Bosansko Grahovo massacre

Bosansko Grahovo massacre
Location Bosansko Grahovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date 27 July 1941 (1941-07-27)
Target Croat civilians
Attack type
 War crime
Deaths Around 100
Perpetrators Chetniks
Motive Ethnic cleansing
Bosansko Grahovo
Brotnja
Locations of massacres in summer 1941

The Bosansko Grahovo massacre was a 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 ethnic Croats.

Incident

On the same day the Trubar massacre occurred (27 July 1941), Chetniks attacked Croat civilians in Bosansko Grahovo and surrounding villages, killing about 100, of whom 62 were identified. Among those killed were at least 5 women and 9 children.[1]

Numerous homes were burned, along with the Catholic church and rectory in Grahovo. A parish priest, Juraj Gospodnetić, was tortured and killed.[2]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "27. srpnja 1941. – srpski ustanici izvršili strašan pokolj Hrvata u Drvaru i Grahovu".
  2. ↑ Beljo, Ante (31 July 2009). "Masovni četnički zločini" (PDF). Hrvatsko Slovo. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
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