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A group of Chetniks pose with German soldiers in an unidentified village in Serbia.

A group of Chetniks poses with German officers.

Chetniks war crimes during the Second World War were primarily directed towards the non-
Serbian population of Yugoslavia (mainly Muslims and Croats) and Communist-led Yugoslav
Partisans and their supporters. Since their establishment in 1903, Chetniks had been
instrumental to the nationalist and expansionist politics of Serbia. They acted to preserve the
centralized Greater Serbian political system within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Croatian
historian Vladimir Žerjavić estimates that the Chetniks were responsible for the deaths of
29,000 Muslims and 18,000 Croats over the course of the war, both civilians and soldiers. The
Croatian historian Zdravko Dizdar offers a similar figure, stating that 50,000 Muslims and
Croats were killed.[1]
Contents
 1 War crimes and violations of customs of war against Partisans
o 1.1 Prisoners of war
o 1.2 Medical personnel and patients
o 1.3 Suspected partisan collaborators
 2 Crimes against Muslims and Croats
 3 Genocidal crimes
 4 Trials
 5 See also
 6 References

War crimes and violations of customs of war against

Partisans
Prisoners of war

German soldiers taking a group of Partisans (captured with Chetnik help) to execution, 1941

The surrender of captured Yugoslav Partisans to the Nazis occurred during the November
1941 uprising in Serbia. General Dragoljub (Draža) Mihailović's staff handed 350 captured
Partisans to the Nazis, who executed them. During the Chetnik-Partisan conflict in western
Serbia, the Chetniks captured over one hundred Partisans. A group of approximately 500
prisoners, including Partisans captured in the towns of Gornji Milanovac,[2] Kosjerić,[3] Karan,
and Planinica, were captured by Chetniks in the Ravna Gora mountain range.

Around 13 November 1941, Chetniks took a group of 365 prisoners to the town of Mionica
and then to the village of Slovac. They were brought by Nazi and Serbian collaborationist
forces to the city of Valjevo. The convoy was secured by Chetnik leader Jovan Škavović
Škava. The meeting between Mihailović and the Nazis in the village of Divci (at which they
agreed to cooperate) preceded the Partisans' surrender. Of this group of prisoners, the Nazis
executed 263 on 27 November 1941 in Krušik, Valjevo;[4][5] others were later executed,
deported to concentration camps, or released.[6][7]

Partisans were executed on a regular basis: "Captured 25 Partisans and killed 24 on the site"
(Miloš Erkić, commander of the Tuzla Brigade of the 58th May Corps, to the commanders of
the Sember and May brigades on 24 December 1943). Telegram no. 12.425 (No. 486) of 14
December 1943 from He He (Major Radoslav Đurić, commander of the Second Kosovo
Corps) reported, "We broke traitor Lieutenant Radulović and his group. Fighting was
conducted by the Second Studen Brigade in the village of Gumništa, where 21 Partisans and
nine captives were killed.[8]

According to the captive testimonies, Second Proletarian Division from Peko Dapčević's
corps, which has three divisions, was here. This division consisted of the Second Dalmatian
and Second Proletarian Divisions with around 800 people each, and the Forest Brigade with
400 (a total of 2,000). They had a lot of launchers and automatic weaponry, but little ammo.
Eight of Keserović's Englishmen with Col. Seitz and a radio station joined them in Negbina.
Their last portion is in Negbina and the majority in Klek. Many of their wounded died on the
way. We captured 16 and slaughtered them without a court-martial.

— Telegram no. 1011 by Bi-Bi [Major Radomir Cvetić, commander of the Javor Corps]. No.
47, 21 January 1944.

The Bralenovice facility near Danilovgrad, which housed an orphanage before World War II,
was used as a concentration camp for Partisans and civilians.[9] The largest imprisonments
occurred in April and May 1942. As Jakov N. Jovović wrote in letter number 8 to Baja
Stanišić on 30 May 1942, "489 people, ranging from one year to old men" were imprisoned in
the camp. The number of prisoners was estimated at 610 in August 1942, and ranged between
700 and 1,000 at certain periods. It is estimated that Stanišić killed 426 partisans between
April 1942 and September 1943.[9] Chetniks received cash rewards from the Nazis for the
capture and execution of Montenegrin partisans.[10]

