Albania's aggression

KOSOVO ALBANIANS UNDERGO TRAINING
AT MILITARY CAMPS IN ALBANIA

by Marinela Raznjatovic

BELGRADE, March 7 (Tanjug)- Hundreds of young ethnic Albanians living in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and Metohija were trained for guerrilla-terrorist operations at military camps in Albania until the beginning of this year, according to the Italian daily Il Manifesto.

At the two camps, in Lebanot, near Elbasan, and Surel, near Tirana, the training is carried out by Iranian military instructors.

It is estimated that a thousand young Kosovo Albanians have gone through special guerrilla-terrorist drills and that 10,000 others have been trained as potential "soldiers."

The Albanian government denies the existence of the two military camps, but Il Manifesto claims that the "initial cell of the ethnic-Albanian terrorist group which calls itself the Liberation Army of Kosovo was a Secret Service branch of former Albanian president Sali Berisha."

The Italian daily said that the cell was set up "for the fulfillment of the common aspirations of representatives of the Albanian national minorities in Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia for the creation of a single Greater Albania."

Italian media back the Yugoslav government's position that the Albanian minority in Kosovo and Metohija wants a Greater Albania, all the more since ethnic-Albanian leaders in the province have not distanced themselves from the terrorist operations.

The media set out that young ethnic Albanians are applying for the extremely costly military training which is financed by the Diaspora.

About 450,000 Kosovo Albanians who live in Switzerland, Germany and the United States are engaged in shady dealings, mostly illicit narcotics trade, and are sending a large part of the profits for purchases of arms and the military training of their compatriots.

According to Il Manifesto, smaller military camps also exist in Kosovo and Metohija, Montenegro, Macedonia and Sweden, while the main political centres of the ethnic-Albanian separatists and secessionists are in the Kosovo and Metohija capital of Pristina and in Biel in Switzerland.

The daily said that the large number of military training camps and of Kosovo Albanians trained for guerrilla and terrorist operations, the large sums of money, the terrorist operations, the killings of policemen and ethnic Albanians who are against violence indicate that the ethnic-Albanian separatists have embraced violence just as Basque and Irish terrorist organizations.