Petrit Latifi
In 1913, the “Die Vossische Zeitung” reported that Serbian troops had slaughtered Albanian children with bayonets, and burned many town. Cited from the article:
“The reports from the Balkans sound horrific. War is raging there for the second time in just two years. The SPD newspaper Die neue Zeit describes it as a “war of annihilation” that “makes all the excesses of the wars of the last five years pale in comparison.” The Vossische Zeitung in Berlin reported in early February 1913 of Serbian atrocities against Albanian civilians.
Several towns had been burned down, and even children had been slaughtered by Serbian bayonets. Similar reports appeared in the Allgemeine Zeitung from Munich: In Macedonia, villages and districts were being systematically surrounded, and non-Slavic men were being slaughtered “with axe and scythe.” “The Age of Enlightenment,” the Vossische newspaper summarized, “is far from dawning for the Balkans; the wildest barbarism still reigns there.”
References
Balkan Wars: The Prelude to the Great Murder The two Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913 were still a far cry from the inferno of the First World War, but they already gave a foretaste of the horrors to come. Dr. Thomas Speckmann. 2013.
Balkan Academia 