I'm not gonna bother trying to explain myself or Montenegrin history to you anymore. No matter what I say, your gonna think i'm anti-Serb because i support Montenegro and fantasize conspiracies about Montenegro being pro-Muslim. As far as I'm concerned Serbs like that are bottom of the barrel Serbs who are jelous of our history.
Last time i checked it was only Serbs in the Serbian/Montenegrin Orthidox Church. When i say religious, that's what i was referring to. During the Turkish occupation we faught to keep our religion, not our race. And last time i checked Kosovo is Serbia and 90% Muslim. So you really don't have to worry about Montenegro where Montenegrins and Serbians are a majority, worry about Serbia first.
And stop taking my words and twisting them around, and arguing for the sake of arguing.
09/09/2006 2:31:12 PM PDT by kronos77
PODGORICA, Montenegro's police said Saturday they have arrested 20 ethnic Albanians suspected of terrorism and organized crime.
The arrests in the villages of Tuzi and Malesije just south of capital Podgorica come a day before Sunday's first parliamentary elections since Montenegro gained independence from Serbia in a referendum in May.
Police did not say what actions the group allegedly planned, but said they "represented danger for the people of Montenegro."
The ethnic Albanian villages near the border with Albania are known smuggling routes for drug, arms and cigarette smuggling.
Police said they uncovered a large number of weapons in the "anti-terrorist action," including machine guns and "several thousand rounds of ammunition and explosives."
Published: May 15, 2007
PODGORICA, Montenegro: An ethnic Albanian on trial for alleged terrorism in Montenegro said Tuesday that the proceedings against him and 17 other suspects were a "staged political process."
Antun Sinistaj also accused the Montenegrin police of beating and harassing him during the arrest last September, on the eve of a parliamentary election in the tiny Balkan republic of 600,000 people.
The group was accused of planning terrorist attacks and an uprising to carve out an autonomous region in eastern Montenegro, populated mostly by ethnic Albanians. Three of the suspects remain at large and are being tried in absentia.
"I am innocent," Sinistaj told the judges. "This is a staged political process designed to curb demands for a better status of (ethnic) Albanians in Montenegro."
Among the suspects in court were three U.S. citizens of ethnic Albanian origin — cousins Kola and Rrok Dedvukaj, and Sokol Ivanaj. All have lived for decades in Michigan but were arrested while purportedly on vacation in their native Montenegro.
The U.S- based part of the group, according to the charges, funded and instructed their ethnic kin in Montenegro to "use explosives and weapons for terrorist acts aimed at controlling ... military posts, police precincts and other important facilities" in the ethnic Albanian-populated part of the country.
Sinistaj allegedly met with the U.S. Albanians prior to the arrests, and also was in contact with ethnic Albanian rebels from neighboring Kosovo, who had fought Serb forces in the province to win independence from Belgrade rule.Sinistaj denied the allegations, claiming that a journal in which he reportedly described the meetings, was "fiction." Sinistaj said a statement given to police upon arrest, when he allegedly described attack plans, was the result of pressure.
"They stepped on me and beat me," he said. "One of the policemen stepped on my neck with his boots."
Police have denied torture allegations against the suspects and promised to investigate any misconduct.
If convicted, the accused face up to 15 years in jail each.
Sounds like we're really helping those Siptars
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