Luma region

Luma region is a region situated, most of it, in the north-east part of present-day Albania. Only a small portion of it, half of Tërthorë Flag, is situated within the borders of Kosovo[a], from Prizeren city to the border between Kosovo and Albania.

During the Balkan war, Bozidar Jankovic, the general of the invading Serbian army, ordered his army to committ massacres of the Abanians of Luma resulting in entire villages being burned down with the inhabitants being burned or slaughter alive.

Uprising of Lume

Luma was the region where an Albanian uprising against the Serb army happened.

Massacres committed by the Serbian army during 1912

Leo Freundlich, an Austrian correspondent who was in Luma at the time, reported that General Jankovic, , ordered his army to committ massacres of the Abanians of Luma resulting in entire villages being burned down with the inhabitants being burned or slaughter alive. All in all, twenty-seven villages on Luma territory were burnt to the ground and their inhabitants slain, even the children. It was here that one of the most appalling atrocities of the Serbian war of annihilation was committed against the Albanians. Women and children were tied to bundles of hay and set on fire before the eyes of their husbands and fathers. The women were then barbarously cut to pieces and the children bayoneted. A colluege of Freundlich wrote "It is all so inconceivable, and yet it is true!" 400 men from Luma who gave themselves up voluntarily were taken to Prizren and executed day after day in groups of forty to sixty.

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^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has been recognised as an independent state by 108 out of 193 United Nations member states.


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