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The system like it was on the eve
of the First Serbian Rising was introduced again with the
return of the Turks in 1813. Many homes were burnt to ground,
many people were taken away as slaves, and there were many
of those who took shelter in forests and on the mountains.
Only then when Kurshid Pasha proclaimed a general amnesty
for all the Serbs the circumstances started getting better.
A great number of families returned to their homes. Eminent
persons who stayed in Serbia, Milos Obrenovic, Arsenije Loma,
Milic Drincic and the others, surrendered to the Turks and
they were remitted all. The economy started reviving.
Period of tyranny, robbery and hard exploitation sprang up
again by coming of Suleiman Skopjak Pasha for Vizier of Belgrade
Pasha's Jurisdiction. The Turks killed Stanoje Glavas and
they threatened to the rest of folk leaders.
Such a state of affairs provoked secret arrangements for starting
a new Rising. Meeting in Rudovci and in Vreoci were particularly
important because of the decisions made there. The representatives
of Takovo region were also present at those meetings.
Arsenije Loma had the lead on the meeting in Rudovci. Speaking
in the favour of the General National Rising among the other
things, he said:
"Brothers of mine, this meeting of ours and our agreement
are good and honourable but you should know, as well as I
know, that nothing is going to succeed unless Milos, the present
headman of District of Rudnik, goes together with us".
Assembly in Rudovci made the decision that Milos should be
called to join the Rising and in the case he didn't accept
the fight against the Turks, he should be killed. Then the
assembly ordained Loma and made him swear that "their
decisions would be carried out". Loma put it in, swore
and took an oath to the assembly that "he was going to
make Milos say yes to the Rising and that if Milos didn't
want to do it, he would consider him a Turk and he would kill
him in the first well-timed ambush preventing him serve the
Turks. If Milos didn't want to serve to his own nation and
poor people in such unprecedented constraint and suffering,
he would be the first one to be killed so it would make it
easier for the people to attack the Turks."
When the Turks let the Headman Milos Obrenovic leave Belgrade
(where he lived as a hostage) in his house in village Crnuca
he heard the decision of staring a fight against the Turks
"early in spring".
Worried about such a large undertaking he said to Arsenije
Loma:
"I can't and I mustn't undertake anything like that until
I gather my people and ask them what they think and if they
are going to put their whole hearts into the struggle regretting
or sparing nothing. And I want them to tell me then and on
that very place what they want me to be their only and absolute
ruler. I want them let me know it then."
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