List of massacres in North Macedonia

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in North Macedonia and its predecessors:

Name Date Location Deaths Notes
Massacre of the Albanian Beys 9 August 1830 Bitola, Ottoman Empire 1,000 Albanian beys massacred by Ottoman forces.
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising August 1903 Ottoman Empire (Throughout modern-day North Macedonia) 4,694 Macedonian Bulgarian and Aromanian civilians massacred by Ottoman forces.[1][2][3]
Bloody Christmas (1945) January 1945 Throughout the Socialist Republic of Macedonia 1,200 Macedonian Bulgarian children, women, and men found in mass graves.[4]
Vejce ambush April 28, 2001 Tetovo region, on the Šar Mountains, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) 8 Macedonian soldiers massacred by Albanian insurgents.
Karpalak massacre August 8, 2001 Motorway Skopje - Tetovo, near the village of Grupčin, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) 10 Macedonian army reservists killed by Albanian insurgents.[5]
Ljubotenski Bačila massacre August 10, 2001 Locality Ljubotenski Bačila on the Skopska Crna Gora mountains, between the villages of Ljuboten (Skopje) and Ljubanci, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) 8 Macedonian army reservists killed by Albanian insurgents.[6]
Smilkovci lake killings April 12, 2012 Butel Municipality, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) 5 Five Macedonian men aged between 18 and 21 years old found killed near Skopje. Subsequent investigations found that they were killed by Albanians.[7]

See also
  1. https://books.google.mk/books?id=Uv38FKNAqQEC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=Ilinden+uprising+civilian+killed&source=bl&ots=MkIyAXtUVP&sig=ACfU3U3HWPPcrkAvn6aRLUElUrYiBo8bnA&hl=mk&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjltMOl1L3oAhUuUhUIHUWGBuk4ChDoATACegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=Ilinden%20uprising%20civilian%20killed&f=false
  2. "However, contrary to the impression of researchers who believe that the Internal organization espoused a "Macedonian national consciousness," the local revolutionaries declared their conviction that the "majority" of the Christian population of Macedonia is "Bulgarian." They clearly rejected possible allegations of what they call "national separatism" vis-a-vis the Bulgarians, and even consider it "immoral." Though they declared an equal attitude towards all the "Macedonian populations." Tschavdar Marinov, We the Macedonians, The Paths of Macedonian Supra-Nationalism (1878–1912), in "We, the People: Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe" with Mishkova Diana as ed., Central European University Press, 2009, ISBN 9639776289, pp. 107-137.
  3. Autonomy for Macedonia and the vilayet of Adrianople (southern Thrace) became the key demand for a generation of Slavic activists. In October 1893, a group of them founded the Bulgarian Macedono-Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Committee in Salonica...It engaged in creating a network of secretive committees and armed guerrillas in the two regions as well as in Bulgaria, where an ever-growing and politically influential Macedonian and Thracian diaspora resided. Heavily influenced by the ideas of early socialism and anarchism, the IMARO activists saw the future autonomous Macedonia as a multinational polity, and did not pursue the self-determination of Macedonian Slavs as a separate ethnicity. Therefore, Macedonian (and also Adrianopolitan) was an umbrella term covering Bulgarians, Turks, Greeks, Vlachs, Albanians, Serbs, Jews, and so on. While this message was taken aboard by many Vlachs as well as some Patriarchist Slavs, it failed to impress other groups for whom the IMARO remained the Bulgarian Committee.' Historical Dictionary of Republic of Macedonia, Historical Dictionaries of Europe, Dimitar Bechev, Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 0810862956, Introduction.
  4. Bechev, Dimitar (2009) Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia. Scarecrow Press. p.287. ISBN 0810855658
  5. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/aug/09/balkans
  6. http://www.idividi.com.mk/english/macedonia/544621/
  7. "Adnkronos". www1.adnkronos.com. Retrieved 2020-12-15.


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