Serbia is a Criminal (Part 5)
EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK "THE GREAT GENOCIDE AND THE ALBANIAN RESISTANCE" BY THE AUTHOR SHABAN BRAH. No.5.
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Years 1913
"The year 1913 marks the continuation of the genocide on an incalculable scale.
In Nishor, Suhareka, Serbs killed 42 people and razed 5 or 6 houses. (F.192)
In Krrabë and Çermenikë, Serbs killed 20-30 Albanians.
Murder, hanging and strangulation in torture took place every day. In these conditions, it is said (sarcastically, Gj.D.) in the documents, there were two opposite concerns: among the Albanians the concern for the fate of their lives, among the Serbs the concern for the bullets that were spent killing Albanians.
The Serbian officer Vuksanovi,, easily but in an original way, said: At first we killed the Albanians with rifles and batons, but soon the order arrived that there was no benefit in spending the ammunition, so the Albanians would be stabbed. And so the victims were divided into groups of 40 to 50 people, lined up in two rows with their faces turned towards each other, and then the officers or non-commissioned officers stabbed the Albanians in the neck one by one. These unfortunate people, neither playing from the ground, nor shouting, were almost not human beings. (F.194)
(In the documents) it is stated that in 12 villages of Luma and Opoja at least 573 houses were completely burned and 672 people were killed and that the slaughter of women and children was carried out calmly and with a plan.
It also happened in the wider region of Gjilan, where in 19 villages there were massacres of the worst. In Kabash alone 47 people were massacred. (F.203)
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M.E. Durham stated: The Serbs were released in the province of Gostivar, burning the villages with kerosene and throwing into the flames with the tops of bayonets those who could not escape. There are villages with 100, 150 or 200 houses, where now there is no spirit. In Recan, Gostivar, Serbs, after shooting 30 people, 200 women, children and the elderly, locked them in two houses and burned them alive. In Zdunjë, 37 women, children and men of the village were burned during the day. The next day 9 others were taken and massacred in Vakuf of Benaca. Alije Maksut, a corpse, was found with a seven-month-old girl on her breast. The corpses were thrown into the well or the fields were scattered. (F.203)
In November 1913 in the village of Simnica burned 113 houses, killed 18 people, including 2 women.
After 8 days the storm of other massacres began. The (Serbian) secretary of the municipality invited 22 people by name. After tying them up, ostensibly to send them to the sub-prefecture, they massacred them all in the Waqf of Benaca.
In the village of Gjonovc 7 houses were burnt with all the people inside. Among them: the family of Halil Myslim with 7 people, the family of Xhelal Mersini with 5 people, the family of Zanko Ibishi with 3 people and the son of Nazif Ibishi.
In the village of Reçan, 86 people were shot in a place called Lama. They also massacred Zeliha Rrahmani and 3 other women. (F.204)
In the village of Vërtok 18 people were shot and buried in Bigosa. 40 men were taken to Vakuf of Benaca and shot.
