This article compiles a large amount of data and sources to calculate an approximate number of Albanian civilians killed by Serbian authorities and governments between 1878, during the Expulsion of Albanians, and through out the century, counting the Balkan War and World War I and the Yugoslav period, until the last Serbian invasion in 1999. The following accounts show that:

1878: 35 000 Albanians killed during the Expulsion

1912-1913: 50,000-60,000 killed just in Kosovo by Serbs/Montenegrins

1912-1913: 120,000 killed in Northern Albania by Serbs/Montenegrins

1914-1918: 200,000 – 250 000 killed in the whole Region by various force

1914-1918: 150,000 starved to death in various regions regions through famine

1918-1921: 66,000-77,000 killed in Kosovo mainly by Serbs

1919-1920: 22,000 killed in Lumë and Debar by Serbs

1921-1925: 12,700 killed in Kosovo by Serbs

1921-1925: 20,000-30,000 in Kosovo killed by Serbs

1930-1931: 47,000 in Kosovo killed by Serbs e.g. Madol (1931), p.112

1938-1945: 50,000 Albanians killed in World War 2 by Titoist and Partisan forces

1945-1960: Thousands of Albanians killed by Aleksandar Rankovics forces and 10,000 Albanians left handicapped for life.

1960-1990: 10,000-15,000 Albanians killed in torture, in prison, on streets, in protests, mainly by police. Dozens of Albanians killed in Yugoslav military, and by Secret Yugoslav police.

Hundreds of Albanians poisoned by Serbian authorities (see Student poisoning)

1999: 12,000 killed during the Kosovo War (1998-1999)

2001: Dozens of Albanians killed by Serbian separatists in Northern Mitrovica

2000-2008: Tens of Albanians killed in Preshevo, Bujanovc, and Medvedja. Rough approximate: 50-100 Albanians killed.

2008-2022: A few Albanians killed in northern Mitrovica. Rough approximate: 15-45 Albanians killed.

2023: The Banjska-attack. 1-5 Albanians killed by Serbian criminals.

The total amount of Albanians killed by Serbian governments, forces and authorities between 1878 and 1999 is roughly and approximately:

710,000 – 820,000

Sources

See various articles with statistics and data on Balkanacademia.com

Aggression Against Yugoslavia Correspondence. Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. 2000. p. 42. ISBN 978-86-80763-91-0. Retrieved April 29, 2020.

On the Albanian-Serb Relations” (PDF). Kosovo Public Policy Center: 83. “120,000-270,000 Albanians were killed and approximately 250,000 Albanians were expelled between 1912 and 1914.”

1914-1918 200,000 All Region Various Forces = Robert Elsie; Bejtullah D. Destani, eds. (2018). Kosovo, A Documentary History: From the Balkan Wars to World War II. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 115, 201–205, 237. ISBN 9781788311762.

1914-1918 150,000 Total The Hunger Region = “Famine in Albania: Awful Harvest of Death”. The Sun (Sydney). 1915. p. 5.

Department of State, United States (1947). Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 740–741. Retrieved 19 August 2023.

Aggression against Yugoslavia correspondence. Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. 2000. ISBN 978-86-80763-91-0. Retrieved 19 August 2023.

Ramet, Sabrina Petra (19 February 2018). Balkan Babel: The Disintegration Of Yugoslavia From The Death Of Tito To The Fall Of Milosevic, Fourth Edition (more than 12,000 Kosovar Albanians were killed by Serbian forces between 1918 and 1921, when pacification was more … ed.).

1919-1920 22,000 killed in Lumë and Dibër by Serbs. https://insajderi.org/nl/letra-e-hasan-prishtines-drejtuar-mpjse-britanike-me-1921-serbet-per-dy-vjet-kane-vrare-22-mije-shqiptare/

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