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CONGRESSMAN DANA ROHRABACHER REAFFIRMS HIS SUPPORT FOR ALBANIAN FREEDOM. July 23, 2001. Full text available here.

THREE ALBANIAN AMERICANS FOUND IN A MASS GRAVE IN SERBIA    Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi's account of the investigation into the disappearance of Agron, Mehmet, and Ylli Bytyqi, who fought with the Atlantic Batallion in Kosova and whose bodies have recently been discovered in a mass grave in Serbia. It includes important information not contained thus far in the coverage from the AP, Washington Post, and The Sunday Times of London. July 14, 2001.  Full text available here.

THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE VISITS THE ALBANIAN COMMUNITY OF NEW ZEALAND: Former Congressman Joe Dioguardi and his wife Shirley Cloyes, visited New Zealand. December 2000. Full text available here.

THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE OPPOSES THE WEST'S RESTORATION OF DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH SERBIA: Former Congressman Joe DioGuardi, president of the Albanian American Civic League, and AACL Balkan affair adviser Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi, went to Melbourne on November 25 to join with the Albanian Australian community to protest the restoration of diplomatic relations with "Yugoslavia" by the United States, Germany, France, and Great Britain. November 2000.  Full text available here.

RESOLVING THE ALBANIAN NATIONAL QUESTION: A Public Declaration by the Albanian American Civic League, September 1999. Full text available here.

Rally in Washington DC - Albanian American Civic League, UCK (KLA) and "Vendlindja Thėrret" ("Homeland Calls") invite Albanian Community accross America to join in a massive rally, begining at 10:30 am (EST), next Tuesday, April 27th, 1999, at the West Terrace of the U.S. Capitol Hill. More info

Joe DioGuardi sends a letter to President Clinton. "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 leter available.

Shirley Cloyes' testimony before the House Committee on International Relations. Besides Shirley Cloyes, the main speakers were Dr. Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State; Jeanne Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to UN and Senator Bobe Dole. Her complete written testimony is available.

 

 

 
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.