Wrong side on Kosovo

Re "Kosovo, Quebec two different stories" (March 20) - I was very surprised and very sorry that Canada joined the U.S.A. and some other countries to approve that Kosovo was taken away from my Serbian brothers and declared an independent country, which makes it sound like Kosovo wanted to leave Serbia. That was the biggest lie, showing that Prime Minister Harper does not know much about the history of Kosovo which is a sacred place for my Serbian brothers, just like Rome is to Italians.

During the Turkish (Ottoman) invasion of Europe on their way to Vienna, thousands of Serbians lost their lives, fighting with Turks at Kosovo to stop them progressing to Europe. However today, Albanians want to occupy Kosovo and area and populate it with Albanians.

But who actually happened to start this Kosovo problem? The article from Canadian Press printed in The Examiner did not mention that Albanians are the reason the "liberation" of Kosovo started.

I will tell Mr. Harper the real truth. After the end of the Second World War, Albanian Prime Minister Enver Hodja asked our Prime Minister, J.B. Tito, for help because Albania is a very poor country with not enough food to feed them all. So Tito decided to take several thousand Albanian families and bring them to Kosovo at the Albanian border. However when you are good to somebody, in many cases, you pay for your goodness. Those Albanians used night to smuggle relatives and neighbours over the border mountains and filled the area to the point that Serbs, who were still tired from the war, started moving to other parts of Serbia rather than fighting again.

Now Albanians claim Kosovo as their land and announce that they want to liberate Kosovo. Unfortunately when Tito passed away the situation worsened. To declare Kosovo independent is just a cover and 30 countries recognized the new country Kosovo, including Canada, against the protest of Serbia - but Albania will take it over without any problem to these 30 countries. But as the article stated, two dozen countries sided with the Serbs, including Russia and Slavic brothers of Serbs.

As for me, I felt that after Tito's death Yugoslavia would disappear so I decided before it happened to leave, and in 1951, I chose Canada as the best country in this world and today I am a very proud Canadian citizen

ZLATKO ALBERT Charlotte Street