By Fahri Xharra. Translation Petrit Latifi.

Why didn’t the Albanian policy of MV seek this mystery hidden from the Serbs? The priests of St. Bigor were killed. A discovery that must speak Albanian.

“Human remains have been found, which are assumed to belong to the murdered bodies of the clergy of the Bigor Monastery in an extremely difficult location in the dense forest above the Monastery and below the village of Galičnik. It is assumed that these are the remains of two clergymen liquidated in 1918 by the Serbian authorities of the time.

According to the data, the priests of the Church of St. Petka (St. Friday), which also had a school, opposed the new government to exercise Serbization of the local population, for that very reason they were liquidated in extremely difficult terrain to find. At that time it was strictly forbidden to talk about this case in order to forget it.

The remains were found thanks to 93-year-old Zendel Ahmeti from the village of Radostush (Rostush). The Serbian Kingdom, from 1913 to 1941, he carried out a very barbaric policy towards the Albanian population, of Muslim, Orthodox and Catholic faith, but also towards the Macedonian population. In fact, he did not even recognize the Macedonians as a people, while he tried to alienate the Muslim Albanians into Turks.

However, the Serbian invader focused his initial assimilation focus on the Albanian population with Orthodox faith, abusing the Serbian nationalist church and their faith for this assimilation policy, which is why he officially “converted” the Orthodox Albanians into Serbs.” – says Branko Manojlovski from the village of Kičinice in the Upper Reka region of the Gostivar district.

Let us not forget: “In the state archive of Macedonia there are some of the newest documents that show that the Church of Shën Jovan Bigori, or Shënjt Jovan Bigori, as it is written in these documents, was under the jurisdiction of the Albanian Autocephalous Church. The correspondence between the Head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for Upper Reka, Peco Novaku, and the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania was done in Albanian, while national holidays, such as November 28 – Independence Day, were celebrated at the Monastery of St. Jovan Bigori.

Historian Skender Hasani says that the monasteries of the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries in the present-day territory of Macedonia argue for the presence of the Arbër tribe in this part of the country, and it is no coincidence that, like other objects of Albanian ethno-culture from antiquity and the Middle Ages, they were targeted for destruction by state mechanisms.” (fxh, Monastery “St. Biguri” of the Albanians).