Krnjeuša massacre

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Krnjeuša massacre - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 44°41′N 16°14′E / 44.69°N 16.23°E

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Krnjeuša massacre
Memorial cross in Krnjeuša Bosansko Grahovo Trubar Krnjeuša Brotnja class=notpageimage\| Locations of massacres in summer 1941
Location	Krnjeuša, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date	9 August 1941 (1941-08-09)
Target	Croatian Catholic civilians
Attack type	Mass killing, ethnic cleansing
Deaths	240 (identified)
Perpetrators	Chetniks led by Mane Rokvić

The Krnjeuša massacre, sometimes referred to as the Krnjeuša pogrom (Croatian: Pogrom u Krnjeuši), was a massacre of Croat civilians committed by local Serb rebels led by Mane Rokvić on 9-10 August 1941, during the Drvar uprising.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The rebels were primarily Chetniks.^[4]^[5]^[6] The manner in which the massacre was committed suggests it was done in retaliation for earlier massacres committed by the Ustaša.^[2]

The Roman Catholic parish of Krnjeuša, established as Parish of Zelinovac in 1892, was a parish of the Diocese of Banja Luka which encompassed 10 settlements (Krnjeuša, lastve, Vranovina, Risovac, Vođenica, Vrtoče, Bjelaj, Teočak, Prkose and Cimeše) in the area near to Bosanski Petrovac^[7] numbering around 1,300 believers.^[8]

The massacre, which started on 9 August 1941, caused the total destruction of the parish. The church, the rectory and majority of houses in parish was burned and demolished. So far, the identity of 240 killed civilians is known including a 34-year-old parish priest, Krešimir Barišić, who was tortured and burned alive.^[7]^[8] Among those killed were 72 women and 49 children under the age of 12. After the massacre the local Croats fled and the communist authorities refused to allow exiles to return after the war ended in 1945.^[8]

References

^ Matkovich, Blanka (2017). Croatia and Slovenia at the End and After the Second World War (1944-1945). Warwick,UK: BrownWalkerPress. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9781627346917.
^ ^a ^b Bergholz, Max (2016). Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community. Ithaca,NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 162–171 & 222. ISBN 9781501706431.
^ "Bishop Komarica served the first Mass in Krnjeuša after 74 Years". 11 August 2015.
^ Dizdar, Zdravko & Mihajlo Sobolevski, „Prešućivani četnički zločini u Hrvatskoj i Bosni i Hercegovini: 1941-1945", Zagreb (1999)|quote=Ustanici četnici i partizani napali su Krnjeušu 2. kolovoza 1941. a potom je zauzeli poklali (većinom 9. i 10. kolovoza) sve one Hrvate koje su tu zatekli ili pohvatali.|page=116
^ Dizdar, Zdravko „Četnički zločini u Bosni i Hercegovini 1941-1945", Zagreb 2002.
^ Goldstein, Slavko (2013). 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning. New York Review of Books. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-59017-700-6.
^ ^a ^b Marić, Franjo; Orlovac, Anto (2006). Banjolučka biskupija u riječi i slici od 1881. do 2006 : povodom 125. obljetnice utemeljenja Biskupije. Banja Luka: Biskupski Ordinarijat Banja Luka. pp. 477–483. ISBN 953-97841-5-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Biskup Komarica blagoslovio spomen-križ na groblju u Krnjeušu". ktabkbih.net. The Catholic news agency of the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Retrieved 22 August 2017.

Sources

Anto Orlovac: Hommage uništenom zavičaju, članak iz Hrvatskog slova od 6. travnja 2007., str. 22.
Ana Došen: Krnjeuša u srcu i sjećanju, Matica hrvatska, ogranak Rijeka, Rijeka, 1994; ISBN 953-6035-01-4
Ana Došen: To je bilo onda, Vlastita naklada, Zagreb, 2007; ISBN 953-95354-0-9
Josip Jurjević: Pogrom u Krnjeuši 9. i 10. kolovoza 1941.', Vikarijat Banjalučke biskupije, Zagreb, 1999; ISBN 953-97841-0-7

44°41′N 16°14′E / 44.69°N 16.23°E / 44.69; 16.23

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