origin, simply because these places were or are founded and inhabited by Greeks. Dürres, for example, is Dyrrahion – the ancient Epidamnos. Gjirokastër is Argyrokastro, Himarë is Cheimarra and the list goes on endlessly. To change the names of these places is to deny their history.One may ask why this is particularly offensive.

After all Greece too has indulged in intensive name changing, especially of Turkish and Slavic toponyms. The answer lies in the fact that most of these toponyms have been altered subsequent to the passage of those ethnic groups from the regions in question. Slavs have not existed in any significant numbers in Epirus for hundreds of years. Yet the prevalence of Slavic toponyms and words in the local patois attests to a time when Serbian kings such as Stefan Dušan incorporated much of Greece into their empire. The changing of these is thus inoffensive, since the intention is not to deny the Serbian occupation of Greece, which is a historical fact, but rather, to revert toponyms to their original forms.

more see: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/115776