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To: BillCh who wrote (3409)4/12/1999 8:30:00 AM
From: BillCh  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
Greek threats spark exodus

FROM JAMES PETTIFER IN KAKAVIA The Times
HIGH up here in the Buret mountains on the
Greek-Albanian border, hundreds of Albanian workers
are fleeing Greece with their families after death threats
from Orthodox extremists sympathetic to the Serbs.

Usually people leave Albania for Greece but the war has
brought a queue of cars miles long stretching down the
hillside. Many come from northern Greek towns with
strong nationalist and Orthodox traditions.

Miranda and Ilir Gjika's Fiat is loaded with all their
belongings after three years' work in the town of Arta.
"We had our flat windows broken. Then our boy here
was hit in the street. Last week they painted 'Orthodoxy
or Death' and a Cross on the flat door," they said.

The Greek nationalist Right has a strong clerical flavour,
from the lunatic fringe that wants to take 666 off the
telephone directory because it is the Devil's number to
young skinheads who have adapted Orthodox
vocabulary, however much the church rejects them.

Further along the line of cars was Arben, an engineer who
had been studying in Salonika. With the city's large Serb
population, he felt a target. "They threw me out of the
university dormitory."

For Greeks, Albanian crime is a big problem. Popular
feeling over the war is overwhelmingly pro-Serb, and a
football match last week between Partizan of Belgrade
and a Greek team turned into a wild anti-Nato
demonstration. Continued bombing over the Orthodox
Easter has brought popular feeling to a head.
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