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Vrtoče Massacre
The Vrtoče massacre was the massacre of Croat civilians in the village of Vrtoče, committed by Serb rebels on 8 August 1941, during the Srb uprising. Prelude Following the fall of Yugoslavia, the Kulen Vakuf region remained relatively peaceful. After the Independent State of Croatia was declared, Ustaše authorities began recruiting local Croats to join their ranks. Local Ustaše leader, Miroslav Matijević, despite facing significant difficulties in recruiting local Croats, recruited a small force that began to take part in atrocities as part of the wider genocide of Serbs. Despite local Croat and Muslim civilians intervening to stop the wider atrocities, Matijević and his local forces killed over 600 Serbs in the Kulen Vakuf region, with many of the dead and mutilated bodies being buried in the Boričevac pit. Stories of these massacres spread throughout the region from survivors to local Croats and Muslims warning their Serb neighbors of impending attacks. On 27 July 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vrtoče, Bosanski Petrovac
Vrtoče ( sr-cyrl, Врточе) is a village in the municipality of Bosanski Petrovac Bosanski Petrovac ( sr-cyrl, Босански Петровац) is a town and municipality located in the Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013 census, the municipality has a p ..., Bosnia and Herzegovina. Demographics According to the 2013 census, its population was 176. References Populated places in Bosanski Petrovac {{UnaSanaCanton-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kulen Vakuf
Kulen Vakuf (Serbian Cyrillic: Кулен Вакуф) is a village in the municipality of Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kulen Vakuf was the birthplace of Bosnian Ottoman nobleman Mehmed-beg Kulenović and Džafer Kulenović, Vice President of the Axis puppet state the Independent State of Croatia. Demographics According to the 2013 census, its population was 457. See also * Kulen Vakuf massacre The Kulen Vakuf massacre was committed during World War II by Communist-led Yugoslav Partisans and groups of non-communist Serb rebels (including Chetniks), killing 1,000 to 3,000 Ustaše prisoners as well as Muslim, and a smaller number of Croat ... References Populated places in Bihać {{UnaSanaCanton-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chetnik War Crimes In World War II
The Chetniks, a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force, committed numerous war crimes during the Second World War, primarily directed against the non-Serb population of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, mainly Muslims and Croats, and against Communist-led Yugoslav Partisans and their supporters. Most historians who have considered the question regard the Chetnik crimes against Muslims and Croats during this period as constituting genocide. The Chetnik movement drew its members from the interwar Chetnik Association and various Serb nationalist groups. Some Chetnik ideologues were inspired by the Stevan Moljević's '' Homogeneous Serbia'' memorandum in July 1941, that defined the borders of an ethnically pure Greater Serbia. A similar document was put forward to the Yugoslav government-in-exile in September 1941. The Yugoslav government embraced the Chetniks and their basic ideas, which were already a part of the political framework of pre-war Yugosl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massacres Of Croats
A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians en masse by an armed group or person. The word is a loan of a French term for "butchery" or "carnage". Other terms with overlapping scope include war crime, pogrom, mass killing, mass murder, and extrajudicial killing. Etymology ''Massacre'' derives from late 16th century Middle French word ''macacre'' meaning "slaughterhouse" or "butchery". Further origins are dubious, though the word may be related to Latin ''macellum'' "provisions store, butcher shop". The Middle French word ''macecr'' "butchery, carnage" is first recorded in the late 11th century. Its primary use remained the context of animal slaughter (in hunting terminology referring to the head of a stag) well into the 18th century. The use of ''macecre'' "butchery" of the mass killing of people dates to the 12th century, implying people being "slaughtered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krnjeuša Massacre
Krnjeuša (Serbian Cyrillic: Крњеуша) is a village in the municipality of Bosanski Petrovac, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th .... Demographics According to the 2013 census, its population was 495. See also * Pogrom in Krnjeuša References Populated places in Bosanski Petrovac Serb communities in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina {{UnaSanaCanton-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brotnja Massacre
The Brotnja massacre was the massacre of Croat civilians in the village of Brotnja, committed by Serb rebels on 27 July 1941, during the Srb and Drvar uprisings. Prelude In the weeks prior to the Srb Uprising, local Serb civilians had been the victims of Ustaše atrocities. Throughout July 1941, Ustaše general, Vjekoslav Luburić, ordered the "cleansing" of Serbs from the Donji Lapac area in Lika and the bordering regions of Bosanska Krajina. A number of local Croat peasants from the area joined the Ustaše movement and actively took part in massacres against local Serb civilians, including the massacre of almost 300 Serbs in the nearby village of Suvaja, at the start of July 1941. It is known that at least two people from Brotnja joined the Ustaše and took part in crimes against Serbs. However, the majority of Croats did not take part in such crimes, many moderate Croats were opposed to them and actively tried to help their Serb neighbours. On 27 July 1941, local Serbs l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boričevac Massacre
