Written by Gjokë Dabaj. Information from the book “Serbian Genocide and Albanian resistance (1844-1990)”, by Lumi-T publication. Gjakova, 1991, p.23. The following are accounts of Serbian atrocities against Albanians between 1844 and 1990.

Serbian and Montenegrin atrocities

“On November 12, 1912, the newspaper “Deili Kronikall” published an article stating that 5000 Albanians were massacred in the villages of Prizren. About 400 were killed on the first day.”

“There is a list that only on the occasion of the arrival of the Serbian and Montenegrin army in these (Albanian) places in 1912, 12,777 Albanians were killed.”

“Edith Durham writes: “In the province of Gostivar, they burned the villages with kerosene and threw into the flames with the tips of bayonets those who could not escape. There are villages with 100, 150 and 200 houses, where now not a soul is found. They gather the people in platoons of 40 or 50 people and go to bayonet them.” In Reçan of Gostivar, the Serbs, after killing 30 men, 200 women, children and old people, locked them in two houses and burned them alive.”

“A source from December 1913 notes that the Slavs of the Balkans, with their ferocity, massacred 80,000 innocent Albanians, which means that we are talking about Albanians who were defenseless and not engaged in fighting.”

“On February 2, 1915, it was stated that 200,000 Albanians were massacred in the Balkan War”

“In 1918, Serbs killed 9 Albanians, including 3 Catholics and 4 Muslims. On January 4, 1919, in the regions of Podgorica, 9 Albanians were killed, slaughtered and drowned. In 1919, more than 100 Albanians were killed in Tërgovish for no reason. In Akova, 800 people were barbarically killed. 46 girls were taken, of which 6 were raped, the others, suffering the same fate, were sent to Montenegro. In the villages of Koshutan, Koshutnica, Bukël and Bisinica, 21 people were killed. In the regions of Rozhaja, in the village of Cerallukë, 9 Albanians were killed.”

“From February 8 to 25, 1919, in Plavë, Guci and Rugovë, 844 people were massacred. In Qeqekulla they killed 11 men and “they piled the corpses on top of each other.” In February 1919, 17 people were killed in Krini in Istog. On March 1919 in Çallopek of Peja, 17 people were killed. 11 people were killed in Beran of Peja. On March 20, 1919, the Serbs and Montenegrins in Plavë and Guci massacred 356 children, old men, old women and crippled men with machine guns and burned them in the fire by jumping around the fire.”

“On February 22, 1919, in a protest sent to the Allied Command in Shkodër, it stated that in Akovë the Serbs massacred 800 Albanians, while in Rozhajë 700 Albanians were killed. In the village of Keqëkolle, Serbian gendarmeries entered a house and cut 14 members of a family to pieces. 190 people were massacred in 10 villages of Mitrovica. 1007 people were massacred in 105 villages of Vushtrri. 12 people were massacred in Qeqeli. 43 people were massacred in the Tower, 7 people were massacred in Obiliq. 13 people were massacred in Trstenik. 23 people were massacred in Popova.”

Bulgarian atrocities

“In 1916, Bulgarians killed and massacred 21 people in Smira of Vitia. In 1917, in the village of Gjylekar in Gjilan, Bulgarian forces killed 61 people. In 1917, the Bulgarians killed 8 people in the village of Zhiti. P.237. In Lubishte, the Bulgarians killed 8 Albanians. In 1918, 70 women were raped and drowned in blood in Akovë, Peshteri. 4 people from Jenipazar had their eyes gouged out by the Serb soldiers. On February 15, 1918, in Počest of Peja, the Serbs massacred an 80-year-old man and a 12-year-old boy.”