MASAKRA E BLLACËS - AKT GJENOCIDIAL I BRIGADËS XVI MAQEDONASE
THE MASSACRE AT BLLACA – AN ACT OF GENOCIDE BY THE MACEDONIAN XVI BRIGADE

Summary/Abstract: The Albanian village of Bllacë belongs to the ethnographic province of Shkupi’s Montenegro, in the border with Hani i Elezit. In the first days before the village fell under occupation of Yugoslav partisan army, the Macedonian XVI Brigade, known as Bloodthirsty (sanguinary) Macedonian Brigade, under the command of the Serbian Albano - phobic Glisha Sharanoviq, who organised a raid (ragging) of genocide against the village. Order for the ragging carried out the commander Nikodin Urdarevski, from the village Çiçer of Shkupi’s Montenegro, who commanded a unit of 300 soldiers. Serbian – Vlachos and Bulgarian – Macedonian partisans shot and massacred 109 Albanians from Bllaca, expulsed (displaced) all the inhabitants, plundered all personal estates and set on fire (burned) whole village, except the house of one of their confident (spy). In the memory from the day of burial, on November 22nd, 1944 are evidenced 128 shot and throat-cut: 1 on November 15th, 119 on November 16th and 8 on November 17th. The martyrs, whose names are not known, belonged to the villages of Illirida (Western Macedonia).

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