| Battle of Bukovica | |||||||||
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 Sandžak Muslim militia |
 Chetniks | ||||||||
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| more than 576 civilians | |||||||||
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The Bukovica massacre was a massacre of Muslims in Bukovica, Pljevlja, in the Axis-occupied Italian governorate of Montenegro. It took place on 4–7 February 1943,[1] during Pavle Đurišić's Chetniks' 1943 cleansing campaign (conducted against the order of supreme Chetnik command). The massacre was aimed at establishing Chetnik control over territories held by the Sandžak Muslim militia. After a short battle with the Muslim militia, Chetniks captured Bukovica and killed over five hundred civilians.
- ^ Knežević 1969, p. 113
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