Trubar massacre

Trubar massacre
Location Trubar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date July 27, 1941 (1941-07-27)
Target Croat civilians
Attack type
 war crime, mass killing
Deaths ~300
Victim Waldemar Maximilian Nestor
Perpetrators Chetniks
Trubar
Brotnja
Locations of massacres in summer 1941

The Trubar massacre was a civilian massacre committed by Chetniks on 27 July 1941. It was part of the massacres in the southwestern Bosnian Krajina and Eastern Lika aimed at the ethnic cleansing of the Croatian and Catholic population.

Incident

Parishioners of the Catholic parish in Drvar went on a pilgrimage near Knin on 26 July 1941. The massacre occurred in village of Trubar, 18 km away from Drvar, where Chetnik rebels stopped a train on Vaganj station and separated pilgrims who were returning from Knin on 27 July. Murdered pilgrims, among whom was a German Roman Catholic priest, Waldemar Maximilian Nestor, were thrown into the pit of Golubnjača. Shortly afterwards massacre occurred also in the surrounding villages.[1][2] Croatian sources cite over 300 fatalities, yet many of the bodies that were thrown into deep caves, have yet to be fully exhumed.[3]

One of the witnesses of the massacre was a Partisan, Stevo Babić who wrote that a group of rebels had executed train passengers at Golubnjača.[4][5]

Exhumation

The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced in November 2015 that exhumations of bodies from the pit of Golubnjača were carried out and that these are the bodies of pilgrims killed in July 1941. Bodies were buried in priests' tomb in Banja Luka. Franjo Komarica, Bishop of Banja Luka, requested from the Office an investigation of the crime.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Čutura, Vlado. "Rađa se novi život na mučeničkoj krvi". Glas Koncila. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Vukšić, Tomo. ""Dan ustanka" - ubojstvo župnika iz Drvara i Bosanskog Grahova". Katolički tjednik. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "27. srpnja 1941. – srpski ustanici izvršili strašan pokolj Hrvata u Drvaru i Grahovu".
  4. ↑ Babić, Stevo (1972). Drvar 1941-1945 – Sjećanje učesnika, II. sv. Drvar. pp. 207–208.
  5. ↑ Dijanović, Davor. "Srpski ustanak bio je usmjeren protiv NDH i njezinih institucija (2)". Hrvatski fokus. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Drvar: Ekshumirani ostaci ubijenog župnika Waldemara Maksimilijana Nestora". hrsvijet.net. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Nakon 73 godine sahrana drvarskog župnika". republikainfo.com. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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