Medical personnel and patients

Chetniks killing a captured Partisan

On 31 October 1941, Chetniks attacked the hospital of the Pomoravlje Partisan Detachment
near the village of Ursule. This attack was part of the general attack by Nazi and Serb
collaborationist units on the free Partisan territory of Levača. About ten nurses and fighters
from the Levača Unit of the Pomoravlje Partisan Detachment were captured. All the prisoners
were taken to Rekovac, redirected to Riljac and Ljubostinje and killed, sent to concentration
camps or escaped.[11]

Chetniks attacked the Partisan hospital in the village of Gornja Gorevnica, captured eleven
partisans, and killed a nurse between 4 and 5 November 1941. The prisoners were taken to
Brajići, where they were sentenced to death by a court-martial; the sentence was carried out
on 5 November in Brajići.[12]

On 25 March 1943, Chetnik units of the Dinaric Division were ordered to begin "cleansing
(the area) of Croats and Bosniaks" and to create "one national corridor along the Dinara
mountain for the connection of Herzegovina with Northern Dalmatia and Lika."[13] The
Chetniks slaughtered dozens of captured partisans, including renowned Croatian poet Ivan
Goran Kovačić, during the Case Black operation in June 1943.[14][15] The 1st Mountain
Division reported: "Captured 498, of which 411 were executed."[16] In Cikota (eastern Bosnia)
in mid-July, the Chetniks found 80 wounded Partisans from the First Proletarian Division,
seized their weapons, and handed them to the Nazis. The Nazis killed them and burned their
bodies.[15]

That month, Chetniks found wounded partisans from the First and Second Proletarian
Brigades in Bišina and handed them over to the Nazis; the wounded partisans were later
executed. Chetnik Dragutin Keserović found a partisan hospital in Jastrebac in May 1944,
shooting 24 patients and four nurses. The Chetniks discovered another partisan hospital in
Semberija that month, killing about 300 seriously-wounded patients. In Krčan, southeast of
Udbina, about 90 seriously-wounded Partisans were hiding in 16 houses. They initially hid in
the basements with fifteen nurses for ten days after Operation Morgenstern, a joint anti-
Partisan offensive of the Wehrmacht, NDH forces and Chetniks in Lika. The region held from
7 to 23 May 1944. Nurses, mostly members of the League of Communist Youth of
Yugoslavia from surrounding villages, carried the wounded from the basements to Krčan. A
group of Partisans guarded Trnova Poljana, protecting access to Krčan, Kuke, and Visuć from
Lapac. Jovo Popović knew about Partisan posts, and brought Chetniks to the village by a
roundabout route. They entered Krčan on 2 June 1944 at 10 am, and killed 36 wounded
partisans; women and old men hid 56 other wounded partisans. Two doctors (Croat Josip
Kajfeš and an Italian named Suppa) were killed, and a Dr. Finderle was wounded.[17]

Aleksa Backović, Commissar of the 8th Kordun Division, was murdered in Obrad Radočaj's
house by Popović. He was later praised by Momčilo Đujić, and received the Star of Obilić.[18]

Suspected partisan collaborators

A group of Chetniks kills an unarmed civilian.

Another group killing an unarmed civilian.

Chetniks terrorized civilians suspected of collaboration with the partisans, intimidating others
to discourage partisan support. A suspect's family was often tortured for collaboration with
partisans.

I have ordered the destruction of entire families, the burning of homes and entire villages
where the Partisans find their strongholds because some Serbian degenerates help the
proletariat scum in some villages. This is what I ordered because we lose our best nationalists
due to our own degenerates.

— Telegram no. 13.007 from Georgij (Lieutenant Colonel Milutin Radojević, Mihailović's
delegate for the Jablanica and Toplice Area) No. SS 58, 28 December 1943[19]

In late December 1943, Draža Mihailović ordered an anti-communist operation south of

Belgrade. Colonel Jevrem Simić (general inspector of the Chetnik Detachments) and Nikola
Kalabić (commander of the Chetnik Hill Guard Corps) were the main coordinators. After they
signed a ceasefire-and-cooperation agreement with the Nazis in the region on 26 November
1943, Chetniks brought their units and began to clear the area.
All areas close to Belgrade are infested with communists and their supporters. I order
commanders Major Mihail Jovanović, Captain Lazović, Captain Nikola Kalabić, Komarčević
and the Mining Corps to be most energetic from south to north (...) in cleansing all srezs,
especially Kosmaj. It is especially important to clear the srezs of Grocka and Umka. At the
same time, I congratulate Captains Živojin Lazović and Nikola Kalabić. The decree was
fulfilled on 1 December, and there will be further promotions for accomplishments.
Continuously inform others about the actions taken.

