List of massacres in Serbia
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The following is a list of massacres in Serbia.
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slaughter of the Knezes | 23–29 January 1804 | Valjevo | (c.) 80 | Mass killing of Serb nobles by renegade Janissary officers.[1] |
| Surdulica massacre | November 1915–February 1916[2] | Surdulica | 2,000–3,000 | Mass executions of Serbian men by Bulgarian authorities.[3] |
| Novi Sad killings | 23–24 November 1923 | Novi Sad | 8 | Spree killing.[4][5][6] |
| Jablanica killings | 19–20 July 1928 | Jablanica | 6 | Spree killing.[7][8][9][10] |
| Židije killings | 24 April 1930 | Židilje | 5 | Spree killing.[11][12][13] |
| Pančevo executions | 21–22 April 1941 | Pančevo | 36 | Execution of Serbian civilians by the Wehrmacht.[14] |
| Kruševac executions | 23 September 1941 – 12 June 1944 | Kruševac | 1,642 | Mass shootings of people by the German army.[15] |
| 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.[16] |
| Kraljevo massacre | 15–21 October 1941 | Kraljevo | c. 2,000 | Mass execution of civilians by the German army.[17] |
| Kragujevac massacre | 20–21 October 1941 | Kragujevac | 2,778 | Mass execution of Serbian men and boys by the German army.[18] |
| 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.[19] |
| Novi Sad raid | 4–29 January 1942 | Bačka region | 3,000–4,000 | Mass killings of civilians by Hungarian forces.[20] |
| Žabalj massacre | 6-9 January 1942 | Žabalj | Hundreds | Massacre of civilians by Hungarian forces at Žabalj.[21] |
| Gospođinci massacre | 6-7 January 1942 | Gospođinci | 100 | Massacre of civilians by Hungarian forces at Gospođinci. |
| Čurug massacre | 6–9 January 1942 | Čurug | 900 | Massacre of civilians by Hungarian forces at Čurug. |
| Đurđevo massacre | 6-7 January 1942 | Đurđevo | 300 | Massacre of civilians by Hungarian forces at Đurđevo. |
| Titel massacre | 6-7 January 1942 | Titel | 60–80 | Massacre of civilians by Hungarian forces at Titel. |
| Temerin massacre | 7-9 January 1942 | Temerin | 37 | Massacre of Jews by Hungarian forces at Temerin.[21] |
| Bečej raid | 27 January 1942 | Bečej | 215[22] | Massacre of civilians by Hungarian forces. |
| Drugovac massacre | 29 April 1944 | Smederevo | 72[23] | Mass killing by the Yugoslav royalist Chetniks.[24] |
| Srijemska Kamenica massacre | October 1944 | Sremska Kamenica | 196 | Executions of civilians by Yugoslav Partisans.[25] |
| 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.[26] |
| Vranje shooting | 3 June 1993 | Vranje | 8 | Spree killing. |
| Leskovac shootings | 26–27 July 2002 | Leskovac | 7 | Spree killing.[27] |
| Jabukovac killings | 27 July 2007 | Jabukovac | 9 | Spree killing.[28] |
| Velika Ivanča shooting | 9 April 2013 | Velika Ivanča | 14 | Spree killing.[29] |
| Kanjiža shootings | 17 May 2015 | Kanjiža | 7 | Spree killing.[30] |
| Žitište shooting | 2 July 2016 | Žitište | 5 | Spree killing.[31] |
| 2019 Jabukovac massacre | 9 August 2019 | Jabukovac | 4 | Spree killing.[32] |
| Belgrade school shooting | 3 May 2023 | Belgrade | 10 | School shooting.[33] |
| Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings | 4 May 2023 | Mladenovac, Smederevo | 9 | Spree killing.[34] |
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| Crimes of World War II |
