| Bar massacre | |
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| Location | Bar, Montenegro, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Date | 24–27 March 1945 |
| Target | Kosovo Albanians |
Attack type | Massacre |
| Deaths | 400–450 to 1,500–2,000 |
| Perpetrators | Yugoslav Partisans |
The Bar massacre (Albanian language: Masakra e Tivarit) was the 1945 killing of 400–2,000 Albanians in Bar by Yugoslav Partisans during World War II.
The victims were Albanian recruits from Kosovo, who were supposed to fight the retreating Wehrmacht. Their Yugoslav commanders collected them together, disarmed them and let them walk from Prizren to Bar through the route Prizren–Zhur–Kukës–Puk–Shkodër–Bar in Northern Albania in three different groups.
The recruits were mistreated while on the way and when they arrived in Bar they were executed by their Yugoslav guards.[1]
References[]
- ↑ "Massive Grave of Albanian Victims of Tivari Massacre uncovered". Albanian Telegraphic Agency. 19 September 1996. http://www.hri.org/news/balkans/ata/1996/96-09-19.ata.html#03. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
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