— Mihailović's telegram to the commanders of Seged, Kiš (Živojin Lazović, commander of the
Smederevo Corps), Ras-Ras (Nikola Kalabić), Dog-Dog and Romel)

Mihailović's operation lasted from 20 to 21 December. Members of the Smederevo Corps

under the command of Živan Lazović killed 72 civilians, nine of whom were children from
nine months to 12 years old. This became known as the Vranić Massacre. After the operation,
Mihailović reported: "Terrible inactivity of the elders of Aval Corps. Živan Lazović must
come so he could show what could be done."[20]

In January 1943, under Komarčević's command, Chetniks killed 72 partisan supporters in

Posavina Srez. In December, Chetnik commander Živan Lazović killed 15 peasant partisan
supporters. That month, Chetniks under the command of Nikola Kalabić killed 21 peasants in
Kopljare and, under the command of Vuk Kalaitović, shot 18 Partisan supporters in the town
of Sjenica. Chetniks under the command of Sveto Bogičević entered Sepci, where they
captured Sava Sremečević, Konstantin Vojinović, Ilija Radojević and Ilija Jovanović, in
August 1944. After torturing them in an attempt to extract a confession of collaboration with
Partisans, they killed all four.[21]

Crimes against Muslims and Croats

Destruction after the Gata massacre

 28 June 1941 - Chetniks killed 47 Bosniaks (mostly women and children) in the
village of Avtovac, which they later looted and burned.[22]
 27 July 1941 - Chetniks under the command of Branko Bogunović killed 62 Croats,
including five women and nine children, during the Bosansko Grahovo massacre.
They also robbed and burned a number of Croatian houses in Bosansko Grahovo and
five surrounding villages. More than 250 Croatian men, women, and children from
Obljaj, Korita, Luka, Ugarci, and Crni Lug were killed. During the massacre, Chetniks
tortured Catholic priest Juraj Gospodnetić and burned him alive in front of his
mother.[23] Some Croats who had fled to Knin began to return to the area in early
November 1941, but were blocked by Bogunović.[24]
 13 November 1941 - According to a Knin police district report, Bogunović "threatens
and slaughters Croatian people every day until he kills the last Croat because
[according to him] no Croat shall live on his territory (...) On 12 November,
Bogunović killed five shepherds from Luka and then took their 500 sheep, 20 cattle,
and 10 horses. It's also known that a few days ago Mate Samardžija, his wife, and
child went missing under Bogunović's authority (...) [Due to Bogunović], the Croatian
people are forced to leave their homes and properties and run to Knin to at least save
their lives".[full citation needed]
 12 November 1941 - Bogunović said in Sava Dešić's inn (near Kninsko Polje), "There
is no salvation for the Croats, and there is no need for them to run because they cannot
escape, there is no Croatian state, nor will it be, and all Croats need to be slaughtered."
A significant number of Bosniaks who worked in the nearby cellulose factory were
killed.[25]
 11-13 April 1941 - Chetniks killed 17 Croats in Derventa. Between 13 and 15 April
1941, Chetniks killed 20 Croats and five Bosniaks and burned 40 houses in the area
around Čapljina. On 15 April 1941, near Mostar, Chetniks killed five Croats and
burned the Croatian villages of Cim and Ilići. During the Italian Fascist Operation
Albia around Biokovo from 16 August to 2 September 1942,[26] Chetniks under the
command of Petar Baćović committed crimes against Croat civilians (most notably in
Zabiokovlje, where they killed at least 141 Croats and robbed and burned the villages
of Rašćan, Kozica, Dragljane, and Župa).[27]
 5 September 1942 - Baćović mentioned these crimes in the report to Mihailović: "(...)
Additionally, I would like to add in regards to the departure of our criminal expedition
in Ljubuški and Imotski, that our Chetniks (...) skinned alive three Catholic priests
between Ljubuški and Vrgorac. Our Chetniks were killing all men aged 15 and above.
