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Serbian newspaper Radničke Novine in 1920: Serbian soldier testify of burning Albanian villages and killing civilians

Author and translator: Petrit Latifi.

Balkan Academia

Serbian newspaper Radničke Novine in 1920: Serbian soldier testify about burning Albanian villages and killing civilians


In 1920, Radničke Novine recorded the statement of a Serbian soldier, which eloquently speaks of the scale of brutality and terror:

“We immediately launched an attack, sparing no expense nobody and nothing. We immediately killed the prisoners, took away the cattle, burned the villages one by one, and in many places neither women nor children were spared. They were running away from us, leading (most of them) and families, scattering in the forests, while we set fire to and left around 90 villages to burn to the ground”.

Source

Josip Pečarić: PRAVEDNICA MEĐU NARODIMA. LJUBICA ŠTEFAN. https://www.dragovoljac.com/images/minifp/LjStefan.pdf

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