ljuma

Updated: May 15, 2025

A Serb officer nearly choked with laughter over his beer, as he told how his men had bayoneted the women and children of Ljuma. Moslem men were given the choice of baptism or death, and shot down. The women were unveiled, and they and the children driven to church and baptized. "In one generation we shall thus Serbize the lot!" they said. And later evidence proved that these reports were true.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle