Politics can forgive the enemy, but our mountains do not!

When the Albanian lands remained outside the protection of the Ottoman Empire, Serbia with all the forces it had, without waiting a day, learned the extermination of its Albanian neighbors. Less than two years later, in 1914, through the same roads that the murderous Serbian phalanxes had passed, in 1912, the same phalanxes that had killed and looted the Albanians who were not protected by anyone, from Kurshumlia and Vranja to Durrës and Krujë. they had fled before the Austro-Hungarian army. While the Albanian people still could not say their word, and were still unorganized, they had to listen to the call of the superpowers of the time and open the roads and doors of the houses to the same Serbian army that had massacred and looted them everywhere they had set foot. Serbian, two years ago.

In order not to go into details, these facts speak of the state in which the incorrigibly cruel Serbian neighbor was reduced to within two years. In fact, we must remember the words of two Serbian officers who were part of that murderous expedition, but who left their diaries that clearly testify to the massacres that the Serbian army had done everywhere on the Albanian people. Kosta Novaković wrote that the behavior of Serbs in this way towards their Albanian neighbors will cost Serbia centuries and Serbia will definitely pay the price of the crimes. Dimitrie Tucoviq also sends a letter to the newspaper "Socialisticka Zora", which was the organ of the Serbian Social Social Democrats, and in that letter he tells the editor-in-chief that if he does not publish it, his name will be written in the black chronicle of the Serbian bourgeoisie as a co-leader of crimes against vulnerable Albanians.

The centenary chronicle of Serbian crimes against Albanians is long and it continued until today, until the last struggle of the Albanians for the liberation of Kosovo.

Even after the end of the war in Kosovo, the Serbian regimes continued every other type of anti-Albanian propaganda to this day. Those Serbs who want peace with the Albanians are still numerically few and their strength is negligible. Even now, for 24 years, the Serbian regime has taken care to eliminate every individual Serb who has written something about Serbian-Albanian reconciliation: starting with closing electronic media, radio and TV, closing daily and weekly newspapers just because they wrote something positive for Kosovo and the Albanians. Editors and journalists have been excluded for a news or interview with Albanians. Serbian university professors and historians have been fired, just because they wrote something about reconciliation between Serbs and Albanians.

Following this chronology, we have also seen the dismissal of the president of ASShA who spoke publicly about the real relations between Serbia and Kosovo. Even a young journalist of the "Blic" newspaper who had published an interview with an Albanian woman who had participated in a court session for Serbian war crimes in Kosovo did not escape lynching and dismissal from her job. The writings of rare Serbian authors who dare to talk about reconciliation with Albanians still continue, but with full awareness of what awaits them from the current Serbian regime.

Even about the missing in the last war in Kosovo, another Serbian journalist wrote not only about those whose names are in the notebooks of the government, but also about the disappeared who had never been recorded in any notebook. "Those who disappeared during the war, whose names and surnames are known and who are registered somewhere in some notebook, are not completely disappeared", writes the Serbian journalist and adds: "Disappeared are those who were not registered in any ledger and no one from the authorities no matter who they are speaks about their end. For this category of missing persons, the government refuses to discuss anything".

There were unregistered and missing people during the entire Ottoman occupation, even during the entire Serbian occupation, but there are still today. There were Albanians not registered in any register both in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and in Tito's former Yugoslavia. Even today there are living Albanians who wander unregistered anywhere. Proof of this is the current erasure of the addresses of Albanians living in the Presheva Valley.

The four Albanian vilayets that were still under Ottoman administration, even in 1912, had not seriously understood the plight in which the Ottoman Empire had fallen. In what state of economic and social misery the Balkans were emerging after the five-hundred-year Ottoman occupation, historians have written very little only in a generalized way about the great truth. If the First World War had not started, these "feudalities" of today's Balkans would not have come out of the Ottoman clutches for another five centuries. This conclusion comes from the writings of the German newspapers of the time.

The great powers of the time were focused on the complete destruction of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire spanned three continents and its defense had become so difficult that it almost seemed impossible. From the German and Austrian press of the time, it can be seen that the Balkans did not even have a theoretical possibility of gaining independence from the Ottoman Empire. Even if all the peoples of the Balkans joined together, they would not drive away the Ottoman army for five hundred years. Serbia and Montenegro had emerged from the Congress of Berlin with some independence, in a poor economic and social condition, but they were supported with weapons, soldiers, (barely volunteers) and Russian officers. Neither Serbia, which was only in the Paschalek of Smedereva, nor Montenegro, which had not yet conquered the Albanian lands from Ulcinj and Tivari and the provinces of Plava and Gucia, could not dream of having bread to pass the winter, let alone occupying the lands which were still within the borders of the Turkish Empire.

The Ottoman army had to defend Istanbul and was forced to withdraw the bulk of the army from its borders in the Balkans. If Serbia and Montenegro had received some form of state, the question arises, what was the situation in the Albanian lands and at what level was the internal organization of the Albanians?

It is a fact that the Ottoman Empire finally promised the Albanians autonomy, but they remain outside the Ottoman border without protection, without autonomy, exactly when they needed it. At what level of organization the Albanians themselves were, no one can describe. The reforms that were being sought by some new organizations within the Empire, it was impossible to realize at a time when the country was attacked from all four sides by the alliances of the time.

