Authored by Petrit Latifi

“We know that the Albanian expedition, which the Radnichke Novine correspondent discusses here, aimed to suppress the Albanian clans who had revolted against the Serbs at that time. The Albanian revolt was portrayed by the Serbian side as the combined result of the actions of the Albanians of autonomous Albania and Bulgarian machinations. These two causes are plausible, but they do not exclude a third: the state of mind of the Albanian population subject to Serbia.

This population had personal reasons to complain about the Serbian administration. This is how the event is explained in a letter from Elbasan, published by the Bulgarian newspaper (Echo of Bulgaria, September 28), which he claims to come “from a very reliable source.”

The commission was unable to verify his claims, but, after all it saw and heard, following the authentic letter mentioned above, it does not believe it should doubt them.

“On September 20th, new style, the Serbian army took all the livestock from the Malesia of Dibra. The herdsmen were forced to defend themselves and fight, but they were all killed. Along with these herdsmen, the Serbs killed the two chieftains of Lyuma: Mehmed-Edem and Djafer-Eleuz, and began to pillage and burn all the villages along their route: Pechkiapa, Pletza, and Dochichti in Lower Dibra, Alai-Beg, Machi, Para, Obokou, Klobotchichta, and Solokitzi in Upper Dibra. In all these villages, the Serbs committed terrible massacres.”

Reference

https://www.strumski.com/books/m.d.skopiansky_atrocites_serbes.pdf