After shooting the men in the yard, Ruhide Matjana was burned down with the whole house. The 4 brothers: Kurt, Azai, Beqir, Durmish, were shot and thrown into a well. After them, their mother was also shot and thrown into a well. (F.204)
In Kalisht, after they were sent to Pozheran, 43 people were killed and slaughtered on the street. In Cegran, 32 people were killed on the way to Gostivar. (F.204)
In the village of Qafë e Gostivarit, terrorist Chetniks massacred and killed 65 people: women, the elderly and children. (F.204)
Great Dibra was devastated by a devastating bombardment, so much so that the city of 18-20000 inhabitants fell to 2000 inhabitants. A part of the population that took refuge, was brutally massacred by the Serbian army, where no one was left alive to tell the horrible scenes. (F.205)
The press of those days wrote:… The Serbs followed a devilish system to exterminate, to rape the Albanians… The Serbs raised a large army, poured back into Debar and burned the whole country with blood! Innocent people were killed, the villages that were burned, are not counted… They burned Koniari, Solokic, Spas, Allajbelina, Bllaca, Recan, Majtari, Çertan, Vajnik, Kollosisht. (F.205)
In Reka they burned: Tërnica, Nistrova, Jemce, Radostusha, Kosovac, Skudrina, Prisojnica. (F.205)
In Golloborda they burned: Zabzun, Klenja, Stellova, Borava, Sebisht, Ostren, Okshtun. (F.205)
In Kichevo they burned: Zajas, Leshnica, Dragomash, Mahmudaj, Llapkadol, Plasnica, Lishnica. The Austro-Hungarian representation from Durrës telegraphed that three days ago 200-300 Serbs burned Zabzun in the north of Golloborda, Borova, Okshtun, Klenja, Strebleva to the end. (F.205)
Such atrocities were also committed in Divjaka, Venishë, Slatinë, Tria, Veleshkë, Kal, Dardhë, Reç, Shumat, Palaman. (F.205)
In Gorica, 14 people were massacred together with the village elder. 2 women and 5 children were also killed. (205)
In Zogaj the whole village was looted ... 124 houses were burned. Melting in the flames, horribly, were thrown and burned alive: 1 woman with 2 daughters and 1 baby. Their bodies were reduced to ashes. 4 others were then slaughtered and, returning once more, the Serbs killed the remaining 4. (Krs.f. 206)
In Maqellarë, 10 houses were looted and burned, 12 inhabitants were slaughtered with the tip of a bayonet and 4 others were massacred. The other villagers gave 50 oxen, 113 goats and 2 cows to save their lives. (F.206)
In Blace, the village was looted and then set on fire on all four sides. All the villagers were massacred. It was a real ploy that one could not describe. Especially for those who were slaughtered. The Serbs took with them 250 rams and sheep, 35 cows and 28 horses.
In Vajnik, after the looting that was done with unparalleled barbarism, the fire set by the Serbs wiped out all 15 houses of the village. Baskets of Serb soldiers roamed the village, drowning everyone outside. 4 people were stabbed with bayonets. After the hardships of the poor, they killed a young girl in front of all the villagers, then took 100 sheep and goats, 8 horses and 9 oxen. (F.206)
In Allajbeg the whole village was looted and 65 houses were burned. Sixteen men, 7 women and 1 five-year-old child were horribly massacred. The whole living thing of the village was snatched away. (F.206)
In Luzni, after looting everything, the Serbs set fire to 5 of the first houses, massacred 45 people and abducted 1500 sheep and 200 horses. (F.206-207)
In Deshat, 15 houses were burned and 3 children and 2 women were set on fire. 50 oxen and 500 sheep were abducted.
In Pilate-Mahalla all the houses were looted and 8 burned. Slaughtered with bayonets: 2 men and 1 child six years old and thrown into the fire 1 child four years old. Kidnapped 100 oxen, 15 cows, 200 sheep, 8 horses. (F.207)
In Peshkopi, 57 houses were burnt, 6 men were massacred, 180 oxen, 450 sheep, 15 mules, 20 horses were abducted. (F.207)
In Qafë-Bulqizë, 13 people were shot, in Vinjallë 2 houses were burned. (F.207)
Especially in the Vardar region, an incalculable genocide has been committed in cities and villages. Individual terrorism, persecutions, burnings, robberies, beatings, drownings, have dimensions that exceed those in the areas of Morava, Kosovo Plain, Sandzak, Dukagjini Plain, Drini Valley, Shkodra, etc. (F.207)
In the province of Demirhisar and Përlep, 6 Muslim villages were burned by the Serbs and the inhabitants were massacred. (F.208)
The fact that 2000 Albanians were slaughtered near Skopje (mentioned before. Gj.D.), shows the massive genocide that spread throughout the Albanian areas in the Vardar region. (F.208)
