The Glina massacre was the August 1941 killing of hundreds of Serbs by members of the far-right Croatian Ustaše movement in the town of Glina in Croatia. Serbs ( Serbian: Срби Srbi) are a South Slavic people living in the Balkans and Central Europe, mainly in Serbia, For the militiamen of the Military Frontier, see Uskoci The Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement ( Croatian: Glina is a small town in central Croatia, located southwest of Petrinja and Sisak in the Sisak-Moslavina county. Croatia (Hrvatska ˈxȓvatska officially the Republic of Croatia ( Republika Hrvatska) is a southern Central European country at the crossroads between It was one of the largest single acts of mass murder to occur in Yugoslavia during the Second World War. This article deals with mass killings that are not considered Genocide. See also Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
The massacre took place a few months after the invasion of Yugoslavia by Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers The Ustaše, led by Ante Pavelić, established a pro-Nazi government with Adolf Hitler's support shortly after the invasion, ruling an enlarged "Independent State of Croatia" that also incorporated all of Bosnia-Herzegovina and parts of Serbia. For the vice president of the National assembly of the State of Slovenes Croats and Serbs see Ante Pavelić (1869 Ante Pavelić ( July Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately The Independent State of Croatia ( Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH was a Puppet state of the Axis powers. Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Latin script: Bosna i Hercegovina, Cyrillic script: Босна и Херцеговина is a country on the Balkan Pavelić adopted a violent racial policy towards Serbs that his minister Mile Budak summarised as "Kill a third, expel a third, convert a third". Mile Budak (1889 - 1945 was a Croatian politician and writer best known as one of the chief ideologists of the Croatian nationalist Ustaše movement which ruled [1]
The new policy was put into effect almost immediately. In July 1941 some 500 Serbs from the Glina area of central Croatia were arrested and shot by Ustaše soldiers. Much of the Serb population went into hiding in the region's forests. The Ustaše responded by offering an amnesty if the Serbs would convert to Roman Catholicism. Many Serbs responded positively and turned up at the Serbian Orthodox church in Glina. The Serbian Orthodox Church ( Serbian: Српска Православна Црква / Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva; СПЦ / SPC) or the [2] The exact numbers are disputed; the Nuremberg Trials heard that 250 had arrived at Glina for the ceremony,[2] while other sources put the figure as high as 1,200. The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political military and economic leadership of Nazi Germany after [3]
The Serbs were herded into the church, the doors of which were locked shut after the last had entered. Croatian Ustaše members began to massacre the victims using clubs and knives. Only one of the victims, a Serb named Ljubo Jadnak, survived after playing dead and later described what had happened:
- They started with one huge husky peasant who began singing an old historical heroic song of the Serbs. They put his head on the table and as he continued to sing they slit his throat and then the next squad moved in to smash his skull. I was paralyzed. "This is what you are getting" an Ustaša screamed. Ustaše surrounded us. There was absolutely no escape. Then the slaughter began. One group stabbed with knives, the other followed, smashing heads to make certain everyone was dead. Within a matter of minutes we stood in a lake of blood. Screams and wails, bodies dropping right and left. [4]
The bodies were taken by trucks to a huge burial pit, from where Jadnak was able to make his escape. [4] He survived the war and later testified against Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac in 1946 and the Ustaše government's Minister of the Interior, Andrija Artuković, in a 1986 trial in Croatia. Blessed Alojzije (Aloysius Viktor Cardinal Stepinac ( May 8, 1898 February 10, 1960) was a Croatian Catholic Andrija Artuković ( 29 November, 1899 – 16 January, 1988) was a Croatian Ustasha and a convicted War criminal for the [5] The church itself was destroyed by the Ustaše shortly after the massacre. [6]
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References
- ^ Maya Shatzmiller, Islam and Bosnia: Conflict Resolution and Foreign Policy in Multi-Ethnic States, p. The Kragujevac massacre was the massacre of between 2300 to 5000 civilians mostly Serbs and Roma, women and schoolchildren — in Kragujevac, Serbia 11. McGill-Queen's Press, 2002. ISBN 0773524134
- ^ a b Misha Glenny, The Balkans, 1804-1999: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, p. 500. Granta Books, 2000. ISBN 1862070733
- ^ Tim Judah, The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, p. 127. Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0300085079
- ^ a b Ličina, Đorđe. Dossier Artuković, p. 26. Centar za informacije i publicitet, Zageb, 1986. Cited in translation in Falk, Gerhard, Murder: An Analysis of Its Forms, Conditions and Causes, p. 67. McFarland, 1990. ISBN 0899504787
- ^ "Ljuban Jednak: How I survived Ustasha hell", Blic, Belgrade. Blic is one of the highest circulation dailies in Serbia. It is a Tabloid owned by Ringier AG group from Switzerland. May 20, 1997
- ^ Fred Singleton, A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples, p. 177. Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN 0521274850
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