Woman and children under the age of 15 haven't been killed. 17 villages were
completely burned." During the night of 1–2 August 1941, Serbs from the Donji
Lapac area rebelled against the NDH and about 2,000 Croats from Boričevac were
forced to flee to Kulen Vakuf. Chetniks entered Boričevac, killed about 400 people
and destroyed the village (including a Catholic church) on 2 August.[28] Crimes were
also committed in Brotinja, Mišljenovac, Donji, and Gornji Lapac.[29]
 27 July 1941 - Chetniks threw 37 Croats into a pit,[28] and killed a group of 300 Croats
(who were being led by Father Waldemar Maksimilian Nestor home from a
pilgrimage in Knin) at Trubar near Drvar.[30]
 9-10 August 1941 - Chetniks massacred Croats, mostly old men, women and children
(including 49 children under age 12), in Krnjeuša; Croatian homes were burned and
robbed. Two hundred forty of the dead civilians were identified, including 34-year-old
Catholic priest Krešimir Barišić (who was tortured and burned alive), 49 children and
72 women, a number of whom were pregnant. Chetniks also killed about 70 Croats in
the neighboring village of Vrtoče, and a number of people fled to Bihać. After the
massacre, Croats almost completely disappeared from the region.[31][32][33][34][35]
 September 1941 - Chetniks from Herzegovina and Montenegro killed 526 Bosniak
civilians in Berkovići and Trusina. Of these, 365 were thrown alive into pits.[36]
Similar cases were recorded during 1941 and the first half of 1942.
 6 September 1941 - In Kulen Vakuf, Chetniks killed about 2,300 civilians (including
old men, women and children). Most of the victims were Bosniaks; the rest (about
100) were Croats from Vrtoče, Krnjeuša, Boričevac and Bosansko Grahovo, villages
destroyed by Chetniks in July and August 1941.[37]
 7 September 1941 - Chetniks entered Dubljani, robbing and burning Croat-owned
houses. Sixteen prominent Croats from Duljani and one from Prhinje were publicly
 hanged to discourage Croats who had fled the area not to return. Of 326 Croats
recorded in the 1937 Dubljani census, 80 remained in 1948.[38]
 1-2 October 1942 - A group of Chetniks commanded by Momčilo Đujić, Mane
Rotkvić and Veljko Ilijić participated in organized retaliation against civilians in Gata
and surrounding villages, killing 96 Croats.[39]
 14–15 October 1942 - Chetniks reportedly massacred more than five hundred Croats
and Muslim civilians and burnt a number of villages in the area of Prozor-Rama as
part of Operation Alfa on the suspicion that the villages "harbored and aided the
Partisans."[40][41] According to Croatian historian Jozo Tomasevich, incomplete data
indicates that 543 civilians were killed. At least 656 victims are known by name;
according to another source, 848 people (mainly "children, women, and the elderly")
were killed. Historian Ivo Goldstein estimates 1,500 total deaths; the discrepancy is
"due to the fact that the estimates refer to different territories." Historians Antun
Miletić and Vladimir Dedijer estimated the number killed at 2,500.[42] In a report to
Draža Mihailović, Chetnik commander Petar Baćović wrote that "15 Catholic villages
were burnt down" and "over 2,000 Šokci (Croats) and Muslims were slaughtered."[43]
 18 October 1942 - A report by Italian Captain Vigiaca details the crimes to Major
Angel de Mateis, head of the Intelligence Department of the Italian 6th Army
Corps.[44] This massacre was discussed on the Trial of Mihailović et al. by witness
Aleksa Franjušić.[45]

The Partisan newspaper Borba reported that "about 2,000 souls" were "killed by the Chetniks
in Croatian and Muslim villages of Prozor, Konjic, and Vakuf", and "the districts of Prozor
and Konjic have hundreds of slaughtered and murdered women and children as well as burnt
houses."[46] Chetnik units under Kosta Pećanac were active throughout the war in Kosovo,
committing a number of crimes against the ethnic Albanian population.[47][48][49]

