Word: albanians
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...often happens, the political boundaries they set did not coincide with tribal ones. The former Ottoman province of Albania became an independent country, but more than one-third of the Albanian people ended up outside its borders, living for the most part as second-class citizens in neighboring countries...
...current troubles, the almost 2 million Kosovo Albanians have so far remained relatively quiet. That is no doubt because the Milosevic regime has installed in their midst an enormous military and police apparatus and imposed a state of emergency. But below the surface, resistance has been building. In defiance of the Serbian government, the underground Albanian leadership plans to hold clandestine parliamentary elections for the phantom republic this week...
...even that won't be the end of it. If Kosovo blows, so may Macedonia, where there is a large Albanian population. That could trigger an intervention from Greece, which takes a mischievously proprietary interest in the birthplace of Alexander the Great. Greece's involvement could, in turn, provoke its old antagonist Turkey to enter the fray, and history really will have come full circle...
...United Nations countered that recognition might only provoke the Serbs into expanding the civil war by deploying the national army into Bosnia- Herzegovina to "protect" the Serb minority there. That in turn could cause the conflict to spread to Macedonia, possibly involving Greece; to Kosovo, which has an Albanian majority; even to Hungary, which has a minority ethnic community just across the border with Yugoslavia. Most Croats are also convinced that recognition would allow them to receive better arms from the West, strengthening their resistance...
Among Western nations in the path of the East European exodus, Greece is the destination of choice for shepherds. First, hordes of penniless Bulgarian shepherds showed up sans flocks. Then Albanian shepherds started pouring in, bringing along their herds. Athens sent the Albanians home but kept the animals. Sheep without shepherds + shepherds without sheep = solution, yes? No. E.C. rules prevent Athens from exporting, selling or giving away the sheep. Athens is now seeking aid to provide the Bulgarians with fresh flocks. Meanwhile, the Albanian sheep are not long for this world. Anybody for shish kebab...