According to Aubrey Herbert, the Albanians victory over the Ottomans enabled the Balkan League – Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece – to invade the Balkans. In the book “Der Jugoslawien-Krieg Handbuch zu Vorgeschichte, Verlauf und Konsequenzen (Kultur- und Studienzentrum), by Palais Jalta in 2013 we can read:

“The English politician and travel writer Aubrey Herbert later noted that the Albanians had destroyed the pillars of the Ottoman Empire; they had been the ones who had achieved victory over the Turks, not the Serbs, Bulgarians, or Greeks who benefited. Serbia acted quickly, occupying Kosovo, Macedonia, and northern Albania. The Allies in the Balkans were unwilling to grant the Albanian people the right to self-determination.”

Nikola Pašićs lies on the situation of the Albanians

“In Serbia, only the Social Democrats (D. Tucović, K. Novaković) protested against the occupation of Kosovo and northern Albania. In his book “Serbia and the Arbanasi,” Tucović defended the right of Albanians to self-determination, including those in Kosovo. Serbian parties and politicians such as Nikola Pašić, on the other hand, justified their expansionist aspirations not only with fictitious historical arguments but also with the geostrategic interests of the Serbian state in an “exit to the sea. Pašić offered the Albanians certain autonomy rights, but in reality, the Serbian occupying forces exercised terror and committed massacres against the Albanian population.”