The Photo Collection of Edith Durham

Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo, 1903 - 1913

ED008_RAI 400.13138 Albania. Shpend Deli (Deli Shpend) and his men as refugees from Vuthaj/Vusanje, now in Montenegro (Photo: Edith Durham, 1913). “Not satisfied with their attack on the Moslems in March, the Montenegrins, while I was still in the mountains in August, fell on the Moslem village of Vuthaj. I was waked early on the 21st by a man just in, with the news that the soldiers had attacked the village before dawn, broken in the doors, seized the sleeping inmates, and driven out many with bayonets, and either shot or bayoneted them on the road. He himself had seen eight bodies, full of bayonet wounds, and had fled to save his life. Most of the survivors fled to the Albanian mountains. Their property was some of the most fertile land in the district, and for this reason they were raided.” (Edith Durham, The Struggle for Scutari, 1914).