The Balli Kombëtar in Macedonia

[Liberator of Makedonija]

Recently read up in on the Balli Kombëtar and their role in western Macedonia during WWII. My reading was brief and mainly mentioned massacres committed against Macedonians how that Tetovo became their base of operations for launching attacks in Macedonia, as well as Kosovo.

Starting this thread for any relevant information and discussion in regards to the Balli Kombëtar and their activities in Macedonia.

[tchaiku]

https://espressostalinist.com/genoci...nian-genocide/

[Soldier of Macedon]

Originally Posted by tchaiku

https://espressostalinist.com/genoci...nian-genocide/

The OP clearly stated that he wants to open up a discussion about Balli Kombëtar and their activities in Macedonia. Your link mentions nothing about Balli Kombëtar, it is all about Serbian aggression against ethnic Albanians. If you want to open up such a topic, then do so and be prepared to defend the information you present, but don't pollute this thread with some amateurish attempt at one-upmanship.

[Liberator of Makedonija]

The Fourth Macedonian (Albanian) Brigade of the National Liberation Army of Macedonia, comprised of Albanians from western Macedonia.

https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7...B0%D0%B4%D0%B0

[tchaiku]

Originally Posted by Soldier of Macedon

The OP clearly stated that he wants to open up a discussion about Balli Kombëtar and their activities in Macedonia. Your link mentions nothing about Balli Kombëtar, it is all about Serbian aggression against ethnic Albanians. If you want to open up such a topic, then do so and be prepared to defend the information you present, but don't pollute this thread with some amateurish attempt at one-upmanship.

The Albanians were focused on expelling Serbian settlers. I don't think they attacked Macedonians. I don't really know.

[Liberator of Makedonija]

Originally Posted by tchaiku

The Albanians were focused on expelling Serbian settlers. I don't think they attacked Macedonians. I don't really know.

That seems naive to even assume. If the Ballists attacked Serbs in Kosovo, is it then not fair to even assume they attacked Macedonians in Macedonia? The correct answer is that they did by the way, they did attack Macedonians.

[Om3n]

The BK was active against the Italian presence in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia which now roughly corresponds to their idea of "Greater Albania". In 1943 when the Germans took over they became allies of the Nazis and some were conscripted to the SS Skanderbeg, maybe because the Germans promised them the realisation of their goal.

[Carlin15]

- The Ballists in Kosovo and Western Macedonia rose to prominence following the capitulation of Italy in September 1943. They seized Struga and Debar from the Italians on 9 September 1943, taking much of the military equipment left behind.

- Xhafer Deva, a leading Ballist from Kosovo, was appointed Minister of the Interior in the Government of Rexhep Mitrovica and collaborated with the Germans to oppose the spread of Communist forces in the north.

- After World War II ended, the Balli Kombëtar were defeated by Yugoslav and Albanian communists. The Ballists were so thoroughly discredited by their collaboration with the Nazis that there was no chance of them having a role in postwar Albania, though it took until 1945 to finish them off. Ironically, the Ballists' decision to work with the Nazis brought about the one thing they had sought to prevent – a Communist-dominated government. Balli Kombëtar fighters fled the Balkans to Austria, the United States, Australia, Switzerland and South America. The Ballists who did not escape were executed. An organization was set up in exile.

- "Balli Kombetar, however, preferred German rule to Italian and, believing that only the Germans would allow Kosovo to remain Albanian after the war, began to collaborate."

Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balli_Komb%C3%ABtar

Massacre in Belichica: mass murder committed by the Ballists against the Macedonian population from the village of Belichica on September 19, 1944. In fighting with the Ballists, 19 Partisans from the Third Tetovo Squad died. After the end of the battle with the partisans, the Ballists killed 17 women, children and elders from the village, and then burned the whole village to the ground. Four partisans were captured, two of which were shot in Tetovo two days later, on September 21.

After the war, a monument was built in ​​Trnitsa dedicated to the killed partisans and inhabitants of the village of Belichica in this massacre.


Link:
https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C...B8%D1%86%D0%B0

Lest we forget

Загинати партизани во Беличица

Тодор Циповски - Мерџан (роден 1920 во Тетово)
Ѓоце Стојчевски - Амбарче (роден 1920 во Тетово)
Христо Антески (роден 1925 во с. Требош, Тетовско)
Мурат Бафтијари (роден 1918 во с. Вејце, Тетовско)
Боро Вулиќ (роден 1925 во с. Биела, Коњиц, Босна и Херцеговина)
Александар Здравковски - Санко (роден 1922 во с. Брезно, Тетовско)
Владимир Јаниќ (роден 1920 во с. Биела, Коњиц, Босна и Херцеговина)
Трпе Јованоски - Мишка (роден 1924 во Тетово)
Александар Јованоски - Журчин (роден 1927 во Тетово)
Борче Кочоски (роден 1925 во Тетово)
Љубомир Момироски (роден 1928 во Тетово)
Михајло Раичевиќ (роден 1924 во с. Стронци, Крушевац, Србија)
Пано Симоски (роден 1926 во Тетово)
Драгомир Стефановиќ (роден 1923 во с. Божурно, Прокупље, Србија)
Љубица Стефановиќ (родена 1926 во с. Божурно, Прокупље, Србија)
Љубомир Стефановиќ (роден 1922 во с. Божурно, Прокупље, Србија)
Андреја Стојановиќ (роден 1923 во с. Божурно, Прокупље, Србија)
Саво Тасески (?)
Благоја Тоскоски - Тоска (роден 1922 во Тетово)

Стрелани партизани во Тетово

Младен Симоски - Требош (роден 1923 во Тетово)
Андреја Христоски - Шварц (роден 1919 во Тетово)

Загинати селани

Список на загинатите селани во Трница
Калина Јовановска (родена во 1925 година)
Тодор Ѓурчиновски (роден во 1904 година)
Петар Атанасовски (роден во 1908 година)
Анестија Богучевска (родена во 1878 година)
Наталија Богучевска (родена во 1913 година)
Ана Бибовска (родена во 1858 година)
Нада Брајковска (родена во 1932 година)
Сара Брајковска (родена во 1878 година)
Лена Ѓурчиновска (родена во 1868 година)
Лиска Јовановска (родена во 1856 година)
Лефтер Јовановски (роден во 1931 година)
Параскева Брајковска (родена во 1912 година)
Адам Метаниевски (родена во 1929 година)
Сара Богучевска (родена во 1868 година)
Ценија Богучевска (родена во 1928 година)
Грозда Богучевска (родена во 1930 година)
Соломија Јовановска (родена во 1883 година)



Ne placete stari majki - Partisan song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lv9uTzgILA

[Liberator of Makedonija]

Tchaiku, read Carlin's post and that will show that Ballists indeed did attack Macedonians, not sure why anyone would believe they only attacked Serbs.

[Carlin15]