by Bexhet Jashari. Translation Petrit Latifi

Cited:

“In November 1912, at the end of the Ottoman administration, my great-grandfather Jashari left this village with a prepared group of horses and mules, with which they had carried weapons and gunpowder for the Ottoman army (now in decline) at the Kumanovo front, namely against the Serbian army which was advancing towards Shkup.

However, an Albanian who was an artillery commander in the Ottoman army, rashly gave the order to fire towards the Serbian troops. The Serbian army almost retreated. However, a traitor among the Ottoman commanders shot dead the Albanian commander of the Ottoman artillery from behind, who was boldly and vigorously attacking the Serbian army.

Jashari said that as young men we did not understand the situation on the spot, while a devout Ottoman officer approached him with some signs and asked: “Evlad, where are you from and where did this aid for the Ottoman army come from”!? We told him that we are from the villages of Karshiaka, and I from the village of Gaber in Shkup, while the weapons are from a warehouse, from where we were tasked to bring them here to the Kumanovo front.

He said: “Flee to your country, because your murettes (traitors) command the Ottoman army… The Ottoman state came to an end in Rumelia…”. These young men had returned to their villages in Karshiaka for a few hours. This story is from my late father, Haxhi Nazifi, who heard it directly from his grandfather Jashari.”