5 hours agoResumption of Kosovo by Serbian Army in 1918
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)At the end of World War I, with the removal of the Austro-Hungarian forces in October-November 1918 Kosovo and the other trains inhabited by Albanians, who the London Conference of 1913 had donated to Serbia-Montenegro, were rerun by the Serbian Army. Albanians' hopes that the outcome of the war and peaceful agreements [...]
The hopes of Albanians that the outcome of the war and peaceful agreements would correct the unjust decisions of the powers were in vain, writes Armend Memeti in today's daily number.
The Great Powers not only recognised Serbia's sovereignty over these regions, but they were being launched by the 1915 Secret Treaty of London aimed to break up Albania in 1913 further by offering Albanian territories to Italy, Greece and Serbia.
In this way, Kosovo Albanians and other Albanian regions after World War I remained under Serbian rule, now under the new name Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom, declared on December 1, 1918 after the union of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians in a joint state.
But despite the creation of a new kingdom, which claimed to be a modern state of time, negative attitudes towards Albanians did not change at all. The same Serbian policy of persecution and expulsion of Albanians from their parts continued. In fact, the Kingdom SKS did not consider Albanians as an ethnic minority even though it had signed on September 10th 1919 the Saint Zerman Treaty of Minorities, particularly Article 2 stressed: the Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian states are bound to provide full and general protection of life and freedom regardless of its origin, language, race or religious belief <x29%, and Article 7: <x2non> the restriction in which each of its citizens of the Serbian State-Croats have access or private trade reports, or reruns, or public meetings, which had done directly to the Albanian press.
