WAR DIARY OF THE FIRST STRIKE BRIGADE OF BOKE (RATNI DNEVNIK PRVE UDARNE BOKELJSKE BRIGADE) Cover Image

DITARI LUFTARAK I BRIGADËS SË PARË SULMUESE TË BOKËS (RATNI DNEVNIK PRVE UDARNE BOKELJSKE BRIGADE)
WAR DIARY OF THE FIRST STRIKE BRIGADE OF BOKE (RATNI DNEVNIK PRVE UDARNE BOKELJSKE BRIGADE)

Author(s): Ibish Neziri
Subject(s): Military history, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Source Material
Published by: Drejtoria e Përgjithshme e Arkivave e Republikës së Shqipërisë; Agjencia Shtetërore e Arkivave të Kosovës
Keywords: National Liberation War; World War II; Albanians; partisan brigades; Drenica; ballists; Prishtina-Rahovec Road; Peja; Gjakova; Prizren;

Summary/Abstract: This press release presents documents of one of the most infamous Yugoslav partisan brigades - the Boka Kotor Brigade, which, based on the order of the General Staff of the Yugoslav National Liberation Army, marched from Montenegro to Kosovo. The same, on February 2, 1945, after passing through the Çakorri Pass and the Rugova Gorge, through a great resistance of the fighters of Rugova and the Dukagjini Plain, reached in Peja. In this fond of documents is the background of the establishment of this brigade, combat diary, reports, routs, orders, descriptions of the situation, the type of weapons available to this brigade, the number of its members, deployment, marches and especially combat operations to pursue and destroy of Albanian resistance groups, led by Shaban Palluzha and Mehmet Gradica. Within this fond there are also two more documents which talk about the murder of ShabanPalluzha and the wounding of Mehmet Gradica. The purpose and mission of this brigade was to lay siege to Kosovo, to prevent its unification with her motherland - Albania and to establish the Military Directorate after the suppression of the Drenica Uprising. All records, with a few exceptions, are written in Serbian in the Cyrillic alphabet. The diaries and some ordinances and reports are handwritten, also in the Cyrillic alphabet, while some other reports are written in typewriter, some in the Cyrillic alphabet and some in Latin.

  • Issue Year: 56/2020
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 239-250
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Albanian