On November 22, 1913 the Serbian soldier Dimitrija Tucovićija, nicknamed “Certi”, wrote a letter to the Serbian paper “Radničke novine“ about the Serbian atrocities and massacre of the Albanians of Lume. The massacre was carried out by Serb captain Jurisic (Jurišićita) and Lieutenant Colonel Miliqevic (Milićevićem)

Cited:

22 ene, 1913: LUMA’S MASSACRE

“When the Serbian troops destroyed this village, there were no men there. It was pointless for the back-up officers to object those who were ordered to burn the village and slaughter everything and everyone they come across. Despite continuously asking from reassurance from the commander, they were ordered to kill everyone, even though all who were left were children and women. “Every One!”, that was the answer from some sort of Captain Jurishiqit, who was in a deal with the Lieutenant Colonel Miliqeviq.

The gunshots killed all the women who had their infants close to their chest to the ground. Underneath all their dead bodies you could hear all the desperate cries of the infants that had survived accidentally. In about two hours 500 souls were killed.

The stabbings stopped when a number of officers protested admitting that “foully” Albanian soldiers, were disarming Serbians but releasing them, meanwhile our “disciplined” army is killing their children! But it was too late. All that was left to be done and could be done was for all the corpses to be put inside houses and be burned, so this crime as well would be spotless and forgotten.

“Workers’ Newspaper”, no. 223. Certi, Dimitrije Tucoviqi’s nickname”.

Serbian:

“22 novembar 1913.

LUMIN MASAKR

Kada su srpske trupe uništile ovo selo, tamo nije bilo muškaraca. Bilo je besmisleno

da oficiri za podršku prigovaraju onima kojima je naređeno da spale selo i pokolju sve

i svakoga koga sretnu. Uprkos stalnim traženjima uveravanja od komandanta, naređeno im je da ubiju sve, iako su ostali samo deca i žene. „Sve!“, to je bio odgovor nekog kapetana Jurišićita, koji je bio u dogovoru sa potpukovnikom Milićevićem.

Pucnji su ubili sve žene koje su imale bebe blizu grudi uz zemlju. Ispod svih njihovih mrtvih tela mogli su se čuti svi očajnički krici beba koje su slučajno preživele. Za oko dva sata ubijeno je 500 duša.

Ubodi su prestali kada je nekoliko oficira protestovalo priznajući da „gnusni“ albanski vojnici razoružavaju Srbe, ali ih puštaju, dok naša „disciplinovana“ vojska ubija njihovu decu! Ali bilo je prekasno. Sve što je preostalo i moglo se učiniti jeste da se svi leševi stave u kuće i spale, kako bi i ovaj zločin bio besprekoran i zaboravljen.

IZVESNO¹

„Radničke novine“, br. 223

1. Čerti, nadimak Dimitrija Tucovićija”

Source

Radničke novine. no. 223,