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Edith Durham, who traveled the area during the last Ottoman period, would give a description of the town in her book "The Burden of the Balkans" as: ''Leskovik is a quiet small place, solid and stony, built much like a North Wales village, but clean and tidy, the population mostly Bektashite Moslems. Some of the Christian women had a small cross tattooed between their eyebrows. There is small church, and a Greek school...''.

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== Luigj Iasinth Hekardit, Historia dhe përshkrimi i Shqipërisë së Epërme ose      Gegerisë Theodor Ippen, Shqipëria e Vjetër Louis Beonlew, Greqia përpara Grekëve Zahari Majani, Fundi i “misterit” etrusk Nikolaj Albertovic Kun, Mite dhe legjenda te Greqise se Lashte N.A.Kun, Eposi i Greqisë së Lashte Gerold Dommermuth–Gudrich, Mitet me te famshme te lashtesise Vinçenc Dorsa, Shqiptarët misioni i tyre historik At Shtjefën Gjeçovi, Trashëgime thrako-ilire Spiro N. Konda, Shqiptarët dhe problemi pellazgjik Xhuzepe Krispit, Shqipja nëna e gjuhëve Dhimiter Pilika, Pellazget, origjina jone e mohuar Fulvio Cordiniano, Shqiperia ==

Branko Merxhani

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LDK
Democratic League of Kosovo led by Ibrahim Rugova had been the leading political entity in Kosovo since its creation in 1989. Its parallel government in exile, led by Bujar Bukoshi, comprised a Ministry of Defence as well. The respective minister until 1998 was the former Yugoslav colonel Ahmet Krasniqi. DLK politicians were skeptical towards KLA. They opposed the armed conflict and were not ready to accept KLA as political factor in the region and tried to persuade the population not to support it. At one point Rugova even claimed that it was set up by Serbian intelligence as an excuse to invade, or to discredit DLK itself. Nevertheless, the support for KLA even within DLK membership and specifically in the diaspora grew, together with the dissatisfaction with and antagonism toward DLK. KLA initial personnel were members or former members of the DLK. With the changes of the international stance towards KLA and its recognition as a factor in the conflict, DLK position also shifted. The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo known as FARK, were established in order to place DLK as a military factor in addition to a political one. A parallel paramilitary structure as FARK was not received well from KLA side. Ahmet Krasniqi was shot in Tirana on 21 September 1998. The responsible people were not found, although several theories emerged. The Democratic Party of Albania and its leader Sali Berisha, strong supporters of DLK and FARK, accused SHIK and the Albanian government, who from their side were supporting KLA, as the responsible parties. Despite the idea, FARK was never determinant factor in the war and was not involved in any battles. It did not number more than few hundred man, and it did not show any commitment in fighting the Serbs, accepting a broader autonomy as a solution rather then independence. Some of the FARK officers were incorporated later under the KLA umbrella. Besides FARK, DLK would also politically and diplomatically oppose KLA and their methods. In a meeting with the US president Clinton on 29 May 1999, Rugova accompanied by Fehmi Agani, Bukoshi, and Veton Surroi, accused KLA of being a left-wing ideology bearer, and some of its leaders as being "nostalgic to known communist figures, such as Enver Hoxha", referring to the People's Movement of Kosovo (LPK) nucleus of KLA, an old underground rival with strong left-wing orientation. Rugova was present at the negotiations held in Rambouillet and was pro the Rambouillet Agreement since the first round, but without any influence. Following the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the massive ethnic cleansing of the Albanian population, there was an total Albanian support for the NATO campaign, including DLK side. Surprisingly, Ibrahim Rugova showed up in Belgrade hosted by Milosevic. At a joint TV appearance on April 1st, ending in Rugova-Milosevic handshake, Rugova asked for a peaceful solution and the bombings to stop. In the same conference, Millosevic presented his proposal for Kosovo as part of a three-unit federal Yugoslavian state. Rugova's presence in Belgrade scattered another set of accusations from KLA and its supporters. Beside from being 'passive' and 'too peaceful', Rugova and DLK were accused as 'traitors'. Following Rugova's passage to Italy on May 5th, Rugova claimed that he had been under duress and any "agreement" with Milosovic had no meaning. The general opinion was the DLK structures and its leader would vanish from the political scene of Kosovo after the Yugoslav withdrawal. Rugova himself stayed for several weeks out of Kosovo, while the prime-minister Bukoshi and other leading membership returned. But since only a fraction of Kosovo Albanians participated actively in the war, the support for DLK increased again as a way of opposing the arrogance of many KLA leaders who openly engaged in controlling the economical and political life within the vacuum created right before the deployment of UNMIK. In the October 2000 local elections, DLK was confirmed as the leading political party. The feud between KLA and DLK continued in the post-war Kosovo. Many political activists of KLD would be assassinated with the perpetrators not being found, including Xhemajl Mustafa, Rugova's most trusted man and right hand.


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 * "Kjo është arsyeja pse Milloshi në 3 Qershor kërkoi me urgjencë, përmes mediave, takim me Rugovën, duke premtuar se do të ndryshonte Kushtetutën dhe se Kosova do të fitonte statusin e njësisë së tretë federative. Këto janë arsyet kryesore pse u fut në lojë edhe Vatikani, për atë takim të Rugovës me Millosheviçin."
 * "mendoj ta ilustroj me shkuarjen e tij në TV e Beogradit, pasi Qeveria e Përkohëshme dhe Shtabi i Përgjithshëm i UÇK-së kishin shpallur mobilizimin e përgjithshëm, dhe i bën thirrje NATO-s dhe SHBA që të ndërpriteshin bombardimet ndaj Serbisë! “E kam pyetur Rugovën disa herë, -shkruan ish-Përfaqësuesi Special i OKB në Kosovë, Kushner,- se pse e bëri atë veprim, dhe asnjëherë nuk më ktheu përgjigje”. Nëse do ta kishin çuar në Beograd me detyrim, Rugova nuk kish pse shfaqej gjithë buzëqeshje kur bëri atë thirrje."
 * "mendoj ta ilustroj me shkuarjen e tij në TV e Beogradit, pasi Qeveria e Përkohëshme dhe Shtabi i Përgjithshëm i UÇK-së kishin shpallur mobilizimin e përgjithshëm, dhe i bën thirrje NATO-s dhe SHBA që të ndërpriteshin bombardimet ndaj Serbisë! “E kam pyetur Rugovën disa herë, -shkruan ish-Përfaqësuesi Special i OKB në Kosovë, Kushner,- se pse e bëri atë veprim, dhe asnjëherë nuk më ktheu përgjigje”. Nëse do ta kishin çuar në Beograd me detyrim, Rugova nuk kish pse shfaqej gjithë buzëqeshje kur bëri atë thirrje."

KF

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