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AACL news advisory, together with the public statement issued on October 12 by the lawyers defending the fourteen Albanians tortured and jailed in Montenegro. October 2006. Please click here for the English version and here for the Albanian. Kliko këtu për shqip

THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC CONDEMNS THE ILLEGAL ARREST AND TORTURE OF 14 ALBANIANS, THREE OF THEM U.S. CITIZENS, IN MONTENEGRO. Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi October 2006 Click here for English and here for Albanian . Kliko këtu për shqip

THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUES CALLS FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE IN MACEDONIA TO PREVENT A FIFTH BALKAN WAR  :   Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi May 2001.  Full text available here.

THE CIVIC LEAGUE DENOUNCES EXIT STRATEGY FOR MILOSEVIC:  Letters to The Washington Post and The New York Times, June-July 2000.   Full text of letter to the Washington Post available here.    Letter to the New York Times available here.

LETTER TO PRESIDENT CLINTON BY JOE DIOGUARDI - "Mr. President, how   many Albanians must die before we do the right thing - namely arm the KLA, as we did Croats in Bosnia - and commiting NATO ground troops to stop the genocide and finish the job we started?". Full letter available here

ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE CALLS FOR THE DEFEAT OF THE CHINA TRADE BILL In light of the Chinese Communist government’s support of Serbian dictator and indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic, the Albanian American Civic League called on the U.S. Congress today to defeat legislatio that would grant permanent normal trade status to China.
May 19 2000.Full text available here

THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE ENDORESES THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF KOSOVA, LED BY HASHIM THACI-The Albanian American Civic League announces today that it recognizes and endorses the provisional Government of Kosova, led by Hashim Thaci, until such time as Albanians can democratic elections in a free, peaceful, unoccupied Kosova.
April 15 1999.Full text available here

 
Joseph DioGuardi's Congressional Records - The work of the Albanian American Civic League for Kosova and the Albanian national cause since 1989 is well documented on this web site (please see the AACL ten-year history). But what is not so well known are the many Congressional Resolutions, statements, letters, and hearings that were sponsored and promoted by Congressman Joe DioGuardi from 1985 to 1988 to publicize the terrible plight of the Albanian people of Kosova and to expose the terror imposed on them by Slobodan Milosevic. Here is the first installment of this important part of the foundation on which the independent State of Kosova is being built today.

Albanians a People Undone - This article, featured in the February 2000 issue of National Geographic,  discusses the history and culture of the Albanian people in the Balkans and is accompanied by a beautiful photographic layout.

The Agony of Kosova - Joseph DioGuardi provides in this well-documented work a clear picture the systematic repression and atrocities that Kosovar Albanian have suffered under Serbia's domination, and he demonstrates the need for Kosova's indepenence as the only just and lasting solution to the Balkan conflict.
(In progress - sections will be added shortly)

The Expulsion of the Albanians - a memorandum presented in March 7th, 1937 (two years before the "final solution" was formulated in Nazi Germany) showing how the Serbian regime planned to brutally repress, expel, and exterminate the Albanians of Kosova.

Rescue in Albania - written by a prominent Jewish American, this book tells how every Jew who was fortunate enough to make it to Albanian lands during WWII was saved from the Holocaust through the heroic deeds of the Albanian people.