Prebilovci massacre
The prebilovci massacre was a war crime of the Croatian - fascist Ustasha against the Serbian civilians during World War II .
In the southern Herzegovinian village of Prebilovci , then part of the so-called Independent State of Croatia (NDH), around 600 Serbian women and children were murdered by Ustaša units on February 6, 1941. Together with 1,300 other Serbs from Mostar and Čapljina, they were thrown into the Golubinka pit near the village of Šurmanci near Međugorje . In the summer of the same year, further mass murders of the Serbian civilian population on the part of the Ustaša followed, so they murdered 820 out of a total of 1000 residents of the village, while around 4,000 Serbs were murdered in the neighboring towns of the lower Neretva valley . After the war, the authorities of the new banned Yugoslavia to the 1990 year the exhumation and burial of victims of Serbian Orthodox rite and the theming of the massacre. The Golubinka pit was sealed with concrete in 1961 . During the Bosnian War , a memorial that had been erected in the meantime was destroyed by Croatian extremists .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d E. Michael Jones: The Ghosts of Surmanci , South Bend (Indiana) , February 1998
Coordinates: 43 ° 5 ′ 40.2 " N , 17 ° 45 ′ 17.6" E