List of massacres in Yugoslavia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is a list of massacre

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s that have occurred in Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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(numbers may be approximate). Some areas that were once part of Yugoslavia are now parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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, Croatia

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, Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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, or Slovenia

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; see the lists of massacres in those countries for more details:

Name	Date	Location	Deaths
Cuska massacre Cuska massacre The Cuska massacre is the name generally used to refer to the mass killing of 48 Kosovo Albanian civilians, all men and boys, committed by the Yugoslav army, police, paramilitary and Serb volunteers from Bosnia in May 1999, during the Kosovo war...	May 14, 1999	Cuska Ćuška -Events:in the Kosovo War on May 14, 1999 there was a massacre of civilians there, the Šakali group is accused of these war crimes.-Notes and references:Notes:References:... (near Peć Pec Peć or Pejë is a city and municipality in north-western Kosovo and Metohija - Serbia, and the administrative centre of the homonymous district. Governor of city is Ali Berisha.... )	48
Drenica massacres Drenica massacres The Drenica massacres were a series of mass killings of Kosovo Albanian civilians committed by Serbian special police forces in Drenica region in central Kosovo....	Feb-March 1998 March–June 1999	Drenica Drenica Drenica also known as the Drenica Valley, is a hilly region in central Kosovo, covering . Located west of the capital Prishtina, its population of 110,000 is largely ethnic-Albanian....	83
Foibe killings Foibe killings The Foibe killings or Foibe massacres refers to the killings that took place mainly in Istria during and shortly after World War II from 1943 to 1949, perpetrated mainly by Yugoslav Partisans. The name derives from a local geological feature, a type of deep karst sinkhole called a foiba...	1943 to 1949	Istria Istria Istria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner...	estimated to be from hundreds to thousands
Izbica massacre Izbica massacre The Izbica massacre was one of the largest massacres of the Kosovo conflict 1999. Serb paramilitary and military forces killed 146 Kosovo Albanians of all ages in the village of Izbica, in the Drenica region of central Kosovo on 28 March 1999.- Background :...	March 28, 1999	Izbica Izbica Izbica is a village in Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Izbica. It lies approximately south of Krasnystaw and south-east of the regional capital Lublin...	146
Ljubenić massacres Ljubenić massacres The Ljubenić massacres were a series of killings committed by Serbian police and paramilitary forces on Kosovo Albanians in the in the village of Ljubenić The Ljubenić massacres were a series of killings committed by Serbian police and paramilitary forces on Kosovo Albanians in the in the village...	May 25, 1998 and April 1, 1999	Ljubenić	74+
Operation Račak	January 15, 1999	Račak Racak Račak is a village in central Kosovo located at . It became notorious in January 1999 after 45 people were killed in the village during the conflict between state security forces and Albanian guerrillas.... , Kosovo Kosovo Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia... , FR Yugoslavia	40-45
Podujevo massacre Podujevo massacre The Podujevo massacre is the name generally used to refer to the killing of 19 Kosovo Albanian civilians, all women and children, committed by Serbian paramilitary forces in March 1999 during the Kosovo war....	March 28, 1999	Podujevo Podujevo Podujevo or Podujeva is a town and municipality located in the district of Pristina of north-eastern Kosovo.Podujevo is situated in a strategic position due to a regional motorway and railroad passing through it which links surrounding regions. Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, is located some to...	19

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