Cited from Leo Freundlich’s book:
“The city of Skopje and its surroundings have witnessed inhuman crimes committed against Albanians. For days, I saw hunts by armed Serbian gangs and regular troops. For three days I could see the flames of villages burning in the sky. When the horrors were over, five villages in the vicinity of Skopje were in ruins and their inhabitants were almost all killed, although the Albanians offered no armed resistance to the Serbian invaders.
Behind the Skopje fortress is a stream that is still filled with the bodies of over a hundred victims of this campaign. Eighty Albanian bodies are also found in the Vodno/Vistala Voda stream near Skopje. Immediately after the occupation, a reliable informant of mine, with whom I spoke to myself, visited the hospital in Skopje and during this first visit encountered 132 Albanian patients. The next day he could find only 80 and a few days later only 30 of them.
The treatment meted out to these wounded Albanians is beyond imagination. They were denied food and drink, so much so that, according to witnesses, some of them died of starvation. Many of the patients, it is said, were still alive when they were thrown into the Vardar. The river flows through the city and carries with it from twenty to thirty corpses a day. In my hotel in Skopje there were a number of determined Serbian volunteers, who boasted quite openly of their plundering and hunting, especially when the wine had taken their toll.
One evening, they went out into the street and shot a couple of unarmed Albanians who were simply passing by and going about their business. The two murderers, who afterwards returned to the hotel and got drunk, were not at all troubled by the military authorities, although everyone in the city knew that they were guilty of the crime. A bloody scene also took place in the city at the Vardar bridge. Three Albanians who tried to cross into the city to go to the market were attacked by Serbian soldiers and simply killed without trial.”
Source
1913 Leo Freundlich: The Golgotha of Albania: The Lawsuit Against the Exterminationists of the Albanian People
