The Serbian Invasion of Kosova (1912)

The Serbian Invasion of Kosova (1912)

...In the years 1912-1913, 120 000 Albanians - men, women, boys, old folk and children, were wiped out; hundreds of villages, more in Kosova and less in Macedonia, were bombarded and most of them completely destroyed....

"I have no time to write at length. I can say that terrible things are happening here. All this makes my blood curdle and I wonder over and over again how it is possible that a man can be such a barbarian and do such things. This is terrible, horrendous I do not dare and have no time to write extensively. I can say that Luma no longer exists. Everything has been turned into corpses, ashes and dust. There were villages with 100, 150 or 200 households in which absolutely no one was left alive. No one, I tell you ! They rounded up 40 to 50 people and slaughtered them all with knives. Ordinary looting is carried out everywhere. The officers seized hold of whole flocks of livestock and put their soldiers to sell them in Prizren..."
- From a letter of a Serb soldier in 1912.



Albanian popular song:
Dedicated to the fighting between Albania and Serbia in 1912.

Rapsodi popullor këtë ngjarje historike e përjetësojë përmes vargjeve si:

”Ka hi serbi n´at´Prizren,
po i thot`Lumës: ”Lirom ven!”
-“Nuk jam mbreti, po jam Luma,
t´mushi gjiksin plot me plumba!
”Kur vikati Islam spahija:
”Bini djem,se shkoi Shipnija!”
-“Bini djem - thrret Ramadani
-bini djem se shkoi vatani!

”Gryka e Shejës po rredh gjak,
po i thot Drinit:
”Ndihmom pak
Ndihmom pak, n´dash me m´ndihmue,
kllade t´mdhaja jam tuj çue”.
Krajli i serbit ban: ”Medet,
m´faroi Luma askerin krejt!
ma faroi askerin e ngrat
burrat me pushk´`e grat me spatë”.

-“Kadal , krajl u mlofsh me morre,
dymdhetmi t`metën pa vorre!”
Djemt´e Lumës hiq s´kan dert,
ka ni luftë bajn´vjet për vjet,
luft´ me krajl e luft´ me mbret...”
(...)-Hasi shpat e gur e kep
vend për vend pushka kërset
shkoj kukuja shpi për shpi
I preu Hasi 3 mijë shkijë...”-

“(...) Krejt Opoja u mlu n`zi
Prej Prizrenit ter n´Dri
Tre ditë luftë e tre ditë zi
u vranë shkije përmi tre mijë...”

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