 elcome to the web site of the Albanian American Civic League. The
Civic was founded by former Congressman Joseph DioGuardi and a board of Albanian Americans
in 1989 and is the the only registered lobby in Washington, DC, representing the concerns
and interests of the Albanian people. The purpose of the Civic League is to further the
human rights and the national cause of the divided nation of more than seven million
Albanians living side by side in the Balkans in Albania, Kosova, western Macedonia,
southeastern Montenegro, Presheve, Medvegje, Bujanovc (southern Serbia), and Chameria
(northern Greece). By bringing the political perspectives of 400.000 Albanian Americans to
the US Government, the civic League works to end the repression and oppression of
Albanians living under hostile Slavic Communist regimes in the Balkans and to preserve the
culture, identity and human rights of Albanians throughout the world.
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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.
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