The atmosphere in Colquitt Village was unusual today. The frightened villagers huddled closely together, looking at the Italian officers and soldiers surrounding them.
"Everyone, according to the decree from Rome, Italian citizenship cannot be granted to you. In addition, according to the immigration decree, everyone has half a day to pack up their belongings and leave Albania for the Ottomans. Now please pack your things."
A government official, accompanied by an interpreter, loudly announced to the surrounded villagers an order from Rome.
Sure enough, the order to expel them immediately caused a commotion among the crowd. If it were not for the Italian officers and soldiers with live ammunition around them, the villagers would have wanted to tear the official who shouted the message alive.
At this time, they can only use their own words to fight back.
"My family has lived here for generations, you can't do this."
"Why should we be expelled? We must protest!"
"We don't want to leave!"
Various voices expressed the anger of the residents at the scene, but the government officials present did not care about the anger of these locals.
He took out his pocket watch, looked at the time and said, "It's 9:12 now. You must leave at 13:12."
Although his voice was not loud, it was extremely intimidating and silenced the noise at the scene.
He was very satisfied with the effect, so he looked at the crowd and continued. "So, you should pack your things quickly, otherwise you will forget something and you won't be able to come back."
Following his words, there was a lot of excitement at the scene. The people immediately rushed back to their homes to clean up. Only two or three kittens were left at the scene.
Among the two or three people, the attire of one of the old men caught the attention of government officials, because he was dressed in clerical attire and looked like an imam.
He walked up to the government official with a serious face. "Your Excellency, when your country treats us like this, aren't you afraid of the violent reaction of international public opinion and the majority of Christian believers?"
Facing this imam who still has some worldview, the government official looked at him seriously. "Then which country will stand up for you? The Ottomans just suffered a defeat. Other powerful countries will not pay much attention to you. As for public opinion,
It is even more impossible to influence the government. As for your believers, what does it have to do with our country? As long as they dare to cause trouble on our territory, we will make them regret not returning to the embrace of Allah."
Facing the government officials who were unable to get enough money, the imam had no other choice but to encourage everyone to resist. Look at the heavily armed Italian officers and soldiers around him, so that the people of Ala would not suffer any more.
At 13:12 in the afternoon, the regrouped local people, dragging their families and their families with what they could carry, left the hometown where they were born and raised under the escort of Italian officers and soldiers. The sounds of crying and crying along the way were very desolate.
As for the bankers in the houses and land, a large number of Italian immigrants will take care of them in the future. Of course, they will not be able to take it away from them in the future.
Tragedies in villages like Colkit can be seen everywhere in Albania and Kosovo. On this day, Italy dispatched 100,000 soldiers and government officials to detain and evict various villages and towns.
Most of these expelled people will pass through the Macedonian region and be sent to the Ottoman territory. A small number of people who believe in Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism will be accepted by the Sephardic and Greek Kingdoms.
Of course, these local residents are not all submissive people. There are still many people who are unwilling to leave like this and break out various resistances. Most of these resistance people have been suppressed by heavily armed officers and soldiers, waiting for them
will be put into various mining areas for labor reform.
There are still some people who are lucky enough to escape. They are temporarily out of danger, but they will face endless encirclement and suppression in the future.
Since February 1891, waves of resistance have been rising in Albania and Kosovo. In the peak month of March, there were more than 400 attacks. These Albanians who were unwilling to leave tried every means to attack the Italian government.
Troops, immigrants carry out attacks.
However, although the frequency of attacks was very high at the beginning, the resistance of these people was rootless. After the local people were driven away, they lacked necessary supplies, weapons and personnel.
After Italy drove away most of the local people, it mobilized troops to intensify the crackdown. The results were surprisingly good. In September of the second half of the year, the number of attacks had dropped to less than 30 per month, and it continued irreversibly.
Lowered. By January 1893, the last rebels were wiped out, and Albania and Kosovo became a sacred and inalienable part of the Kingdom of Italy.
These are all the follow-up results. As for now, although Italy has made various moves to block the news, how could it be possible that no one knew about the large-scale operation to expel nearly 600,000 people from two places at once.
France's Libre d'Etoile was the first to report extensively on the news that Italy was expelling locals in Albania and Kosovo, causing humanitarian disasters.
It was then quoted in other newspapers, and in less than three days the entire civilized world knew about it.
For this reason, various countries asked the Italian government about this matter, but they dismissed it on the grounds that the Italian army was suppressing rebels.
However, the Ottomans issued a serious protest over this. In response to the Ottoman protest, the Italian government threw its letter of protest into the trash.
However, this matter could not be hidden for long, because a large number of expelled local people passed through the Macedonia area and appeared in Austrian South Macedonia.
And with the emergence of these refugees, a large number of Italy's local actions were exposed.
Faced with such a situation, Italy cannot shirk the situation, and the pressure from international public opinion on Italy is not small.
For this reason, the Ottoman Empire, which had just lost the war, issued a serious statement, claiming that Italy's actions in Albania and Kosovo were ethnic cleansing. According to Italian Foreign Minister Gemini Bacona, the Ottoman Empire also targeted Armenia.
The local Armenians are engaged in ethnic cleansing.
It is not a secret to Europe that the Ottomans purged the Armenians. Although the Armenian Genocide had not yet occurred in the Ottomans at this time, they were not merciful towards the Armenians who believed in Christianity. Various exorbitant taxes and arbitrary oppression were commonplace.
No one paid much attention to it before, mostly because the area it is located in is of no interest to all countries, except Russia. However, the Armenians living in Russia are not very good. They are the eldest brother and not the second brother.
Faced with Italy's scandal about Armenia, the Ottomans didn't know what to say for a while, but in the end it turned into a dog-eat-dog affair.
Although Italy solved the Ottoman censure with the Armenian issue, the government is still under tremendous pressure.
Because British Prime Minister Cecil issued a statement condemning Italy's actions in the Balkans.
As for why the British suddenly jumped out, it is more because after Italy seized a large amount of Ottoman territory, Italy has threatened the security of the eastern Mediterranean, especially the Suez Canal, which is crucial to it, and there are Italian colonies on both ends.
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This stance of the British is more of a slap in the face. Although the British need Italy to contain France, they are not willing to see Italy's strength in the Mediterranean increase significantly. Therefore, adding some obstacles to Italy's actions in the Balkans is for Whitehall.
, which is reasonable.
After the United Kingdom expressed its views, France, the United States, Russia and other countries all issued statements of condemnation, condemning Italy for carrying out ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. This has left Italy with an unsavory reputation internationally.
But no matter what the outside world says, Italy's actions in the Balkans have not stopped at all.
While the Balkans are carrying out vigorous operations, the Libyan region, which also belongs to Italy, is not idle either.
