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Komita, is it a christian thing to do what the serbs did as the passage below describes? What do you think god was thinking at the time???
In the portion of Macedonia that Serbia occupied in the Balkan War of 1913 and conveniently renamed “Southern Serbia”, Serbian authorities undertook a program to “Serbianize” the Macedonian population through the destruction of Macedonia’s centuries-old cultural and religious heritage. In Black Hand over Europe, Henri Pozzi describes the cultural state of Macedonia upon its becoming a Serbian province in 1918:
Macedonia had more then 700 churches: she also possessed 86 colleges or secondary schools, with 2,800 students and 460 professors: 556 primary schools with 33,000 scholars and 850 teachers. The convents and Churches contained inestimable treasures – the fruits of a thousand years of Macedonian culture and thought.
The churches, monasteries and schools have been confiscated, all the priests, all the teachers have been expelled, imprisoned or deported into Old Serbia. The churches and monasteries, which even the Turks themselves had respected, have been pillaged from top to bottom.
As a part of the program to extend Serbian control to Macedonia, the Serbian language was forcibly imposed on to the population, and Macedonian surnames were changed to Serbian forms. Brutal police measures were applied systematically. Common methods of interrogation included crushing toes with a hammer, drilling teeth, and mutilating men’s and women’s genitals. Prisons were filled with men, women and children crowded in cells too small to permit movement. Macedonian women were typically whipped, beaten and raped, but also subjected to gruesome tortures, such as pouring fuel on their armpits and loins and setting them on fire. Such atrocities instituted as a policy by Zika Lazic, the chief of the state police (and later the Yugoslav minister of the interior), of whom the following description was offered by a French author:
I was at Belgrade, in July 1932, dinning at the Excelsior Restaurant behind the royal palace…. Lasitch (Lazic) came to sit down next to us….He had just returned from Macedonia where he had been organizing the State Police. I noticed one thing particularly, all the while he was animatedly telling us risqué stories about women, he did not stop picking little flies from the table cloth which he would hold for a moment struggling between his fingers. Then, without stopping his flow of talk, gently one by one, he tore off their wings, and with the end of his cigarette, tapping lightly, unhurriedly, he forced them to crawl by burning their abdomens.. “With the Macedonian women also” he said to us, “in order to render them amorous, when they are insensible, we place hot irons on a good spot
Serbia’s Secret War – Propaganda and the Deceit of History.
By Philip J. Cohen
Page 11
In the portion of Macedonia that Serbia occupied in the Balkan War of 1913 and conveniently renamed “Southern Serbia”, Serbian authorities undertook a program to “Serbianize” the Macedonian population through the destruction of Macedonia’s centuries-old cultural and religious heritage. In Black Hand over Europe, Henri Pozzi describes the cultural state of Macedonia upon its becoming a Serbian province in 1918:
Macedonia had more then 700 churches: she also possessed 86 colleges or secondary schools, with 2,800 students and 460 professors: 556 primary schools with 33,000 scholars and 850 teachers. The convents and Churches contained inestimable treasures – the fruits of a thousand years of Macedonian culture and thought.
The churches, monasteries and schools have been confiscated, all the priests, all the teachers have been expelled, imprisoned or deported into Old Serbia. The churches and monasteries, which even the Turks themselves had respected, have been pillaged from top to bottom.
As a part of the program to extend Serbian control to Macedonia, the Serbian language was forcibly imposed on to the population, and Macedonian surnames were changed to Serbian forms. Brutal police measures were applied systematically. Common methods of interrogation included crushing toes with a hammer, drilling teeth, and mutilating men’s and women’s genitals. Prisons were filled with men, women and children crowded in cells too small to permit movement. Macedonian women were typically whipped, beaten and raped, but also subjected to gruesome tortures, such as pouring fuel on their armpits and loins and setting them on fire. Such atrocities instituted as a policy by Zika Lazic, the chief of the state police (and later the Yugoslav minister of the interior), of whom the following description was offered by a French author:
I was at Belgrade, in July 1932, dinning at the Excelsior Restaurant behind the royal palace…. Lasitch (Lazic) came to sit down next to us….He had just returned from Macedonia where he had been organizing the State Police. I noticed one thing particularly, all the while he was animatedly telling us risqué stories about women, he did not stop picking little flies from the table cloth which he would hold for a moment struggling between his fingers. Then, without stopping his flow of talk, gently one by one, he tore off their wings, and with the end of his cigarette, tapping lightly, unhurriedly, he forced them to crawl by burning their abdomens.. “With the Macedonian women also” he said to us, “in order to render them amorous, when they are insensible, we place hot irons on a good spot
Serbia’s Secret War – Propaganda and the Deceit of History.
By Philip J. Cohen
Page 11
JK not your fault.
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