Gudovac massacre
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The <entity_2> was the <entity_5> of around 190 Bjelovar Serbs by the Croatian nationalist <entity_8> movement on <entity_4>, during World War II. The <entity_5> occurred shortly after the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the <entity_8>-led Axis puppet state known as the <entity_0> (NDH). It was the first act of <entity_6> committed by the <entity_8> upon coming to power, and presaged a wider <entity_8>-perpetrated <entity_1> against Serbs in the NDH that lasted until the end of the war. The victims were drawn from <entity_7> and its surroundings on <entity_4>. The <entity_8> forced <entity_7>'s surviving inhabitants to dig a mass grave for the victims and pour quicklime on the bodies to speed up decomposition. On 10 April, senior <entity_8> commander Slavko Kvaternik proclaimed the establishment of the <entity_0> (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH). <entity_3>, a senior <entity_8> official, was entrusted with "cleansing" Bjelovar and its surroundings. Mišo Sabolek, a local <entity_8> commander, reported: "Bjelovar and its surroundings are besieged by Serbs, who are ... killing and looting homes in the villages of Nart, <entity_7> and the Česma forest." The killings were the first act of <entity_6> committed by the <entity_8> upon coming to power. Following the <entity_5>, the <entity_8> forced <entity_7>'s remaining inhabitants to dig a 150 m2 (1,614.59 sq ft) mass grave and cover the remains of the victims with quicklime to speed up decomposition. According to Kasche, Lorković told him that eleven Croats had been killed by the Serbs and that a <entity_5> of <entity_9> men from <entity_7> and its surroundings was carried out in retaliation. Goldstein posits that 25 of the 27 Croats whose deaths the <entity_8> attributed to "Serb agitators" prior to the <entity_5> had perished in combat operations during the rebellion of the 108th Regiment. Lorković maintained that the <entity_5> in <entity_7> was an "internal political issue under the jurisdiction of the Croatian government" and requested that the suspected perpetrators be handed over to the <entity_8>. The National Archive in Bjelovar contains extensive documentation of the <entity_5>, including a list of victims compiled by <entity_8> officials in May 1941, in which many prisoners are described as being "shot as Chetniks". The HSS party leadership distanced itself from the <entity_5> and condemned the actions of the <entity_8>, as did the majority of local HSS activists, many of whom ended up joining the Partisans.
['mass murder', 'massacre', 'war crime']