Serbian, Montenegrin and Yugoslav crimes and expulsion of Albanians (1878-1990)

Written by Gjokë Dabaj. Translated by Petrit Latifi.

The following information is taken from the book “GENOCIDI SËRBOMADH DHE QËNDRESA E SHQIPTARËVET” written by Shaban Braha. These sections are saxed from Gjokë Dabajs articles on Pashtriku.org

Serbo-Montenegrin atrocities against Albanians in 1878 (p.53)

“The situation of the Albanians displaced from their lands under the pressure and violence of the Montenegrins was grave and very grave. In a protest in June 1878, it was said, among other things: How many people have the Montenegrins cut off their ears, noses and lips… By cutting off the hands and feet of a child, they have shown the whole world the greatest horrors that no nation has ever seen.”

“The Austro-Hungarian representation reported from Cetinje that the fields, houses, olive groves and all the property had been ruthlessly confiscated from the Albanians. Thus, being stripped of all their property, the wretched emigrants were reduced to begging for bread. And this emigration was not small: From the newly annexed regions of Kolashin, Niksic, Shpuza, Podgorica, Zhabjak, there were about 1200-1500 families. Emigration was also encouraged by pressures, provocations and other measures, such as sending children to Slavic schools, fines of 50 florins for those who did not leave, the obligation for men to wear Montenegrin caps, the demolition and destruction of Albanian cemeteries in Ulcinj, in Podgorica…”

“In 1883, it was reported by the Austro-Hungarian representation that 955 families with 3957 members had emigrated from Podgorica. From Shpuza 112 families with 644 people. From Zhabjak 40 families with 293 people. From Tivar 34 families with 166 people. From Ulcinj 38 families with 170 people. From Nikšić 228 families with 1090 people. And these, in order to cope with the difficult life, were scattered throughout Shkodër, Lezhë, Durrës.”

“In 1886, as reported by a foreign representative in Shkodra, the emigration of the inhabitants of Ulcinj continued without interruption. So far this year, 713 people have come to Shkodra, among whom are many wealthy people, while another 50 families are expected soon.”

Serbo-Montenegrin atrocities in 1914 (p.211)

“The Serbian newspaper ‘Radniçke novine’ of March 1914 raised its voice against the Serbian government that suppressed the first Albanian uprising with the blood of the innocent, while the second, with the blood of the revolted. (p.211)

On page 211, an overview of the destruction of one of the centers of the Albanian uprising in the province of Përdrin is given, after the majority of the population had moved to the Has area: In Ostrozup 98 houses were burned and 20 people were killed. In Banjë 117 houses were burned and 50 people were killed. In Belanica 146 houses were burned and 42 people were killed.

In Ladrovicë 100 houses were burned and 20 people were killed. In Gumcat 80 houses were burned and 10 people were killed. In Senik 30 houses were burned. In Ladroc 45 houses were burned. In Javor, 40 houses were burned and 3 people were killed. In Llošicë, 50 houses were burned and 14 people were killed. In Novoselë, 18 houses were burned and 4 people were killed.

In Tërpezë, 40 houses were burned and 25 people were killed. In Carallukë, 33 houses were burned and 15 people were killed. In Skoroshnik, 62 houses were burned and 3 people were killed. In Mirushë, 25 houses were burned and 4 people were killed. In Domenik, 10 houses were burned and 5 people were killed. In Lubishë, 25 houses were burned and 6 people were killed. In Kavaser, 10 houses were burned and 6 people were killed. Total number of people killed: 227, houses burned: 1034, houses that were not burned: 346.

In the village of Banjë, the wounded were buried alive. (p.212) In Rahovec, 40 people were shot. (p.212) “Poor Albania, but even poorer Serbia!” wrote the newspaper ‘Radničke novine’ at the time. (p.212) In 1914, only 3,000 Serbs lived in Skopje, 1,200 in Tetovo, and 604 in Debar. (p.215) 20,000 people were displaced from Manastir. (p.227) By January 1914, nearly 3,000 residents had fled from Dibra, leaving their homes burned and fields desolate. (p.227) In Mat, Çermenika, Tirana and Elbasan, in 1914, there were 80,000 refugees, men and women, naked and homeless. (p.227)

Serbo-Montenegrin atrocities of 1918 (p.258)

In a record of the Kosovo National Defense Committee, data on Serbian atrocities in December 1918 are given:

On 2.12.1918, 18 head of cattle were looted in Voksh. (p. 258)

Imer Baka, Kamber Elezit, Daut Elezit were robbed of property worth 23,000 crowns by force and beating. (p. 258)

Ismail Hoxha in Libozhda was tied up, beaten and 18,000 crowns of property were stolen. (p. 258)

Adem Imer in Lubeniq was tied up, beaten and 20,000 crowns of property were stolen. (p. 258)

In Poçest, Peja, an 80-year-old man and a 12-year-old boy were massacred. (p. 258)

Bajram Rama in Lubozdë was robbed of 16,000 crowns of property. (p. 258)

Mahmut Ali in Muževina, 13,000 crowns. (p. 258)

In Tafë Zymeri they raped men and women and took 6,000 crowns of money and 22,000 crowns of goods. (p. 258)

In Ukë Musa they took 19,000 crowns of goods. (p. 258)

In Murat Bajrami they took 7,000 crowns. (p. 258)

From 17.12.1918 to 31.12.1918 the Serbs robbed 346,000 crowns of property and 20,000 heads of cattle. (p. 258)

“The murders were in the foreground and continuous.”

On 21.12.1918 the Serbs killed 4 martyrs, took them out of the Gjakova prison, burned them near the city, imprisoned two boys, Kolë Çeta and Lazër Çeta, killed Jonuz Halil from Tomofci in Llukavc, Ali Shabani from Vrella was drowned, his body was found in a puddle after ten days”. (p. 258)

“On December 2, 1918, when protesting at the Paris Peace Conference, it was emphasized that the Montenegrin forces in Podgorica (Podgorica was not the capital of the Montenegrin state at that time, Gj. D.) without excluding women or children, severely beat the entire Muslim population and committed the following barbaric acts:

They killed 11 people with rifles and stabbed them with knives, including the woman Hatixhe Lumahi, wounded Sanije Shaba and Islam Delas, while they tortured Pashka Llukachev by setting his legs on fire. They looted and robbed the clothes and property they found in the houses and warehouses of Muslims and Catholics, which were worth 3 million crowns.” (p. 259)

“Sources testify: The Serbs, who in 1918 occupied Kosovo for the second time, committed atrocities against the Albanian people: They killed and massacred 30,000 (thirty thousand) people, burned 168 villages with 4,869 houses and forced a large number of Albanians to flee”. (p. 271)

In Dibër and the surroundings of Shkodra, the Serbs burned 7,800 houses and killed (thousands) people and forced more than 4,500 people to flee to Tirana or (within) Shkodra… (p. 271)

“The Belgrade government, implementing its plan to kill and exterminate the Albanians, has decided to settle 7,000 immigrant families of Wrangel Cossacks in Drenica, Peja and Gjakova”. (p. 271)

Serbo-Montenegrin and Yugoslav atrocities in 1919

“On January 4, 1919, it was reported that 9 Albanians were killed, stabbed and drowned in the Podgorica region. (Names are also given. Gj.D.) (p.259)

“70 women from Akova were taken to the Orthodox church, forcing them to change their faith, their children were cut into pieces with bayonets and (all 70 women) their blood was shed unjustly.” (p.259)

“In the regions of Peja and Gjakova: in Tergovishte more than 100 Albanians were killed without any reason and their property was stolen…

In Akova more than 800 people were barbarically killed, their household goods and livestock were looted. 46 girls were taken from the leading families of the country, 6 of whom were raped in honor. The others, to suffer the same fate, were taken to the lands of Montenegro…

In the villages of Koshutan, Koshuticë, Bukel and Bisirnicë, the Serbs killed 21 people and robbed 1390 heads of cattle.” (p.261)

“In the regions of Rozhaja, Sjenica and Jenipazar, the murders were followed by thefts and rapes of women. “ (p.261)

“In the village of Carallukë, 9 people were killed.” (p.261)

“In another report, other data is given that in Plavë, Guci and Rugovë, from 17 to 25 February 1919, 344 people were massacred, while from 8 to 25 February 844 massacred are counted.” (p.262)

“In the village of Keqekollë, they killed 11 men at once and piled them one on top of the other. (p.262)

“On February 20, 1919, in the village of Kërnië, Istog, 17 people were killed, 30 houses were burned, 20,000 cattle were robbed, clothes, wheat, corn and other items worth 3,000 gold napoleons were stolen.” (p.262)

“In the village of Çelopek, Peja, on March 22, 1919, 16 people were killed, women, children, old men and women, 12 houses were looted, 500 heads of cattle were looted.” (p.262)

“In Beran, Peja, 40 houses were looted and 1,000 heads of cattle were looted.” (p.262)

“On March 20, 1919, in Plav and Guci, the Serbs massacred 356 children, old men, old women and disabled men with machine guns, burning them in a fire while dancing like beasts around the fire the dance of ‘Balkan brotherhood’.” (p.263)

On February 22, 1919… in Rozhaje the number of victims reached 700 people.” (p.263)

“On February 24, 1919, the Allied Command was informed that the Serbian and Montenegrin vandals had burned Rugova, Plav, Guci and forced more than 15,000 people with sledges and women to take the mountain through the snow. The old men, women and children who could not escape were massacred and their property was looted.” (p.263)

“In 1919. In ten villages of Mitrovica, 190 people were massacred. In 105 villages of Vushtrri, 1007 people were massacred, 1174 houses were burned, 2430 houses were looted. In Tristeniq, 23 people were massacred, 50 houses were burned, 55 houses were looted. (p.269)

In 1919 Montenegrin chauvinists burned 598 houses in the villages of Jabllanicë, Raushiq, Strellc, Stiniq, Deçan, Carabreg, Llukë, Beleg, Përlep.” (p.270)

“In another source it is said that in Prishtina the Serbian army slaughtered more than 4800 babies, women and the elderly, under the pretext of pursuing bandits. Among the three villages of 250 houses, 1400 people were killed and only 17 escaped without being killed. (p.270)

“In 17 villages of Prizren, the Serbs killed 376 people, burned 85 houses and looted 602 houses.” (p.270)

“In Tetovo, they killed over 160 people and left them for 7 days without being buried in the ground until they started to rot in the field.” (p.270)

“In Radishevo, Mitrovica, they looted and burned and many kalamas were thrown into the fire to be roasted and the Serbs said: ‘This is how the root of the Albanian is being exterminated!’ It was further reported that the Serbian army destroyed 30-35 villages in Drenica.” (p.270)

“In the province of Perdrin, as it appears from the press, in addition to the killings, there were even more painful cases. In the village of Qypevë, men were shot, women and children were thrown into the fire and burned alive. Only one boy managed to escape, out of all the inhabitants who were found there. 212 houses were burned, 38,600 cattle, 19,645 quintals of grain and 2,600 liras of gold were stolen.“ (p.270)

“On May 20, 1919, the Gjakova naçalnik, Miro Prodo, burned the village of Batushë, reduced it to ashes, tied 11 men to willow trunks and, when the flames were burning at night, he made them into a coffin. He took, on that occasion, 9000 heads of cattle.” (p.270)

“In Jabllanicë of Peja, at that time, the year 1919, they killed 78 men once and then 6 others.” (p.271)

“In the valley of Zllakuçan, where there are more than 30 Catholic villages, there were robberies and murders and many people were thrown alive into the flames of the fire.” (p.271)

“The year 1919 is among the bloody years under Serbian captivity. During the two months of January and February of this year alone, 12,370 people were killed and 6,100 houses were burned in the Kosovo province.” (p.271) (Twelve thousand three hundred and seventy! Gj.D.)

“In the Plav and Guci districts, the number of drowned men is 942, women 399, children 360, houses looted 2,073, houses burned 945.” (p.271) (A total of one thousand and seventy-one victims, only in Plav and Guci! Gj.D.)

“In Radavc, Istog, Serbian forces killed 15 people in one family and razed their house.” (p.271)

“In Jabllanicë, Peja, the Serbs entered the shrine, tied up all the believers, together with the imam, with a rope and set fire to the shrine, burning them alive… They burned 32 houses, looted the village, stealing 30,000 heads of small cattle and grain, dairy products and household goods worth 40,000 gold napoleons.“ (p.271)

“Under the pretext of being nationalists, there are prisoners: 800 Albanians in Prizren, 300 Albanians in Tetovo, 700 Albanians in Prishtina.” (p.271)

“Robberies and bribery were part of the tragic scenes, as were rapes. It has reached the point where they have taken women’s rings by force, breaking their fingers, taken their earrings, tearing their ears, and even robbed children in their cradles of their clothes, shooting them with bayonets from their cradles..“ (p.272)

“Within the month of June (1919), they have invaded the mountains of Reka three times, starting from Mount Staniq and have robbed 10,000 heads of cattle, and children have been found cut into pieces in the mountains.” (p.272)

Serbo-Montenegrin atrocities in 1920

“On February 15, 1920, 98 Albanians, men, women and children, were surrounded in the central neighborhood of Istog, a total of 52 houses were burned and all the property of the neighborhood worth 50,000 gold napoleons was seized and 1,500 Turkish gold liras were taken from one house alone.” (p.282)

“On that same day, February 15, 1920, 100 people were killed within three hours, men, women, children, old and young.” (p.282)

“On March 3, 1920, in Bjellopoja, Istog, a total of 22 people were tied up and taken, in the middle of the night, to the Hamet Beg forest, where they all were slaughtered with bayonets.” (p.282)

“On July 13, 1920, Raknica was destroyed by artillery and 43 Albanian corpses were found in the destroyed place.” (p.282)

“On July 17, 1920, in Uça, Istog, they took 9 people and locked them in a tower in the village of Kovac. They tied their hands and feet, set the tower on fire and burned them alive. Then they entered the village and kidnapped 20,000 cattle and sheep, 25,000 quintals of grain and household goods worth 6,000 gold napoleons.” (p.282)

“In 41 settlements in Plav and Guci, the Serbs and Montenegrins committed many crimes. They killed 1,046 children, killed 954 women and killed 2,066 men! A total of 4,066 residents of these areas were massacred. 6050 houses burned, 73884 small cattle looted, 17842 heads of cattle looted, including 3937 horses. Only in Plavë and Guci and in the 26 surrounding villages 1017 houses burned and 1780 houses looted.” (Krs. p.284)

(J.D. Note: Under the title “Partial overview of the tragedies in Plavë-Guci”, the above figures, shocking to the point of unbelief, the author Shaban Braha has given detailed information in the form of a table, as he himself says, partial, on page 283. I am bringing them listed in text form, in order to make them more suitable for reading:)