Nearly 2,000 houses in the highlands of Has and Krasniqe, which were left to the Albanian state, were burned. Residents who were there were massacred mercilessly. (F.208)
In Ujëzi, near the Drin, 32 people were locked up and burned in a house. Officers forced soldiers to speak out against women and children. (F.208)
In Gash and Krasniqe 1500 houses were demolished and the terrorized population fled inside (the rest of) Albania. The temporary evacuation of the population from the areas of extermination operations was the only means of rescue. (F.208)
Witnesses to the incident detail the terrorism and massacre in Plava and Guci. Serbo-Montenegrin chauvinist forces in the region shot 720 men. Of these, 559 in Qafë-Previ, 150 in Brezovica and 11 in the city of Plava. (F.209)
In some villages of Gjakova, within one day, 400 Albanians converted to the Orthodox religion. In the villages of Gramaçel, Dobrigjë, Firaj, Novoselë, Zhdrellë, Osek, Gllogjan and Bistrazhin, 800 people converted to the Orthodox religion. In the district of Gjakova 1100 Catholics were converted to the Orthodox religion. Prefect Dusan Jagovic and Major Jovan Plamenac tried to convert the 35,000 Albanians in the Peja region and ordered 6,000 Albanians from Kalican to convert to the church in Peja, which meant to change their nationality, which caused a revolt and, on April 3, In 1913, 1300 Albanians were massacred. (F.216)
Even in Kabash, Gjilan, women and children were set on fire. (F.222)
In the village of Sop, Kicevo district, a Serb tied up all the Muslims still in the village, about 200 people, took them to the mosque, covered them with hay and burned them alive. (p.222) (Gj.D: This is a great shame for us!)
In Ujzi, between Gjakova and Prizren, Abdyl Zeqa and 20 members of his family were burned. Some children who tried to escape were stabbed with bayonets. (F.222)
A French source details that Ali Tafa with 9 members of the family was burned alive at home, while Et’hemi, his brother, severely injured, was found mutilated in an unprecedented manner. Halil Sadiku with 6 family members was burned alive. Also 3 women were burned alive. (F.222)
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Years 1913
"The year 1913 marks the continuation of the genocide on an incalculable scale.
In Nishor, Suhareka, Serbs killed 42 people and razed 5 or 6 houses. (F.192)
In Krrabë and Çermenikë, Serbs killed 20-30 Albanians.
Murder, hanging and strangulation in torture took place every day. In these conditions, it is said (sarcastically, Gj.D.) in the documents, there were two opposite concerns: among the Albanians the concern for the fate of their lives, among the Serbs the concern for the bullets that were spent killing Albanians.
The Serbian officer Vuksanovi,, easily but in an original way, said: At first we killed the Albanians with rifles and batons, but soon the order arrived that there was no benefit in spending the ammunition, so the Albanians would be stabbed. And so the victims were divided into groups of 40 to 50 people, lined up in two rows with their faces turned towards each other, and then the officers or non-commissioned officers stabbed the Albanians in the neck one by one. These unfortunate people, neither playing from the ground, nor shouting, were almost not human beings. (F.194)
(In the documents) it is stated that in 12 villages of Luma and Opoja at least 573 houses were completely burned and 672 people were killed and that the slaughter of women and children was carried out calmly and with a plan.
It also happened in the wider region of Gjilan, where in 19 villages there were massacres of the worst. In Kabash alone 47 people were massacred. (F.203)
Illustration © Pashtriku.org
M.E. Durham stated: The Serbs were released in the province of Gostivar, burning the villages with kerosene and throwing into the flames with the tops of bayonets those who could not escape. There are villages with 100, 150 or 200 houses, where now there is no spirit. In Recan, Gostivar, Serbs, after shooting 30 people, 200 women, children and the elderly, locked them in two houses and burned them alive. In Zdunjë, 37 women, children and men of the village were burned during the day. The next day 9 others were taken and massacred in Vakuf of Benaca. Alije Maksut, a corpse, was found with a seven-month-old girl on her breast. The corpses were thrown into the well or the fields were scattered. (F.203)
In November 1913 in the village of Simnica burned 113 houses, killed 18 people, including 2 women.
