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Previ
Guci
Plavë
Andrevicë
Nokshiq
Location of Previ in the area
The massacre at the Previ Pass ( Albanian Qafa e Previsë ) took place in the course of the Balkan Wars on March 9, 1913 after the Plava and Gucia Valley had been conquered by the Kingdom of Montenegro on October 8, 1912 . 700 Albanian boys and men from the villages of Martinaj , Pepaj , Vuthaj , as well as the villages of Plava and Gucia were arrested and brought to the Previ pass, tied up in rows of two. There they had to dig their own graves before they were executed by the "Beranska Brigada" ( German Brigade von Beran , Albanian Brigada e Beranës ).
Responsible for the murder of 63 men from the village of Vuthaj and dozens of others from the area was the first brigadier in the Veshoviq valley before moving to Deçan in December 1912 . From then on Avro Cemovic , also popularly known as Avro Cemi , was commander-in-chief in the valley. He was later charged with his actions. These included forced conversions to the Serbian Orthodox faith. Innocent citizens were sentenced to death.
Leo Freundlich: Albania's Golgotha - indictments against the exterminators of the Albanian people. Collected and edited by Leo Freundlich, Vienna: Josef Roller, 1913 (32 pages) ( German )
Edith Durham: The Struggle of Scutari (Turk, Slav and Albanian) , London: Edward Arnold 1914, Archive ( English )
Robert Elsie, Bejtullah D. Destani (eds.): Kosovo, A Documentary History: From the Balkan Wars to World War II, IB Tauri, London, New York 2018, excerpt from the massacre on google books ( English )