In Guci: 180 men, 40 women and 50 children drowned.
5 houses and 1 mosque burned, 50 houses, 170 dugas and 15 hotels looted, 5000 sheep and goats, 1500 cows and 50 horses kidnapped.
In Vuthaj: 110 men, 60 women, 70 children killed.
200 houses and 2 mosques burned, 250 houses and 2 dugas looted, 2000 sheep and goats, 601 cows and 58 horses kidnapped.
In Koline: 26 men, 16 women, 15 children killed.
8 houses burned, 54 houses and 2 dugas looted, 860 sheep and goats, 100 cows and 31 horses kidnapped.
In Kroshava: 15 men, 11 women, 18 children killed.
18 houses burned, 40 houses and 1 hotel looted, 580 sheep and goats, 113 cows and 22 horses stolen.
In Vishnjavë: 11 men, 8 women, 6 children killed.
11 houses burned, 30 houses looted, 720 sheep and goats, 140 cows and 30 horses stolen.
In Bodovicë: 10 men, 6 women, 9 children killed.
4 houses burned, 12 houses looted, 332 sheep and goats, 71 cows and 5 horses stolen.
In Hakaj: 14 men, 7 women, 8 children killed.
20 houses burned, 42 houses looted, 1110 sheep and goats, 105 cows and 16 horses stolen.
In Vojnasella: 20 men, 9 women, 12 children killed.
31 houses burned, 33 houses looted, 1237 sheep and goats, 152 cows and 21 horses stolen.
In Gjyric: 5 men, 50 women, 8 children killed.
10 houses burned, 13 houses looted, 300 sheep and goats, 62 cows and 5 horses stolen.
In Jasenica: 4 men, 6 women, 5 children killed.
15 houses burned, 15 houses looted, 311 sheep and goats, 51 cows and 6 horses stolen.
In Hot: 15 men, 5 women, 10 children killed.
45 houses burned, 40 houses looted, 500 sheep and goats, 60 cows and 5 horses stolen.
In Bogajç: 25 men, 15 women, 21 children killed.
40 houses burned, 42 houses looted, 1507 sheep and goats, 151 cows and 25 horses stolen.
In Përnjanor: 30 men, 9 women, 14 children killed.
20 houses burned, 75 houses looted, 1205 sheep and goats, 124 cows and 22 horses stolen.
In Livadhaj: 33 men, 9 women, 14 children killed.
35 houses burned, 85 houses looted, 507 sheep and goats, 54 cows and 15 horses stolen.
In Plavë: 172 men, 53 women, 42 children killed.
70 houses and 2 mosques burned, 376 houses, 90 dugajas, 11 hotels stolen, 5110 sheep and goats, 1242 cows and 256 horses stolen.
In Luz i Bahina: 5 men, 3 women, 8 children killed.
15 houses burned, 14 houses looted, 1005 sheep and goats, 157 cows and 11 horses stolen.
In Jarë: 15 men, 5 women, 3 children killed.
30 houses burned, 35 houses looted, 562 sheep and goats, 53 cows and 5 horses stolen.
In Mesehet: 16 men, 12 women, 9 children killed.
60 houses burned, 65 houses looted, 840 sheep and goats, 92 cows and 5 horses stolen.
In Komaraçë: 20 men, 8 women, 10 children killed.
35 houses burned, 45 houses and 1 hotel looted, 508 sheep and goats, 63 cows and 11 horses stolen.
In Scotland: 13 men, 8 women, 10 children killed.
30 houses burned, 36 houses looted, 400 sheep and goats, 50 cows and 15 horses stolen.
In Nokšić: 22 men, 8 women, 7 children killed.
60 houses burned, 65 houses looted, 2 taverns, 1 hotel,

840 sheep and goats, 92 cows and 6 horses were stolen.
In Arzhanica: 17 men, 9 women, 7 children were killed.
12 houses and 1 mosque were burned, 19 houses, 3 dugas, 2 hotels were looted, 530 sheep and goats, 65 cows and 12 horses were stolen.
In Popaj: 15 men, 7 women, 9 children were killed.
35 houses were burned, 40 houses, 1 dugas, 1 hotel were looted, 422 sheep and goats, 50 cows and 15 horses were stolen.
In Brezovica: 15 men, 7 women, 10 children were killed.
35 houses burned, 40 houses looted, 2102 sheep and goats, 124 cows and 22 horses stolen.
In Martinaj: 60 men, 40 women, 50 children killed.
95 houses burned, 1 mosque looted, 96 houses, 2 dugajës, 1 hotel, 2230 sheep and goats, 720 cows and 32 horses stolen.
In Dolni Reçan: 9 men, 22 women, 33 children killed.
72 houses burned, 95 houses looted, 1 dugajës, 1 hotel, 1215 sheep and goats, 343 cows and 21 horses stolen.
In Vërmosh: 15 men, 5 women, 10 children killed.
3 houses burned, 20 houses looted, 2 dugaja, 3 hotels, 150 sheep and goats, 52 cows and 10 horses stolen.
In Bucel: 5 men, 2 women, 8 children killed.
13 houses burned, 13 houses looted, 200 sheep and goats, 60 cows and 5 horses stolen.”

“In the Reka region of Gjakova, 6 people were killed. In Perdrin and Drenica, the Serbs set fire and the knife and, in the months of August-September 1920 alone, destroyed and damaged 153 villages, completely or partially, where, in addition to the killings, they also robbed 37,072 sheep and goats, 6,228 oxen and cows and 1,535 horses.” (p.284)

“In Dibër, more than 300 villages were burned and devastated and more than 30,000 Albanians were forced to flee to the rest of Albania.” (p.284)

On December 12, 1920, Bajram Curri addressed the Soviet government, where, among other things, he wrote: In the name of 1,550,000 (one million five hundred and fifty thousand) oppressed people (who partly passed to Montenegro, partly to Serbia and partly to Greece), I ask your permission for the following: The hearts of the Albanian people demand that the following territories be given to them: Ulcinj, Tuz, Hot, Gruda, Triesh, Plav, Guci, Rozaje, Presheve, Bujanovac, Bilar, Ziberc, Shkup, Tetovo, Gostivar, Kicevo, Prespa, Resen, Xhevatos, Chameria with 150,000 (one hundred and fifty thousand) inhabitants.” (p.285)

Serbo-Montenegrin atrocities in 1921

“In 1921 many people died from the use of wood as a murder weapon. People who were strangled (killed) with wood: 15 people in the village of Banjë in Prizren, 5 people in the village of Cernalluka in Prizren, 10 people in the village of Ofzhevc in Vushtrri, 10 people in the village of Pallance in Vushtrri and 10 people in the village of Bratje.” (p. 287)

“Within the town of Podujevo, 28 people were killed, 50 houses were burned and 55 others were looted.” (p. 287)

“In the village of Keqekollë (the Serbs) killed 490 men, burned four neighborhoods and looted five neighborhoods. In two families, only one girl survived in a flour crate. In the village of Prapashticë, one of the most notorious in the wars for freedom, the terrorist sadists massacred 1020 people, burned 80 houses, and looted as many. In the village of Shurban, 31 people were killed and looted, then 28 houses were burned.

In Bjellopoja, 30 people were killed and burned in a fire, and 32 houses were burned. In the village of Nishec, 14 people were massacred and several houses were burned, and the entire village was looted. In the village of Gerdovs, 25 people were killed, while in Llupci e Epërm, 12 people were killed.” (p. 287)

“Innocent children and women are being killed every day, and this work continues.” (p. 288)

“There was also a case where a mother was killed, and the child remained at the breast for 24 hours, sucking, until another patrol arrived, stabbed the child with a bayonet and threw it into the fire!” (p. 288)

“It’s not that they are killed as Muslims, but they are killed as Albanians and precisely because they are Albanians.” (p. 288)

“In the regions of Prizren-Luma, children, women and the elderly were killed, who could not escape… The children who were killed were aged 2-6 months and 2-3 years. Meanwhile, among the women there were pregnant women who were hit in the stomach, killing their babies in the womb. Some families, with 24-25 people, were wiped out.” (p. 288)

“In the village of Shurban near Pristina, they killed Rexhep Seferi, 11 years old, Qazim Seferi, 8 years old, and their mother Hamide, 50 years old. Baftjar Bekul, 24 years old, his mother Mihane, 60 years old, his wife Hasime, 24 years old, and their 2 children were burned in a fire.” (p. 288)

They were shot and dismembered with bayonets:

Mustafa Ramadani, 90 years old, Zylfi Kasemi, 54 years old, Asllani’s wife, Zarifja, 50 years old, his daughter Havalja, 15 years old, his second daughter Nailja, 10 years old, Sherif Jashari, 83 years old, Abdurrahman Mehmeti, 50 years old, and his sons, Selmani, 4 years old, and Bajrami, 2 years old, his daughter Gjylshani, 14 years old, Ramadani’s sister, Adilja, 51 years old, Tahir’s wife, Azemini, 30 years old, his son Rexhepi, 1 year old, Abdurrahman Shaqiri, 7 years old, Tahir’s mother, Zenepi, 64 years old, and Shahini’s wife, Rabishja, 29 years old, the latter being a beast, they opened her stomach with a bayonet, took out her child alive, and then killed her by slamming her to the ground. The others they shot and bayoneted.” (p. 288-289)

“The Serbs, before the general war, had killed a villager in the village of Shurban and had left behind his 40-year-old wife and two daughters, one 18 years old and the other 16 years old. The Serbian gendarmes defiled and dishonored these two girls, killed them together with their mother and… with 31 members of the family. After massacring them, they burned their bodies in a fire.” (p. 289)

Massacred by bayoneting:

Musli Shahini, 12 years old, Fazlia, Ibishi’s mother, 65 years old, Fatima, Ibishi’s wife, 38 years old, his two sons, Rifat, 12 years old, Xhemali, 2 years old, daughter Feridja, 4 years old, Ramadan’s wife, Emin, 20 years old, Sinan’s mother, Qamilja, 50 years old, Sinan’s wife, Fazlia, 28 years old, two daughters, Harisahu and Mihan, 12 and 10 years old, Debra’s daughter, Nazifja, 22 years old, his sons, Asllani, 20 years old and Mustafa, 12 years old.” (p. 289)

“Hashimi, Mehmet’s 3-month-old son, was bayoneted and roasted on a spit and made into a kebab. Ivazi, Mehmet’s son, 20 years old, his wife, Rabishja, 19 years old, Ivazi’s mother, Azizja, 44 years old, Abdullah Ibrahimi, 55 years old, Abdurrahman Sadiku from Prishtina, 40 years old, village headman, and Jashari’s wife, Dinorja, 38 years old. These poor people, after being chopped up with bayonets, were thrown into the fire and burned.” (p. 289)

“Katixja, Niman’s wife, 43 years old, Emin Dema, 41 years old, Bajram Salihu, 62 years old, were killed with a rifle and stabbed with a bayonet. Arifja, Ramadan’s wife, 50 years old. This woman was married in the village of Tërnovo, where she also had children, and after coming to Bellopoja to see her brothers, the Serbian gendarmes caught her and burned her alive in a fire. Xhemal Matura and his wife and children, consisting of 9 people, were all shot without sparing anyone, even their 3-month-old son was stabbed with a bayonet.” (p. 289-290)

“In the village (In which village? Gj. D.) they burned 25 houses and looted 32 houses. In the village of Keqekollë, after killing the imam, Adem Efendi, 80 years old, they also killed his two daughters, four wives and his son, Muharrem, who were found in his house, and the son of Mustafa, who was the governor of the Kalec region, as well as his family of 10 people. They looted their property and burned their houses.” (p. 290)

“Kajtaz Abdullahu was killed and massacred together with their wives and 6 children. In the Sinanaj neighborhood of the village of Keqekolla, 5 houses were burned with 69 people inside. None of them survived. The Qurth neighborhood, consisting of 40 houses, was completely looted and burned, and its inhabitants, 490 people, were all killed. Only Selim Rama and his wife were able to escape.” (p. 290)

“In the village of Prapashticë, the following were killed: Ibrahim Gavori with his family of 5 people, Beqir Bajrami with his family of 9 people, 5 people from Musa Jahja’s people, while Musa Jahja himself, together with his 3 sons, was able to escape.” (p. 290)

“In this village (in Prapashtica? Gj. D.) 80 houses were looted and burned and the population, a total of 1020 people, was massacred and completely exterminated. Only 9 people who were shot in the mountains as shepherds, were able to escape. In Prapashtica, when they started massacring the people of the Musa family, an 8-year-old girl hid in a bowl of flour and after 7 hours she came out and fled to the mountains. This girl was found in the mountains by Beqir Makofci and asked why she had fled. She told him that the Serbs had massacred her father, mother, brothers and sisters and out of 15 family members, only she had survived.” (p. 290) (See also page 287, Gj. D.)

“In Urlan, they forcibly converted Hali Selatin and Hami Selatin, and because they did not accept, they killed them both, along with their wives and children, and plundered all their property. They also killed Ramadan Dibrani with his 6 sons, 3 daughters, and his wife. In the village of Kusovicë, Sherif Uka and his entire family were massacred, while an old woman was burned in a fire along with her 9 children and grandchildren.” (p. 290)

“In Gërdafc, 25 people were massacred in the family of Veli Gallë and Baftjar Hysen alone.” (p. 291)

“The facts show that it was acted with particular cruelty. The girl Meliha Nuho Osmani from the village of Popovë, aged 8, was massacred until her head was pierced with a bayonet and her brains were drained!!! The woman Refije Rustemi from the village of Lapcë e Epërme, after having tied her by the legs, had her stomach cut open and her child taken out and killed. This woman was admitted to the American Red Cross hospital, where she died. The vandalism by the rapists is further highlighted, where it is emphasized that the Serbs who entered Hajdar Rushiti’s house violated his honor…” (p. 291)

“A report that is in the file of this year (year 1921, Gj.D.) in the central archive of the state (in the Republic of Albania, Gj. D.), gives some figures that are worth (bringing here) in part, although the dates are not noted. According to that file:

In Prizren-Luma there are 956 drowned and killed people, in Vushtrri 2394 drowned and killed people and 2940 prisoners, in Prishtina 4950 drowned and wounded and 3650 prisoners, in Ferizaj 1885 drowned and killed and 2400 prisoners, in Gjilan 900 drowned and killed and 2400 prisoners, in Presheva 350 drowned and killed and 970 prisoners, in Plav and Guci 1810 drowned and killed and 300 prisoners, in Peja 1840 drowned and killed and 3800 prisoners… It turns out that only in 11 districts, Prizren, Peja, Prishtina, Vushtrri, Ferizaj, Mitrovica, Gjakova, Kaçanik, Gjilan, Presheva and Plav-Guci, 15,676 Albanians were killed and massacred, 22,660 people were imprisoned.” (p. 291)

“On August 6, 1921, it was announced… that the “Black Hand” (Crna Ruka, Gj. D.) committee, together with the Serbian army, burned 300 three-story houses in the Peja and Gjakova districts and killed more than 350 people. It looted a total of 1,000 houses and transported the looted goods in hundreds of carts. It robbed up to 12,000 cattle, sheep and horses.

In Kaliçan, Broberda, Lukovo, Studenicë, Vrellë, Lubozhdë, 173 houses were burned and 343 others were looted. In Bornë, they killed Met Ibrahim’s 10-year-old daughter. In this event, 12 men were killed and one boy and 3 were injured. In Jablanica, in Lug të Berani, in Gllogjan, Çallapek, Isniq, Beran, Krushevc, 94 people were massacred, in addition to the burnings and looting.

The average age of the killed was 30 years old, starting at 20 years old and ending with the 90-year-old old man Selim Hoxha of Jablanica (Peja). As was announced on March 14, 1921, in the Peja region among the massacred were 200 boys, children up to 10 years old, 340 women and young women, 270 old men, 70 of them drowned by beating with wood. In Plavë and Guci, 26 children were drowned in the wombs of women. (p. 291-292)

“This genocide extended far beyond the Albanian territory of Vardar. In 17 villages of Gostivar alone, 408 people were massacred at once, of whom 31 were burned, 79 were women and 5 children. In the village of Gjeshovicë, 9 men were killed and 13 others and 7 women were burned. In Kalisht, 43 people were killed.” (p. 292)

“The destruction of houses was felt everywhere. It was especially felt in the villages of Gjakova and Përdrin. As reported from Gjakova, villages with 15,000 inhabitants had been destroyed and that 35 days ago they had been burned: Rostavca, Hereçi, Dujaka, Gramaçeli and Gjergjevik in the Gjakova region, while Podguri in the Peja region” (p. 292)

“A Serbian force on July 2, 1921 began its cruel actions by killing 27 people in the Isniq mountain range, among whom 7 men from Osë Dauti, 3 from Tahir Sylë’s house and looted 7000 sheep and 3000 cows and oxen.

