Petrit Latifi
In 1915, the paper “Volkszeitung/Deutsche Volkszeitung” published an article reporting on Serbian atrocities in Bosnia and Albania.
“The reign of terror of the Serbs in Albania.
“Only now is it coming to light what an unprecedented reign of terror the Serbs have introduced in New Serbia, in the areas of Bosnia that had been occupied for a year, and in Albania. First, they abolished the property rights of their Muslim subjects over real estate. The lands of the Agas and Beys were distributed among the Serbs or given to the disabled as rewards. The Bulgarian and Turkish schools were closed. Serbian was established as the only official language, and anyone who did not speak Serbian could not sue and had thus lost their most basic rights.”
Murdering military conscripts and public executions
“The Serbian military commanders force Muslims subject to military service where they are deliberately exterminated. There is no village in which at least twenty public executions have not been carried out. Even the smallest Serbian commando had the right to confiscate the property of the victims. More than one and a half million in jewelry and cash was stolen. The houses of the executed Muslims were burned; the irregular Montenegrin gangs made a business of looting and murder. They dragged the harem women with them into the mountains and only released them for ransom.
Atrocities in Klobuk near Avtovac in Bosnia
“In the village of Klobug near Avtovac, the Muslim men defended their women with rifles, which is why the entire population was massacred and the village burned. One can imagine how blissfully the decimated Muslims and Arnauts welcomed the end of Serb rule, since the Serbian ciphers had hunted them like the English hunted cannibals in the colonies. When our battalions entered, they illuminated their houses, organized free troops, and volunteered to pursue and encircle the enemy. A terrible fate awaits the Serbian troops fleeing to Albania if they do not disperse the Albanian tribes thirsting for blood revenge.”
Serb plundering Albanian villages during the “Great Retreat”
“The country roads along the border already recall the famous images of Napoleon’s retreat. The air is polluted with human and animal corpses. The civilian population and the military are fleeing together. They have almost no horses left; their cattle have died on the way. Smashed automobiles, carts, carriages, ammunition crates, frozen women, officers, soldiers, rifles, and blown-up cannon barrels are everywhere in a confused jumble. The Serbs are forced to plunder the Albanian villages to avoid starving: even bread and onions are lacking”
Reference
Balkan Academia 