Legal proceedings against the most sacred thing we have – the Albanian language!
By Kim Mehmeti
Being 30 percent of the total number of inhabitants of the state, having two 'mothers' behind you - Albania and Kosovo - and having courts and laws decide about your language, this explains and also reveals the political misery of a people.
Meanwhile, do you remember how many times the leaders of the DUI have praised themselves for having made the Albanian language official, and how many times official Tirana and Pristina have congratulated them on this epochal achievement?!
Then do you remember how many times we said that the Albanian language is not made official every four years during election campaigns, nor by laws and percentages, but only if it is declared as such in the country's constitution and only if it is treated as the language of the indigenous people without whom Macedonia cannot exist.
Regardless of whether you remember our shameful political past or whether you have forgotten it, the truth remains that we never understood that in this Balkans we seem less than we are because we live divided in five states and that some of these states fear our language because it is the only 'homeland' that unites all Albanians.
Finally, today, as in the past, Albanians outside the borders of Albania and Kosovo, by official Tirana and Pristina, are often treated as insignificant 'trash' of Albanianness.
And by treating them as such, it happens that the Prime Minister of Kosovo supports the most pro-Serbian government that Macedonia has ever had – that of VMRO-DPMNE with the worthless Albanian VALUE in it, and official Tirana stands behind the European Front, which front made Macedonia part of the Serbian world - of the 'Open Balkans', but leaving the Albanians here in an almost ridiculous position: that even being 30 percent of the total number of inhabitants of the country, and having two mothers behind them – Albania and Kosovo, they do not know how to save from the rigged anti-Albanian judicial processes the most sacred thing they have – their native language?! (Kim Mehmeti)