In the mountains of Përlepi, Babaj, Beleg, Junik, Carabreg, the following were killed: Pajazit Bajrami, Rustem Latifi, Hasan Zyberi, Misin Muzliu, Idriz Brahimi, Bajram Hamza. On this occasion they looted 10 families, took 4500 sheep and 200 cows, looted what they found and set fire to their houses, in these days of July.” (p. 293-294)

“The list of those massacred continues with 131 names, among them, in Isniq 5 brothers, among them Ademi with his sons, Sadriu, Aliu, Osa and 3(three) women. In Isniq alone there are 22, including 3(three) ten-year-old children and 3(three) women. In Vitak 12, among them 2 children 5 and 7 years old and 2 100-year-old elders: Ramë Beka and Mehmet Rama. In Jabllanicë they killed 39 people.” (p. 294)

“According to the news of July 7 (1921), a military force organized by the Serbian “Black Hand” (“Crna Ruka”), surrounded the village of Jabllanicë, burning and massacring 60 people. On the third day, in the village of Rausic, he joined forces with a force that came from Peja, burned and massacred children, old people, women and men, and robbed all the wealth of the villages: Lubenic, Strellc, Isnic, Prapacan, Decan, Carabreg, Lower and Upper Shigaj, Beleg, Lug-Beran.” (p. 294)

“Around April 1921, the Kosovo Vilayet Association informed the League of Nations… that 12,371 Albanians were killed by Serbian chauvinists, 20,000 were imprisoned and 625 were tortured, which seems to be about those who drowned under torture.” (p. 294)

“The old and new Serbian settlers were put into action, to whom Cerovic now gave another 1,500 weapons, precisely to fight against the Albanian Cossack movement. Now, the armed Slavic population, not only carries weapons (on their shoulders) day and night, but also robs Albanians and rapes others. At the foundation of their lives was: Kill and oppress others, so that you can live! The slogan of the day was: Kill and expel Albanians, so that 5 Serbs can live peacefully! And: There is no more Kosovo, there is only Serbia! Long live Serbia without Albanians! Even: Long live Serbia without Albania!” (p. 294)

“The Albanian chetas were forced to give the bullet to: Mirosavljević, Arso Perović, Aleksandër Ajdan, etc., colonist terrorists, but not Serbian women and children. The Albanian armed movement numbered about 3,000 fighters, they operated in Struga with the leader Abdullah Bojku from Bjelica-Kalishti, in Plavë-Gici with the leaders Amir and Medo Zero, Ujkan Ismail and Agan Kaja with friends, and so on to the region of Jablanica and that of Kosanica, Sandžak, Gollak, etc. The resistance had an increasingly sharp political character throughout the enslaved areas. Even Serbian sources point out that the Albanian chetas have begun to wage a purely national war.” (p. 294-295)

“In Albanian Morava and in the Albanian region of Vardar, experienced combat leaders such as Idriz Seferi, Ramë Abdyl Pozherani, Islam Pira, Tahir Budrika were leading. They, as always, stayed and operated in the bed and in the unwavering strongholds of Bujanovac, Preševo, Kumanovo, Karadak, Gollak.” (p. 295).

In the Albanian Encyclopedic Dictionary, edition of 1985, several massacres that occurred in our country are recorded: the Manastir Massacre of 1830, with about 1000 victims, the Borova Massacre of 1943, with 107 victims, the February Massacre in Tirana of 1944, with 84 victims. Of course, all three of these massacres were and are to be recorded. But, the ones we are looking at here, are many times more necessary to be reflected in all encyclopedias published in the Albanian language.

Serbo-Montenegrin atrocities in 1922

“In Ruhot, Obergjn, Trobovc, Lutogljava, Isniq, Terstenik, Kasicë, Shkup, Staradran, many houses were burned and the Serbs looted 39,000 heads of cattle that could be identified. Grain was also stolen en masse. In Lutogljava in the Peja district alone, 40,000 quintals of grain and grosh were stolen, while in Staradran 15,000 quintals.” (p. 297)

“In the village of Rausic, Beg Delia was killed along with 15 of his friends, 20 houses were looted, 500 heads of small and large cattle, household clothes and other items worth 20,000 gold napoleons were stolen. These atrocities were committed under the orders of officers Milić Krstović and Arse Petrović.” (p. 297)

“In the village of Obergjan, on May 2, 1922, Abdyl Bajrami was killed along with 7 friends, 15,000 heads of cattle and sheep were looted, 200 houses, clothes, furniture, grain, and corn were looted, with a value of 50,000 gold napoleons.” (p. 297)

“In the village of Ruhot, Istref Shabani was killed along with 5 of his friends, 3 houses were burned and 20 were looted, 3,000 heads of cattle and sheep were looted, household appliances, grain, and corn were looted, with a value of 3,000 gold napoleons.” (p. 297)

“In the village of Trobofc, the son of Bajram Theka was killed, 1500 heads of cattle and sheep were stolen, 18 houses were looted, grain and corn were stolen, worth 3000 gold napoleons.” (p. 297)

“In the village of Lutogllavë, Din Bajrami was killed with his 5 friends, 5 houses were burned, and 1000 heads of cattle and sheep were stolen in the village, 40000 quintals of grain, grain and corn were stolen, and household clothes were stolen, worth 15000 gold napoleons.” (p. 297)

“In the village of Prapaçan, Shaban Salihi the 7th was killed himself. Their bodies were thrown into a well, so that they would not be found for burial. A house was burned, 50 heads of cattle and sheep were looted, as well as household clothes worth 150 gold napoleons, and this happened on May 22, 1922.” (p. 297)

“In the mountains of the village of Isniq, Bardhosh Haxhia was killed with 7 shepherds and 9,000 sheep were looted. This atrocity was committed by Savo Qurkoviqi with his Serbian-Montenegrin detachment. This happened on May 22, 1922.” (p. 197-198)

“In the village of Terstenik, Vesel Haxhia, an 80-year-old man, was killed, 1500 heads of cattle and sheep, wheat, barley, corn and grosh 15,000 gold napolonas were looted. This happened on May 22, 1922.” (p. 298)

“In the village of Staradran on the above date (May 20, 1922) Shaban Hajdari was killed, 4 houses were burned, 5000 heads of cattle and sheep, wheat, corn, barley and grosh 15,000 quintals, household clothes with a value of 12,500 gold napolonas were looted.” (p. 298)

“In the village of Ushqe, on April 15, 1922, Sejdi Jashari was killed because he wanted to appear before the king, (who at that time was in the prefecture of Peja), to complain about the barbarities that were being committed in his village. They threw the corpse in front of the king, telling him that they wanted to make an assassination attempt on him. For this act, the king later gave the brave (murderer) a decoration.” (p. 298)

“In the village of Buçaj in Peja, on April 15, 1922, Abdi Ibishi himself, the 8th, was killed, 1,000 heads of cattle, grain and other items worth 1,000 gold napoleons were stolen. These atrocities were committed by the barbarians commanded by officer Milić Kërstović.” (p. 298)

“In the village of Buçane in Peja, on April 15, 1922, Serbian chauvinists killed 9 people, burned 15 houses, robbed 1000 cattle, grain, etc., worth 1000 gold napoleons. In the village of Korutin they killed Lash Hajdari and robbed 500 fat cattle, as well as items worth 2000 gold napoleons.” (p. 298).

Serbo-Montenegrin atrocities in 1923

“The Serbian army shot: Myftar Shaban from the village of Popoc, Sylë Myftari from Brovina, Sadik Haxhiu from Carabregu, Ali Bajram from Stebova, Fazli Bajram from Morina. It is committing great robbery, mostly robbing, disturbing, the villages of Molliq, Brovina and Popoc,” (p.303)

“In Junik they burned 12 houses, killed 60 men and looted. This war zone remained the target of the Serbian army and gendarmerie throughout the year, not least Gjakova itself. The Prefecture of Kosovo (of Kukës, Gj.D.) informed the Ministry of the Interior in Tirana: ‘We are informed that the Yugoslav authorities in Gjakova have imprisoned 150 local Albanians and that the reason for the imprisonment and torture stemmed from a letter from Hasan Prishtina that was seized by the Yugoslav authorities and that this letter is said to be a forgery, created and fabricated in collaboration with the Serbian radical party.” (p.303)

“On October 1, 1923, Serbian forces in Junik massacred 10 men: Osë Bajrami, Sadri Hajdari, Rexhep Ahmeti, Shaban Avdiu, Zog Rustemi, Ibish Etemi, Selman Abdyli, Arif Syla. In the village of Rasujë, they massacred 3 people: Tahir Asllani, Malë Bajrami and Ramush Haxhiu. All were between 18 and 50 years old, except for Ramush who was 6 years old. Met Bajrami was seriously wounded. They burned 8 houses in Junik, where Hasan Sejda fought in the Junik Tower and was killed in the siege.” (p.303)

“The year 1923 is the sensational year of the armed chetavs. In Has and Lumë under the command of Bajram Curri, in the ‘Arbënë e Vogël’ of Drenica under the command of Azem Bejtë Galiçë, in Dumnica of Vushtrri under the command of Mehmet Konjuh, as well as in other areas occupied by Serbia, up to Gollak and Karadak.” (Krs.p.304)

“The Serbian gendarmerie killed and massacred 23 people. Of these, 18 were women and children. All were burned, alive or dead, in Mehmet Konjuh’s house. ” (p.305)

On the mountain between the villages of Gllarevë and Perçevë, Azem Bejtë Galica closed his eyes, leaving behind a legacy: Fight for freedom. Thus ended the 5 wars that were fought in defense of “Little Albania” in Drenica, while the Serbian government decided to lay this hearth of freedom with 75 more killed and by burning 120 Albanian houses. ” (p.307)

Individual Serbian terrorism 1918-1941.

“The Serbian genocide against the Albanian nation was accompanied and followed by individual terrorism, especially from the second half of the 19th century onwards.” (p.307-308)

“The liquidation of Ymer Prizren in Ulcinj, Haxhi Zeka in Peja, Ramadan Zaskoci in Lumë (1914), Isa Boletin in Podgorica (1915), Dedë Gjo Luli, etc. constituted that dangerous practice that cost the Albanian nation dearly.” (308)

“From 1918 to 1941, the murder and liquidation of Albanian leaders constituted a very well-known practice.” (p.308)

“In 1925, precisely in March, when the great winter was still not over, Ahmet Zogu and Kadri Mehmeti, both agents of the Belgrade regime, killed Bajram Curri near the Dragobi Cave. The murder of Bajram Curri began in Belgrade. Ahmet Zogu and Kadri Mehmeti were rewarded with 100,000 dinars for his liquidation.” (p.308)

“On October 14, 1929, at the Krajkut Bridge, over the White Drini, Shtjefën Gjeçovi was killed. The Prefect of Prizren, B. Bogdanović and the captain of the gendarmerie were the organizers of the murder.” (p.308)
“The liquidation of Hasan Priština was planned and ordered by Belgrade. The Serbian agent Ibrahim Çela, from Rešnja e Manastir, on August 14, 1933, killed Hasan Priština in Thessaloniki and sent a telegram to Belgrade.” (p.308)

“Plava and Gucia were the bloodiest regions. A year without massacres did not pass. In Martinaj they killed Bajram Hasi, in Vuthaj they killed Bajram Sadri. Sadik Myftari was taken at night and killed. Abdyl Shabani was given coals in his mouth and died under torture and in horror at the Vranica Gorge.“ (p.309)

“In 1925, the major of the Serbian gendarmerie in Gjakova, Ilija Popovici, committed the most terrible crimes. His hand blackened the eyes of Albanians with bayonets. Idriz Beka tortured him all night and then killed him, Mark Koliku was beaten for 24 hours and killed him, Mustafa Haxhi was killed by the gendarmes in the middle of the city, Ndue Biba, tied with a rope, was dragged through the streets of Gjakova by the post commander and shot, only to later say that the committees killed him. Ndue Dushi was beaten so badly that he died at home two days later.” (p.309)

“The Chetnik detachment of Milić Krstić, mostly dressed in Albanian clothes, allegedly captured Milorad Minić (and created the impression that Albanian committees had captured him), in order to pave the way for terror.” (p.309)

“The newspaper of that time ‘Hak’ from Skopje, wrote: ‘Here the state laws do not apply, but the law of the mace, because, when the names of Chetnik voivodes, such as Ranko Trifunović, Boro Milovanović, Kosta Pećanac and Milić Krstić are mentioned, terror appears from their very names.” (p.309-310)

“Pretexts were invented, especially in the districts and areas bordering the Albanian state, prominent men were killed, seeking and inventing the most diverse reasons.” (p.310)

“Meanwhile, It did not matter to the League of Nations who was being exterminated and how, for what purpose, with how much cruelty and with what means. It did not matter either who were the authors of these exterminations. ” (p.310)

“Plava, the Gjakova Highlands, the Prizren Highlands (Luma), the Dibra Highlands, etc., which the border line cuts through like a sword that cuts through mountains, in the name of the League of Nations, have seen with their own eyes many acts of terror. Just as there have been no shortage of acts of terror in the depths of Llap and Gollaku, etc. ” (p.310)

“Ramë Hasi from Plava, desperate from Serbian atrocities, together with his wife, was captured at the border. The Serbian border guards captured and killed him, they kept his wife at the border post for nearly ten days and tortured her, but she ‘managed to escape from their clutches with the help of a villager’ and then told them everything that had happened.” (p.310)

“On April 20, 1930, in Isniq in Peja, the Serbo-Montenegrin gendarmes killed Shaban Rama, the village headman, because he had opposed the occupation of the lands. Regarding this murder, in the information provided, it was noted that no record was kept, because the Yugoslav authorities do not attach importance to the murder of an Albanian and do not consider it a crime. On the contrary, the perpetrators of the crime are praised.“ (p.310)

“On June 24, 1934, it is reported that, in the village of Jezerc in Ferizaj, the Yugoslav authorities arrested and imprisoned the 3 sons of Haxhi Ademi… ‘They hanged the eldest son inside the prison and declared that he hanged himself at night… The reason for the arrest and hanging is said to be that their house was known in that place as a house of patriots’.“ (p.310)

“In the village of Llukar in Pristina, Sherif Hajrullahu was killed and the following were wounded: Shaban Sherifi, Ajet Latifi, Nuredin Rrahmani and Fetah Rustemi… because they did not obey the orders to vote for the government list,… but they voted in favor of the opposition. No legal proceedings have been taken against the murderers.” (p.311)
“In the village of Zym, the gendarmes killed Shut Kika and another named Marash from the well.” (p.311)

“In 1934, Dumnica, Vushtrri, and several villages in the districts of Gjakova, Prizren, and Gjilan were hit with cannons and artillery. Mosques were also targeted by artillery strikes, which aimed to harm them not only as religious shrines, but above all in the national sense. People were tortured, they were forced to work in warehouses, and they were forbidden from selling their livestock in the market, simply because they were Albanians.” (p.311)

“Meanwhile, the Serbs organized rallies, where the regime’s spokesmen demanded more energetic actions and greater brutality from the gendarmerie and police. And precisely in Merdar, where in October 1912 a bloody Albanian-Serbian battle had taken place, at a rally the Serbian bigots demanded that the Albanians be liquidated as soon as possible.” (p.311)

Colonization of Albanian lands and expulsion of Albanians (1914-1938)

“The genocide with physical disappearance had paved the way for the expropriation of the best properties. Ruined houses, missing families, ‘fugitive’ elements, ‘disappeared in an unknown direction’, mysteriously disappeared, declared illegal immigrants, etc., constituted the causes (alibis, reasons) for seizing Albanian properties.” (p.315) Thus, the AGRARIAN REFORM had become a specific type of weapon to kill Albanian properties.” (p.315)

“The official expropriation body was the Agrarian Reform Directorate based in Skopje and its director M. Krstic, one of the most well-known anti-Albanians.” (p.315) The beneficiaries of the lands were:

The Chetniks and volunteers, known as professional terrorists. These, by 1925, had seized 43,861 hectares.
The former Serbian settlers. These had received 18,173 hectares of land.
The 107 Serbian families, who had exchanged their properties, benefited from 1,149 hectares.
The Serbo-Montenegrin element benefited from the Albanian properties bordering their own properties and another 24,566 hectares.
In the lands left for pastures, the Serbs benefited from 17,839 hectares.
For roads, construction and rivers, 4,420 hectares were left.

