List of massacres of Bosniaks

This is a list of massacres of ethnic Bosniaks.

## List

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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2024)

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Šahovići massacre | 9-10 November 1924  | Šahovići  | Orthodox Christian mob  | 900
Genocide of Bosniaks in World War II  | 1941-45  | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sandžak |  Chetniks  | c. 100,000[1]
Artovac massacre  | 28

June 1941

| Avtovac |  Chetniks  | 47[2]
Drvar massacre  | 27 July 1941  | Drvar |  Chetniks,  Yugoslav Partisans | 200[3]
Višegrad massacres (1941)  | July–August 1941  | Višegrad | Serb villagers  | 500[4]
Berkovići massacre  | 26-28 August 1941  | Berkovići |  Chetniks  | 300[5][6]
Zaklopača massacre  | August 1941  | Srebrenica |  Chetniks  | 81[7]
Plana masssacre  | 3 September 1941  | Plana |  Chetniks  | 425[8]
Kulen Vakuf massacre | 6-8 September 1941  | Kulen Vakuf |  Chetniks,  Yugoslav Partisans  | c. 3,000 (captured soldiers and civilians)[9]
Rogatica massacre  | October 1941-January 1942  | Rogatica |  Chetniks  | 2,000[10]
Prača massacre  | Mid November 1941  | Prača |  Chetniks  | 63[10]
Koraj massacre | 28 November 1941  | Koraj, near Brčko |  Chetniks  | 100+
Čajniče massacre  | December 1941  | Čajniče |  Chetniks  | 418[11]
Divin massacre  | December 1941  | Divin |  Chetniks  | 423[11]
Sopotnik massacre  | December 1941  | Sopotnik, near Zvornik |  Chetniks  | 86[12]
Foča massacre (1941)  | 5 December 1941–January 1942  | Foča |  Chetniks, aided by  Royal Italian Army | 2,000[13][14]
Goražde massacre  | 30 December 1941 – 26 January 1942  | Goražde |  Chetniks  | 2,050[11][15]
Žepa massacre  | late 1941  | Žepa |  Chetniks  | c. 300[16]
Čelebić massacre  | January 1942  | Čelebić |  Chetniks  | 54[16]
Srebrenica massacre (1942)  | January 1942  | Srebrenica and surrounding areas  |  Chetniks  | c. 1,000[17]
Višegrad massacre (1942)  | January 1942  | Višegrad  |  Chetniks  | 1,000+[16]
Drakan massacre  | 3 March 1942  | Drakan  |  Chetniks  | 42[17]
Resnik massacre  | 5 March 1942  | Resnik |  Chetniks  | 51[10]
Foča massacre (1942)  | August 1942  | Foča  |  Chetniks  | c. 3,000[4][14]
Ustikolina massacre  | August 1942  | Ustikolina |  Chetniks  | 2,500[6]
Bijelo Polje massacres  | January 1943  | Bijelo Polje |  Chetniks  | c. 1,000
Massacres in Pljevlja, Priboj, Čajniče and Foča  | January–February 1943  | Pljevlja, Priboj, Čajniče, Foča districts and surrounding villages  |  Chetniks  | c. 9,200[18][19]
Bukovica massacre | 4-7 February 1943  | Bukovica, Pljevlja |  Chetniks  | 576+
Kasidoli massacre  | February 5, 1943  | Kasidoli, Priboj |  Chetniks  | 227[20]
Goražde massacre (1943)  | March 1943  | Goražde  |  Chetniks  | 500[21]
Višegrad massacre (1943)  | 5 October 1943  | Višegrad  |  Chetniks  | 2,000+[22]
Goažde massacre (1944)  | May 1944  | Goražde  |  Chetniks  | c. 50[23]
Bosnian genocide | 1992-1995  | Bosnia and Herzegovina  | Army of Republika Srpska (VRS),  Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), Scorpions paramilitary group | c. 34,000[24]
Sanski Most ethnic cleansing  | 1992-1995  | Sanski Most |  VRS  | 842[25]
Doboj ethnic cleansing (1992) | April–October 1992  | Doboj |  VRS  | 322
