Montenegrin troops mutilating hundreds of corpses and threatening to mutilate the women trying to bury their dead husbands in 1876
“The Montenegrins are just as educated and humane a people as the Turks. This is what Cem Standard told his special correspondent in Podgorica on the 21st of this month. M. telegraphed about true atrocities: “At the invitation of Mahmud Pasha, I visited the Turkish hospital located here and saw eleven Turks who had been mutilated as prisoners in the hands of the enemy. Their noses and upper lips had been cut out, and one ear had been chopped off. Two others had already died. Some of them only managed to reach Podgoriza yesterday, two days after the battle, in a state of semi-starvation.
They testified that several hundred wounded were similarly mutilated but died on the battlefield. The total Turkish loss was 1,100 dead and 460 wounded. The bodies of the slain lie unburied on the battlefield, as the Montenegrins threatened to mutilate the women who had buried the dead in previous engagements.”
Source: Innsbrucker Tagblatt 1876.
Serbian atrocities against Turkish families of Belgrad in 1876
Cited:
“I owe him, in particular, the very hilarious anecdotes and glimpses into the life of his neighborhood, and I will always remember his description of the plundering that the Serbs of his time, shortly before the Pasha’s abdication, carried out attacks on Turkish families in Belgrade, mutilating and desecrating them, and the described despair of the Turkish postman who always had to deal with Semlin frequented such places and on this occasion lost the savings of a hard-earned life to greedy rabble.”
Source: Der Sammler Volume 45. 1876.
Serbian troops torture and murder Albanian women and children hidden in the Austrian consulate in Prizren
“The Serbs broke into the consulate building. The Albanian families who had fled here were murdered without mercy, often under horrific torture. The wounded suffered the same fate: they were massacred in their beds. The women and children too”.
Source: Deutschland im Orient nach dem Balkankrieg. Ernst Jäckh. 1913
Serbian atrocities against Austro-Hungarian troops in 1914:
“… Serbian atrocities . The behavior of the Serbs during this war differs in no way from the inhuman cruelties of their earlier campaigns. Although it was foreseeable that the war would target the less civilized…”
Source: Wie war’s? ein Nachschlagebuch über die Streitfragen des Weltkrieges. 1919
Serbian atrocities in Macedonia in 1913-1914:
“… Serbian atrocities in Macedonia are reaching enormous proportions. In several villages, Turks and Bulgarians were recently crucified.”
Source: Kriegs-Chronik der Münchner neuesten Nachrichte. Volumes 5–8. 1914.
Austrian troops report that Serbs mutilate Catholics, throw bombs at civilians and poison the drinking water in 1914:
“A woman from Vänern couldn’t sleep for fear that the Serbs would blow up her house with bombs. It was said that the Serbs mutilate Catholics in the most inhumane way. It was forbidden to drink the water from the Vrlika River, as it had been poisoned by the Serbs”.
Source: Stenographische Protokolle des Hauses der Abgeordneten des Reichsrathes 1918.
Austrian troops critique Serbian war methods
“Serbs are waging war with horrific methods. They are mutilating our wounded and fallen in the most gruesome ways”.
Source: Mackensens ungarische Husaren Tagebuch eines Frontoffiziers 1914-1918. Miklós Kozma. 1933.
