In the publication “Muslims in Macedonia and the First Balkan War”, published by Safet Bandzovics, we can read the following:¹

“When two Montenegrin soldiers were killed near the village of Punosevac in Kosovo, that village was burned to the ground. The population was killed, and children who fled were impaled on bayonets and thrown into burning houses.”²

“In the shadow of the victory over the Ottoman Empire in the First Balkan War, the knowledge that “Serbs and their allies are killing Albanian Muslims in the villages, forcing tens of thousands of Slavic Muslims to flee Macedonia”.

According to “Radnik novine”, no. 223, Belgrade, October 22, 1913:
“The fires of burning villages were the only signal by which individual columns of the Serbian army informed each other about their “advance” and directions of movement. With the fall of Kumanovo into Serbian hands, “the whole world of the Arnaut population that the Serbian army, advancing from the
north, pushed in front of them and who, looking for refuge, largely found death there” settled in Skopje.”³

Milorad Marković, a Serbian fighter, testified about the events in Strumica at the end of October 1912: “It’s still the same. The komitadjis are doing their thing: the killing continues. I was, infact, a witness to a terrible act: the militia and the komitadjis were escorting 10 Turks by my apartment. Leading them, they beat them mercilessly with their butts. At once they pushed them forward – and began stabbing them with bayonets.”

“Dimitrije Tucović wrote that the barbaric actions of the “uncultured Montenegrin tribes and the furious Serbian soldiers” made more propaganda for Austria-Hungary in one year “than its consuls and friars did in a whole century.”⁴

“Loud protests were heard in the British Parliament against crimes and false bearers of “culture” and freedom, as well as statements that the agreement to treat the Muhajirs in the same way as those of 1878 was “a terrible shame and embarrassment for civilized countries.”⁵

“Reporters stated that during the hundred years of Ottoman rule in Macedonia, as many injustices were not inflicted on Christians as the Christian conquerors did to Muslims in just one month.”⁶

References

1. https://www.ibn-sina.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/206_SAFET_BANDZOVIC.pdf ↩︎
2. V. Dedijer, Veliki buntovnik Milovan Đilas, Belgrade, 1991, p. 113. ↩︎
3. Radnik novine”, no. 223, Belgrade, October 22, 1913. ↩︎
4. D. Tucović, Collected Works, Vol. 7, p. 197. ↩︎
5. S. Korkut, Two adopted resolutions, Social Democrat, no. 5, Sarajevo, 2001, p.
   150. ↩︎
6. Lj. Lape, Odabrani radouci, str. 820-821. ↩︎