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Deaths Notes Slaughter of the Knezes: 23–29 January 1804 Valjevo (c.) 80 Mass killing of Serb nobles by renegade Janissary officers. [1] Surdulica massacre: November 1915–February 1916 [2] Surdulica: 2,000–3,000 Mass executions of Serbian men by Bulgarian authorities. [3] Novi Sad killings: 23–24 November 1923 Novi Sad: 8 Spree killing ...
Bosniak and Croat civilians killed by Bosnian Serb forces and White Eagles paramilitaries during and after the Serb take over of Kotor Varoš and surrounding areas. [59] Bikavac fire: 27 June 1992 Bikavac near Višegrad VRS: Bosniaks: 60 Perpetrated by Serb paramilitary White Eagles members. The victims were Bosniak civilians. [56] Gornji ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
In 2014, the Humanitarian Law Centre in Serbia and Kosovo compiled a list of people who were killed or went missing during the war and in its aftermath, from January 1998 to December 31, 2000. The list totaled 13,517 people and included 8,661 Albanian civilians, 1,196 Serbs, and 447 Roma, Bosniaks and other non-Albanians; the rest were combatants.
Stanisic, a former head of Serbia’s State Security Service, and Simatovic, a senior intelligence operative with the service, are the only Serbian officials to have been convicted by a U.N. court ...
Srebrenica, and the surrounding Central Podrinje region, had immense strategic importance to the Bosnian Serb leadership. It was the bridge to disconnected parts of the envisioned ethnic state of Republika Srpska. [40] Capturing Srebrenica and eliminating its Muslim population would also undermine the viability of the Bosnian Muslim state. [40]
Mass shootings are extremely rare in the Balkan region, although Serbia is awash in guns left over from the wars of the 1990s. No mass shootings have been reported at Serbian schools in recent years.
Serbia and Croatia each have expelled a diplomat from the other country, a move that further strains relations between the two former wartime foes and Balkan rivals. The Serbian Foreign Affairs ...