1876–1878 Attacks On Serbs During The Serbian–Ottoman Wars
The events of persecution against the Serbian population occurred in Ottoman Kosovo in 1878, as a consequence of the Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–78).
Incoming Albanian refugees to Kosovo who were expelled by the Serbian army from the Sanjak of Niš were involved in revenge attacks and hostile to the local Serb population. Albanian troops also participated in attacks, at the behest of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
| Attacks on Serbs during the Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878) | |
|---|---|
| Part of Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878) | |
| Location | Kosovo Vilayet |
| Date | 1878 |
| Target | Serbs |
Attack type | Murder, revenge killings |
| Perpetrators | Muhaxhir, Albanian-Ottoman troops |
| Motive | Serbophobia, expulsion of the Albanians, 1877-1878 |
Background
During the Serbian–Ottoman War of 1876–78, between 49,000 and 130,000 Albanians were expelled by the Serb army from the Sanjak of Niš and fled to the Kosovo Vilayet. Within the context of the Serbian–Ottoman Wars, the Sultan Abdul Hamid II unleashed his auxiliary troops consisting of Kosovar Albanians on the remaining Serbs before and after the Ottoman army's retreat in 1878. Tensions in the form of revenge attacks arose by incoming Albanian refugees on local Kosovo Serbs that contributed to the beginnings of the ongoing Serbian-Albanian conflict in coming decades.
Legacy
Ottoman defeat to Serbia alongside new geopolitical circumstances post 1878 opposed by Albanian nationalists resulted in attitudes among them that eventually supported what today is known as "ethnic cleansing" that made part of the Kosovo Serb population to leave.
Prior to the Balkan Wars (1912–13), Kosovo Serb community leader Janjićije Popović stated that the wars of 1876–1878 "tripled" the hatred of Turks and Albanians, especially that of the refugee population from the Sanjak of Niš toward Serbs by committing acts of violence against them.
References
- Institut za savremenu istoriju (2007). Gerila na Balkanu (in Serbian). Tokyo: Institute for Disarmament and Peace Studies. (in Serbian)
- Lampe, John R. (28 March 2000). Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77401-7.
- Little, David (2007). Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-85358-3.
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