Genocidal crimes
Chetnik ideologists contended that ethnic cleansing of certain areas was necessary to
consolidate an ethnically-"pure" Serb territory as a basis of post-war Yugoslavia. The ethnic
cleansing was expected to be conducted "at a convenient moment." One of a number of
documents that attest to this plan is Mihailović's written memorandum to Pavle Đurišić of 20
December 1941:[50]

The goals of our squadrons are:

 A struggle for the freedom of our people under the scepter of His Majesty King
Peter II,
 To create Greater Yugoslavia and Greater Serbia within it, and ethnically
cleansed Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Syrmia, Banat and Bačka
within Greater Serbia,
 A struggle for inclusion into our state life all other Slavic territories occupied
by the Italians and Germans (Trieste, Gorizia, Istria and Carinthia) as well as
Bulgaria and northern Albania with Shkodër,
 Cleansing the state territory from all national minorities and non-national
elements,
 To create immediate common borders between Serbia and Montenegro, as well
as between Serbia and Slovenia by [ethnically] cleansing Sandžak from
Muslims and Bosnia from Muslims and Croats ...
The precondition for creating an ethnically-"clean" area was the destruction of the
Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and ethnic cleansing of the region inhabited by Croats
and Bosniaks. About Homogeneous Serbia, Stevan Moljević's discourse about his Greater
Serbian program, Moljević wrote to Dragiša Vasić in February 1942:

(...) 2) Regarding our internal affairs, the demarcation with the Croats, we hold that we should
as soon as an opportunity occurs, gather all the strength and create a completed act: occupy
territories marked on the map, clean it before anyone pulls itself together. We would assume
that the occupation would only be carried out if the main hubs were strong in Osijek,
Vinkovci, Slavonski Brod, Sunja, Karlovac, Knin, Šibenik, Mostar and Metković, and then
from within start with an [ethnic] cleansing of all non-Serb elements. The guilty should have
an open way - Croats to Croatia, Muslims to Turkey (or Albania). As for the Muslims, our
government in London should immediately address the issue with Turkey. English will also
help us. (Question is!). The organization for the interior cleansing should be prepared
immediately, and it could be because there are many refugees in Serbia from all "Serb lands"
(...)

Written evidence by Chetnik commanders indicates that terrorism against the non-Serb
population was intended to establish an ethnically-pure Greater Serbia in the historical
territory of other ethnic groups (most notably Croatian and Muslim, but also Bulgarian,
Romanian, Hungarian, Macedonian and Montenegrin). Mihailović went further than Moljević
and requested over 90 percent of the NDH's territory, where more than 2,500,000 Catholics
and over 800,000 Muslims lived (70 percent of the total population, with Orthodox Serbs the
remaining 30 percent). Chetnik commander Milan Šantić said in Trebinje in July 1942, "The
Serb lands must be cleansed from Catholics and Muslims. They will be inhabited only by the
Serbs. Cleansing will be carried out thoroughly, and we will suppress and destroy them all
without exception and without pity, which will be the starting point for our liberation.[51]

According to a March 1942 document from the Chetnik Dinaric Battalion, the primary
Chetnik goal was to create a "Serbian national state in the areas in which the Serbs live, and
even those to which Serbs aspire (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lika and part of Dalmatia)" where
"only Orthodox population would live". Bosniaks should realize that the Serbs were their
allies, and not join the Partisans.[52] According to Bajo Stanišić, the final goal of the Chetniks
was the "founding of a new Serbian state, not a geographical term but a purely Serbian, with
four basic attributes: the Serbian state [Greater Serbia], the Serb King [of] the Karađorđević
dynasty, Serbian nationality, and Serbian faith. The Balkan federation is also the next stage,
but the main axis and leadership of this federation must be our Serbian state, that is, the
Greater Serbia."[25]

The Chetnik leadership saw their "convenient moment" in January and February 1943. During
this period, Chetniks commanded by Zaharije Ostojić and assisted by Pavle Đurišić and
Vojislav Lukačević's units conducted extensive genocidal operations and ethnic cleansing in
eastern Bosnia and Sandžak. After they finished, Đurić wrote in a report to Mihailović:[53]

To the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command: Operations in Pljevlja, Čajniče, and Foča
srezs against Muslims are completed. The operations were executed exactly as commanded.
The attack started at the agreed time. All commanders and units have accomplished tasks to
the general satisfaction. All the Muslim villages in the three mentioned srezs are completely
burned so that none of their homes were left intact. All the property, except cattle, grains, and
haylofts, has been destroyed. The collection of human and animal food for the creation of
spare food storage and feeding units that remained in the field for cleaning and screening of
terrain and forest areas, and for the implementation and consolidation of the organization on
the liberated territory, was ordered at certain places.
During the operation, the complete destruction of Muslims regardless of sex and age was
conducted.

