According to the data of the Serbian Social Democracy, during the occupation of Ferizaj in 1912, the Serbian army had killed 3,500 Albanians. The “Messagero”, “Daily Telegraph”, “New York Times” and “Kiewskaja Misll” have written about the Serbian atrocities. The “Politika” on October 21, 1912, wrote: “In the morning when the day dawned in the place where the city of Ferizaj was, there was nothing left. Ferizaj was no more. It exists only on the map.”
The German newspaper “Reichpost” in the article titled “Serbian butchery in Albania”, gives this data: “12,000 Albanians were massacred in Ferizaj, the unfortunates were slaughtered regardless of age or gender”. For the serbization of pure Albanian villages, Serbia started building orthodox churches.
In 1913, the construction of the church in Jezerc began. The highlanders of Jezerci could not accept this national insult. Destan Nuhaj, 16 years old, a shepherd, killed the architect Kita and three other Serbian craftsmen. This young mountaineer was captured and massacred in the Nis prison, and the Orthodox church was never built in Jezerc.
Yugoslav atrocities in 1918
On October 5, 1918, with the help of the French army, Serbia installed its power in Ferizaj. During the months of January-February 1919 in Ferizaj and its surroundings, 1,694 Albanians were killed and 724 houses were demolished, 3,400 were imprisoned and 190 Albanians were beaten to death and 960 houses were looted.
One of the forms of Serbian terror against Albanians was disarmament. As a result of the torture, many Albanians drowned and many others were left crippled. Another form of Serbian pressure was colonization and agrarian reform.
All the barbaric methods of Serbian repression continued even in socialist Yugoslavia! All those forces and elements that did not agree with the line followed by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for dealing with the national problem, with the anti-Albanian policy were called counter-revolutionary and ballistic. Arrests and extrajudicial killings were carried out in every hideout.
Atroities in World War 2
Ferizaj is the first Albanian city and the first city in Europe to oppose the communist government with arms in hand on December 2, 1944.
Chetnik-partisan forces had 300 killed, while the liberation forces lost 100 people. More than 100 corpses of massacred Albanians were found in the basement of the district building. Until July 10, 1945, the Chetnik-partisan government executed over 1,300 Albanians in Ferizaj.
Ferizaj and his entourage resisted the savage regime of Milosevic.
Since the time when the KLA came out publicly on November 28, 1997, in Llaushë, Drenica, on the occasion of the burial of the teacher Halit Geci, killed by Serbian forces, KLA formations were also formed in Jezerc. The first martyr was Nazmi Ukësmajli on the 16 July 1998.
This date marks the beginning of the war in the municipality of Ferizaj.
In Ferizaj and its surroundings from January 1998 to June 12, 1999, 115 civilians were killed, 49 martyrs fell on the altar of freedom, while 23 citizens were not found, four were missing.
Dear auditor!
The just and clean war of the KLA, as well as NATO’s intervention, was crowned with success on June 12, 1999, Kosovo was liberated from Chetnik-fascist Serbia. The famous phrase of American President Bill Clinton “We won the war, but let’s not fail in peace” was said precisely for Kosovo.
Unfortunately, there was a complete flood of truth! The heinous Serbian crimes were wrapped in iron curtains. The state and scientific institutions of the Republic of Kosovo are silent. The independent intellectuals, publicists, artists and historians are silent. Those who had the duty to raise their voice to the sky were silent. It was a duty upon duties, it was a moral obligation and above all a state obligation to accuse Serbia of the genocide committed against Albanian citizens in Kosovo during 1998/1999.
World public opinion, the one that had encouraged the planes to bomb Serbia, after the end of the war, eagerly awaited the Albanian testimony.
The Albanian testimony was deliberately killed and this was dramatic.
Season after season and year after year, encouraged by the Albanian silence, the Serbian media teaching would overcome every border. It would be talked about again for massacres, lessons, burnt houses, but these would not be Albanian houses, but Serbian ones.
Another theater scene was created, everything from the essence of the drama to the nationality of the characters was changed. Now the victims were Serbs and the executioners Albanian. It was the most macabre scene that had happened in Europe. A call was made to Europe and the USA to accept their mistakes they had made and for Kosovo to return to captivity, where it was before June 12, 1999.
It is belittling, contempt, ignoring what happened in Kosovo, the deliberate non-accusation of Serbia for the Serbian genocide in Kosovo.
In order for an independent state to exist, Albanian science must destroy the Serbian myth about Kosovo. To achieve this, Kosovo needs credible, apolitical national institutions. Academics and other so-called scientific workers who defend the Serbian cause have no place in the scientific institutions of the Republic of Kosovo.
Written originally by Muhamet Shabani
Reference
Balkan Academia 