Outlawed army urge southern Serbian uprising Beta

Outlawed army urge southern Serbian uprising
Beta - August 17, 2003

PRESEVO -- Sunday -- Aljban Vjosa, representative of the outlawed Albanian National Army, has urged Albanian political representatives in the southern Serbian districts of Bujanovac, Medvedja and Presevo to join the terrorist group in its project to create and Albanian ethnic state.

In an interview for presheva.com website, Vjosa declared himself a member of the ANA's political wing – the United Front for National Unity of Albanians – and insisted that Albanian political leaders do not deserve the trust of their voters.

He said that the time has come for Albanian political parties in the Presevo Valley to unit around the platform of the United Front, declaring those promoting multiethnicity as "naive".

He insisted that the territory of central Serbia is occupied territory colonised by Serbs and that military facilities in the area were constructed purely with the goal of massacring the Albanian population.

He said that the violence in the southern Serbian municipalities that are homes to ethnic Albanians would continue until they become part of an Albanian ethnic state.

He said "everybody's eyes shined" after the attack of the Serbia-Montenegro base at Dobrosin, which he repeated was merely "colonised" by Serbs.

Former UNMIK chief Michael Steiner declared the Albanian National Army a terrorist organisation.