Bar massacre

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Bar massacre
Location Bar, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
Date 24–27 March 1945
Target Kosovo Albanians
Attack type Massacre
Deaths 400-450 to 1,500-2,000
Perpetrators Yugoslav Partisans

The Bar massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Tivarit) was the 1945 killing of 400-2,000 Albanians in Bar by Yugoslav Partisans during World War II.

The victims were Albanian recruits from Kosovo, who were supposed to fight the retreating Wehrmacht. Their Yugoslav commanders collected the Albanian recruits together, disarmed them and let them walk from Prizren, Kosovo to Bar, Montenegro through the route Prizren-Zhur-Kukës-Puk-Shkodër-Bar in North Albania in three different groups.

The recruits were mistreated while on the way and when they arrived in Bar they were executed by their Yugoslav guards.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Massive Grave of Albanian Victims of Tivari Massacre uncovered". Albanian Telegraphic Agency. 19 September 1996. Retrieved 31 August 2012. 


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