When Serbian and Montenegrin troops occupied Albanian houses in Mitrovica in 1913

When Serbian and Montenegrin troops occupied Albanian houses in Mitrovica in 1913

Petrit Latifi

In 1913, the paper “Der Burggräfler” published an article writing on the arrival of Serbian and Montenegrin troops in the Albanian city of Mitrovica. Instead of being placed in barracks, they were instead placed in the homes of local Albanians. This implies that the residents were either killer, expelled or forced to house soldiers. On neighboring villages, a rule was put to deliver meat to the army.

Cited:

“The Serbs and Montenegrins have recently been making themselves fearsome in Albanian territories. Strong Serbian troop detachments have arrived in Mitrovica, but they were not quartered in the new large naval base, but in the houses of the Albanians. In the surrounding area, a war contribution was imposed on every village through the delivery of slaughterhouse meat. Reports from Ipek and Djatova state that the Serbs and Montenegrins are continuing to intimidate the Catholic and Muslim Albanians into converting to Orthodoxy”.

Reference

https://digital.tessmann.it/tessmannDigital/digitisedJournalsArchive/page/journal/7/1/14.06.1913/51674/1

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