Luma region is a region situated mostly 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, from Prizeren city to the border between Kosovo and Albania.
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During the Balkan war, Bozidar Jankovic, the general of the invading Serbian army, ordered his army to commit massacres of the Abanians of Luma resulting in entire villages being burned down with the inhabitants being burned alive or slaughtered.
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 commit massacres of the Abanians of Luma resulting in entire villages being burned down with the inhabitants being burned or slaughtered 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 colleague of Freundlich wrote "It is all so inconceivable, and yet it is true!" Four hundred men from Luma who gave themselves up voluntarily were taken to Prizren and executed day after day in groups of forty to sixty.