There are no legal or moral arguments that would persuade Albanians to accept and remain under Serbian domination. After the bitter experience of the past decade, Albanians should have the chance which the Serbs were unable to make use of, to create their own states and build tolerant and democratic societies. Those that do not justify this decision justify hegemony, expansionism, colonialism, and apartheid. .
Is it wrong for Albanians to declare their independence when a government no longer protects the basic rights of the people - Hold on, I thought America did this when King George III had unjustly used his power against American colonists. Jefferson once argued that people have a right to overthrow a government which no longer protects the basic rights of the people and set up a new one. It's all in the United States Constitution. So why can't the west recognize Kosova as an independent republic? The west knows very well what wrongs Milosevic has commited in Bosnia, and now against the Albanians. And as politicians do nothing but talk and talk, the butcher of belgrade is running loose with his army continuing his campaign of ethnic cleansing and massacre women, children, the elderly and other innocent Albanians daily. .
The pictures of the brutally murdered Albanians in two mass graves which were released over the weekend speak for themselves. But how many mass graves have to be discovered before someone actually does intervene? As a seventeen year old Albanian-American student in the United States, it is a shame to watch my relatives in Kosova die when they are fighting for the same ideas that the founding fathers of the American Constitution stressed when they broke away from Britain and yet the United States looks away. I came to the United States because the Serbian government denied me the right to have an education simply because i was Albanian. The Albanians that wanted to have an education would have to learn about Serbian history and would have to speak and write in the Serbian language.