Military units (Yugoslav), educational institutions (Yugoslav) and “humanitarian” were given 1,604 hectares.” (p.315) A special importance was attached to the expropriation of Albanians in the border districts with the Albanian state. This, with the aim of dispossessing Slavic newcomers, to the extent that Albanian territorial, demographic and linguistic continuity would be interrupted.” (p.315)

“The expropriations of Albanian lands continued throughout the period from 1928 onwards and reached 381,000 hectares, giving them to newcomers (ardhacakëvet) from the depths of Serbia, Montenegro and other territories of the Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom.” (p.315)
“On August 23, 1923, the Belgrade newspaper ‘Politika’ reiterated: Our national interest is in the Serbization and Slavization of Kosovo. “ (p.316)

“While G. Kostić, in 1928, writes: The Serbian element among the Albanians considers itself ‘captive in the Albanian sea’, therefore the slogan of Belgrade is: The more new settlers, the more the Serbian feeling is strengthened among the Serbs of the country.” (Judge: Serbs of the country were those who had gone there even 5 years ago. A Serb stays 5 years and is called a Serb of the country, an Albanian stays 5 centuries and is called a newcomer!)

“The Serbian plan was to empty Kosovo and other Albanian territories of 300,000 Albanians and fill them with 470,000 Serbian colonists.” (p.316)
“The essence, the purpose, the significance of the Serbization of Albanian lands was for Kosovo to open its gulf to Belgrade, full of gold, silver, grain and coal, with which Serbia could not only satisfy its own appetites, but also enter world markets.” (p.316)

“In the village of Pobreg in Gevgelija, as early as 1913, only 3 families out of 200 had escaped the genocide. In the village of Pepelisht, out of 500 families, only 300 remained and their properties of 4000 hectares had been taken by 43 Banat owners.” (p.316)

“In Kosovo and the Albanian region of Vardar, by 1925, 431 colonies had been created, and these according to the following areas: In Graçanica 46 colonies. In Llap 55 colonies. In Vushtrri 82 colonies. In Gjilan 32 colonies. In Nerodimë 32 colonies. In Skopje 22 colonies. In Zhegligovo 29 colonies. In Peja 45 colonies. In Gjakova 27 colonies. In Drenica 32 colonies. In Fushe-buell 7 colonies. In Bitola 19 colonies. In Ohrid 3 colonies. “ (p.317)

“The Head of Agrarian Reform announced from Skopje that by January 1, 1928, out of 225397 hectares predetermined for 1923 (agricultural) complexes, 111602 hectares of land had been allocated to the colonists.” (p.317)

“In 1930 the Yugoslav government ordered the entire population of the villages around the border, from Qafë e Morini to Pashtrik, to leave their homes and lands as soon as possible and, if they wish, to settle in the interior of Serbia. The villages that were ordered to leave are: Gjocaj, Jasić, Junik, Batushë, Mullić, Brovinë, Ponashec, Popoc, Babaj, Bokës, Devë, Vorgevë, Demjan, Krajk, Gjanaj, Gorozhup and the villages of Ndrelaj, Malaj, Stupec i Madh, Stupec i Vogël, in the Peja district. The aim is to bring Montenegrins in their place and thus reduce and uproot the Albanian race in Kosovo.” (p.318)

“The Kosovo Prefecture (of Kukës within the Albanian state, Gj.D.) in 1934 announced that the Yugoslav government, with the aim of settling in the Prizren Prefecture, had brought a number of Montenegrin immigrants, about 200-300 people, who were given land in the municipality of Piran according to the Agrarian Reform system.” (p.318)
“In fact, as early as 1921 there were reports that 7,000 families of Cossacks belonging to General Wrangel of the Tsarist Russian army were being brought to the areas of Peja, Gjakova and the Drenica region.” (p.318)

“On December 31, 1935, the number of colonists who arrived (newcomers) and the houses built for them and the lands donated is presented: In the Vardar settlement, which stretched from the Sharr Mountains and Gora to Gevgelija, 50-76 colonist families with 16006 colonists, 72287 hectares of donated land, 5557 houses built for them.

In the Zeta settlement, which also included Peja, Istog, Mitrovica, Gjakova and Përdrin (Orahovac), 4738 families with 7230 colonists, 46045 hectares of donated land, 3562 houses built for them.
In the Morava settlement, which included Llapi, Vushtrri, Drenica, 1459 colonist families with 25559 colonists, 16470 hectares of donated land, 1640 houses built for them.“ (Krs p.319 and 333)

“In total, during the period 1919-1941, the result of Serbian colonization was, according to Dr.Milorad Obradović, 53884 people. Of these, 49,244 were Serbs. According to Dr. M. Obradociqi, from 1919 to 1941, 11,389 houses were built for colonists.” (p.319)

“From the end of 1918 and the beginning of 1919, the massive departure of Albanians from the occupied territories of Albania to the territories of the Albanian state began.” (p.324)

“The number of immigrants from the occupied parts of Albania, remaining in Yugoslavia, in the Albanian state, in the years 1924-1934, is calculated: In Durrës 694 families, in Lushnje 639 families, in Fier 466 families, in Krujë 639 families, in Shkodër 366 families.” (p.324)

Emigration to Turkey

“Emigration to Turkey appears to be the most massive and constitutes the permanent departure from Albanian territories in the Yugoslav Kingdom.” (p.328)

“Those who gave the main impetus to the migration to Turkey were: Serbian extermination violence, sword (bayonet), firearms, fire, which savagely devoured the lives of thousands of Albanians.” (p.328)
“The other impetus was the coincidence of Serbian-Turkish interests. Serbia aimed at the Serbianization of the parts of Albania it had conquered, Turkey had empty lands in the vilayet of Edirne and elsewhere (deep into Asia Minor), and, from a religious point of view. It coveted the Albanians, thinking that, since they were of the same religion, they would easily be Turkified.” (p.328)

“A London representative office expressed it this way: Belgrade’s official claim is that the inhabitants of the area extending from the Greek-Yugoslav border to Mitrovica are not Albanians, but Turks. While the Albanians, the London representative office states, say that 740,000 Muslim Albanians and 80,000 Catholic Albanians live in their areas.” (p.328)

“Emigration to Turkey was also stimulated with money, clothing, and valuables, with which the emigrant could start life where he would go.” (p.328)

“Yugoslav-Turkish talks, for the direct interest of Greater Serbia, had begun in 1919 and were repeated until 1936, when Turkey was proposed a large-scale emigration. It was said (in bilateral talks) that 200,000 Muslims would be uprooted from their land and property, in what was called Macedonia, and taken to Turkey.” (p.329)

“A later study (Krs. H. Hoxha, Përparimi nr.5, Prishtina 1970, p.432), concludes that, in fact, by the end of bourgeois Yugoslavia (the Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom, Gj.D.), 500,000 Albanians had been displaced to Turkey.” (p.329)

“In 1939, the Yugoslav-Turkish agreement (convention) on the displacement of the Albanian population to Turkey, which was cynically described as Turkish, was materialized.” (p.332)

“Article 2 of that agreement defines the regions (banovinas) from which this population would be relocated, and Article 3 details the stages of this relocation, which, again cynically, was called RETURN.” (p.333)

“The stages would be these: In 1939, 4,000 families would go to Turkey. In 1940, 6,000 families would go to Turkey. In 1941, 7,000 families would go to Turkey. In 1942, another 7,000 families would go to Turkey. In 1943, 8,000 families would go to Turkey. In 1944, another 8,000 families would go to Turkey.” (p.333)

“According to Article 7, Yugoslavia would pay the Turkish government the sum of 500 Turkish liras for each family. In total, 20 million Turkish liras for 40,000 families. While all the real estate of the Albanians who were displaced, in accordance with Article 6, would pass into the ownership of the Yugoslav government.” (p.333)”.

Serbian and Yugoslav atrocities against Albanians (1941-1944)

Atrocities by Vojo Kaliçanec

The commander of the country, Vojo Kaliçanec, began the killing of Albanian soldiers in this way: He sent the soldiers around the Sitnica and Llap rivers, from where, after shooting them at night, he threw them all into the river. This terrible massacre, without example in history, continued without a break for 6-7 days. (p. 383)

“In the Mitrovica area, there are many Albanians killed by the Chetniks and Serbian gendarmes… In Vushtrri, they killed Tahir Maxhuni from Vushtrri and Ismail Avdiu from Suvadolli. Maxhuni was killed in a barbaric way: on one side they stuck a bayonet and on the other side they stuck a nail in his head and they hammered it with a hammer until they drove his head into it.” (p. 383)

“In Peja, the Serbs and Montenegrins killed 15 Albanians. In Gjakova on April 9 and 10 (1941) in the city they killed 12 Albanians, in the surrounding area 260 Albanians were shot. In Byc they killed 3 (three) young women, one with a baby in her arms. In the school in Rogovë, on April 14, they killed 13 Albanians from the villages of Smaç, Ulëz and Fshejë.” (p. 383)

“In Prizren on April 14, Serbian volunteers shot several Albanians in front of the municipality, among whom were some children like the 12-year-old son of Sulejman Deluri. They also killed Zym and Romajë in Gjinoc.” (p. 383)

“Not far from Hani i Hoti, on April 10, 1941, they made a battery of 15 Hoti residents, among whom Nikë Zefi of Pjetër Prenkë Smajli escaped with bullets in the leg, which they pretended to have killed. They have all tied their hands behind their backs and tortured them as cruelly as possible.” (p. 383)

“In a cave near Podgorica, on April 11, 1941, Kolë Uca from Tries, 29 years old, had his eyes gouged out and his ears cut off.” (p. 383)

“At the edge of the Ribnica water, near Podgorica, on April 11, 1941, 9 highlanders were tied up, they were taken to a cave for torture and bullets were emptied into their flesh (so that death would come as slowly as possible. Gj. D.)”. (p. 383)

“In Qafë i Presku, on April 12, 1941, two 80-year-old elders, Lul Petroçi and Dedë Nikë from Vuksanlekajsh, were taken away. Kolë Nikë in Vuksanlekaj was also shot while he was being lifted from the bed where he had been laying for three years. In 1911, the Montenegrins also killed his two brothers, Pretash and Gjon, and burned his house.” (p. 383-384)

“In the village of Kastrat, at the Church of Gorej, on April 12, 1941, they murdered Vatë Marash Dashi, 32, and Pretash Gjon Huskë, 53, both from Grudë.” (p. 384)

“The military-police headquarters had marked out (determined, Gj.D.) the regions where they would terrorize the Albanians and this sheds light on the fact that everything was organized and planned… But Yugoslavia capitulated in the face of the combined Nazi-fascist German, Italian and Bulgarian attack, otherwise, the massacre would have continued and would have surpassed that of 1913.” (p. 384)

“But even after the Nazi-fascist occupation, terror and massacres of the Albanian population by Serbo-Montenegrin chauvinists were a common occurrence.” (p. 384)

“In the autumn of 1941… Yzeir Dranevinë from the village of Dranevinë in Sjenica, was tied up and taken to the mountain. There they propped him up against a pine tree, wrapped him in a rope and nailed him alive.” (p. 384)

“Seeing that Yzeir’s family and Drenovina in general were not submitting, the Serbs suddenly seized Yzeir’s brother, took him to a hill above the village, tied him up, laid him on his shoulders on the ground, gathered firewood, threw it on his body and set it on fire. The screams terrified the village, his body melted like a candle. This is what Zeliha Këlmendi testifies.” (p. 385)

“Zaho Drenovina, a 50-year-old man, whom the whole village respected, was captured by a group of Serbian killers in September 1941, tied him up and took him to the Serbian village of Pozheqina. He was only found through an old beggar woman. They had tortured him, ripping off the skin on his forehead and arms, chained him to a dog trough (a wooden container where dog food is poured, Gj. D.) where, after a week of torture, his life was ended.” (p. 385)

“The Slavs are organized in a systematic way. They have their own steering committee and bodies that ensure daily connections between the center and the regions.” (p. 385)

“An inhuman act (the next one, Gj. D.) occurred in an Albanian family in the village of Gubavaq. The Chetnik ambush killed a 20-year-old boy, Jonuzin, and a woman who was expecting a mother had her baby pulled out of her womb alive.” (p. 393)

“Such horrors covered the entire Sandzak region. In the village of Visokë, they burned down the Buçani family’s house with 12 people inside.” (p. 393)

“In Lipovicë, they killed a villager and his little daughter, then they also killed a hoxha. Later, near the village of Mramor, they killed two villagers who were returning from the city.” (p. 394)

Atrocities in Bihor

“Montenegrin and Serbian Chetniks, 4,000 or 5,000 or perhaps more, under the command of Vojvoda Pavle L. Đurišić, secretly advanced into the villages of Bihor, crossing the river in droves in the darkness of the night.” (p. 398)

“As soon as the population realized the danger, the Chetniks rushed against it.” (p. 398)

“The Chetniks had organized ambushes, so that anyone who came out of their houses would fall under the bullets of their weapons”! (p. 398)
“It was 2 o’clock in the morning, on January 5, 1943, when three bombs exploded, signaling the beginning of the destruction.” (p. 398)

“In a short time, 82 villages were destroyed and exterminated. Some of the terrified inhabitants came out of their homes in the middle of the night, dressed and naked, but fell into the ambush of the Chetniks. They tore them apart, with firearms, knives and swords. Whoever escaped the hands of the Chetniks died in the mountains from the cold.” (p. 398)

“According to the investigations we have carried out quickly, it turns out that 3741 were killed, 634 were wounded, while 251, mostly women and girls, are missing. It is thought that they were taken prisoner to satisfy the desires of the Chetniks. It is up to the civilized world to weigh and judge these atrocities.” (p. 398-399)

“In later documents, after verifications by commissions, it was reported: Among the victims of the tragedy in Bihor, in the regions of Sjenica and Bjellopoja, there are also those who fled from terror. These, barefoot and barefoot, have left their homes and homes, have taken the mountain road and most of them have crossed the border. Now some of them are in Bjellopoja, some 4000 or 5000 people, while another part is in Peja, some 6000 or 7000 people. All are in the same condition. The wounded and the sick are in great danger.” (p. 399)

Torture details

Head of a boy aged 12-15, cut off with a bladed weapon (sword or knife)…
Head of a woman aged about 22-23, cut off with a bladed weapon. The hair on her head was burnt and the skin was charred…
Slap of a boy aged about 10 (palm of the hand, Gj. D.), also cut off with a bladed weapon…
Leg of a man cut off with a bladed weapon…
Right hand, two fingers cut off above the elbow and charred…
Left hand, cut off at the elbow and charred…
Right and left ears of a man roasted in the fire. Both ears were cut off with a sharp knife, which is visible at the edges of the cut…
Right ear, cut off with a sharp white weapon…
Nose and upper lip with all the whiskers, cut off above the nasal bone…
Right eye and left eye, removed with all the lids from the eye sockets.” (p. 399-400)

The figures of the Bihor Massacre, which are given on page 401 in the form of a statistical overview, I (Gj. D.) am bringing them here in text form, in order to be read fluently:

“Emrush Myftari, a prominent patriot of the third decade of this century (20th century, Gj.D.), an indomitable and courageous fighter in protecting the lives of Albanians from the Nazi-fascists and Chetniks, author of numerous political and military actions, carried out in Peja and Gjilan, up to the assassination of the Radić brothers, Chetniks of Peja, carried out in 1943 on the boulevard of Tirana. “

Emrush Myftari, the man who raised his voice to unmask the Bihor Massacre and the man who brought to Tirana the chest with evidence of that massacre, finally ended up in a corner of the Headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army of Kosovo in Pristina. Tied hand and foot with wire, the executioners of the OZNA (Odeljenje Zastite Naroda, Gj.D.) led by Spasoje Đaković, dismembered him with unrestrained cruelty, leaving no trace of his grave!” (p.435-436)

The plunder of Bihor.

