Bar massacre

Bar massacre
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: 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, in three different groups, from Prizren to Bar by the route Prizren–Zhur–Kukës–Puk–Shkodër–Bar in Northern Albania.

The recruits were mistreated while on the way and when they arrived in Bar, they were executed by their Yugoslav guards.^[1]

References

1. "Massive Grave of Albanian Victims of Tivari Massacre uncovered". Albanian Telegraphic Agency. 19 September 1996. Retrieved 31 August 2012.

Coordinates: 42°06′N 19°06′E / 42.1°N 19.1°E