After 8 days the storm of other massacres began. The (Serbian) secretary of the municipality invited 22 people by name. After tying them up, ostensibly to send them to the sub-prefecture, they massacred them all in the Waqf of Benaca.
In the village of Gjonovc 7 houses were burnt with all the people inside. Among them: the family of Halil Myslim with 7 people, the family of Xhelal Mersini with 5 people, the family of Zanko Ibishi with 3 people and the son of Nazif Ibishi.
In the village of Reçan, 86 people were shot in a place called Lama. They also massacred Zeliha Rrahmani and 3 other women. (F.204)
In the village of Vërtok 18 people were shot and buried in Bigosa. 40 men were taken to Vakuf of Benaca and shot.
After shooting the men in the yard, Ruhide Matjana was burned down with the whole house. The 4 brothers: Kurt, Azai, Beqir, Durmish, were shot and thrown into a well. After them, their mother was also shot and thrown into a well. (F.204)
In Kalisht, after they were sent to Pozheran, 43 people were killed and slaughtered on the street. In Cegran, 32 people were killed on the way to Gostivar. (F.204)
In the village of Qafë e Gostivarit, terrorist Chetniks massacred and killed 65 people: women, the elderly and children. (F.204)
Great Dibra was devastated by a devastating bombardment, so much so that the city of 18-20000 inhabitants fell to 2000 inhabitants. A part of the population that took refuge, was brutally massacred by the Serbian army, where no one was left alive to tell the horrible scenes. (F.205)
The press of those days wrote:… The Serbs followed a devilish system to exterminate, to rape the Albanians… The Serbs raised a large army, poured back into Debar and burned the whole country with blood! Innocent people were killed, the villages that were burned, are not counted… They burned Koniari, Solokic, Spas, Allajbelina, Bllaca, Recan, Majtari, Çertan, Vajnik, Kollosisht. (F.205)
In Reka they burned: Tërnica, Nistrova, Jemce, Radostusha, Kosovac, Skudrina, Prisojnica. (F.205)
In Golloborda they burned: Zabzun, Klenja, Stellova, Borava, Sebisht, Ostren, Okshtun. (F.205)
In Kichevo they burned: Zajas, Leshnica, Dragomash, Mahmudaj, Llapkadol, Plasnica, Lishnica. The Austro-Hungarian representation from Durrës telegraphed that three days ago 200-300 Serbs burned Zabzun in the north of Golloborda, Borova, Okshtun, Klenja, Strebleva to the end. (F.205)
Such atrocities were also committed in Divjaka, Venishë, Slatinë, Tria, Veleshkë, Kal, Dardhë, Reç, Shumat, Palaman. (F.205)
In Gorica, 14 people were massacred together with the village elder. 2 women and 5 children were also killed. (205)
In Zogaj the whole village was looted ... 124 houses were burned. Melting in the flames, horribly, were thrown and burned alive: 1 woman with 2 daughters and 1 baby. Their bodies were reduced to ashes. 4 others were then slaughtered and, returning once more, the Serbs killed the remaining 4. (Krs.f. 206)
In Maqellarë, 10 houses were looted and burned, 12 inhabitants were slaughtered with the tip of a bayonet and 4 others were massacred. The other villagers gave 50 oxen, 113 goats and 2 cows to save their lives. (F.206)
In Blace, the village was looted and then set on fire on all four sides. All the villagers were massacred. It was a real ploy that one could not describe. Especially for those who were slaughtered. The Serbs took with them 250 rams and sheep, 35 cows and 28 horses.