Boričevac is a village in Croatia. History Throughout July, August and September 1941, Boričevac was one of several Croat and Muslim villages across Lika and Western Bosnia that were attacked and massacred by Serb Communist insurgents and Chetniks The Chetniks,, ; formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland; and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist m .... Population According to the 2011 census, Boričevac had 17 inhabitants. Note: ''Till 1931 it was independent settlement and from 1948-1991 part of settlement (hamlet). From 1857-1880 include data for settlement of Mišljenovac. It became independent settlement again in 2001 from the settlement of Gajine.'' 1991 census For the ethnic composition of population in 1991 census see: Gajine. Austro-hungarian 1910 census According to the 1910 census, settlement of Boričevac ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosansko Grahovo Massacre
The Bosansko Grahovo massacre was a massacre of Croat civilians was committed by local Chetnik rebels on 27 July 1941 in the village of Bosansko Grahovo. Background On 27 July 1941, a Yugoslav Partisan-led uprising began in the area of Dvar and Bosansko Grahovo ( Drvar uprising). It was a coordinated effort from both sides of the Una River in the territory of southeastern Lika and southwestern Bosanska. It succeeded in transferring key NDH territory under rebel control. Incident On the same day the Trubar massacre occurred, Chetniks and other affiliated Serb rebels, commanded by Branko Bogunović, attacked Croat civilians in Bosansko Grahovo and surrounding villages, killing about 100, of whom 62 were identified. Among those killed were at least 5 women and 9 children. Numerous homes were burned, along with the Catholic church and rectory in Grahovo. A parish priest, Juraj Gospodnetić, was tortured and killed. See also * Pogrom in Krnjeuša * Srb uprising * Trubar massacre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trubar Massacre
A massacre of Croat civilians was committed by local Serb rebels on 27 July 1941 in village Trubar in Drvar municipality Independent State of Croatia (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). It was one of a number of massacres in the southwestern Bosnian Krajina during the Drvar uprising and Eastern Lika. Background On 27 July 1941, a Yugoslav Partisan-led uprising began in the area of Drvar and Bosansko Grahovo. It was a coordinated effort from both sides of the Una River in the territory of southeastern Lika and southwestern Bosanska. It succeeded in transferring key NDH territory under rebel control. Incident Parishioners of the Catholic parish in Drvar went on a pilgrimage near Knin on 26 July 1941. The massacre occurred in village of Trubar, 18 km from Drvar, where local Serb rebels (either Chetnik or Yugoslav Partisan) stopped a train at Vaganj station, separating and killing the pilgrims who were returning from Knin on 27 July. Murdered pilgrims, among whom was a Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosniaks
The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who share a common Genetic studies on Bosniaks, ancestry, Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina, culture, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, history and the Bosnian language. Traditionally and predominantly adhering to Sunni Islam, they constitute native communities in what is today Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and the Republic of Kosovo. Largely due to displacement stemming from the Bosnian War in the 1990s they also make up a significant diaspora with several communities across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Bosniaks are typically characterized by their historic ties to the Bosnia (region), Bosnian historical region, adherence to Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Islam since the 15th and 16th centuries, Culture of Bosnia an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croats
The Croats (; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries in Central Europe, Central and Southeastern Europe who share a common Croatian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Culture of Croatia, culture, History of Croatia, history and Croatian language, language. They also form a sizeable minority in several neighboring countries, namely Croats of Slovenia, Slovenia, Burgenland Croats, Austria, the Croats in the Czech Republic, Czech Republic, Croats in Germany, Germany, Croats of Hungary, Hungary, Croats of Italy, Italy, Croats of Montenegro, Montenegro, Croats of Romania, Romania, Croats of Serbia, Serbia and Croats in Slovakia, Slovakia. Due to political, social and economic reasons, many Croats migrated to North and South America as well as New Zealand and later Australia, establishing a Croatian diaspora, diaspora in the aftermath of World War II, with grassroots assistance from earlier communities an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genocide Of Serbs In The Independent State Of Croatia
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Genocid nad Srbima u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj, separator=" / ", Геноцид над Србима у Независној Држави Хрватској) was the systematic persecution and genocide, extermination of Serbs committed during World War II in Yugoslavia, World War II by the Fascism, fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German List of World War II puppet states, puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, separator=" / ", Независна Држава Хрватска, NDH) between 1941 and 1945. It was carried out through executions in Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia, death camps, as well as through mass murder, ethnic cleansing, deportations, forced conversions, and Wartime sexual violence, war rape. This genocide was simultaneously carried out with The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia, the Holocau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
