Foibe massacres
Mass killings and ethnic cleansing against Italians and pro-Italian Slavs
Foibe massacres
The foibe massacres (Italian: massacri delle foibe; Slovene: poboji v fojbah; Croatian: masakri fojbe), or simply the foibe, refers to ethnic cleansing, mass killings and deportations during and immediately after World War II, mainly committed by Yugoslav Partisans and OZNA in the then-Italian territories of Julian March (Karst Region and Istria), Kvarner and Dalmatia, primarily against local Italians (Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians), indiscriminately targeting both fascist and anti-fascist forces, as well as civilians. As a preventive purge of real, potential or presumed opponents of the communist regime of Josip Broz Tito, the new Yugoslav authorities also targeted Italian, German, Croat and Slovene anti-communists, falsely accused of collaboration with Axis. Most historians state that these attacks were state terrorism and ethnic cleansing against local Italians (Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians), including anti-fascist militias and civilians. Others claim that this was...
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