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Rugova massacre

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Target
  
Albanians,

Location
  
Rugova

Attack type
  
Mass murder

Date
  
16 February 1919

Total number of deaths
  
432

Perpetrators
  
Serbian forces, and Montenegrin forces

The Rugova massacre was a series of killings of Albanians committed by Serbian and Montenegrin forces in the Rugova region on February 16, 1919. The soldiers burned women and children, raped and massacred a total amount of 432 Albanians. The report was collected by two priests in exile who compiled it and handed it to the British Brigadier General George Fraser Philips, head of the British Military Control Commission in Albania and Montenegro, in Shkodra. The survivors fled into the Gjakova Highlands in Albania.

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Rugova massacre Wikipedia