.: Thaci early favorite in historic election

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Thaci early favorite in historic election

November 17, 2007, PRISTINA, Serbia (AFP) - Voters in Kosovo braved icy weather and fears of renewed violence to elect a government the majority Albanians hope will lead the troubled Serbian province to independence.

"These elections will be an additional verdict towards our destiny" of independence, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu said after voting in downtown Pristina.
"Kosovo is entering into a new phase of its democracy and status," said the leader of the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).

Coming less than a month before the end of internationally mediated talks on Kosovo's future status, the elections pit the LDK against the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).

Tensions were high for the parliamentary, mayoral and municipal elections after the Serbian government urged Kosovo's 100,000 minority Serbs to boycott the polls.

Police said 15 ballot boxes were destroyed early Saturday in a fire at a school in a southern village near Macedonia.

On the eve of the election, the family home of a Serbian politician was targeted in a Molotov cocktail attack in the northern municipality of Zvecan, police spokesman Veton Elshani told AFP.

"The explosion damaged a car in the garage. We don't know what is behind the attack," said Elshani, who could not confirm reports it was the home of a Serbian MP who defied Belgrade's call to boycott the vote.

Front-runner Hashim Thaci pledged independence for Kosovo on Saturday as the breakaway province voted for a new parliament ahead of a showdown with Serbia over its bid for statehood.
"These elections are not about Kosovo's status," the former guerrilla fighter said after casting his ballot. "We will declare independence immediately after December 10."

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Anonymous said...: Thaci WINS!!

Independence NEXT!!; 9:36 AM

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New York Times article published May 21, 1911

"ALBANIAN JOAN OF ARC: Handsome Heroine Takes Father's Place and Vanquishes Turks" – Cetinja, May 21, 1911 - A young girl, whose first name corresponds to that of the given name of the Maid of Orleans, is now being sung in the songs of the Montenegrin bards in the inns and coffee houses in Podgorica. When at the battle of Vranje last week, her father, the hereditary commander of his clan, fell, she immediately stepped to his place and led the Martinajs to victory against the Turks. Aside from the romantic phase of the affair, for Janitza Martinaj (Tringa e Grudes) is very beautiful, the battle is important as showing that the Montenegrins on the frontier had joined with the Albanians. According to a person who is well acquainted with her, this new Joan of Arc is “a tall, handsome, well-developed young woman. All the Albanian women are brave, and are trained from their girlhood to the use of firearms, and in times of war, as there are no mules, they carry the provisions and ammunition for their soldiers and go into the firing line to distribute them.” “And are sometimes killed?” “Yes, often that happens.” Janitza would probably have carried a Martini rifle; or, as many of the Marininis were collected last year by the Turks, her weapon may perhaps have been one of the old-fashioned Albanian rifles, which are handsomely decorated with silver and have very long, narrow barrels. Shooting is almost the only amusement of the young men and women in Albania. Both boys and girls learn to shoot when they are 12 years old. At weddings the parties amuse themselves by dancing and shooting: at christenings shootings is again the principal amusement – firing at large targets for some little prize – and at festivals there is shooting all day long. It’s one of the great difficulties that Turks have to contend with, for it is part of the national life; the people use their rifles by day and sleep with them by their side by night. The custom has grown up with the prevailing insecurity from vendettas at home and border troubles abroad. Physically, the Albanians are the finest race in Europe. Their women are handsome, with dark hair, though their eyes are sometimes gray. To see them walk is a delight. We like to see the ballet in Servia. The first time I saw the Albanians walk it gave me just the same pleasure. Their movements are so graceful, elegance and strength together. Yes, they are a very fine and very gifted race. They are like the Scots in the 17th century, and they will be by and by the finest race, intellectually as well as physically, in the Balkans. If you go to Constantinople you will find that many of the finest men, not only soldiers but also statesmen are Albanians. Their fault, due to their present degree of civilization, is that they cannot grasp the idea of State. The clan is their highest organization; they are unable to see the importance of combining the clan with the higher organization of making a state. But that will come.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Thaci early favorite in historic election

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