Petrit Latifi
Serb atrocities and Serbian war crimes continued well through out the entire Balkan War and the Great War. This can be seen by the article from 1914 in the “Alpenländer-Bote” titled “The Serbs Continue To Murder”. It is quite evident that even the papers of Europe at that time were so used to seeing reports of Serb atrocities that they didnt even bother writing interesting titles. Simple titles like “Serbs continue to murder” became common.
“The Serbs continue to murder.
In the newly conquered territories, the Serbs continue to practice unheard-of cruelty; everything that is not Serbian must be converted to the Serbian faith and to the Serbian people.
Completely reliable reports from Latzengen in these regions provide terrible details of a veritable system of extermination carried out by the Serbian troops. The Albanians living in Monastir, most of whom are Muslim Albanian, were massacred by the Serbian soldiers in droves, without even the slightest formal investigation or trial. In recent days, the Serbian troops have razed a large number of Albanian villages to the ground and slaughtered men and women who could not escape to the forests in time
The troops frequently observed the following procedure: Upon the report of hired gunmen that weapons had been stolen in the place in question, or that a conspiracy against the authorities was underway, the square was surrounded, set on fire in several places, and the houses shot down.”
Records of Serbian officers names and atrocities committed
“The fleeing Albanians were shot by the cordon; women and children often burned alive in the houses. In other places, the men and all the boys were rounded up and shot. It is alleged that Serbian officers, whose names have been established, participated in the unprecedented atrocities. The population is fleeing to Albania via Montenegro.
Macedonian families without clothing and without food are constantly arriving at the Bulgarian border, begging for refuge from the systematic arson, murder, and desecration to which they are subjected by the Serbian authorities, who are looting and burning villages. Gangs of looters complete the authorities work of devastation.”
Serbian:
Srpska zverstva i srpski ratni zločini nastavili su se tokom celog Balkanskog rata i Prvog svetskog rata. To se može videti iz članka iz 1914. godine u „Alpenländer-Bote“ pod naslovom „Srbi nastavljaju da ubijaju“. Sasvim je očigledno da su čak i evropske novine u to vreme bile toliko naviknute da vide izveštaje o srpskim zverstvima da se nisu ni trudile da napišu otmene naslove. Jednostavni naslovi poput „Srbi nastavljaju da ubijaju“ postali su uobičajeni. „Srbi nastavljaju da ubijaju. Na novoosvojenim teritorijama, Srbi nastavljaju da praktikuju nečuvenu okrutnost; sve što nije srpsko mora se preobratiti u srpsku veru i srpskom narodu. Potpuno pouzdani izveštaji iz Lacengena u ovim regionima pružaju strašne detalje o pravom sistemu istrebljenja koji su sprovodile srpske trupe. Albanci koji žive u Monastiru, od kojih je većina muslimanskih Albanaca, masakrirani su od strane srpskih vojnika u masama, bez ikakve formalne istrage ili suđenja. Poslednjih dana, srpske trupe su sravnile sa zemljom veliki broj albanskih sela i poklale muškarce i žene koji nisu mogli na vreme da pobegnu u šume. Trupe su često poštovale sledeću proceduru: Na osnovu izveštaja unajmljenih naoružanih ljudi da je oružje ukradeno na dotičnom mestu ili da je u toku zavera protiv vlasti, trg je okružen, zapaljen na nekoliko mesta, a kuće streljane. Albanci koji su bežali su streljani kordonom; žene i deca su često živi spaljivani u kućama. Na drugim mestima, muškarci i svi dečaci su okupljeni i streljani. Tvrdi se da su srpski oficiri, čija su imena utvrđena, učestvovali u neviđenim zločinima. Stanovništvo beži u Albaniju preko Crne Gore. Makedonske porodice bez odeće i hrane stalno stižu na bugarsku granicu, moleći za utočište od sistematskog paljenja, ubistava i skrnavljenja kojima su podvrgnute od strane srpskih vlasti, koje pljačkaju i pale sela. Bande pljačkaša dovršavaju posao razaranja vlasti.
Reference
Balkan Academia 