List of massacres in Serbia

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The following is a list of massacres in Serbia.

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NameDateLocationDeathsNotes
Slaughter of the Knezes 23–29 January 1804 Valjevo 70–150Ottoman Empire
Surdulica massacre November 1915–February 1916 [1] Surdulica 2,000–3,000 Mass executions by Bulgarian authorities
Novi Sad killings 23–24 November 1923 Novi Sad 8 spree killing [2] [3] [4]
Jablanica killings 19–20 July 1928 Jablanica 6spree killing [5] [6] [7] [8]
Židije killings 24 April 1930 Židilje 5spree killing [9] [10] [11]
Pančevo executions 21–22 April 1941 Pančevo 36German war crime. [12] [ page needed ]
Kruševac executions 23 September 1941 – 12 June 1944 Kruševac 1,642German war crime [13]
Mačva massacres 24 September – 9 October 1941 Mačva regionc. 6,000Serbian civilians killed in reprisals during anti-Partisan operations led by German, Ustaše and Hungarian forces. [14]
Kraljevo massacre 15–21 October 1941 Kraljevo c. 2,000German war crime
Kragujevac massacre 20–21 October 1941 Kragujevac 2,778 German war crime [15]
Valjevo executions 27 November 1941 Valjevo c. 300Execution 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. [16]
Novi Sad raid 4–29 January 1942 Bačka region3,000–4,000 Hungarian war crime
Žabalj massacre 7 January 1942 Žabalj 700Hungarian war crime[ citation needed ]
Gospođinci massacre 7 January 1942 Gospođinci 100Hungarian war crime
Čurug massacre 4–9 January 1942 Čurug 900Hungarian war crime
Đurđevo massacre January 1942 Đurđevo 300Hungarian war crime
Titel massacre January 1942 Titel 60–80Hungarian war crime
Temerin massacre January 1942 Temerin 48Hungarian war crime
Bečej raid 27 January 1942 Bečej 250Hungarian war crime
Drugovac massacre 29 April 1944 Smederevo 72 Chetnik war crime [17]
Srijemska Kamenica massacre October 1944 Sremska Kamenica 196Partisans war crime [18]
Purges in Serbia 1944–1945 Serbia region80,000–100,000Yugoslav Communist war crime
Paraćin massacre 3 September 1987 Paraćin 5 spree killing
Bačka killings March 1993 Pačir, Subotica, Aleksandrovo, Bajmok 9spree killing [19]
Vranje shooting 3 June 1993 Vranje 8spree killing
Leskovac shootings 26–27 July 2002 Leskovac 7spree killing
Jabukovac killings 27 July 2007 Jabukovac 9spree killing
Velika Ivanča shooting 9 April 2013 Velika Ivanča 13spree killing [20]
Kanjiža shootings 17 May 2015 Kanjiža 7spree killing
Žitište shooting 2 July 2016 Žitište 5spree killing [21]
2019 Jabukovac massacre 9 August 2019 Jabukovac 4spree killing [22]
Belgrade school shooting 3 May 2023 Belgrade 10 school shooting [23]
Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings 4 May 2023 Mladenovac, Smederevo 9spree killing [24]
Crimes of World War I
Crimes of World War II

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