Gata massacre
The Gata massacre was a war crime by a nationalist Serb Chetnik unit of the Dinaric Chetnik Division under the leadership of Mane Rokvić († 1944) in the village of Gata near Omiš on October 1, 1942. The Chetniks murdered 96 Croatian civilians at the age of nine Months to 87 years and many houses burned down.
It was one of the worst atrocities committed by the Chetniks against the non-Serb civilian population. The Chetniks were angry because the residents were known for their sympathy for the Tito partisans and had helped destroy the road from Split to Omiš.
It was the prelude to further massacres by Chetniks from southwestern Bosnia , which occurred up to October 5, 1942 in Dugopolje , Kotlenica , Dubrava , Donji Dolac , Ostrvica , Čisla , Zvečanje and Srijane and often involved 120 women, children and the elderly were brutally murdered.
literature
- Vladimir Krstulović: Četnički pokolj u selu Gata . In: Republika . No. 508-511 . Belgrade October 31, 2011 (Serbian, republika.co.rs ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fikreta Jelić-Butić: Četnici u Hrvatskoj: 1941–1945 (= Plava biblioteka ). Globus, 1986, p. 164 .
- ↑ 73. obljetnica pokolja u Gatima. HRT Hrvatski radio, September 28, 2015, accessed on November 17, 2018 .
- ^ Jozo Tomasevich: The Chetniks: War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945 . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1975, ISBN 0-8047-0857-6 , pp. 258 f .
- ↑ Zdravko Dizdar: Četnički zlocini u i Bosni Hercegovini: 1941.-1945 . Ed .: Hrvatski institut za povijest. Dom i svijet, Zagreb 2002, ISBN 953-6491-86-9 , p. 368 .