List of massacres in Belarus

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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Belarus (numbers may be approximate):

Name Date Location Deaths Notes
Pinsk massacre April 5, 1919 Pinsk 35 alleged communist conspirators, all Jews, executed without trial by Polish troops
Kurapaty massacre 1937-41 Kurapaty 7,000-30,000 NKVD executions
Massacre of Brzostowica Mała September 18, 1939 Brzostowica Mała 7-50 ethnic Poles killed by other local residents, enabled by Soviet troops
Slutsk Affair October 1941 Slutsk 4000 part of the Holocaust; non-Jewish residents also killed
Dzyatlava massacre April 29 and August 10, 1942 Diatłowo 1500 part of the Holocaust
Mirnaya massacre December, 1942 Mirnaya, modern day Belarus 147 Nazi retribution for partisan attacks
Khatyn massacre March 22, 1943 Khatyn 149 Nazi troops, predominantly ethnic Ukrainian, destroyed entire village

not to be confused with Katyn massacre

Naliboki massacre May 8, 1943 Naliboki 128 Soviets killed residents thought to belong to the Polish nationalist Armia Krajowa partisans
2011 Minsk Metro bombing April 11, 2011 Minsk 15 204 injured
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