Rising tension from Greek soldiers' anti-Albanian song

Tirana, March 7, 2007 (AENews) – Protests against Greek soldiers' anti-Albanian song is rising in Albania while politicians have called for a contained and calm response.

In Durres and Elbasan, protesters burned Greek flags while the entire population is bewildered by the level of hatred and violence in the text of Greek Soldiers' song.

A private video showing Greek soldiers singing "We are gone a make shoe-strings with Albanian guts" was published last week on the Internet, then was commented by the Greek and Albanian media.

Foreign Relations committee in the Albanian Parliament called Thursday on the population to stop burning Greek flags, commenting the video as an isolated case. Head of the Committee, Prec Zogaj, said that Albanians need to wait till the end of the investigation by the Greek government over the authenticity of the video.In Athens, the Greek government expressed doubts about the authenticity of the video.

PS If you want Greeks to like you, then Albanians might want to re-think spouting stupidity about how Alexander the Great "was really an Albanian" -- along with the rest of that drivel about you're being the only descendants of "the ancient Illyrians" -- or most importantly, quit trying the same garbage to steal a piece of Greece that you used on Serbs to take Kosovo

The authenticity of the video has been proven by Greek newspaper Ta Nnea which has even identified the singer soldiers.
Alexander was a Macedonian with an Illyrian mother, like some sources say.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7972667589302141283&q=alexander+great+macedonian

The problem with the latest video is that high rank Greek military has been allowing such offensive 'song' 6 years later after the order to not allow such disrespectful songs to be used in military branches.
In another article an Albanian who studied in the known military Greek academy of Evelpidon has reveiled that racist songs were also played in the school's outside activities, and through loud speakers. It also says that even a Greek colonel had a map of "Greater Greece" [including south Albania]in his office, and such claims have been made public by the previous Greek president.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341809/posts

Who is trying to steal land now, and look how high is the level of provocation from a EU and NATO member!!

Greeks hate to admit that a lot of sultans had Greek wives, or that Greeks and Phanariotes ran the foreign policy, navy, finances etc of the Turks.

And I'm not a Muslim, but can tell you that crime has no nationality, and that immigrants in Greece commit only a small % of crimes which are in fact widely publicized by the Greek media.
The blood feuds are a problem for certain northern areas, but the biggest group in the Serb parliament is the Serbian Radical Party.
Don't forget who the current primeminister of Serbia is

http://www.trepca.net/foto/personalitete/kostunica.jpg

talking about "moderate" leaders.

"talking about "moderate" leaders."

That poster of Kostunica from a "Independent Kosova" website is as good as the paper its written on.

Kostunica is an former law professor who keeps cats. He translated the Federalist Papers into Serbian. Kostunica is about as "exciting" as a bookworm. When he got elected, it was only because he was neither corrupt nor corruptible, not because of "his charisma".

As for "the Greeks claiming a piece of Albania", good for them! It's about time someone turned the tables on the Albanians and put them on the defensive for a change!

Alexander was a Macedonian with an Illyrian mother, like some sources say.

Hate to break it to you but Alexander's mother never claimed to be Illyrian and the tribe she came from claimed origins from a Hellenic tribe. Or are suppose to believe the Molossians were an "Illyrian" tribe too....ppfftt. From the Oxford Classical Dictionary~N.G.L.Hammond:

"Epirus received Hellenic influence from the Elean colonies in Cassopaea and the Corinthian colonies at Ambracia and Corcyra, and the oracle of Dodona drew pilgrims from northern and central Greece especially. Theopompus knew fourteen Epirote tribes, speakers of a strong west-Greek dialect, of which the Chaones held the plain of Buthrotum, the Thesproti the plain of Acheron, and the Molossi the plain of Dodona, which forms the highland centre of Epirus with an outlet southwards to Ambracia."

Meaning Alexander was 100% Hellenic on both his paternal and maternal side.

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