73 years ago, the Tivar massacre occurred

In Tivar on April 1, 1945, about 1st, some 1700 Albanians were killed and massacred, though the memories of witnesses experiencing this massacre result in that number being much larger.

In the second half of 1944, while the Allied American-Greek forces advanced on all fronts of the war against the Hitler army, Tito used these circumstances to fight Albanian National Defence Forces and re-invasion Kosovo. To make its goals easier, the Yugoslav leadership, in early January 1945, orders the mobilization of the “-Comet brigade” to be sent to the so-called Sremit Front of Serbia.

Although the centre of Albanian resistance in the second half of December 1944-January 1945 was focusing on Drenica, ” Cosmet operational staff” ordered Shaban Pollusha to release Drenica and head toward Podujevo to join the V Brigade. II, which was marching for Serbia.

The headquarters of Drenica Brigade out of Kosovo will condition it with the break-up of killings and looting over the civilian population on the part of the Yugoslav Army, but after failing to submit Saban Polouse on January 25th, military operations begin on a large scale to eliminate its Brigade.