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Between 1912 and 1915, 132 Albanian villages were razed to the ground. [5] [6] Many Albanians in the region of Kičevo were killed by Bulgarian forces between 1915-1918. [7] In 1916, many Albanians in Štrpce and Načallnik starved to death or became sick as a result of Bulgarian soldiers seizing the villagers' wheat, which led to a man-made ...
The outbreak of World War I presented more problems for Prince William as Austria-Hungary demanded that he send Albanian soldiers to fight alongside them. When he refused, citing the neutrality of Albania in the Treaty of London , the remuneration that he had been receiving was cut off.
Serbian soldiers broke into the house of an Albanian family, raped the wife and beat the husband until he told them where his daughters were hiding; his daughters were then also raped. [94] According to the Daily Chronicle, Serbian soldiers killed about 2,000 Muslim Albanians in the vicinity of Skopje by 12 November 1912. [3]
Albanian soldiers with captured Italian cannons during the Vlora War, 1920 As a result of these developments, a nationalist, anti-Italian movement surged across the whole of Albania. [ 13 ] Albanian nationalists organized the Congress of Lushnjë in late January 1920, deciding to resist the partition plan and the Italian occupation, and ...
The Greek army entered Albania in November 1912 and its advance was met with local resistance from irregulars. The Greek army in southern Albania engaged in harsh reprisals against civilians. [17] The Greek Army controlled territory that would be later incorporated into the Albanian state before the declaration of Albanian Independence in Vlorë.
Italian soldiers in Vlorë, Albania during World War I. The tricolour flag of Italy, bearing the Savoy royal shield, is shown hanging alongside an Albanian flag from the balcony of the Italian prefecture headquarters. Before direct intervention in the war, Italy had occupied the port of Vlorë in Albania in December 1914. [18]
Not all those who deploy to a war zone experience killing or direct combat, and some troops never get to war at all. But moral injury can occur anywhere. Certainly the technicians working in mortuary affairs at Dover Air Force Base, Del., who handle the remains of Americans killed in combat are exposed to moral trauma.
Austro-Hungarian soldiers executing men and women in Serbia, 1916 [14]. After being occupied completely in early 1916, both Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria announced that Serbia had ceased to exist as a political entity, and that its inhabitants could therefore not invoke the international rules of war dictating the treatment of civilians as defined by the Geneva Conventions and the Hague ...