1913-1915

In 1913 and in 1915 , many Albanian villages were destroyed and their inhabitants massacred by the Serbs.[1]

Elbasan
On October 1913, Edith Durham travelled to Elbasan and reported that retreating Serb soldiers had wiped out 28 villages and killed hundreds of Albanians.[2]

Podgur
Between the 15th and 25th of December, 1918, Serb troops entered in the district of Podgur and massacred men, women and children and burned 138 houses and pillaged 400.[2] Survivors fled to the mountains.

Rugova
In 1913, General Janko Vukotic told Edith Durham that his soldiers had committed atrocities against the civilian population of Ruvgova. He told her that “we have killed every man of the Rugova tribe. We have put them under the sword”[3] and when she asked why, he replied “but they are beasts, savage animals. We have done very well”.[4]

1920

On February 10, 1924, on the orders of the prefect Loukic, and of the commandant Petrovic, the village of Dumnica was surrounded by fire so that all the inhabitants were burned alive. The Serb gendarmeries wanted to get their hands on a brigand named Mehmet Konio, but did not succeed. After he escaped, the authorities blamed not only Mehmet Konio’s parents, who were all massacred, but the entire village. Twenty-five people were killed in this fire, including ten women, eight children under 8 years old, six men over 50 years old. No one has been punished for a crime.[5]

References

1. L’Etat criminel les génocides au XXe siècle. Yves Ternon. .1995. page 383.
2. State, United States Department of (1947). Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 741. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
3. Cook, John Douglas; Harwood, Philip; Harris, Frank; Pollock, Walter Herries; Hodge, Harold (1914). The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. J. W. Parker and Son. p. 835. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
4. Jezernik, Božidar (2004). Wild Europe: The Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travellers. Saqi. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-86356-574-8. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
5. Ethnic Minorities in the Balkan States, 1860-1971: 1927-1938. page 270.