In 1912-1913, when Serbia invaded Albanian territories in Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania, as the Ottomans withdrew, Serbian soldiers would commit some of the most grotesque and horrifying crimes that the world has ever heard of; everything from burning women and children to haystacks, bayoneting babies on the ground, throwing babies into burning houses, piercing little boys with bayonets, strangeling children to death, and even cutting up pregnant women and tossing the fetus. The same kind of crimes were carried out by the Serbs in 1998-1999 in Kosovo.
Serbs bayonetting Albanian babies in 1912
A Franciscan priest who visited Luma reported seeing “poor bayonetted babies” on the streets.
Source: Edith, Durham (1920). Twenty Years of the Balkan Weave. p. 246. Accessed March 29, 2020.
Serbian Vojvoda leader Milic Krstic, in the years of 1919-1938, was also reported to have bayonetted Albanian babies in their cradles
Serbian priests during the Balkan War of 1912-1913
“The greatest tortures were suffered by Albanian women, who were raped, then tied up, made into hoods, covered with straw and burned alive. If they were pregnant, their stomachs were opened with a bayonet and after the child was taken out of their womb, they were placed on the tip of the bayonet or the stake. After the massacre, the Serbs drank wine, sang and danced. There were cases that during the slaughter they collected the blood in cups and opened the feast with it.”
Source: Albanian Golgotha, Wien, 1913. Leo Freundlich. Carried out from mid-October 1912 (when the First Balkan War began) to March 1913.
Serbian soldiers kill Albanian pregnant women and kill the fetus as well
The German Defense Minister, Rudolf Scharping, insisted that he had the Serbian “Horseshoe” plan in hand. “Serbian soldiers have killed pregnant women and taken their babies out of their wombs”, he would say, adding that “they played football with the heads of those killed”. Despite the criticism of a part of the opposition, the German Minister of Defense insisted that he had the Serbian “Horseshoe” plan in hand, which could not be disclosed in detail due to confidentiality.
In a press conference on April 16, 1999, almost a month after the beginning of the bombings, Rudolf Scharping made known to the press the latest news about the war in Kosovo, namely about Serbian crimes against the Albanian civilian population: “Serbian soldiers have killed pregnant women they took the babies out of their wombs”, adding that they had played football with “the heads of the murdered”.
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