Target Croat civilians Perpetrators Chetniks Date 27 July 1941 | Deaths unknown Motive ethnic cleansing Attack type Mass murder | |
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Victim Waldemar Maximilian Nestor Location Trubar, Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
The Trubar massacre was a civilian massacre committed by Chetniks on 27 July 1941. It was part of the massacres in the southwestern Bosnian Krajina and Eastern Lika aimed at the ethnic cleansing of the Croatian and Catholic population.
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Incident
Parishioners of the Catholic parish in Drvar went on a pilgrimage near Knin on 26 July 1941. The massacre occurred in village of Trubar, 18 km away from Drvar, where Chetnik rebels stopped a train on Vaganj station and separated pilgrims who were returning from Knin on 27 July. Murdered pilgrims, among whom was a German Roman Catholic priest, Waldemar Maximilian Nestor, were thrown into the pit of Golubnjača. Shortly afterwards massacre occurred also in the surrounding villages.
One of the witnesses of the massacre was a Partisan, Stevo Babić who wrote that a group of rebels had executed train passengers at Golubnjača.
Exhumation
The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced in November 2015 that exhumations of bodies from the pit of Golubnjača were carried out and that these are the bodies of pilgrims killed in July 1941. Bodies were buried in priests' tomb in Banja Luka. Franjo Komarica, Bishop of Banja Luka, requested from the Office an investigation of the crime.