List of massacres in Serbia

The following is a list of massacres in Serbia.

List

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

See also

• List of massacres in Yugoslavia
• List of mass executions and massacres in Yugoslavia during World War II

References

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.