Victims totaled 22 (of which two were accidental), with 32 wounded. Of the Muslims, about
1,200 fighters and up to 8,000 other victims: women, the elderly and children.

During the initial operations, the Muslims ran towards Metaljka, Čajniče and Drina. A small
part of the population found shelter in Metaljka. It's estimated that there are up to 2,000
refugees in Čajniče, and one part of it has managed to cross Drina before certain units have
made cross-cutting of possible directions in that sector. The rest of population was destroyed.

The morale of the Muslims was destroyed. It was an epidemic of fear of our Chetniks, so they
simply surrendered.

In late March and April 1943, the Yugoslav Partisans expelled Chetnicks from the region. The
German command, equally willing cooperate with Chetnik and Muslim collaborators, later
halted the operations. Chetnik planners and ideologists postponed their blueprint for the end
of the war. Dragiša Vasić wrote in an April 1942 letter to Mihailović:[54]

With regard to point II b), where it is said that it is necessary to occupy the territory
immediately and before anyone can get rid of the foreign element, I think that this issue
should not worry us that much. I remember very well the situation Europe was in after the last
war. Countries that were engaged in the war were so busy with their own internal affairs that
no one, so to speak, was taking into account what others were doing within their own borders.
In the first year after the end of the war, one good part of the unwanted population could
simply be eradicated, and nobody would turn their heads. So, if we are smart, this issue of
cleansing or reshaping and changing the population shouldn't be particularly difficult for us.

A 13 February 1943 letter from the commander of the Ozren Chetnik Corps from to the
commander of the Zenica Military-Chetnik Detachment says that the source of Chetnik
genocide of Croats and Muslims dates back to the 1882 creation of an independent Serbia:[25]

(...) Maybe these goals look to you and your fighters big and unrealistic. Remember great
liberation struggles under the leadership of the Vožd Karađorđe. Serbia was full of Turks
[Muslims]. In Belgrade and other Serbian lands, Muslim minarets were sticking up, and Turks
carried out their stinky washings in front of the mosques as they are now doing in Serbian
Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims flooded our homeland. Take a
walk through Serbia today. Nowhere will you find neither Turks [Muslims], their graveyards
nor gravestones (...) It's the best proof and the greatest guarantee that we will succeed in
today's holy struggle, and that we will exhort all Turks from these Serb lands. No Muslim will
remain among us (...) The villagers and other people will move to Turkey. Our government in
London, through the allied and friendly government of England, seeks to achieve the consent
with the Turkish government (so Churchill spoke in Ankara with Mr. İnönü). We will
mercilessly destroy all Catholics [Croats] who wronged our people in these tragic days, as
well as all intellectuals and economically stronger. The peasantry and the workers will be
saved, and we will make them real Serbs by forcibly converting them to Orthodoxy. These are
the goals of our great struggle and when the time comes we will realize them. We have
already realized them in some parts of our homeland.

Trials
Main article: Trial of Mihailović et al.

At the beginning of August 1945, the first public post-war trial (before the court-martial) was
held in liberated Belgrade of Vojislav Lukačević and others. Public prosecutor Miloš Minić
accused Lukačević of a massacre in Foča as commander of Chetnik units in Bosnia,
participation in the extermination of the Muslim population, collaboration with the Nazis and
Milan Nedić, and of crimes against Yugoslav Partisans. Lukačević, found guilty and
sentenced to death, was executed in Belgrade in late August 1945.[55]

Chetnik leader Dragoljub Mihailović was captured on 13 March 1946 by agents of the
Yugoslav Security Agency (OZNA) and indicted on 47 counts. He was convicted of eight,
including crimes against humanity and high treason. Mihailović, sentenced to death on 15
July, was executed with nine other Chetnik commanders in Lisičji Potok in the early hours of
18 July 1946.[56]

See also
 List of mass executions and massacres in Yugoslavia during World War II

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