“57,000 sheep, 9,260 goats, 5,470 cows, 3,650 oxen, 1,900 horses, 2,328 donkeys, 81,753 poultry, 59,000 quintals of grain, 9,000 quintals of butter, 440 quintals of honey.” (p. 402)

“On September 23, 1943, in a Serbian proclamation in the form of a tract, it was written: With a knife to the neck, we will burn your villages and cities, both we and our allies, with airplanes and without mercy we will destroy everything. We will consider you all criminals and we will kill you at every step… The Albanian who will help in any way… will be considered a true Yugoslav and will be recognized with all rights according to the statute.” (p. 404-405)

“On December 16, 1943, it was reported to the Ministry of the Interior of Tirana that the dragoons located in the prefecture of Medvedja, who bear the name Kosovski Odred, were carrying out massacres in the villages of Sfircë, Tupallë and Gerbaç, which are simply Albanians, as well as in the villages of Ravne Banja, Stara-Banja, Llapashticë, Kapit, Sjarinë, Gjylekarë and Medvedja, which are mixed.

In all of these there may be 4000 people. These massacres are being carried out with the aim of forcing the Albanians to leave there.” (p. 405)
“It was reported from Ulcinj that on February 4, 1944, the Chetniks killed 3 Albanians near Tivar: the brothers Stjepë and Pjetër Maruçiqi and Muharrem Dragovojë, the son of Omer Usta Halili, aged 32, 30 and 19.” (p. 405)

In the village of Koritë: Men killed 150, women killed 64, men wounded 63, women wounded 39, men massacred 27, women massacred 28, children massacred 121, children burned 24, men frozen 27, women frozen 61, children frozen 2. Houses burned 431.

In the village of Llazanë: Men killed 29, women killed 10, men wounded 15, women wounded 6, men massacred 6, women massacred 19, children massacred 95, children burned 55, men frozen 6, frozen women 9, frozen children 26. Burned houses 104.

In the village of Rashovë: Men killed 85, women killed 15, men wounded 55, women wounded 22, men massacred 11, women massacred 13, children massacred 60, children burned 88, frozen men 6, frozen women 18, frozen children 141. Burned houses 267.

In the village of Bare (Selenica): Men killed 80, women killed 61, men wounded 74, women wounded 49, men massacred 34, women massacred 42, children massacred 66, children burned 98, men frozen 22, women frozen 29, children frozen 31, died of starvation 103. Houses burned 190.

In the village of Savinopol: Men killed 153, women killed 234, men wounded 111, women wounded 112, men massacred 77, women massacred 117, children massacred 235, children burned 311, men frozen 42, women frozen 58, children frozen 168, taken prisoner 251. Houses burned 452.

In the village of Zaton: Men killed 93, women killed 56, men wounded 41, women wounded 47, men massacred 30, women massacred 66, children massacred 143, children burned 130, men frozen 16, women frozen 91, children frozen 61. Houses burned 319.

“The commission established in Rozhaja for the verification of the Bihar Massacre, addressed the Red Cross Directorate in Tirana as follows:
Through our representative, Mr. Emrush Myftari, together with the medical report, we are sending you a box (actually a chest, Gj.D.), where are sealed evidence of the massacre committed by the Montenegrin Chetniks against the Albanian population of Bihar. Through this evidence, the whole world can learn that these actions were committed by the Montenegrin Chetniks in the 20th century.” (p. 399)

“It was reported from Ulcinj that on February 4, 1944, the Chetniks killed 3 Albanians near Tivar: the brothers Stjepë and Pjetër Maruçiqi and Muharrem Dragovojë, the son of Omer Usta Halili, aged 32, 30 and 19.” (p. 405)

Serbian and Yugoslav atrocities against Albanians (1944-1945)

“Dr. Vaso Çubrillović writes: After the liberation (of Kosovo and Metohija) in 1918, we maintained a very generous attitude towards national minorities and the Albanians have taken advantage of our generosity.” (Judge: The reader has been able to see that “generosity” specifically in my writings, published before this one, with numbers from 7 to 14.)

“The Albanians, Hungarians and Germans (of Bačka, Judge), the three main minority groups in Yugoslavia, have lost the right to continue to be called our citizens. They must leave our state.” (p.426)

“The ways of Serbizing Kosovo and Metohija aim to avoid conflict with the Republic of Albania. It is required to act here more prudently and more tactically than in Vojvodina.” (p.428) (Judge: Note here the decisive importance of the Albanian state. But also the continuous subversive activity towards this state.)

“It should be precisely determined which villages and districts in Old Serbia (Kosovo, S.B.) and in Macedonia should be cleansed.” (p.429)
“Wars are the most suitable moment for solving these problems (of ethnic cleansing)” (p.429)

“Concentration camps should be established, property should be confiscated and, at the first opportunity, the interned families should be sent to their native countries.” (p.429)

“During the cleansing of minorities, we should pay special attention to the intelligentsia and the wealthy classes.” (p.429) “(According to Dushan Mugosha, at the end of World War II, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo had 700,000 Albanians and 100,000 (columns) of Serbs and Montenegrins” (p.431)

Ten Albanian leaders, killed by their Serbian and Montenegrin comrades: Emin Duraku, Zenel Hajdini, Hajdar Dushi, Rashid Osmani, Sadik Pozhegu, Xhevdet Doda, Meriman Jakupi (Braha), Emrush Myftari (Emrush Myftari was also mentioned in no. 14 of this series of articles. Gj.D.), Shaban Spahija, Abdullah Presheva. (Krs. p. 433-436)

“In September 1944, 7 Albanians disappeared in Medvedja and were buried.” (p.437) “At the end of September 1944, over 100 Albanians were killed in Gostivar 200 people. In Tetovo, 80 people were killed, in Derve in Skopje, 200 people were killed.” (p.437) “The former royal servants returned to the villages of Gostivar, who, except for the partisan star, had everything from the royal regime.” (p.437)

“At the entrance to Mavrovo Field, in the building of a royal villa, called Sokolski dom, they began to call all those Albanians who were descendants of the anti-Turkish and anti-Serbian resistance, supposedly for questioning. There were entire rooms filled with Albanians here.” (Albanians called and locked inside, most never to return to their homes. Gj.D.) (p.437)

“At the time when the executioners went into ecstasy from alcoholic beverages and the meat of stolen Albanian cattle, they began inhuman torture, to satisfy their sadistic tastes.” (p.437)

“One of those who died from torture was Qani Sinani, whose house had been a base of the Anti-Fascist War and whose mother had saved two wounded partisans, the son of Bogdan Velkovija and Seit Dopa, from death.” (p.437) “Here, (in that certain villa), Bajazit Verbani’s eyes were burned with cigarettes before being shot.” (p.437)

“Dozens and dozens of innocent Albanians were burned here, simply because they were descendants of patriots and because they were Albanians. Among them were Asllan Levneva and Latif Rimnica.” (p.438)”
“Human skulls were found in places. In the spring of 1945, a mass grave was found, accidentally discovered by two young shepherds in the spruce forest at the entrance to the Mavrovo Plain, about 200 meters above Sokolski dom. (p.438)

“Also on the side of a mountain, in an Italian bunker, between the villages of Verban and Kishnica, two decomposed skeletons were found, but they were recognizable by their clothes as Albanians.” (p.438)

“In a place by the river, at the Kroi i Kičinca, two human skulls were also found by those two young shepherds, which the road maintenance worker, Jemin Verbani, buried near the brook.” (p.438)

“In the village of Prestevë in Gostivar, in November 1944, all the men of that village, without exception, were arrested by the OZN officers and shot. Only a 14-year-old boy, who had not been hit by the bullets, escaped from among them. The boy barely managed to get out of the pile of corpses that had covered him. The bodies of these Albanians, so barbarically massacred, were exposed in the hills and valleys, unburied for days.” (p.438)

“During 21, 22, 23 and 24 November 1944… these people were killed (in the city of Gostivar, Sh.B.): Abedin Alinafi, Halit Beba, (who was also a member of the People’s Liberation Council of the city of Gostivar and during the war had helped the Liberation Movement), Sabaudin Beba, Nezir Hamza, Qamil Kalizi with his son Ali Kalizi.” (p.438)

“On 26 November 1944, at 9.30 pm, in Gostivar, the OZN, for no reason, shot more than 20 Albanians in the streets of Gostivar.” (p.438)
“In the village of Vrapçisht in Gostivar, more than 150 people ë. In the village of Presek, at the end of 1944, they took 12 Albanians and shot them all right in the middle of the village.” (p.438)

“At the end of November 1944, the 16th Macedonian Brigade, 12 Albanians, at the police post of the village of Zhegë in Gostivar, after undressing them, stabbed them with knives and bayonets and then took them outside and shot them.” (p.438)

“In December 1944 in Gostivar, the Titoists arrested 75 Albanians, who took them out onto the road and into the fields without anyone seeing them. They shot them all on the Gradisht Hill.” (p.438)

“In the village of Pirok in Gostivar, the OZN killed 27 Albanians.” (p.439)
“There were more than 5,000 Albanians in the Gostivar camp. In November 1944, within a ten-day period, more than 300 people were shot.” (p.439)

“On November 17, 1944, in the hangars of the Tobacco Monopoly in Tetovo, they imprisoned more than 10,000 Albanians, including old people and children. That same night, about 1,200 people were shot.” (p.439)

“From this gathering place, the OZN people took 500 selected boys, sent them to Skopje, ostensibly to join the partisan forces, and disappeared without a trace.” (p.439)

“In Gradec, Tetovo, the OZN people killed 35 people, in Nakadina, 18 people, and in Reçica e Madhe and Reçica e Vogël, they killed 40 people. The OZN officer Sergia (probably Sërgja, Gj.D.) killed 50 Albanians with his own hand, on the orders of Major Strogo.” (p.439)

“The OZN men in Dibër e Madhe arrested the 80-year-old old man Jahja Kaba, the father of Liman Kaba, deputy commissar of the partisan battalion who had been killed that same year, in 1944. After two months of torture, they released the old man. Two days later, he died as a result of the torture.” (p.439)

“In Zajaz, Kićevo, behind the Gradina mountain, between Vrapisht and Toplica, where everyone was tied up six by six, the OZN massacred 320 men and young boys, aged 13 and older.” (p.439)

“Throughout concentration camps and prisons, extermination was deliberately spread through the bacteriological disease, typhus. One such case occurred in the city of Kicevo, where, by order of the leaders of the NLO for Macedonia, Captain Pepe Jovanoski had created a special prison for the treatment of typhus.” (p.439)

“In the Skopje district, exterminations were carried out with particular ferocity. In the village of Bojan, the NLO killed 76 men, women and children. In Blace, they killed 160 men and 50 children, while in Saraje, they killed 25 people. The crimes in the Skopje district were among the most horrific, burning people alive.” (p.439-440)

“In the autumn of 1944, in the village of Blace, Karadak of Skopje, the Yugoslav Chetnik-partisans surrounded the village. Under the pretext of being summoned to a meeting, they took 127 Albanian villagers and, after connecting them with their comrades (brothers), at Dëbanat e Toçit, they shot about 100 of them. While 27 others were sent to Ujët e Thartë, beyond Hani i Elezit and shot all of them one by one. It is known that, from this same village, 2 children and 2 women were also shot, one of whom they killed on the doorstep. Other data claim that the number of those killed was over 170.” (p.440)

“On November 29, 1944, two brigades, one Serbian and the other Macedonian, led by ‘communists’ like Uroshi i Karadakut, gathered 83 Albanians from the villages of Muçbabë, Bukurocë e Keqe, Romatocë, Gosponica (here they murdered a woman), Stanec, Depse, Gruhali, Buricë (an 80-year-old man named Sinan from this village was massacred with knives in the Vojsavë valley), Kurbali, Caravajkë, Shurdhan, Sefer, Lozbali, Buhiç, etc.

According to a practiced rule, under the pretext of having a meeting, they forcibly gathered the villagers and tied them all up there with their friends and relatives. Then they called a gunsmith, the most famous in that area, they laid out drinks and snacks, while the women of the village forced them to boil water. They tied them up and placed them in a stream and, first, poured boiling water over their heads.

The screams of the martyred people could not be drowned out even by the powerful blast of the cannon. Those terrifying screams terrified all the surrounding villages. In the end, they shot almost everyone. An old woman was taken from her husband, her four sons and her grandson. When she was asked to choose one of them, she chose and saved her grandson.

Among the killed was Rexhep Memishi from Hysevuk with four sons aged 15 to 25. These were Uroshi’s employees who took care of Mount Koporan. This criminal had taken this mountain from the Albanians by blackmailing them… They left the massacred people in the stream. After 6 weeks, their families went and took (the skeletons) buried in the ground… Some of the perpetrators of this crime later committed similar massacres in the Toza Cafe in Presevo.” (440)

“In the Kumanovo district, the OZN also committed havoc. In Orizar, where the Bulgarian fascists had also committed crimes, the surviving men were killed by the so-called Tito partisans. While in the village of Sopot, they killed 20 men and violated their honor.” (p.440)

“In Presevo, in the village of Bukurocë, on November 8, 1944, the OZN forces took 36 people from their homes, led by Sali Preševo, they gathered them in a room and, without exception, drowned them with boiling water.” (p.440-441)

“The witness of the time also tells that: In the village of Bukuroca e Keqe in Preševo, the barbaric behavior of the Serbian chauvinists reached its peak. They surrounded the village before dawn, woke up the inhabitants, had them dig a well (pit), stopped the work at a depth of two meters and sent the people away from there. A barrel of water was put on the fire, it was boiling.

They called 27 people from the village, the elders of different sexes, men, women and children. They tied their hands, covered their mouths and lowered them into the pit two meters deep. It didn’t take long for the OZN soldiers to lower the barrel of boiling water onto the 27 people. Their bodies melted like wax, there in that pit, 300 meters east of Bukuroca in Presevo, not on 28, but on 29 November 1944, on the day of the liberation of Belgrade, the OZN committed this black act against the Albanians. There, among them, the life of Mursel Bukuroca melted along with 7 members of his family, aged 10 to 24.” (p.441)

“Likewise, in the regions of Bujanovac, where Albanians were secretly and openly disappearing. In Novosela e Epërme, the 17th Macedonian brigade massacred many people. Also in the village of Zarbincë, the OZN did not spare the bayonet against the Albanians, they even expressed surprise at how there could be Albanians in these parts. This is what Fazli Ramadani of Novosela tells. In the Toza Cafe, while Albanians were being beaten and massacred in its basements, the so-called Serbian communists were having a blast.” (p.441)

“The tragedy permeated every district and municipality. The massacres followed in Zheg of Presevo and in that entire large and strong district. There in Zheg they killed Salih Fetahu and his son, Mursel, who came from the village of Kurexh. After this crime, they went uphill to the Kurexh, the first people they met on the way, Hajrush Kurtishi and Zylfi and Nasuf Sejdiu, they killed them and left them on the road. Then they went to the houses in the village, on the hill.

There they took 14 more men. The fifteenth was paralyzed. They told them that they were taking them to a meeting, but they took them to Lisat e Zekbashi. They tied them up with their friends and shot all 13 of them. One escaped.” (p.441)

“The names of those shot in Kurexh are: Dalip Ibrahimi with his brothers, Abazi and Arif, and with his sons, Islam and Muharremi; Feti and Fazli Ukshini, brothers; Ahmet Ahmeti with his sons, Sinan, Yusuf and Jakupi; Xhafer, Rexhep and Qahil Arifi; Bajram Bajrami; Zylfi, Nasuf and Nuhi Sejdiu; Hajrush Kurteshi. After 7 days, the women of the village of Kurexh went and took the bodies and buried them in the lower neighborhood of the village… Some others from these families were later taken and taken to prison in Presheva. There they died of lice and from the bite of a dog. Only one of them is missing and no one knows what happened to him.” (p.441-442)

“In the greater Gjilan district, murderers in Tito’s uniform stabbed and killed 21 people of different ages at night, including the wise farmer, Sadri Sherif, and his 9-year-old child, Muharrem. In Sedllar, Kamenica, they brutally massacred 3 people, and in Desivojce, 15 people. Likewise, in Karaçevo, Lčić and everywhere else, Albanians were killed and drowned in a very painful way, says Xhavit Podina. In the village of Krajnidell, they barbarically killed 12 people, in Koretina, 11 people in one family. In Nogosht, they massacred 16 people.

