Melinovac
Melinovac ( sr-cyr, Мелиновац) is a village in Croatia. History During World War II, as part of their genocide targeting ethnic Serbs, the Croatian fascist Ustaše regime killed about 890 Serbs from Melinovac as well as the nearby village of Ličko Petrovo Selo Ličko Petrovo Selo is a village in Lika, Croatia. It is located near the Plitvice Lakes. It is connected by the D1 highway. East of the village, the D217 ends at the Ličko Petrovo Selo border crossing with Bosnia and Herzegovina (continuing t ... between June and August 1941. The victims were thrown into a pit. Population According to the 2011 census, Melinovac had 9 inhabitants. 1991 census According to the 1991 census, settlement of Melinovac had 43 inhabitants, which were ethnically declared as this: Austro-hungarian 1910 census According to the 1910 census, settlement of Melinovac had 337 inhabitants which were linguistically and religiously declared as this: Literature Savezni zavod za ...
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Genocide Of Serbs In The Independent State Of Croatia
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Genocid nad Srbima u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj, separator=" / ", Геноцид над Србима у Независној Држави Хрватској) was the systematic persecution of Serbs which was committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia ( sh, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, separator=" / ", Независна Држава Хрватска, NDH) between 1941 and 1945. It was carried out through executions in death camps, as well as through mass murder, ethnic cleansing, deportations, forced conversions, and war rape. This genocide was simultaneously carried out with the Holocaust in the NDH as well as the genocide of Roma, by combining Nazi racial policies with the ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure Greater Croatia. The ideological foundation of the Ustaše movement reaches back to the 19th ...
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