List of massacres in Belarus
The following is a partial list of selected massacres that are known to have occurred in the territory of modern-day Belarus :
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. |
Kurapaty massacres | 1937–1941 | Kurapaty | 7,000–30,000 | NKVD summary executions |
Massacre of Brzostowica Mała | September 18, 1939 | Malaya Berestovitsa | 50 | ethnic Poles massacred by Belarusian peasants on the second day of the Soviet invasion of Poland. |
Slutsk Affair | October 1941 | Slutsk | 4,000 | part of the Holocaust; non-Jewish residents also killed |
Dzyatlava massacre | April 29 and August 10, 1942 | Diatłowo | 1,500 | carried out by the SS and Belarusian Auxiliary Police. |
Mirnaya massacre | December, 1942 | Mirnaya, Belarus :be:Мірная| | 147 | Nazi retribution for partisan attacks |
Khatyn massacre | March 22, 1943 | Khatyn | 149 | Nazi troops from Ukrainian Auxiliary Police destroyed entire village. |
Naliboki massacre | May 8, 1943 | Naliboki | 128 | Polish civilians massacred by the Soviet partisans. |
2011 Minsk Metro bombing | April 11, 2011 | Minsk | 15 | including 204 injured |