The movement of people within the empire could not be controlled. For the relocation of Albanians from their lands, the religion of Islam also helped. The broad popular mass in the Albanian lands still thought that the sultan would return. There are also concrete agreements for the so-called exchange of the Muslim population with the Christian one.

Let's face it, our people's awareness of national belonging was too low. There is a mountain of evidence for this. Albanians primarily considered themselves Muslims. But we must also consider 500 years of occupation, not 50 years, but 500 years. Even the resistance of the Albanians against assimilation can be called a great victory if we take into account how many centuries they were under the rule of the Ottoman government.

The First Balkan War was no war at all, but an expedition of savage butchers and criminals. None of the states of this part of Europe had the courage to face the Ottoman army, which was retreating before the great powers. The great powers of the time had their eye on the decaying empire. They were in no hurry to do something in the Balkans. England and France with Russia on one side, had made plans for the definitive dismemberment of the two empires of the time: the extinction and dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. The neighboring states of the Albanians had only one plan: to conquer as much land as possible of the future Albania, which still did not even appear on paper.

Only the siege of Shkodra by the Montenegrins lasted six months. Shkodra was protected by 13,600 Turkish soldiers and ten thousand Albanian volunteers (according to real sources of the time). On the other hand, independence was declared in Vlora by Ismail Qamali, but he did not have any strength to protect the country and the much needed order. While Ismail Qemali declared independence in Vlora, on the spot, Esat Pasha declared another independence in Durrës with the support of the Serbs. It is even known that even Korça had declared some independence where the Greek army had penetrated, in full cooperation with the Serbs.

At that time, when the news penetrated with great difficulty, Serbia knew in its entirety the general political, economic and social situation of the Albanian people. She rushed towards the Albanian lands with an army mobilized by force, without determining the age of the soldiers (there is evidence for this). That so-called Serbian army could be anything but an army. Serbia was not able to provide the soldiers with clothing, but it had learned the occupation. The leaders of Belgrade, knowing that they have no military protection in the four Albanian vilayets, rushed with all their forces on the civilian population. In 1912, the Serbian army massacred thousands of defenseless Albanian civilians, whom it called Muslim Arnauts. That army of Serbian butchers penetrated deeply into Albania, conquering Tirana and Durrës, and approaching Vlora as well. The Serbs penetrated from the north and east of Albania, while the Greeks from the south. Their goal was the division of Albania in Shkumbin.

The Serbian escape in 1914 took place along the same roads that this army had washed with the blood of Albanians in 1912. With everything the soldiers had, with every weapon that the crushed soldiers could carry, they began to flee in two directions. One towards Thessaloniki and the other towards northern Albania to go to Durrës. In all the history books it is written "The retreat of the Serbian army", but it was not a retreat, but fled (ran away) with everything it could move. You can even imagine the Serbian king Petar Karaxhorxević himself riding in a wooden chariot pulled by sticks and fleeing through Albania. Austria-Hungary had not given him a deadline for withdrawal. Although it is said in the Serbian history books that the attack happened because Serbia rejected the ultimatum it had received from Austria-Hungary, the facts say that Serbia had accepted all the Austro-Hungarian demands. The great powers guaranteed the departure of the Serbian army through Albania by also ensuring their transportation by ship to Corfu.

The great powers could guarantee the Serbian army from the revolt of the Albanians (Albania did not have any strength to do anything), but the endless columns of Serbs who had fled, could not be insured even by the terrible winter of the mountains with snow and ice. Through the mountains of northern Albania, the bones of thousands of Serbian soldiers, most of them without clothes, with torn clothing, were left in the cold. The number of Serbian soldiers who died of hunger and cold was never known. Serbia says over 300 thousand, but this figure is a big lie.

After the end of the First World War, England, France and Russia returned the Serbian army to their state that they had prepared for them in advance, after Austria-Hungary had capitulated. The Anglo-Franco-Russian alliance managed to destroy the three-hundred-year-old Austro-Hungarian empire, but not the Ottoman Empire, which managed to consolidate to some extent, but never again in the previous borders.

The independence of Albania was recognized in 1913, but the consolidation took a long time, all because of the clans, tribes and fatal factionalisms, which the newly formed Albanian government could not reconcile. While Albania was consolidating within the borders we still see today, more than half of the lands of the four Albanian vilayets were annexed by Serbia, Greece and Montenegro (North Macedonia was not known at that time). The victorious powers of the First World War, Serbia are given the lands of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Vojvodina. Thus the Kingdom of Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian was formed. Montenegro lost its citizenship.

Serbia never apologized to the Albanian people for all the massacres it had committed, but continued with the same policy that it had started with the Project of Garashanin, Čubrillović, Andrić, etc. Instead of seeking friendship with the Albanians, Serbia did not leave violence without using it against the Albanians until today. Even after a hundred years, the Serbs did not apologize to the Albanians for all the bad things they did to them during the three invasions. Even the Albanians didn't remember even though they went through all that crap. When he saw how disorganized the Albanians are, Serbian officer Kosta Novakovic wrote: "If the Albanians were organized, they would strangle us with wood, leave without weapons."

From 1918 onwards until the beginning of the Second World War (the annexation of Kosovo) the Serbian government brought three times as many settlers to Kosovo. Even the power of the Yugoslav partisans from 1945 onwards brought thousands of Serbian and Malaysian settlers to Kosovo. Even when Serbia suffered a heavy defeat from Croatia in the last war, it brought many refugee settlers to Kosovo from there. The Serbian colonization of Kosovo continued until the appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army.