Draft:Genocide of Bosniaks in World War II

Genocide of Bosniaks in World War II
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
LocationBosnia and Herzegovina, Sandžak
Date1941-1945
Attack type
Genocide, ethnic cleansing, decapitation, live burning, forced deportation, forced conversion, rape and other
Deathsseveral estimates
103.000
86.000
PerpetratorsDraža Mihailović
Pavle Đurišić
Petar Baćović
Momčilo Đujić
Vojislav Lukačević
Dragoslav Račić
several others
Motiveanti-Bosniak sentiment
Islamophobia
Greater Serbia
Pan-Serbianism

The Genocide of Bosniaks in World War II (Bosnian: Genocid nad Bošnjacima u Drugom svjetskom ratu) war a series of ethnic cleansing and genocide of Bosniak civilians in World War II, committed by the Chetniks from 1941-1945.[1] The royalist Chetnik and their collaborators systematically murdered around 100,000 Bosniak Muslims trough torture, mass shooting, decapitation, live burning, forced deportation, forced conversion, rape etc. Trough this genocide, the Serbs wanted to create an ethnically pure Greater Serbia[2] that included the entire territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosniak majority region of Sandžak.

  1. ^ Dedijer, Vladimir; Miletić, Antun (1990). Genocid nad Muslimanima, 1941-1945: zbornik dokumenata i svedočenja (in Serbo-Croatian). Svjetlost.
  2. ^ Tomasevich, Jozo (1975). The Chetniks. ISBN 978-0-8047-0857-9.

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