The following is a partial list of selected massacres that are known to have occurred in the territory of modern-day Belarus (some numbers may be approximated):
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2011)
Name
Date
Location
Deaths
Notes
Pinsk massacre
April 5, 1919
Pinsk
35
Jewish men from illegal gathering of suspected Bolshevik cell executed by Polish troops during Polish–Soviet War.[1]
Kurapaty massacres
1937–1941
Kurapaty (Minsk)
7,000–30,000
NKVD summary executions
Massacre of Brzostowica Mała
September 1939
Malaya Berestovitsa
50
Ethnic Poles massacred by Belarusian peasants on the second day of the Soviet invasion of Poland.[2]
Slutsk Affair
October 1941
Slutsk
4,000
Part of the Holocaust in Belarus; non-Jewish residents also killed
Dzyatlava massacre
April 29 and August 10, 1942
Diatłowo (Dzyatlava)
1,500
Carried out by the SS and Belarusian Auxiliary Police.[3]
Mirnaya massacre
December, 1942
Mirnaya (Мірная), Belarus (be)
147
Nazi retribution for partisan attacks
Khatyn massacre
March 22, 1943
Khatyn
149
Nazi troops from Ukrainian Auxiliary Police destroyed entire village (not to be confused with Katyn massacre).[4]
Naliboki massacre
May 8, 1943
Naliboki
128
Polish civilians massacred by the Soviet partisans.[5]
2011 Minsk Metro bombing
April 11, 2011
Minsk
15
Including 204 injured
Stowbtsy School stabbing
February 11, 2019
Stowbtsy
2
2 Wounded[6]
^Maciej Rosalak (14 April 2011). "Ponury konflikt wśród poleskich błot" [A gloomy fight in the Polesie mud]. Rzeczpospolita. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^Marek Wierzbicki (May 2014). "Czystki kresowe" [Soviet purges in the Polish Kresy region]. Tygodnik Wprost, No 1613. pages: 1, 2, and 3. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^Christian Gerlach (1999). Kalkulierte Morde: Die deutsche Wirtschafts- und Vernichtungspolitik in Weißrußland 1941 bis 1944 [Calculated Murder: The German economic and annihilation policy in Belorussia 1941 to 1944] (in German). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg. pp. 206, 614, 702. ISBN 3930908549.
^Leonid D. Grenkevich; David M. Glantz (1999). The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944: A Critical Historiographical Analysis. London: Routledge. pp. 133–134. ISBN 0-7146-4874-4.
^Timothy Snyder (2010). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. p. 247. ISBN 978-0465002399.
^"Belarusian Teenager Gets 13 Years In Prison For Deadly School Attack". www.rferl.org. 11 September 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
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