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The Bar massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Tivarit) was the killing of an unclear number of mostly ethnic Albanian recruits from Kosovo by Yugoslav Partisans in late March or early April 1945 in Bar (Montenegro) at the end of World War II.
The victims were Albanian recruits from Kosovo, who had been pressed by the Yugoslav Partisans into service. These men were then assembled in Prizren and marched on foot in three columns to Bar where they were supposed to receive short training and then sent off to the front.
The guards watching over the recruits fired into the crowd killing many and prompting the survivors to flee into the surrounding mountains. In another case, several hundred Albanians were herded into a tunnel, near Bar, which was subsequently sealed off so that all of those trapped within the tunnel were asphyxiated.
According to Croatian historian Ljubica Stefan, the Partisans killed 1,600 Albanians in Bar on 1 April. There are also accounts claiming that the victims included many young boys.
After the massacre, the site was immediately covered in concrete by the Yugoslav communist regime and built an airport on top of the mass grave.
This cursed sea is screaming
Their target is the "Albanian blood"
"Plisat" * are swimming in the sea
(they come to the surface from bodies sink in the sea)
All of this to make disappear the "Albanian blood"
Why doesn't the sea absorb them?
Waves mixed with blood pass over their bodies
You can see everywhere "mitana"** and "shoka"**
They remained on the beach
the soil did not absorb them
What is it saying that young boy?
"Bring to my mother a piece of me"
Their mothers are waiting for them
they pregnant wives too
They have left their houses on fire
from the doorstep, all covered in blood
(their families blood, that were persecuted too)
What is the matters with the sea?
What is the matters with Bar?
Albanians are dying, countless times.
They are waiting for the bullets
without making a sound
So many corpses "one over another"!
Welcome to the Bar's grave
When the Albanians will need
young brave men
All of them will stand up
and leaves their graves
(they will always be remember)
* Plural of "Plisi". The traditional Albanian hat.
** Parts of traditional Albanian clothing.
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