When Serbs and Montenegrins cut up pregnant women and burned Albanians on hot stoves

When Serbs and Montenegrins cut up pregnant women and burned Albanians on hot stoves

Petrit Latifi

Serbian and Montenegrin invasion troops in Pejë, 1912.

Serbian and Montenegrin atrocites against the Albanians of Rugova in 1912. After the Serbo-Montenegrin invasion of Albanian territories of Rugova, various massacres and tortures occurred.

“After the Rugova province, Peja and its surroundings fell, on October 30, and four days later, Gjakova. Terror began against the Albanians. About four thousand inhabitants of the Dukagjini Plain were shot. (Krasniqi 1985:97-98).

Serbian and Montenegrin soldiers tortured women: the cutting of the stomachs of pregnant women, the rape of women in front of men, the roasting of men’s eyes on the door of a hot stove, the squeezing of the head with a vice, the smearing of hands with kerosene and burning alive (Harapi 2004:81-86).”

Reference

Harapi 2004. p. 81-86.

Krasniqi 1985. p. 97-98.

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