In Vajnik, after the looting that was done with unparalleled barbarism, the fire set by the Serbs wiped out all 15 houses of the village. Baskets of Serb soldiers roamed the village, drowning everyone outside. 4 people were stabbed with bayonets. After the hardships of the poor, they killed a young girl in front of all the villagers, then took 100 sheep and goats, 8 horses and 9 oxen. (F.206)
In Allajbeg the whole village was looted and 65 houses were burned. Sixteen men, 7 women and 1 five-year-old child were horribly massacred. The whole living thing of the village was snatched away. (F.206)
In Luzni, after looting everything, the Serbs set fire to 5 of the first houses, massacred 45 people and abducted 1500 sheep and 200 horses. (F.206-207)
In Deshat, 15 houses were burned and 3 children and 2 women were set on fire. 50 oxen and 500 sheep were abducted.
In Pilate-Mahalla all the houses were looted and 8 burned. Slaughtered with bayonets: 2 men and 1 child six years old and thrown into the fire 1 child four years old. Kidnapped 100 oxen, 15 cows, 200 sheep, 8 horses. (F.207)
In Peshkopi, 57 houses were burnt, 6 men were massacred, 180 oxen, 450 sheep, 15 mules, 20 horses were abducted. (F.207)
In Qafë-Bulqizë, 13 people were shot, in Vinjallë 2 houses were burned. (F.207)
Especially in the Vardar region, an incalculable genocide has been committed in cities and villages. Individual terrorism, persecutions, burnings, robberies, beatings, drownings, have dimensions that exceed those in the areas of Morava, Kosovo Plain, Sandzak, Dukagjini Plain, Drini Valley, Shkodra, etc. (F.207)
In the province of Demirhisar and Përlep, 6 Muslim villages were burned by the Serbs and the inhabitants were massacred. (F.208)
The fact that 2000 Albanians were slaughtered near Skopje (mentioned before. Gj.D.), shows the massive genocide that spread throughout the Albanian areas in the Vardar region. (F.208)
Nearly 2,000 houses in the highlands of Has and Krasniqe, which were left to the Albanian state, were burned. Residents who were there were massacred mercilessly. (F.208)
In Ujëzi, near the Drin, 32 people were locked up and burned in a house. Officers forced soldiers to speak out against women and children. (F.208)
In Gash and Krasniqe 1500 houses were demolished and the terrorized population fled inside (the rest of) Albania. The temporary evacuation of the population from the areas of extermination operations was the only means of rescue. (F.208)
Witnesses to the incident detail the terrorism and massacre in Plava and Guci. Serbo-Montenegrin chauvinist forces in the region shot 720 men. Of these, 559 in Qafë-Previ, 150 in Brezovica and 11 in the city of Plava. (F.209)
In some villages of Gjakova, within one day, 400 Albanians converted to the Orthodox religion. In the villages of Gramaçel, Dobrigjë, Firaj, Novoselë, Zhdrellë, Osek, Gllogjan and Bistrazhin, 800 people converted to the Orthodox religion. In the district of Gjakova 1100 Catholics were converted to the Orthodox religion. Prefect Dusan Jagovic and Major Jovan Plamenac tried to convert the 35,000 Albanians in the Peja region and ordered 6,000 Albanians from Kalican to convert to the church in Peja, which meant to change their nationality, which caused a revolt and, on April 3, In 1913, 1300 Albanians were massacred. (F.216)
Even in Kabash, Gjilan, women and children were set on fire. (F.222)
In the village of Sop, Kicevo district, a Serb tied up all the Muslims still in the village, about 200 people, took them to the mosque, covered them with hay and burned them alive. (p.222) (Gj.D: This is a great shame for us!)
In Ujzi, between Gjakova and Prizren, Abdyl Zeqa and 20 members of his family were burned. Some children who tried to escape were stabbed with bayonets. (F.222)
A French source details that Ali Tafa with 9 members of the family was burned alive at home, while Et’hemi, his brother, severely injured, was found mutilated in an unprecedented manner. Halil Sadiku with 6 family members was burned alive. Also 3 women were burned alive. (F.222)
