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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):
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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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] |
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