Bijeljina massacre | 1-2 April 1992  | Bijeljina |  VRS,  JNA  | 78
Foča ethnic cleansing | 7 April 1992-January 1994  | Foča  |  Serb forces  | 2,707
Snagovo massacre | 29 April 1992  | Snagovo |  Serb forces  | 36
Vlasenica  | May–September 1992  | Vlasenica |  VRS,  JNA  | 279[26]
Glogova massacre | 9 May 1992  | Glogova |  VRS,  JNA  | 64
Suha massacre  | 10 May 1992  | Suha |  VRS  | 38[27]
Zaklopača massacre | 16 May 1992  | Zaklopača and Milići  |  VRS,  JNA  | 83
Nova Kasaba massacre  | 17 May 1992  | Nova Kasaba |  Serb forces including White Eagles | 29[28]
Zvornik massacre | April–July 1992  | Zvornik |  Serb forces  | 700 (includes some Romani civilians)
Višegrad massacres | April–August 1992  | Višegrad  |  VRS,  JNA  | 3,000
Bosanska Jagodina massacre | 26 May 1992  | Crnčići  | Yellow Wasps,  VRS  | 17
Zijemlje massacre  | June 1992  | Zijemlje |  Serb forces  | 100[29]
Bijeli Potok massacre | 1 June 1992  | Bijeli Potok  | Yellow Wasps,  VRS  | 675
Ahatovići massacre | 14 June 1992  | Ahatovići (Novi Grad Sarajevo) |  VRS  | 47
Pionirska Street fire | 14 June 1992  | Višegrad  |  VRS, White Eagles  | 59; victims were women and children locked in a house and burned alive
Paklenik massacre | 15 June 1992  | Rogatica  |  VRS  | 50
Bikavac fire | 27 June 1992  | Bikavac  |  VRS  | 60; victims were mostly women and children, burned alive in their homes by Serb troops
Biljani massacre  | 10 July 1992  | Biljani  |  Serb forces  | 150[30]
Barimo massacre | 2 August 1992  | Barimo |  VRS  | 26; village burnt down, Islamic religious buildings destroyed
Mičivode massacre | 20 September 1992  | Mičivode |  VRS  | 42
Novoseoci massacre | 22 September 1992  | Novoseoci |  VRS  | 45; local mosque destroyed, many women raped
Sjeverin massacre | 22 October 1992  | Sjeverin  | White Eagles  | 16
Grabovica massacre  | November 1992  | Grabovica, Kotor Varoš |  VRS  | 150[31]
Duša killings | 7 January 1993  | Duša |  Croatian Defence Council (HVO) | 7; Bosniak homes burnt down following HVO takeover of the village
Ahmići massacre | 16 April 1993  | Ahmići |  HVO  | 120; nearly all Bosniak homes burned down, several Islamic religious buildings destroyed, 2 mosques mined deliberately and 1 destroyed with explosives laid at the base of its minaret
Sovići and Doljani killings | 17 April 1993  | Sovići and Doljani  |  HVO,  Croatian Army (HV) | 18; Bosniak homes and mosques burned down
Zenica massacre | 19 April 1993  | Zenica |  HVO  | 16
Kiseljak massacre | 12-16 June 1993  | Kiseljak |  HVO  | 78
Vrbanja massacre | 17-28 July 1993  | Vrbanja (Bugojno) |  HVO  | 45
Mokronoge massacre | 10 August 1993  | Mokronoge, near Tomislavgrad |  HVO  | 9
Stupni Do massacre | 23 October 1993  | Stupni Do |  HVO  | 37; several Muslim women raped, children and men beaten, robbed of every possession, some burned alive
Markale massacres | 5 February 1994  | Sarajevo |  VRS  | 68
Tuzla massacre | 25 May 1995  | Tuzla |  VRS  | 71
Srebrenica massacre | 11-31 July 1995  | Srebrenica  |  VRS,  Scorpions  | 8,372; only massacre in Europe recognized as genocide since the Second World War
Trnova massacre  | 20 September 1995  | Trnova, Sanski Most |  Serb Volunteer Guard | 11[32]

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