In Lisovica, they mercilessly killed 7 brothers, all of whom were bricklayers. Hamza, Qerim and Ahmeti were taken to house arrest where they were severely tortured. Finally, they nailed their hands to the floor and in their presence, burned the 6-year-old boy, Mursel Qerimi, alive.” (p.442)

“Shaban Shaban Rexhepi, Iljaz Shaban Ramadani and Sulë Ramë Rexhepi, were also barbarically tortured. Shaban Rexhepi was pierced in the nose and kept tied up for 24 hours in the Novosela square in Lisi i Premë. There they gathered the villagers who happened to be in their houses and the brigade commander, named Kërsto, threatened: We will do this to all of you! The word was: No opposition, no rebellion, only submission and nothing else, otherwise, this is how the Albanian seed will disappear in these parts of Bujanovac.” (p.442)

“In November and December 1944, in the northeastern regions of Kosovo, there was not a center or village left untouched by the Serb-Macedonian massacres. In the small village of Ponesh in Gjilan, 12 people were massacred at once. Horror was everywhere. The Serbian slogan of the day was: Don’t spare the knife, spare the bullet! Ranković’s sadists ran around saying: A knife in foreign flesh doesn’t hurt!.. Now there were new conditions to mask the old intentions. Under the label of revolution and with a star on their foreheads, Albanians were hunted like savages in the jungles of ancient Africa.” (p.442)

“In the village of Shahiq in Gjilan, on November 28, 1944, Sali Shahiqi found 12 family members cruelly killed by the Serbian-Macedonian brigade in his house. They were not random victims of a collapse, earthquake, avalanche, but victims of the Serbian and Yugoslav genocide. The guilt was only being Albanian. Sali Shahiqi often painfully recounted the tragedy of his family:

“I don’t know how I didn’t go crazy when I arrived home, when I saw that the grave was covered with unburied bodies. I held myself together, my body was stunned, but my mind was working: It made me compare Tito and Pashiq. This was the Belgrade Brotherhood-Union! Right there and then I said to myself: Ah, Shqypni, how loyal you were to the world, but how much they betrayed you!..One by one I examined the wounds my people had, with knives and bullets. My body turned to wood, except for my heart, like that stone of a knife, the pain was taking me out.” (p.442-443)

“In the village of Velegllavë in Gjilan, at the end of November and the beginning of December 1944, 35 people were massacred, among them 7 women and 2 children who are known more specifically. We also mention Idriz Saliu, the old woman, 2 daughters-in-law and 2 children. One of the daughters-in-law was a beast… In Caravojkë and Stanevë, 75 people were drowned.

The old man Myftar Hajdari, whose son was a partisan, had his tongue cut out while he was still alive and later scalded with boiling water. This is how Hajdar Hajdari (Myftar’s brother), Musë Sherifi, Naim Sherifi… In the village of Qarr, on January 5, 1945, the OZN people gathered 21 villagers from their homes and stabbed them all to death. Their bodies were found dismembered, without noses, eyes, ears or arms. Such dismemberment was done to: Rifat Ademi and his 18-year-old son, the 2 brothers Rexhep and Kadri Sherifi, the 3 brothers Latif, Rasim and Qazim Rexhepi, the 5 brothers Zenullah, Habim, Xhemshit, Asllan and Reshit Reshiti.” (p.443)

“During the entry of the Yugoslav forces into Gjilan for the second time, over 1000 people were shot, among whom were Haxhi Halia, Sinan Shan’ja, Rifat Mala, Rasim Maliqi, Halil Hasani… The officer of the National Liberation Army Vladado Popoviqi, a sucker of the two generations that have bled Albanians, killed, dispossessed and forcibly expelled them from the lands of their ancestors, terrorized and directed acts of terror and with his own hand had killed 5 Albanians.” (p.443)

“At the hands of Yugoslav ‘partisan’ chauvinists, 100 Albanian prisoners were killed during their transfer from Kumanovo to the Vranje prison. In Gjilan, 40-50 Albanians were shot without any procedure for many nights in a row. On one occasion, 140 Albanians were shot in one night alone. Thus, on the occasion of the alleged liberation of the city (in reality, the occupation, Gj.D.), it is thought that 8,000 Albanians were annihilated in the Gjilan area. The most famous criminals there were: Sima Miletiqi, Vlado Popoviqi, Ljubo Shatroja.” (p.444)

“In this area (in the Gjilan area, Gj.D.), there were many victims of the Serbian genocide. The savagery surpasses (many times, Gj.D.) the medieval Inquisition (as well as the Hitlerian Holocaust, Gj.D.)” (p.444)
“They killed Esat Berisha with inhumane trampling by ripping open his stomach… They killed Hasan Busaveta by cutting his body into pieces while he was still alive.

They killed Abdurrahman Prishtina by putting him in a sack, tying him up and then beating and kicking him to death. They strangled Alush Hogoshti, a farmer from Hogoshti, and Ramiz Maliqi, a merchant from Gjilan, at night without trial, covering them alive with earth.” (p.444)
“In Kizhija, 8 people were bayoneted and one was burned alive. Dan Durmish was locked in his house, tied up, set on fire and burned inside, while his brother’s son was cut up in front of his family. Their 14-year-old cousin was also killed there.“ (p.444)

“It is impossible to present here all the examples, acts and events of terror and genocide that have occurred in each district, province and city. However, we are giving some of the most typical examples in the Kosovo Plain and the Dukagjini Plain.” (p.444)

“In Polan, Ferizaj, 28 people were shot, among whom was a pregnant woman while she was filling water in her yard, as well as a 60-year-old man, Ramë Kabashin. They also slaughtered 2 children, Abdyl Zani and Ylber Zani, 13-14 years old. ” (p.444) “More than 200 were shot in Prishtina, in a place called Tomboçe (It should be Tok-baçe, Gj.D.) (p.445)

“In Mitrovica, over 2000 people from the city and nearby villages were shot. In Vushtrri, inside the city, over 400 people were found killed and stabbed with bayonets, then hidden under garbage and in pits.” (p.445)
“In Skënderaj, 250 people were found hacked with axes and stabbed with bayonets, inside the prison, and then taken out and thrown into the Klina River.

All were found tied with wires, five, six and seven together. In the village of Prekal, 18 people were shot, of whom Ajet Rama and his son, Haziz, the son of Ahmet Latif, 18 years old, the wife of Halil Sejoka, were killed while getting water from the well, while Kashi Istrefi, Shazivar Ali, the 3 sons of Nuredin Prekazi, were burned alive in a fire. ” (p.445)

“In Dubovë, Halit Dubovë was shot with 3 sons and a 13-year-old child. In Polac, 28 people were shot, among whom, Hasan Veliqin, who had his neck cut with a razor blade and his head was found 20 meters away fell apart. He was a 75-year-old man.” (p.445)

“In one day in the city of Prizren, in the last months of 1944, 70 people were shot in the Tabhane neighborhood alone and 350 Albanians disappeared. The raids exceeded those of the time of the king and the Nazis.” (p.445)

“Ukë Sadria of Dobrovodës (Rahovec? Gj.D.) disappeared mysteriously together with his two friends. Their murder was done by torture. So that their screams would not be heard, they were accompanied by music,” (p.445-446)

“In December 1944, in Gjakova, the OZN murdered by burning in fire: Ali Saliu, Can Beqë, Shyt Idrizi and Haxhë Selmani. After ten days of arrest, all four of these people were tied upside down around a fire and that is how their souls came out.” (p.446)

“Tafë Haxhia, Jonuz Naziri, Xhemë Isufi, Malë Shabani and Rustë Kadria, arrested by the OZN at the end of December 1944, were drowned in the city of Gjakova inside the OZN prison. They were killed with a pickaxe (with a pickaxe) and, late at night, were transported by cart to the Erenik River, where their families, after ten days, found the marks.” (p.446)

“In the Peja region, the population was massacred on a large scale. Met Jupi, Bardh Isufi and Zenun Feka were shot by the OZN. In the village of Zllakuqan, the OZN arrested Tahir Shabani, whom, after torturing him, they shot. Along with this, Shaqir Dema from Lubeniqi was also shot, near the Konzull Cafe.” (p.446)

“On a winter night, when 1945 had begun, after a siege and raid on the village of Novoselë in Peja, an Albanian mother had her two sons taken by the NCO. One, Shabani, had just returned from the Hitler camp, where he had spent 4 years of his youth, and the second was preparing to join the army that day.

The mother asked that at least Tahiri, the one who was going to join the army, not be taken. But the NCO took both sons, never to return. The village was looted, with property and livestock, and in the end the houses were burned, with the dogs tied up inside.” (p.446)

“Istog in Peja was one of the hotbeds where terror wreaked havoc. Where the Istog River originates, all those who were shot were thrown into a pit. There were so many killed and massacred that the water became foul and even the animals did not drink it for a long time… In the village of Muzhevine, Istog municipality, in the yard of Rexhep Haliti, right by the road, are the graves of a family of 13, including a 6-year-old girl, who was shot on the doorstep on December 22, 1944…” (p.446)

Serbian and Yugoslav atrocities in 1945

“In the village of Kameran in Drenica, the First Boka Brigade killed Sadri Hajdini, the person who had been appointed by the council to lead the brigade, killed a villager in Kishnareka, and killed the 19-year-old boy Jahir Veseli in his yard in Korotica in Gllogovc.” (p. 463) “The streams of Kosovo and the Dukagjini Plain were littered with the corpses of innocent Albanians.

In Lower Drenica, corpses were also thrown into wells. In the mountain streams of the village of Gajbul in Vushtrri, 9 boys aged 12-15 were found tied together and barbarically drowned.” (p. 463) “In the village of Muzhevina in Istog, in February 1945, the Montenegrin brigade killed 12 members of the family of Rexhep Haliti, 2 sons, women and girls, because Rexhep refused to surrender to that brigade.

One of the Montenegrin terrorists lifted the cradle of a 7-month-old baby vertically and shot the baby with an automatic rifle.” (p. 463) “In the Gjilan region, murders increased, but not graves, because many victims were shot in the same grave. In one case, the number of massacred people, thrown into a pit, reached 96 people.” (p. 463)

“In Nistrova in Gostivar, Meglin and Ip Nistrova were killed in February 1945, on the Kičinica Mountain, where the remains of the massacred Albanians had been buried. In Tanush, at the same time, Jonuz Elez Malaj and Baki Zunja were tortured to death and killed. Murders of 1 or 2 Albanians, in every village and every day, had become commonplace.” (p. 463-464)

“In March 1945, a group of 11 people were taken to the cattle market in Gostivar in the middle of the night. They were from Zajazi in Kicevo. After severely torturing them, they were put in front of automatic rifles… The horrific event is told by Islam Tahir Terenica, who managed to escape the bullets in the dark:

“From Gostivar, they took us to a prison house in Kicevo. They put us in a room with no other people there. They trampled our feet in the blood. We had nowhere to sit. They held us for two days. Neither the hour nor the day was postponed over the blood of our brothers. The smell of blood troubled our hearts and souls. We were no longer human there”.

Another room reported to us that people had been killed here by cutting off their heads with a saw. After two days they took us away from there. They only kept Jonuz. The rest of us were sent to the prison in Gostivar, but when we saw the place on the banks of the Vardar, at the bazaar of the living, we understood what was waiting for us. I was able to escape in the dark, the others were shot.” (p. 464)

“On the banks of the Vardar, every night of this month (March 1945) 20-30 people from different regions were shot. People went out and searched the banks of the Vardar for traces of their relatives, who had been stabbed, drowned or killed with firearms.” (Krs. p. 464)

“On a day in March 1945, the Titoites took 105 Albanians to the banks of the Vardar, of whom only 5 survived. Their murder was carried out by dismembering them with bayonets and throwing their bodies into the river. These victims belonged to the villages of Palçisht, Reçicë, Siniqan, Sedlarcë, Zhorovian in the Tetovo district, arrested by the captain of the Tetovo OZN, Zoriqi.” (p. 464)

“After killing her husband, an Albanian woman was taken to Nistrova and there the OZN officers burned her fingers and toes with burning coals and lit a little gunpowder on her nipples and breasts, telling her: These breasts must be burned, because they can still give birth to puppies.” (p. 464)

“Tortures, massacres and exterminations, during this cycle, followed from February 8 to July 10, 1945 throughout Kosovo and other regions. The pretext was the Albanian uprisings. In fact, those self-defense uprisings were provoked by the Kosovo military command itself, according to the task set by the Belgrade leadership.” (p. 464)

“The deputy of the Reka province from the village of Belice, Živko Brahovski, clarified the chairman of the People’s Liberation Council of Dibra, Aqif Lleshi, regarding these exterminations: We have orders from Llazo Kolishevski, even from above, that we must do a good cleaning in the ranks of the Albanians. The right elements must be cleaned out right now.” (p.465)

“Svetozar Vukmanović Tempo, the envoy of the CPY Central Committee to the People’s Republic of Macedonia, found this ethnic cleansing action slow, so he drew the attention of the Macedonian leadership and instructed them: “Those you have to cleanse, peel them as quickly as possible.” (p. 465)

(Judge’s Note: S. V. Tempoja came from Cernica, a Montenegrin province neighboring our province of Tivar. We Albanians, their centuries-old neighbors, have never provoked that province, which is actually not Slavic, but Slavicized Arbëro. What was the reason that people like this Tempoja hated Albanians so much?! And he was not the only one from Cernica who was sent to the Vardar region to kill Albanians. There were others.)

“Xheladin Hana, from Gjakova, one of the revolutionaries known since high school, killed by the head of the OZN, or the UDB of Kosovo, in December 1948 in Prishtina, while he was being held in secret arrest, was a member of the National Liberation Council of Kosovo and director of the newspaper Rilindja and, at that time, before killed, had prepared these summary data regarding the genocide against Albanians in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and in the People’s Republic of Macedonia:

5200 Albanians killed by the Serbian-Montenegrin Chetnik terrorist forces. (Gj. D. A figure that needs to be verified, because it could be a printing error, or the Chetnik massacres in Plavë-Gusi, Rožajë, Sandžak, etc. are not included)

86,000 killed, slaughtered, burned alive, of whom 36,000 in the Kosovo Plain, 23,000 in the Dukagjini Plain, 27,000 in the Vardar region.
220,000 raids by the OZN, including repeated ones, in some families even 5 times.

