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First dissertation chetniks as genocicdal loyalists who

murdered muslims, catholics, communists, and
collaborated with anyone.
Armenian Genocide Forgotten
Root of all the tragedies in Yugoslavia Kosovo 1990s
WWII
1) Inflammatory discourse, stygmitisation 2) who, how,
the crisis as tipping point 3) Crisis = change from war to
geno = detail activities
Monastir best sources to buld chronological picuture.

Structure
1) Inflammatory discourse, stygmitisation 2) who, how,
the crisis as tipping point 3) Crisis = change from war to
geno = detail activities
Monastir best sources to buld chronological picuture.

Sources
National Archive
Leon Trotsky
Go to souce and avoid the Balkan bias
Done once before 1913 in report but nothing came as
fww
Few academic souces, patchwork

Christian Utopia
Christoslavic identity, to be Slavic, one must be Christian, to be serb
Characteristics of Sava Vengeful, Punishment, fiery temper.
Royal family sainted meant creaton of Holy Serbia with Holy church and state
divine right
Byzantine empire collapses like ottomans will and Uros capitalises until
Dusan the mighty peaks from Greece to bosnia, from the adriartic to the
black sea.
Uros the weak divides the empire, Ottomans come, and force battle.
SHAKESPEARAN TRAGEDY Vuk(Judas) accuses obilic(Peter) of disloyalty on
LAST SUPPER, so he gos and murders murad in his tent, son fights vuk runs
and Christ prince and Serbia are martyred on the black birds. National
disaster
CHRIST KILLERS UTOPIA RUINED DESTINY

Ottoman Occupation
Be fair everyone raped and pillaged but although there were considerable
periods of peace and stability, this is what is rememberd in the nationalist
histories.
Millet system poor house, poor dress, more tax, poll tax, forded public
works, no land ownership, second class citizen.
SOC destroyed along with binding serb identity made to work through greek
patriarchate,
Devsirme steal kids for janiisaries , civil service, or servitude.
Austria back and forth with ottomans making reprisals for Christian support.
Great Migration reprisals push serbs north and muslims settle.
Between 1/5th to 1/3rd of the Balkans had become Muslim by 1700
TOTAL OTHERNESS

Bandits and Heroes

Kraljevic The Moorish maiden took me, encircling me with her black arms, and
when I looked on her, on her black face and white teeth, a loathing got hold of me, I
drew the rich wrought sabre, and smote her on the silken girdle, that the sabre cut
clean through her. - deception of love, racism, violence against women, unhuman,
Turkish rule, obilic.
(1912) in the name of our motherland and cross ; exterminate the enemy he comes
from sleeping in a cave
Grujo Attack on motherhood, on mother, on family, traitors.
Karadgoerge, cleared Belgrade of 8000 muslims. Bard Filip Vishnjich in the middle
of the field kara drew his sword, and cut away the heads of the oppressors, then
George went in and entered the cities, he cut whatever turk was for cutting, wjat was
for handing over he gave out, what needed christening, he christened it. - holy act,
anyone obiic, racial, fled to Austria.
Obrenovic begaln on palm Sunday with cross banner undfurling 18151 kill all un
muslim dress destroyed mosques, graves etc in old Serbia won autonomy in 1817

Despots and National Liberation

With the spread of Napoleonic republican nationalism
Serbia embarkes on state building program to take
advantage of ottoman crises to win concessions. Feeling
that Dusans empire is coming back with the destiny of
utopia.
Schools and church mean more influence and rally more
people
1903 conspirator responsible for the assassination, the
Balkan war genocide, and arch duke franz Ferdinand.
Obrenovic did not satisfy national goals of expansion.

Literature and political movements

Karadzich = Radovan karadzic folk writer sponsored by Italian Romantic folk writer Sergio
bonazza to collect poems and included these dialects
19th century is when marko becomes turk killer
Biogs of leaders Vuk Karadzic of karag whoever is of serb blood, whoever shares heritage with
me, and he comes not to fight at Kosovo, may he never have progeny, his hearts desires, no son
nor daughter, let nothing beneath his hand grow, let him rust away until his name is
extinguished. - used cleanse to describe kara in 1806.
5 million stovakian, only 3 million serb set language barriers for yugo and conquest. More
inclusive identity problem.
Njegos writes of previous vladika who is unable to settle dispute with local muslim tribe so
massacres them all and comes back and gets communtion without confession, - baptism for
muslims required. have done with minarets and mosques, let flare the Serbian log, paint gaily
too the eggs of easter tide, observe with care the auruum feasts, and for the rest, do what is dear
to thee! If ye do not takethe council I give, why I swear inn the name of obilic, both our faths will
swim in blood and which is better will not drown. burn houses extermination leading politican
Garashanin First strike south gainst weakeneing ottomans and gather as many serbs for push
north for real enemy Austria,

 Crumbling empire power vaccum, get the serbs before someone else does.
Macedonia crisis, tax laws spark rebellion, banidts on all sides bully communities
for alliegence, Serbia supplied bandits who rob turks and attack Bulgarians,
Austria annexes Bosnia Got to get now, outline right.
Young turks take away schools an threaten churches to standardise and
ottomanise homogenise
Bulgarian church and country with designs in Macedonia
Albanian codification of language and autonomy, Revolt of 30,000 thar reached
Pristina
Serbs being pushed out of Kosovo by rebellion and taking horror stories up north.
THREATS FROM ALL SIDES OF EXTINCTION

Total War
Every part of society involved battle of races, battle for survivial,
life or death extremes, Sacrifice all.
Trotsky - the whole of Belgrade is a military camp.
law 1484 for all Montenegrins to battle led to 13 year old being
spotted by reg rankin Lt-col.. - also saw 19 year old girl in band
Phillip gibbs saw young women doing army trinaing and priests
wutg guns.
We our women and children fight, so could theirs
Romanticism of women urgeing ment o fight and men rushing off
to do their duty.
Plausible deniability.

