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Dimitrije Ljotić and his Rally Party. In their program, the Radicals
established the westernmost Serbian frontiers similarly to those
drawn by the spo, and focused on resolving the Albanian question.
Their chief measure against the Albanians consisted of reducing
their numbers through the “immediate expulsion of the 360,000
Albanian immigrants and their offspring”; “Serbian citizens who
live abroad and operate there from separatist positions should immediately
be deprived of their Serbian citizenship and forbidden to
return”; and “all Shqiptars who so wish should be issued with émigré
passports.” The srs would people Kosovo with Serbs and “move
[into it] all military and police academies and all military institutions
not directly involved in the command of certain military regions, as
well as a whole range of other state institutions, thereby creating the
conditions for the transfer of tens of thousands of officers, noncommissioned
officers, police officers, civil servants, members of their
families, and the complete ancillary infrastructure.” 134
The srs envisaged other implementing measures to encourage
Albanians to emigrate, such as building motorways “with lanes
deliberately spaced up to 1 km apart to follow the contours of the
land, clearing wide belts along the roads through the most densely
populated Shqiptar rural environments, [building] other facilities
such as barracks, assault courses, depots with plots and room for
colonies of settlers, in order to break up the Shqiptar ethnic space
whereby they would lose their territory in depth, which is an important
element of their feeling of security.” The program called for
deliberately cutting off the power supply through “real sabotage
of parts of the grid,” as well as the water supply, with the object of
“making their life impossible.” Other methods included frequent
checks by the financial police, the introduction of all kinds of obligatory
permits and licenses, and infiltrating State Security Service
operatives into various ethnic Albanian organizations to influence
134 Ibid ., ‘Programska deklaracija SRS’ (The SRS Programme Declaration) .
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