This article highlights Albanian historical accounts and reports of the the Albanian freedom fighters from the 1920s, and various Serbian atrocities and massacres, executions and murders carried out between 1912 to 1928.

Cited from the publication https://zeflushmarku.edu.mk/libra/mehmetivogel.pdf

Xhelë Guri, Ibush Vushtrria, Ilaz Qorri, and Shaqir Pirraku

After the attack of Llausha, the detachments scattered throughout Kosovo survived for a while, but with great difficulty. Among the most famous names who operated until the last days were famous fighters such as: Xhelë Guri, Ibush Vushtrri, etc. The detachment of Ilaz Qorri was now led by Shaqir Pirraku of Sankoci and several others.

In the second half of 1927, Mehmet Delia with some friends decided to spend the winter in Albania, with the aim of returning to Kosovo in the first spring. They thought of strengthening their ranks to continue the fight for freedom, but, unfortunately, he and many of his comrades never managed to return, which is how the Kosovo Liberation Movement, known as the Kosovo Kaçake Movement, ended up operating.

Shaqir Pirraku

Shaqir Pirraku was killed in the region of Carralevë some time during the years of 1925-1929.

Zija Dibra

Ahmet Zog eliminated some of his main opponents, regardless of whether they were prominent patriots and people honored by the people. One such was Zija Dibra, an associate of Hasan Prishtina, who was killed in 1924.

Ceno bey Kryeziu, Muharrem Bajraktari, Abaz Kupi, etc., operated in the north, such as in Malësia e Madhe, Shala, Krasniqe, Kthella, etc.,

Elez Isufi was killed in 1924.

Hoxha Kadri Prishtina, the mayor, died in Shkodra.

Mehmet Konjuhu

In February 1924, the Mehmet Konjuhi detachment was attacked in Zagori by the Serbian army and gendarmerie. During the fighting, 23 members of the Konjuhi and Mulaku families were killed and massacred, while Mehmeti was captured. This operation continued on February 14, 1924, when the Kamber Loshi detachment was attacked in the village of Belica.

Serbian massacres and the murder of Deli Plaku

Deli Plaku, being the father of Mehmet the Little Mountain Kaçak, the devoted freedom fighter, Azem and Shotë Galica’s comrade-in-arms, a close friend of Lutfi Veshkuq of Prekaz, was undoubtedly under constant pressure from the Serbian gendarmerie. He was followed at every step, so that his life would become impossible in Radishevë, or he would hand over his son Mehmet who had gathered courage and together with his friends had returned the rifles to Serbia.

Somewhere around the end of June 1920, the Serbian gendarmerie had checked Deli Plaku several times, and one day they had arrested him altogether, forcing him (together with Halim Tahiri) to drag an artillery cannon with iron wheels from the terrible mud of Runik to a place called Hormoq, about 6 km away.

Deli Plaku at that time was almost 77 years old, and the weight of his age together with the weight of the ball he was pulling had tired him out and broken him, but he was not giving up. Along the entire way, the Serbian gendarmes, and in particular one

Pavlic, a Serbian settler from Radisheva, knowing that Delia was
the father of Mehmet the Younger, did not spare him the abuse, even
stabbling him time and time again with bayonets. When they reached
a place called Hormoq, Deli Plaku was covered in blood!
The gendarme Pavlic, seeing that Delia was no longer alive,
released her.

Delia, although in that condition, did not give up and with all his strength set out in the direction to reach his daughter Hala who was married in Kasterc alive. However, from the place called Hormoq to the Miftari neighborhood, he had covered a stretch of road, struggling to even walk, when his strength left him, and he died in a field of wheat, which was the property of Mujë Azem Spahiu.

The lifeless body of Deli Plaku, that night remained there in the field of that field of wheat, which had full ears of corn! According to the explanation of Mujë (the lord of the field), it should have been the 38th month of June, because the wheat with full ears of corn was not yet ripe. Interesting, how the gift of life is connected to worries and sorrows: that same night, the owner of the field, Mujë Azem Spahiu, had dreamed that a voice had come to him telling him: in the morning, take the sickle and go to the field to harvest the unripe, or yellow, wheat – as the people call it.

He woke up in the morning worried, and was telling his wife the sad dream he had seen. After a while, he said to his wife: “I’m going to the field because I’m not getting anywhere!”. He takes a sickle with him and goes to the field, simply to satisfy his curiosity! To his surprise, there he finds Deli the Old Man dead!… He immediately informs Deli’s daughter, Hala, who was married to Bajrush Murseli in the same village.

They buried Deliu in the village of Kasterc, since they could not bury him in his own Radisheva, because Mehmet the Younger was with the mountain warriors, and Deliu’s other children were young – even today Deliu’s body rests in Kasterc – not far from his beloved Radisheva. Upon receiving the news of his father’s death, Mehmet the Younger had vowed to his friends that he would pay for his father’s life many times over. And so it turned out.

After some time, he received information that an escort of gendarmes would accompany several senior Serbian soldiers from Mitrovica to Peja, which would eventually pass through the Bad Stream. To secure the road from Klina e Mesme of Fazli Berani to the village of Rrapaj-Rraposh, which the Serbian administration later called Raka and then recorded as Rakosh, the Serbian gendarme Pavlic was assigned, since he was a settler in Radishevo, of course he knew those roads well. ‘

Mehmet the Younger, together with some friends, took the well. The resulting clash resulted in the deaths of 12 Serbian soldiers and gendarmes, only one of whom had escaped, who had been captured alive. The gift of the law of nature, he was the gendarme Pavlic himself, who had killed Deli Plaku with a bayonet! … Hey, Mr. Pavlic, – Mehmet the Younger had said, – do you see that we have met again! – Hazir Rama, who had taken part in the action, told him. Gendarme Pavliqi had fallen on his knees before Mehmet and was begging him to spare his life, swearing that he had not killed Deli the Elder. But Mehmet the Younger cut him off:

“You filthy criminals, you are no match for us, and you are unleashing upon unarmed old men and women, even stabbing them with bayonets!”
… he had taken two steps away, had pointed his rifle at Pavliqi, saying:

If you give my father a good health,
and if you give me a good life in the next world,
because you stabbed him with a bayonet,
he has left me with a poor hand,
and he is not going to kill himself!”…
… and he laid Gendarme Pavliqi on the ground.