200,000 Albanians were subjected to OZN investigations, accompanied by beatings, insults, slander, pressures and threats of all kinds.
2 to 8 military-OZN operations, according to the regions, all against the Albanian population and none against the Serbian, Macedonian or Montenegrin minority.” (p. 465-466)

Serbian and Yugoslav atrocities (1945-1947)

“Even in the Nazi crematoriums, they melted even with their bones: Xhevdet Doda, Bislim Halimi of Llapi, Abdurrahman Berisha-Pasha of Pristina, Halit Rushit Ibishi of Cernilla of Ferizaj, Rifat Xhemal Shala of Llapi… Sezai Surroi and Muhamet Bala in Prizren, Ganimete Terbeshi and Fahri Hoxha in Gjakova, were swaying on the Nazi scaffold for true national self-determination.” (p. 468)

“Baki Sali Saliu of Zllatari of Ferizaj gave his life to Kosovo where Kosovo had sent him: to Kikinda in Vojvodina, just like Rexhep Xhemal Haziri of Smira of Gjilan in the region of Ilirska Bistrica (Ilirska Bistrica, Gj. D.), Feriz Bajram Krasniqi of Rahovec in the legendary Triglavin and Kadri Riza Bibaj of Jezerca of Ferizaj in Ljubljana, who bravely sacrificed themselves for the liberation of Slovenian land.” (p. 468)

“Bosnia is a witness, enslaved and severely violated by Serbian and Nazi-fascist captors, who felt the crack of Albanian weapons from Labëria to Kosovo, with its unsparing sons. Among them: Adil Morina, Ismail Kryeziu, Qerim Vesel Shala, Rexhep Sadik Mulaj, Rexhep Murat Rexhepi, Sabit Rustem Bekolli. On the soil of Bosnia, for its freedom, 600 sons of Kosovo were sacrificed.” (p. 468)

“Kosovo and other regions, in the flame of the popular national liberation revolution, melted the lives of 6200 brave people, from among the 55000 fighters of the National Liberation Army of Kosovo in the Second World War.” (p. 468)

“Blood was shed by Albanians everywhere, (also for the liberation of the peoples of) Yugoslavia, but this blood was being betrayed and trampled. Since February 1945, there was a dilemma, whether or not the Albanian flag would exist in Kosovo (and other parts of Albania remained under Yugoslavia).” (p. 468)

“Four goals of the Albanian struggle and struggle in World War II were being jeopardized: 1. The power of the National Liberation Councils sanctioned at the Bujan Conference. 2. The principle of self-determination, in which case the Albanians who had been caught in the Second World War under monarchical Yugoslavia should be united with the rest of Albania. 3. The idea of a republic for Albanians within the Yugoslav state. 4. Democratic Albania itself was in danger of falling under Serbian-Yugoslav hegemony.” (Krs p. 471)

Members of the UN Staff: Ivo Lola Ribar, Aleksandar Rankovic, Milovan Đilas, Josip Broz Tito, Sreten Žujovic, Andrija Hebrang, Moša Pijade and Edvard Kardelj.

“On February 18, 1945, Tito, with Fadil Hoxha and Miladin Popovic, had come to the conclusion that Kosovo’s autonomy should be affirmed from a legal point of view in the new Yugoslav federation.” (Krs. p. 471)

“In the meeting with a delegation of Albanians, consisting of 24 people (1945), Tito, in his first speech, accuses the Albanians of fighting alongside the Nazis against the popular liberation movement. Then he adds: Our state is indivisible… In the new state, Albanians will feel themselves citizens with equal rights and will not be belittled by anyone. For the Albanian people, it will be the same whether they are within the borders of Albania or Yugoslavia.” (p. 471)

“One of the members of the delegation, Qemal Luzha, says: We came out of this meeting with Tito, where we had somehow the last hope. There we saw very clearly what time it was. For us Albanians it was 12 o’clock in the black night, for the Serbs and the bearded men of Belgrade, it was 12 o’clock in the day.” (p. 471)

“Almost half of the members of that delegation, 9 people, like Halim Spahia and his friends, disappeared.” (p. 472)

“Meanwhile, the Albanian territories, once again under Yugoslavia, were subjected to administrative fragmentation, such that the Albanians could never recover. Under the dependence of Serbia, as an autonomous province, Kosovo and the Dukagjin Plain were left, but by detaching several districts: Presheva, Bujanovac, Medveđa, Tutin, which passed directly to Serbia and were left without autonomy, as well as Kumanovo, Skopje and Tetovo, which, together with the other districts, Gostivar, Kicevo, Resen, Ohrid, Struga, Dibër, were left to the Republic of Macedonia. Montenegro was left: Rožaja, Berana, Plava, Gišija, Hoti, Gruda, Triesi, Tivar, Ulcinj. (p. 475)

“In the period April-May 1945, in the name of requisition for the army, the following were taken from the truncated province of Kosovo and the Dukagjini Plain: 37,632 quintals of wheat, 7,529 quintals of corn, 439 quintals of flour for starch, 11,569 quintals of meat, 4,000 quintals of beans, 1,950 quintals of butter, 149 quintals of coffee, 238 quintals of tobacco.” (p. 482)

“Later, Boris Kidriç, one of the Yugoslav leaders from Slovenia, would point out that 65,000 tons of grain had been looted.” (Krs. p. 482)
“In 1947, out of 4000 Albanians mobilized in the so-called labor brigades of Macedonia (the Albanian region of Vardar, Sh.B.), more than 2000 of them were poisoned by the Titoists in the district of Gorizia near Trieste.” (p. 485)

“A more complete information explained this act of extermination in more detail: These brigades were formed from Albanians forcibly taken from the regions of Kupi, Gostivar, Tetovo, Kumanovo and they had been sent first to Tuz and from there they had been taken to the districts of Gorizia (Trieste).

In all these places, Bedri Zenuni says, these brigades, consisting of more than 4,000 Albanian boys, did hard work, cleaned concentration camps, built trenches (camps), built bridges, worked as porters loading and unloading steamers… they were treated worse than animals. The whip of the UDB agents always hit the backs of these selected boys, who were put in a special barracks, where they were found dead. The part that was still alive was not able to speak and tears flowed from their eyes without stopping. After a few hours they also died without being able to say a word. More than half of the 4,000 people died.” (p. 485)

“In 1947 and onwards, in the parts of Albania that remained under Yugoslavia, the notorious trials against illegal organizations began, in most cases provoked and created by the UDB bodies themselves. From the group accused of organizing the National Democratic Committees, 5 people were sentenced to death and 11 others to imprisonment from 2 to 17 years…

On January 25, 1947, a trial of a group of 38 people took place in Pristina. 3 people were sentenced to execution: Jusuf Bajram Rexhepi, Rrahman Ukë Neziri and Ramadan Hoxha… On February 7, 1947, as a result of the UDB’s provocative game, 17 people, leaders of the Albanian National Democratic Committee, created by those who had fled in 1945, in Bari, Thessaloniki and Cairo, were brought to trial in Skopje.

According to the directives of this organization, headed by Muharrem Bajraktari, Milladin Popovic, Rexhep Zajazi, etc. were killed. On February 14, the Skopje court sentenced 4 members of that organization to death: Kemal Iskander, Azem Morina, Hysni Rudi and Mehmet Bush. While the others were sentenced to 2 to 20 years in prison…

It was even openly said that Milladin Popovic and Rexhep Zajazi were not killed by the Albanian National Democratic Organization, but by the Yugoslav OZN… On May 1, 1947, 15 people were tried in Pristina, of whom 5 were shot and 5 were released… Part of such UDB plots called games was the murder of 9 Albanians led by the well-known teacher Ymer Berisha from Drenica and the wounding of 12 others, who belonged to the Besa Kombëtare organization.” (Krs. p. 486-487)

Yugoslav expulsion of Albanians (1948-1968)

“A source from August 29, 1951 states: Turkish schools are starting to open. Many Kosovars will be forced to send their children to Turkish schools.” (p. 489) “From the comparisons between the population censuses in 1948 and 1953, the following figures emerge: In 1948, when 97,954 inhabitants of Kosovo and the Dukagjini Plain were registered as a Turkish minority, a number that was certainly inflated.

In 1953, 5 years later, there were 259,535 inhabitants of Turkish nationality. In 1948, there were 1,315 Turkish students, while in 1953 there were 34,583 Turkish students. In these same 5 years, the Albanian population increased by only 3,814 inhabitants, which meant that the entire natural increase in the population was “forgiven” to the Turkish nationality.” (Krs. p. 489-490).

“In the Albanian region of Vardar in 1948, 95,940 inhabitants were registered as Turks. In 1953, 203,000 Turks emerged. In the Republic of Serbia (in the regions that had been administratively removed from the autonomous province), in 1948 there were only 523 Turks. In 1953, 19,550 emerged. This game of numbers did not affect the Serbs or Slavo-Macedonians at all, but only the Albanians.” (Krs. p. 490)

“Neither historically nor traditionally has the Muslim ethnic-national category existed in the Albanian regions. However, in 1948, 9679 people were registered as “Muslims”, in 1953 they fell to 6241, in 1961 there were 8026 inhabitants with “Muslim nationality”. But, when this “nationality” was recognized by law in 1971, the number of registered “Muslim nationality” people went to 26357. (Krs. p. 490)

The deportation of Albanians to Turkey

“The path of return from the Orthodox denomination to the Orthodox denomination took on dimensions especially in the People’s Republic of Macedonia among the Orthodox Albanians”. (p. 490) “The game against the Albanians was also played with the Roma. They were tempted to write themselves as Serbs, Montenegrins or Slavo-Macedonians, so that the number of Slavic minorities, in the Albanian-majority settlements, would increase as much as possible, even with the help of the Roma”. (Krs. p. 490)

“The program of Serbization of Kosovo and other areas of that part of Albania, drafted by Vaso Çubrillović, was being implemented not only with terror and extermination, but also with the forced expulsion of Albanians. The highlighting of the Turkish minority and its (artificial) enlargement had preceded this expulsion as early as 1951.” (p. 493)

“By the end of 1954, 3,000 people had been displaced from Përlepi, Kumanovo, Preševo. From Tetovo, Gostivar and from the villages of Zhupa, near Koxhadzhik in Dibra, 2000 people were displaced.” (p. 493)
“The Yugoslav UDB, on the one hand, tortured people terribly, on the other hand, sent spies to Turkey with a mission to propagate that life is better there.” (p. 493)

“In the magazine Përparimi no. 10/1971 of Prishtina, this overview of the displacement of Albanians to Turkey is given: In 1953, 13,000 Albanians were expelled. In 1954, 17,000 were expelled. In 1955, 51,000 were expelled. In 1956, 54,000 were expelled. In 1957, 57,000 were expelled. In 1958, 41,000 were expelled. In 1959, 27,000 were expelled. In 1960, 23,000 Albanians were expelled from their homeland.” (p. 493)

“It can be seen that this work was very organized, systematic, annual and, as can be seen from the above data, in the years 1953-1960 alone, the number of those expelled reached 283,000. A expulsion that had begun long before, that continued even later, without an end known TODAY.” (p. 493)

The free hands of the UDB.

“In 1948 alone, 306 people were brought to trial in Kosovo for criminal offenses against the state.” (p. 494):
In December 1948. Xheladin Hana, a fighter of the first hours against the Nazi-fascist invaders. Former member of the National Liberation Council of Kosovo and the Dukagjini Plain, one of the co-authors of the formulations of the basic documents of the First National Liberation Conference in Bujan, director of the newspaper Rilindja in Pristina, one of the well-known capacities of Kosovo, son of a simple but patriotic family from Gjakova.

He seems to have been put at the top of the UDB’s blacklist. He was secretly arrested, supposedly being sent on a mission, while within the walls of the UDB he was pressured, asked to betray his comrades. A revolver was pointed at him, threatening: Either cooperate with the UDB, or the bullet! The essence of his answers was: “The bullet can kill my body, but not my conviction. I hate betrayal.” The head of the UDB emptied his gun! Thus Xheladin Hana passed into eternity in the name of freedom and national unity.” (p. 495)

“May 1949. Rifat Berisha, MP, former Vice President of the Presidency of the National Liberation Council of Kosovo and the Dukagjin Plain and President of the Popular Front of the province, was trapped in his tower in the village of Berishe in Drenica on a dark night.

The two deputy heads of the UDB, Çedo Topalloviqi and Çedo Mijoviqi, speculating on the tradition of Albanian hospitality, went to Rifat’s house and introduced themselves as friends of the revolution. Sitting by the fireplace, they told him that they were

Fadil Hoxha was urgently looking for him and that they had to travel together to Pristina. The Udba team had with them an escort, an advance guard, and a rear guard. A mother of the tower understood the beginning of this game and gave the brave men of Drenica the news. The path took a path, where no one expected it. Three enemies were killed.

In Belgrade, the alarm was raised: Another uprising in Kosovo! Military and police forces were increasing day by day from Skopje and Niš. It was said that preparations were being made from Zagreb for Kosovo. In Gajrak in Drenica, the unit of 6 brave men was treacherously surrounded by an armed force, even with artillery… Finally, the brave leader fell under the hail of bullets along with 3 fighters, among whom was Rifat Islami’s brother.

The other two, although wounded, were able to escape and continue the path of Kosovo resistance with dignity. Thus, the combat act of this accomplishment was renewing the epic of Azem Galica in the brave Drenica. (Epic, whose glory 49 years later Adem Jashar would raise to the most magnificent proportions, unattainable among heroisms on a universal scale. Gj.D.)” (Krs. p. 495-497)

“The Vardar region had been engulfed by an inexorable terror, starting from the contempt for the Albanian flag to the lives of the prominent sons of that region.” (p. 497)

“The year 1949. Nexhat Agolli of Dibra e Madhe was among the first to be put in handcuffs by the Udbashe. He represented Eastern Albania in the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, as Deputy Prime Minister. But the UDB was not divided for two of his faults: that he did not call slavery freedom and that he had kept a record of the facts of mass exterminations one by one.

Behind his career and behind the post of Deputy Prime Minister, there were insecurity, arrest, torture. He faced them all. They had put before him a choice: either betrayal or death. And Nexhat Agolli chose death and not betrayal.” (p. 497)

“Prisons and concentration camps throughout Yugoslavia were filled during the period 1948-1980. Especially until 1968. Their number reached beyond 200 thousand of different nationalities: Montenegrins, Bosnians, Croats, Hungarians, Serbs, Slav-Macedonians, Albanians. The network of prisons and concentration camps began from Idrizova and Veles in Macedonia and extended to Goli Otok in Croatia. Albanians, although they were called a minority in freedom, were the majority in prisons and death camps.” (p. 497)

“In the midst of this majority of Albanians, among whom were many fighters: Faik Pruthi, Sami Peja, Ali Boletini, Qamil Brovina. There are few who did not try out several prisons and camps and most of the types of Ranković’s torture arsenal one after another.” (p. 498)

“Omer Çerkezi, one of the fighters of the first hours against the foreign invaders, Serbs, Italians, Germans, Bulgarians. He said: I cannot call black white, I cannot call inequality equality, I cannot call slavery liberation… The end of his life, in the infamous Goli Otok camp, in the depths of the Adriatic!” (p. 498)

“Sabaudin Gjura, one of the learned sons of exhausted Tetova. He tried everything, finally they took him, brought him close to the border with the People’s Republic of Albania. They told him: Here is Albania, here is your death. There, in the middle of the frost, the UDB, after giving him a painful death, left his corpse exposed for the savages to tear apart. It was the winter of 1950. “ (p. 498)

“In the 1950s, individual terror was a daily practice of the UDB. But the UDB did not forget about group provocations either. Such was the case of Met Idrizi with his group of friends in Voksh, Gjakova in 1952.” (p. 499)
“Through its provocateurs, the UDB took people to the border and liquidated them there. Thus, within the years 1950-1960, 19 Albanians were liquidated.” (p. 499)

“In Gjakova, the UDB killed 3 Albanians at the border, 2 Albanians were killed in prison, while 2 others were mistreated so much that they were forced to commit suicide… In Vushtrri, 6 people were killed.” (p. 499)
“People died or committed suicide from torture. Saq Mushtitshti from Prizren was found thrown into the mud of a swamp. Haxhi Alia from Junik died under torture.

Udbashi Kilević threw his body into a well and presented him as a suicide. Hajriz Zhilivoda from Pristina died under torture. Jetish Mushtishti was taken dead by his family from the premises of the UDB. Selim Gashi was held under torture for five weeks and died. Zef Shala from Stupeçi i Vogël in Rugova was tortured in Kuqishte, killed in the church in Peja and declared suicide.

