Serbs killed 22,000 Albanians in Lumë and Diber in 1919-1920

Serbs killed 22,000 Albanians in Lumë and Diber in 1919-1920

Petrit Latifi

In the 1920s, Chairman of the Kosovo Committee Hasan Prishtina sent a telegram to the British Foreign Office declaring that between 1919-1920, Serbian soldiers massacred 22,000 Albanians in regions such as Lumë and Dibra and other Albanian inhabited regions.

“Hasan Prishtina, chairman of the Kosovo Committee (KMKK), sent a telegram to the British Foreign Office – which I found in the archives of Albania – in which he informed about the Serbian crimes in Kosovo, Dibër and Lumë in the period 1918-1920.

Prishtina stated that in the first two years after the Great War, the Serbs killed about 22 000 Albanians, burned 169 villages and looted 4,769 houses. In Dibër e Lumë alone, the Serbs killed 250 Albanians and burned 7,800 houses during three days in August 1920″.

Albanian refugees.

Reference

https://insajderi.org/nl/letra-e-hasan-prishtines-drejtuar-mpjse-britanike-me-1921-serbet-per-dy-vjet-kane-vrare-22-mije-shqiptare/

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