Transmission
80% of Serbia and 50% of montnegro illiterate in 1911
Church wanted monestaries back in Kosovo and Macedonia from dusans time and
recapture influence. Churches paint 1389 with saints and tell psudeo history st
obilic turk killer Zlatari monastery headless muslim and obilic on a horse with
halo national holidays to rally Kosovo ethic return to Kosovo as birthplace of
serbia
Schools Phil gibbs terrible turk they are taught to hade in nurseries and in
churches and fireplaces Eliz durham - teacher I teack children to be patriots
reeks of propaganda youth movements slovenski jug (Slavonic south)
Press - extreme parties with papers piedmont reprinted mountain wreath in full
in 1911, king donated 20,000 dinars to extreme paper piedmont farewell father
farewell dear morhter, I can no longer stay with your, if the king calls me in to
battle for vengeance, dont wait for me nurture me no more, god save you,
farewell, god bless you, and mourn my young life, ..- reminisces of serbs for
serbia

Agents of Terror
The Black Hand, most extreme, gavrillo princip, first world war, action and dissatisfied with
Narodna. I becoming a member of the organisation swear by the sun which is shining on me,
by the earth that is feeding me, by good, by the blood of my ancestors, by my honour and my
life, that from this moment until my death I will serve faithfully the cause of this organisation
and will always be ready to undergo any sacrifices for it. I swear by god by honour and my life
that I will carry out all orders and commands unconditionally. I swear by god and the honour of
my life thart I shall take to the grave all the secrets of this organisation.
Narodna odbrana - formed as buffer for potential Austrian invasion in 1908, regular militia but
under command of agents of the Black Hand
Women who form logistics train for men and follow in case of wounding form constanct pool of
willng robbers and moral support. burn let them burn
APIS Col in military intelligence, worked with Macedonian bandits in 1903-5, recruited mosly
military men so good links between para and military, good training, state instructed and
sponsored by minister of war stepanovic and foreign minisert milanovic later sponsored
princip and was 1903 assassinator
Narodna odbrana, Serbian defence, and black hand all anti Islamic and violent

Conduct of the War

Serbia King Peter I Recent events have placed on the
agenda the fate of the Balkan peninsular, this is a war
to free our brothers by blood, by language, by custom
-champion Christianity, mentions of slavery and
revenge
Rmove punish kill became the order of the day to
change ethnography suit land grab
All combatants guilty, cannot determine start, only the
circle of violence reinforced more and more extreme
violence
Serbia 350,000 men and Montenegro 36,000
menagainst ottoman 280,000

Expropriation and Eviction

Indirect destruction
Women key to this E Durham Mother what have you there, clothes, did you steal
them, no I found them, and if you take the childrens clothes they will die in the winer,
god willing, they are muslim!
Armies killed as they looted Leon Trotsky as soon as they crossed the border villages
went up in pillars of fire same task, murder and pillage mountain wreath we put
fire to the Turkish houses so there may be no trace of these true servants of the devil
Revenge for millet have and have not get good houses- extortionate tax rates
reversed
Mosque in Sulup, families bought there ransome, locked in mosque, then blown up
Prizren of 38 mosques in 1910, 4 left in 1914
Rrestorring dusan by resetting the clock like pol pot
At least 150,000 Bulgarian and 239,825 muslims ovet the age of 6 fled between 1912
and 1914 = total 389, 825

Conversion
Muslims forced to eat sausage and be baptised
Bulgarian church gun at the back and pledge of loyalty
Preists deported if congregations did not convert- or prison until they all do
500 Slavic muslims shot when leader failed to convert them
Trapped with large numbers in peace time no deportation or killing
More than 13,000 formally converted
1)we are familiar with the history and we have been serbs since ancient times 2)
there is no difference in nationality or faith or language or customs 3) our
ancestors and we are serbs and under the recent Bulgarian propaganda we begun
to turn to Bulgaria to better free orselved from the turk 4)we will work shoulder to
shoulder to create a greater Serbia 5)serbs have made superhuman efforts and
sacrifice to put an end to our servirude 6)Before and after the war serbs treated us
as brothers 7)we condemn the Bulgarian attack on Serbia 8)we declaire our
solidarity with the liberators serbia

Murder and Massacre

Inhuman vince consulate staff in monsastir heard convo = first man, then ape, then
Albanian
Newspaper report it is horrible, I dare not tell you more but I may say that ljuma no longer
exists (river with same name) there is nothing but corpses, villages of 200 houses but not
a single man, literally not one
E Durham met perp of this crime and he said they had destroyed the Ljuma tribe because
they shot a telegraphist
Strumunista - Major Grbits- is he good or bad, only one need condemn or none, 4000
alone this way, robbed first then taken to slaughter house. appearance of law
Bulgarian priest killed and laid on street for 3 days because nobody wanted to be seen
burying him
Black house compartmentalised violence torture
Serbian soldiers stab 4year old daughter of todor Kamchev because wife refuses to bribe
them
Trotsky - 20,000 in one Kosovo region and 50,000 in pristine

Monastir
40,000 mainly Albanian muslim and greek
British consulate estimated 14,000 refugees