Ismail Blakaj from Vrella in Istog was held under torture for two months and with broken ribs, died in his family. Çel Ibrahimi from Kabash in Prizren died under torture. Musa Berisha from Suhareka died under torture. Sali Hysenit from Grekoci had his chest broken and died from this cause. Man Tafa from Prelez in Ferizaj and Bajrush Mersala died under torture. Shyqyri Gaçka from the Ferizaj district was tortured with sadism by the UDB commander Mishević. Shaban Shkreli from the Peja district also died under torture.” (p. 500)

“Bek Isuf Dugajeva from Rugovhe killed himself. Rexhep Fetahu from Drelaj jumped off a cliff. Ibrahim Peci from Lipa in Peja drowned in the river. Cen Isuf Kacaferi from Junik, after being tortured during the day, crawled to his yard, where he killed himself with a knife, because after midnight more torture awaited him at the militia post. Rexhep Tahiri from Strellci and another Rexhep Tahiri from Sterukaj in Peja, committed suicide due to the torture.” (p. 500)

“In the village of Dubovë in Istog, out of 50 houses in the village, 50 men were tortured for five months under the pretext of collecting weapons.” (p. 500) “In the yard of the Kabash school in Prizren, 80 men were tortured, wood was burned for three days and three nights in a row, supposedly for weapons.” (p. 501)

“Brahim Kuçi and Muharrem Kuçi of Nabergjani i Peja were liquidated and only ten days later they were found massacred and covered with leaves. In the Niš prison alone, in the years 1948-1956, there were 2000 Albanian prisoners. In the Sremska Mitrovica prison, which was also a central prison, there were 700 prisoners, a third of whom were Albanians.

In the Priština prison, one of the three Albanians had been cut into pieces, another had his hands and legs broken, the third had one ear cut off, an eye gouged out and one side of his mustache and his entire lip cut off. The prisons in Idrizovo, Niš, and Priština were equipped with refrigerators and heating rooms. The arrested were put naked in refrigerated rooms, with temperatures many degrees below zero, kept there for two or three hours, then immediately put in heated rooms.” (p. 501)

“With staged trials, the following were sentenced: Sheh Hasani of Prizren, who was found dead, Sheh Rama, Sheh Muhedini and 9 other Albanians… With violent statements, the trial of Njazi Maloku, Sedat Dida, Demush Cahani, Ibrahim Mani, Rexhep Muhadri, Shani Hoxha, Muhamet Emini was staged, which ended on July 1, 1956, sentencing 9 Albanians to imprisonment of up to 12 years.

Another political trial was the one that took place against 30 Albanian intellectuals, led by Adem Demaçi, who was convicted in 1976 without any facts… In such staged trials, in 1980, 56 Albanians were convicted, most of them again without any facts.” (p. 501-502) “The Borba newspaper of January 11, 1968 wrote that over 120,000 Albanians (in the SFRY) were on file.” (p. 502)

“At the IV Plenum of the CC of the LKJ, held in 1966 on the island of Brioni in Dalmatia, the terrorizing and violent situation in Kosovo and other parts of Albania, remaining under Yugoslavia, constituted one of the serious testimonies against the Serbian hegemonists and their leader Aleksandar Ranković.” (p. 502)

“In 1967, powerful demonstrations broke out in Belgrade and Zagreb against the regime. They also followed in Kosovo in October and November 1968. The Albanian masses under Yugoslavia were demanding what they had always lacked compared to the peoples of Yugoslavia.” (p. 503)

“A delegation from Kosovo submitted to Tito the request for republic status. Tito’s response was: The republic is not the only factor that solves all problems… But the public asked: Why is the republic a factor that solves problems for some and not for others?!” (p. 504)

“In 1968, during the discussion of amendments to the Yugoslav constitution, the Albanians of Kosovo once again raised the problem of their national rights and renewed their request for republic status.” (p. 504)

“Continuing the previous situation, the new generation of the parts of Albania that remained under Yugoslavia was working out its own strategy for the unification of the nation, depending on the conditions that were being created.” (p. 504) “In this atmosphere of demands, the National Movement group, composed of students and workers, stood out: Meriman Braha, Pashko Laçi, Haxhi Maloku. From Rahovec Rafet Rama, from Tuzi Gjergj Camaj, from Rugova Isa Dema, from Peja Zymer Neziri.” (p. 504)

“On October 6, 1968, the first massive demonstration was organized in Prizren in the Albanian territories that remained under Yugoslavia, with the slogan Kosovo Republic. The daughters of Prizren, Shpresë Elshani and Limane Dobruna, led with the national flag.” (p. 505)

“A week later, a demonstration was held in Suhareka with the slogan Kosovo Republic. Haxhi Bajraktari, Aishe Bajraktari and Hamza Morina stood out there. The third week in Peja, the demonstration was led by Zymer Neziri and Xhemal Gashi.” (p. 505)

“In November 1968, massive demonstrations continued in Prishtina, Podujeva, Gjilan, Ferizaj, Mitrovica, organized by the Prishtina student group, Skënder Kastrati, Adil Pireva, Selatin Novosela, Xheladin Rakaliu. The 16-year-old boy Murat Mehmeti was killed at the forefront of the demonstration.” (p. 505)

Serbian and Yugoslav crimes (1971-1990)

“In 1981, a massive confrontation of the Albanian people under Yugoslavia with the hegemonic Serbian, Macedonian and Montenegrin circles at the federal and republican level began.” (p. 507) “Over 200,000 Albanians (raised in demonstrations) focused their demands on one thing: a Republic of Kosovo and then an Albanian Republic in the Federation.” (p. 507)

“Even the youngest ages, girls and boys aged 10-14, participated bravely and courageously in the demonstrations. A 12-year-old girl from Pristina climbed onto a Serbian tank with the Albanian flag unfurled!” (p. 508)
“The chains of the tanks had begun to bleed, and the noise of the planes and the fire of the guns were confronted with the demonstrators’ shrill cries: Republic, freedom, equality, democracy!” (Krs. p. 508)

“Nothing escaped world opinion. The echo was reverberating throughout the international space. In the Spanish press, among other things, it was written: In many cases the history of the people of Kosovo proves that the oppression has taken the forms and dimensions of a real genocide.” (p. 508)

“In the pages of Zërit i popullit (of Tirana), the demands of Kosovo were supported as the most urgent of the time.” (p. 509) (Gj. D: In the Albanian RPS, all the media outlets gave comprehensive coverage to the events in Prishtina and everywhere else.) “The French newspaper Liberation pointed out that Kosovo has not overcome the threshold of low development.” (p. 509)

“The Kosovar workers, etc., who took the path of emigration outside Yugoslavia, reached 110,000, while another 70,000 were unemployed. Per capita income in Kosovo etc. was six times lower than in Slovenia and five times lower than in Croatia.” (p. 509) “Female employment was very low. In 1972, only 7455 Albanian women were working for a salary, while 10349 women from the Serbo-Montenegrin minority were working. The situation in the village was miserable.” (p. 509)

“In 1971, illiteracy in Kosovo etc. was 34.9%, while in the federation it was 15.1%.” (p. 510) “On January 19, 1988, a rally was held in Belgrade with 1,300,000 Serbs supporting proposals for constitutional changes in Serbia. S. Milosevic says: There is no time for lamentation, but war is needed. Energetic action is needed against the Albanians of Kosovo.” (p. 511)

“The Belgrade magazine NIN, meanwhile, wrote that after the 1981 demonstrations, 20,000 Montenegrin Serbs (colonists, Gj. D.) had left Kosovo, etc., and that 780 villages were now ethnically pure. In 1983 alone, 4,437 (colonists, Gj. D.) Serbs and Montenegrins had been displaced.” (p. 513)

“There followed accusations of an attack by Albanian irredentism towards the North, towards the lands of the year before 1878, and that over the last 20 years, 16,000 Serbs had been displaced from there and that 42 residential centers were being ethnically hegemonized.” (p. 514)

“Bujanovac was accused because in 1971 Albanians constituted 48%, while in 1981 55% Albanians lived in that city. Preševo was accused because over 20 years the number of Serbs had decreased to 59%… Not without purpose, another fact was not pointed out that, from Jablanica, Bujanovac and Preševo, 5500 Albanians had been displaced to the depths of Kosovo by 1971.” (p. 517)

“But military-police terrorism was again brought to the forefront. In connection with March 11, 1981, the Swedish magazine Tempus wrote that innocent people were being shot with guns in the province of Kosovo. More than 300 people were hit… even small children were shot by Serbian armed forces.” (p. 517)

“Never since the Second World War has such violence been used in Yugoslavia against a group of people as was done in this case against the Albanians. Patriotism was a great force in the demonstration. A little girl even came out wrapped in an Albanian flag. People were shot from helicopters simply because they were protesting against the unjust policies of the Belgrade regime.” (p. 517)

“The Frankfurter Allgemeine of April 27, 1981, wrote that informed Yugoslav observers put the number of those killed at a minimum of 30 to 40 and those wounded at up to 1,000.” (p. 517) “The Danish newspaper Arbeideren of the PKD emphasized that these massacres, in which thousands more were killed and wounded and imprisoned, constitute without a doubt the greatest genocide committed in Europe since the Second World War.” (p. 517)

“On March 26, units sent by plane from Belgrade suddenly appeared in Pristina.” (p. 518) “On April 2 at 11:00, tanks intervened. Four military planes flew low over the roofs and streets, to create panic… At midnight on April 3, 2 tanks burned… 8 people were killed, including a child. More tanks and armored cars were called in from Macedonia and the airport was occupied by paratroopers… Serbs from the windows of their houses began to shoot at the demonstrators with rifles.” (p. 518)

“The villagers rose up and went to defend Podujevo and other towns. During that day, 300 people were killed. The figure of 9 was simply a lie. Among those killed by Serbian army fire was Ruzhdi Hyseni from Vushtrri, a student in Gjakova, who “…he fell at the moment he was approaching the unfurled flag.” (p. 518)

“On May 13, 1981, the village of Prekaz in Drenica was surrounded. Tahir and Nebi Meha, together with 2 women and 5 children, fought with 2 weapons against 400 enemies.” (p. 518) “On January 17, 1982, near Stuttgart in Germany, the Yugoslav secret police killed 3 irreplaceable sons of Kosovo and all of Albania, Jusuf Gërvalla, Kadri Zeka, Bardhosh Gërvalla.” (p. 519)

“On January 11, 1984, 2 other sons of this nation, Rexhep Mala from Hogoshti in Gjilan and Rexhep Berisha from Strica in Gjilan, would fight in the siege and give their lives as heroes.” (p. 519-520) “On February 8, 1984, in a military-police siege of 300 forces, betrayed by a provocateur, Bajram Bahtiri is killed in his home in Prishtina.” (p. 520)

“Afrim Kadri Abazi, kidnapped from his family in Ferizaj and after 8 days of torture, turned into a corpse, was thrown out of the window by the Udbashe, with the aim of turning the murder by torture into a suicide.” (p. 520) “Terror and murders of young Albanians in the Yugoslav army: Hivzi Sadiku from the village of Rahovicë in Preshevo, Selami Isufi from Kamenica in Gollak, Feriz Uka from Istog, Shemsedin Kamberi from Tetovo, Mustafa Arif Pantina from Gllarevo, Enver Selman Elezi from Skopje. During the period 1981-1984, 50 young Albanians were terrorized and killed in the Yugoslav army.” (Krs. p. 520-521)

“The magazine Danas of February 11, 1990 writes: Hermetic coffins with the remains of young Albanians who were killed in the Yugoslav People’s Army, God knows under what circumstances… The funeral of Fatmir Tafaj, who allegedly tragically lost his life in Velika Gorica, is said to have been attended by 200,000 (two hundred thousand) people.” (p. 521)

“On September 13, 1990, it was announced from Pristina that the Serbian police had today committed new acts of violence and terror against the Albanian population in Kosovo. Police units surrounded the villages of Pollatë, Repa… under the pretext of searching for weapons and opened fire on the residents. The Reuters Agency reported that 2 young Albanians were killed by police fire, while nearly 30 people were arrested.” (Krs. p. 521)

“August 1990. The 20-year-old boy Refki Shaban Suka, along with his 11-year-old brother and 17-year-old cousin, were injured and died of gunshot wounds. 50,000 (fifty thousand) people attended the funeral.” (p. 522)

“670,000 (six hundred and seventy thousand) Albanians have been held in Serbian prison cells at least once, the Austrian press wrote in 1990, during which they were forced to swallow rings, razor blades, scissors and other hard objects.” (p. 522-523)

“They even brought 10-year-old children to prison, and they destroyed them by beating them. All night long, the groans and groans of people were heard, as they were being massacred. In the terrible Goli Otok and in other prisons, 50 Albanian children suffered.” (Krs. p. 525)

“In three and a half years, 1981-1984, 883 Albanians were accused and 585 were convicted for activities against Yugoslavia.” (p. 526)
“In the Yugoslav army alone, 1436 Albanian soldiers were convicted until 1987.” (p. 529)

“In Macedonia and Montenegro, high schools in the Albanian language have been closed. Albanian students are forced to attend classes in the Slavic language. But even there, they are mistreated to the point that they drop out of school and remain illiterate.” (p. 535)
“There are even cases when the Albanian language is forbidden to students even to communicate with each other.” (p. 535)
“Albanian can hardly be used between two or more Albanians in their workplaces.” (p. 536)

“Agim Vinca writes: According to the 1981 census, 377,726 Albanians lived in the Republic of Macedonia. How many Albanians live in the Republic of Macedonia? No one knows exactly. Some think that it reaches up to a million, if not more, while Skopje is the city with the most Albanians in the world.” (p. 537)

“Fadil Sulejmani wrote: Today, over a million (1,000,000) Albanians live in the Republic of Macedonia. The cities with surrounding areas where Albanian is spoken are: Skopje, Tetovo, Kumanovo, Gostivar, Kicevo, Krusevo, Dibra, Struga, Ohrid, Resen, Prespa and Manastir. There is also an Albanian population in Veles, Qypërli, Prelep and Kovardar.” (p. 537-538)

“The falsification of the number of Albanians in the Republic of Montenegro reaches grotesque and ridiculous proportions, when it is said that in all the areas where Albanians have lived for centuries, Tivar, Ulcinj, Hot, Gruda, Plav, Guci, Berane, Rozaje, no more than 40,000 Albanians live.” (p. 538)

“In the Republic of Macedonia, it was deemed necessary to demolish the walls of the Albanians’ courtyards and to break down their doors (gates) and courtyards under the pretext of urban planning regulation.” (p. 538)
“The Serbian genocide against the Albanians also found expression in limiting the natural increase in the population. The main form was female sterilization.

As early as 1981, against Albanian girls who raised their voices for the republic, torture against them seemed insufficient, so the medical Serbs with sterilizing injections, which carried out sterilization, in order to prevent irredentists from being born, to prevent Albanians from multiplying like nettle seeds and to prevent the Albanian demographic explosion from continuing.” (p. 542)

“The poisoning of students began on March 10, 1990, as isolated cases, in Podijevo, Vushtrri, etc., which create the impression of an experiment. After this experiment, the poisoning spread throughout Kosovo. According to official data, by March 24, 1990 at 2 p.m., 2,993 students were hospitalized. In Prishtina 756, in Mitrovica 354, in Peja 170, in Prizren 226, in Ferizaj 595, in Gjilan 619, in Gjakova 273.

The clinical signs were: polymort accompanied by a flushed appearance on the face, slight redness of the conjunctiva, tachycardia with stomach cramps, fainting, difficult breathing, without infection syndrome and without skin rashes.” (p. 543)

“According to official data, from 22 to 29 March 1990, 4009 people with symptoms of poisoning sought help in Kosovo hospitals. On 26 April 1990, the newspaper Rilindja reported that the number of patients had exceeded 5000 (five thousand). Further data claim that the poisoning affected about 8000 (eight thousand) people in Kosovo.” (pp. 543-544)

Reference and sources

Gjenocidi serbomadh dhe qëndresa shqiptare: 1844 – 1990. Shaban Braha. https://books.google.se/books/about/Gjenocidi_serbomadh_dhe_q%C3%ABndresa_shqipt.html?id=HIXZNAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Serbian, Montenegrin and Yugoslav crimes and expulsion of Albanians (1878-1990)

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