List of massacres in Serbia

The following is a list of massacres in Serbia.

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Name Date Location Deaths Notes
Slaughter of the Knezes 23–29 January 1804 Valjevo 70–150 Ottoman Empire
Surdulica massacre 1916–1917 Surdulica 2,000–3,000 Bulgarian
Novi Sad killings 23–24 November 1923 Novi Sad 8 spree killing[1][2][3]
Jablanica killings 19–20 July 1928 Jablanica 6 spree killing[4][5][6][7]
Židije killings 24 April 1930 Židilje 5 spree killing[8][9][10]
Pančevo executions 21–22 April 1941 Pančevo 36 German war crime.[11][page needed]
Kruševac executions 23 September 1941 – 12 June 1944 Kruševac 1,642 German war crime[12]
Mačva massacres 24 September – 9 October 1941 Mačva region c. 6,000 Serbian civilians killed in reprisals during anti-Partisan operations led by German, Ustaše and Hungarian forces.[13]
Kraljevo massacre 15–21 October 1941 Kraljevo c. 2,000 German war crime
Kragujevac massacre 20–21 October 1941 Kragujevac 2,778 German war crime[14]
Valjevo executions 27 November 1941 Valjevo c. 300 Execution of at least 261 out of 365 Partisan POWs by Wehrmacht and Serbian collaborators. The Partisans were handed over to Germans by Mihailović's Chetniks with Pećanac Chetniks serving as intermediary.[15]
Novi Sad raid 4–29 January 1942 Bačka region 3,000–4,000 Hungarian war crime
Žabalj massacre 7 January 1942 Žabalj 700 Hungarian war crime[citation needed]
Gospođinci massacre 7 January 1942 Gospođinci 100 Hungarian war crime
Čurug massacre 4–9 January 1942 Čurug 900 Hungarian war crime
Đurđevo massacre January 1942 Đurđevo 300 Hungarian war crime
Titel massacre January 1942 Titel 60–80 Hungarian war crime
Temerin massacre January 1942 Temerin 48 Hungarian war crime
Bečej raid 27 January 1942 Bečej 250 Hungarian war crime
Drugovac massacre 29 April 1944 Smederevo 72 Chetnik war crime[16]
Srijemska Kamenica massacre October 1944 Sremska Kamenica 196 Partisans war crime[17]
Purges in Serbia 1944–1945 Serbia region 80,000–100,000 Yugoslav Communist war crime
Paraćin massacre 3 September 1987 Paraćin 5 spree killing
Bačka killings March 1993 Pačir, Subotica, Aleksandrovo, Bajmok 9 spree killing[18]
Vranje shooting 3 June 1993 Vranje 8 spree killing
Leskovac shootings 26–27 July 2002 Leskovac 7 spree killing
Jabukovac killings 27 July 2007 Jabukovac 9 spree killing
Velika Ivanča shooting 9 April 2013 Velika Ivanča 13 spree killing[19]
Kanjiža shootings 17 May 2015 Kanjiža 7 spree killing
Žitište shooting 2 July 2016 Žitište 5 spree killing[20]
2019 Jabukovac massacre 9 August 2019 Jabukovac 4 spree killing[21]
Belgrade school shooting 3 May 2023 Belgrade 10 school shooting[22]
Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings 4 May 2023 Mladenovac, Smederevo 9 spree killing[23]
Crimes of World War I
Crimes of World War II

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References

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  1. ^ Крвава руска драма, Politika (November 25, 1925)
  2. ^ Un teniente mata a siete personas y a su hijo, y se suicida, La Libertad (December 1, 1923)
  3. ^ Effroyable drame pres de Belgrade, Le Petit Journal (December 1, 1923)
  4. ^ Грозна освета одбеглог робијаша, Politika (July 25, 1928)
  5. ^ Blutige Rache eines entflohenen Sträflings, Die neue Zeitung (July 24, 1928)
  6. ^ "L'horrible forfait d'un criminel". Gazette de Lausanne (in Swiss French). No. 205. 1928-07-26. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-07-14 – via Le Temps Archives.
  7. ^ "Un bandit fait de nombreuses victimes". Journal de Genève (in Swiss French). No. 203 (3rd ed.). 1928-07-26. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-07-14 – via Le Temps Archives.
  8. ^ 5 killed in Serb village, The New York Times (April 27, 1930)
  9. ^ Grauenhaftes Blutbad bei einer Tanzveranstaltung, Die Neue Zeitung (April 27, 1930)
  10. ^ Крвава заветина у Жидиљу, Politika (April 26, 1930)
  11. ^ Spasović, Ivana (2012). Страдања у Панчеву и Јабуци за време Другог светског рата [Suffering in Pančevo and Jabuka During the Second World War]. Pančevo: Istorijski arhiv. ISBN 978-86-83347-96-4.
  12. ^ "Spomenik Database: Kruševac". Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  13. ^ Morača, Pero (1957). Prelomna godina Narodnooslobodilačkog rata: Narodnooslobodilački pokret krajem 1941 i početkom 1942, pohod proleterskih brigada u Zapadnu Bosnu, Bihaćka operacija, stvaranje NOVJ i I zasjedanje AVNOJ-a [The turning point of the National Liberation War: the National Liberation Movement at the end of 1941 and the beginning of 1942, the march of the proletarian brigades to Western Bosnia, the Bihać operation, the creation of the NOVJ and the first session of the AVNOJ] (in Bosnian). Vojnoizdavački zavod JNA. p. 13.
  14. ^ Antić, Ana (2012). "Police Force Under Occupation: Serbian State Guard and Volunteers' Corps in the Holocaust". In Horowitz, Sara R. (ed.). Back to the Sources: Re-examining Perpetrators, Victims and Bystanders. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. pp. 13–36. ISBN 978-0-8101-2862-0.
  15. ^ Radanović, Milan (2016). Kazna i zločin: Snage kolaboracije u Srbiji [Punishment and crime: The forces of collaboration in Serbia] (in Serbian). Belgrade: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. pp. 58–59. ISBN 9788688745154.
  16. ^ Radanović 2016, p. 153-154.
  17. ^ Ružica Ćavar: O zločinima pokraj Maribora slušali smo od svojih starijih, Vjesnik, Zagreb, subota, 10. srpnja 1999.
  18. ^ "Josip, monstruozni ubica taksista u Subotici: Nosio je sekiru i pištolj, ubio 9 ljudi bez milosti". telegraf.rs. 9 April 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  19. ^ Bilefsky, Dan (9 April 2013). "Gunman Kills 13 People in Serbian Village". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  20. ^ "Serbian man kills five, injures 22, in cafe shooting". reuters.com. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  21. ^ "Four people murdered near Negotin". B92. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  22. ^ Sekularac, Ivana; Vasovic, Aleksandar; Vasovic, Aleksandar (3 May 2023). "Nine killed in planned attack at Serbian school by 13-year-old boy". reuters.com. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  23. ^ "Suspect arrested after second mass shooting in Serbia". bbc.com. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.