Trubar massacre

Trubar massacre
Location	Trubar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date	July 27, 1941 (1941-07-27)
Target	Croat civilians
Attack type	war crime, mass killing
Deaths	unknown
Victim	Waldemar Maximilian Nestor
Perpetrators	Chetniks
Motive	ethnic cleansing

Bosansko Grahovo

Trubar

Krnjeuša

Brotnja

Locations of massacres in summer 1941

The Trubar massacre was a civilian 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 the Croatian and Catholic population.

Incident

Parishioners of the Catholic parish in Drvar went to pilgrimage to St. Ann near Knin on 26 July 1941. The massacre occurred in village Trubar, 18 km away from Drvar, where Chetnik rebels stopped a train on Vaganj station and separated pilgrims who were returning from Knin on 27 July. Murdered pilgrims, among whom was a German Catholic priest Waldemar Maximilian Nestor, were thrown into the pit of Golubnjača. Shortly afterwards massacre occurred also in the surrounding villages.

One of the witnesses of the massacre was a partisan Stevo Babić who writes that a group of rebels executed train passengers at Golubnjača pit.

Exhumation

The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced in November 2015 that exhumations of bodies from the pit of Golubnjača were carried out and that these are the bodies of pilgrims killed in July 1941. Bodies were buried in priests' tomb in Banja Luka. Franjo Komarica, Bishop of Banja Luka, requested from the Office an investigation of the crime.

See also

• Pogrom in Krnjeuša