Pesocani is the village that experienced the most brutal ethnic cleansing of the Albanians by the Serbian invaders, the massacres that cleansed this locality of the Albanian element. Today this village is inhabited only by Macedonians and to prove the change that happened almost 100 years ago years ago, a large cross was placed in this locality to show that the mission was successfully completed.

While all the Albanian residents who survived the three massacres of Pesocan now live scattered in the villages and the city of Struga. The inhabited village of Pesocan the capital of Albanians until November 1920 lies in the region of Debërce, on the western side of the Municipality of Debërce, on the left side of the Oher-Kirçovo highway, 23 km from the city of Struga, as well as near the upper reaches of the Sateskë River [1].

Clirim Dervishi, the Strugan historian who has studied the genocide against the Albanians of Pesocan, points out that the massacres against this village began right after the Serbian invasion in 1912 and the anti-Serbian uprising of 1913, while the decisive mask that finally cleared this locality by the Albanians is that of the year 1920.

”The first massacre in the village of Pesoçan took place around November 23, 1912, after the occupation of this region by the Serbian army without any sound reason. In the presence of family members and fellow villagers, in the middle of the village, very close to the mosque, dozens of residents are massacred, among them the brothers Tefik and Avdi Sherifi, who are executed and then thrown into the “chingela”, as well as their henchmen: Pashon , Kapllanin, Musana and Hajredinin. All of them were adults.”

The anti-Serbian uprising of September 1913 was not only an expression of the resistance of the Albanian population against the brutal oppressive policy of the new invaders, but also evidence of massive opposition to the decisions of the Great Powers, who gave these provinces to Serbia, contrary to the ethnic principle. Residents of the village of Pesoçan also participate in this uprising.

This fact has served as a pretext that the main criminal Duka i Pesoçani (he was from Godivja but then they call him i Pesoçani), accompanied by the Serbian gendarmerie and the special territorial forces of “Crna Ruka” and “Narodna Odbrana”, there from October 11, 1913, on the Feast of Eid, in the early hours of the morning, when the men were performing the Eid prayer, they surrounded the village mosque. After forcing them out of the mosque, 74 men tied them up and arrested them, together with the village imam, who sent them away from the village, about 2 km, to the region between the villages of Bellçishte and Zlestë.

Until the place of execution all the time, according to the testimonies collected from the memories of the oldest, the arrested were tortured with bayonets all the way[1], Dervishi emphasizes. However, the final cleansing of Pesocan by Albanian Serbs was done on November 11, 1920, when more than 150 houses were burned and destroyed, where all those who were found there were killed, men, women, children and old people, wh were all murdered by the Serbian gendarmeries.[1]

The historian Dervishi specifies that after they arrested and tortured the inhabitants of the village, after piercing them with bayonets one by one, they threw 94 people (2 women, 2 children and 90 men) into the well. [1] Dervishi specifies Petër Çaulevi [1] gives a more accurate testimony of the atrocities in Pesocan, who among other things writes:

“…The Albanian people during the last ten years react miraculously in the face of enemies and occupiers. He gave so many victims that even the worst executioners during the darkest ages did not act in this way. Not only villages, but also entire regions were emptied, children and women were slaughtered, cruel acts that the civilized world has rarely seen”. Then he continues:
 ”I wanted prof. Rais, representative of Switzerland, to take the trouble and visit Kosovo and Macedonia and see what is the significance of the man from Sumadia and the power of Nikola Pasic whom he blindly serves as a man of science, as a son of Switzerland who fought for centuries like us, try to go to the Municipality of Slatina in the district of Ohrid.

There, I invite the mayor of the municipality or someone from the district prefecture to show him where the village of Pesoçan is located… After I find it, I will see that the village that had 175 houses has been destroyed, while the men, women and children of this village are simply slaughtered up to one by the Serbian army during one night in 1920. The skulls of the inhabitants of this village, of course also of newborn babies, can be found in the deep well located in the center of the village…

So, according to research so far, it turns out that, in the period 1912-1920, 203 men, women, and children were killed in the village of Pesoçan, while the ethnically pure Albanian village, after the last crime, was inhabited by the remnants of Slavic criminals from the neighboring villages.