Bar massacre

Bar massacre
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
LocationBar, Montenegro, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Date20 March–30 April 1945
TargetKosovo Albanians
Attack type
Massacre, mass murder, summary execution
Deathsc. 400-2995
PerpetratorsYugoslav Partisans
MotiveRetaliation against conscientious objection

The Bar massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Tivarit) was the killings of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo by Yugoslav Partisans in late March or early April 1945 in Bar, a municipality in Montenegro, at the end of World War II.

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