Milić Krstić or Miliq Kerrsta (1878-1938) was a Serbian Chetnik vojvoda (captain) who migrated in the 1900s to the region of Pejë in Kosovo. Krstić was responsible for having massacred hundreds of Albanians through out his military campagns in the region of Istog between 1912-1938. In 1924, Krstic along Kosta Pecanac massacred 27 Albanians, with 5 women amongst them, in the region of Tutine. Krstic also committed hideous massacres of Albanians in Llap, Ferizaj, Shtimje, Dumnica, Plav and Gusinje to force them to leave. The Serbian government had allowed the formation of special terrorist movements like “Black Hand” led by Milic Krstic, a well known criminal at this time.

In 1930, Albanian priests wrote a report of the atrocities committed on Albanians, where Krstic is mentioned to have killed 60 Albanians in one day in Gjakova. 1938, Krstić was assassinated by an Albanian peasant named Selman Kadria who shot him near the lake of Istog. Selman Kadria was declared an Albanian hero for having executed Krstic, who was known to have pierced Albanian babies in cradles with his bayonet. According to interviews with the locals of Istog, he could slaughter up to 9 boys from an Albanian family during one of his many visits.

Milic Krstic had also been charged in 1924 with the murder of an Albanian in Rugova, and in 1927 with the murder of an Albanian from the village of Vrelska.

On the 9th of June, 1938, the paper “Politika” wrote that Milic Krstić had been killed 2 kilometers from his home, and he was “credited for establishing order and peace in Metohija”. His war crimes are not mentioned.

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