List of massacres in North Macedonia
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in North Macedonia and its predecessors:
Ottoman Period
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrator | Victims | Notes |
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Massacre of the Albanian Beys | 9 August 1830 | Bitola, Ottoman Empire | 1,000 | Ottoman forces | Albanian beys | Albanian beys massacred by Ottoman forces. |
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising | August 1903 | Ottoman Empire (Throughout modern-day North Macedonia) | 4,694 | Ottoman forces | Macedonian Bulgarians and Aromanians | Macedonian Bulgarians and Aromanian civilians massacred by Ottoman forces.[1][2][3] |
Takeover of Skopje | 1912 | Kumanovo and Skopje | 3,000 | Serbian forces | Albanians | [4] |
Slaughter in Bitola | 1913 | Hospitals in Bitola | Serbian forces | Turkish patients | When Serbian forces entered Bitola, they killed Turkish patients to make room for injured Serbs.[4] | |
Massacre at Ohrid | 1913 | Ohrid | 650 | Serbian forces | Bulgarians, Turks, and Albanians | Serbian forces killed 150 Bulgarians and 500 Albanians and Turks.[5] |
WWI
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrator | Victims | Notes |
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Bitola massacre | 1915 | Kičevo and Kruševo | 555 | Bulgarian forces | Albanians | Bulgarian forces killed hundreds of Albanian civilians and burned hundreds of homes. better source needed ]
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WWII
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrator | Victims | Notes |
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Radolishta massacre | 28 October 1944 | Struga Municipality, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) | 84 | Wehrmacht | Albanians | Massacre of Albanians by the armed forces of Nazi Germany.[7] |
Bloody Christmas (1945) | January 1945 | Throughout the Socialist Republic of Macedonia | 1,200 | Yugoslav forces | Bulgarians | Macedonian Bulgarian children, women, and men found in mass graves.[8] |
Modern period
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrator | Victims | Notes |
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Vejce ambush | 28 April 2001 | Tetovo region, on the Šar Mountains, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) | 8 | NLA | Macedonian soldiers | Macedonian soldiers massacred by Albanian insurgents. |
Karpalak massacre | 8 August 2001 | Motorway Skopje - Tetovo, near the village of Grupčin, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) | 10 | NLA | Macedonian soldiers | Macedonian army reservists killed by Albanian insurgents.[9] |
Ljubotenski Bačila massacre
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10 August 2001 | Locality Ljubotenski Bačila on the Skopska Crna Gora mountains, between the villages of Ljuboten (Skopje) and Ljubanci, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) | 8 | NLA | Macedonian soldiers | Macedonian army reservists killed by Albanian insurgents.[10] |
Ljubotenski Bačila massacre
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12 August 2001 | Locality Ljubotenski Bačila on the Skopska Crna Gora mountains, between the villages of Ljuboten (Skopje) and Ljubanci, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) | 10 | Macedonian army | Albanian civilians | Massacre of Albanian civilians two days after an ambush of Macedonian soldiers by the NLA |
Smilkovci lake killings | 12 April 2012 | Butel Municipality, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) | 5 | Albanians | Macedonian civilians | Five Macedonian men aged between 18 and 21 years old found killed near Skopje. Subsequent investigations found that they were killed by Albanians.[11] |
See also
- ISBN 978-0253008473.
- ISBN 9639776289, pp. 107-137.
- ISBN 0810862956, Introduction.
- ^ a b Leo Freundlich: Albania's Golgotha Archived 31 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kramer, Alan. Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War.
- ^ Justin McCarthy, Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922. March 1, 1996. p.183
- ^ Zekoli, Arsim (3 December 2020). "Три масакри и злосторството кое трае – DW – 3.12.2020". Deutsche Welle (in Macedonian). Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ISBN 0810855658
- TheGuardian.com. 9 August 2001.
- ^ "Eight ARM reservists killed near Ljubotenski Bacila in 2001 remembered".
- ^ "Adnkronos". www1.adnkronos.com. Retrieved 2020-12-15.