Petrit Latifi
In the year 1848-1849, Serbian insurgents committed many atrocities killing Hungarian, German, Romanian and Jewish civilians. This followed the trend of other atrocities committed against Albanians in the years of 1803, 1807, 1830, 1844 and 1878. The following article cites a source on these events. Original article by Robert Hermann and edited by Ildikó Laszák.
1848.06.22. St. Thomas
Serbian insurgents massacre hundreds of Hungarian civilians.
On June 22, 1848, in Szenttamás, Bács County, local and surrounding Serbian insurgents physically assaulted the Hungarian residents, committed robberies and other acts of violence. On July 14, the Serbians repelled the siege of the Hungarian army. During and after the assault, the defenders massacred most of the local Hungarian citizens. The number of victims may have been several thousand.
26.06.1848. Novi Sad
Hungarian-Serbian clashes .
At the end of June, by order of the royal commissioner Peter Czernovits, parliamentary elections were held in Novi Sad. During this time, a clash broke out between the Hungarian and Serbian residents of the city, and the Serbian volunteers (Servians) who came to the aid of the latter. Three Hungarians and one Serb were killed in the fighting.
1848.07.06. Vlajkovec
The Serbian population and volunteers kill two Hungarians, the Hungarian National Guard fights back.
On July 6, 1848, in Vlajkovec, the local Serbian population, with the help of border guards and Serbs, ransacked the houses of Hungarians and tortured two people to death. Two days later, the Hungarian national guards from Versec recaptured the settlement. Several people were captured, two were shot in the head.
16-17.07.1848. Földvár
The Serbs who occupied the settlement murdered most of the Hungarian, German and Jewish population.
On the night of July 16-17, 1848, Serbian insurgents attacked Földvár. The Hungarian and Czechoslovak troops repelled the attack, then evacuated the settlement on the orders of Lieutenant General Bechtold. The Serbs murdered most of the remaining Hungarian, German and Jewish population.
1848.07.23. Uzdin
Serbian rebels burn a Romanian village.
On July 23, 1848, Serbian insurgents from Perlas attacked and burned the Romanian-populated village of Uzdin.
1848.08.23-08.30. White Church
Hungarian troops defending the settlement execute a Serbian priest and several insurgents.
On August 23, 1848, the troops of Colonel Stevan Knićanin attacked Belatemplom, but the 9th battalion of the Home Guard repelled the attack. The Hungarians lost 6, the Serbs 20 men and 1 cannon. The defenders captured and shot dead a Serbian priest and several border guards. A week later, Knićanin launched another attack on Belatemplom, but the 9th battalion and the city national guard again successfully resisted. The c. kir. troops led by Colonel Blomberg did not intervene in the fight. The captured Serbian insurgents were executed.
15.10.1848. Szeged
The hysterical Hungarian population murders several Serbs in Szeged .
On October 15, 1848, mass hysteria broke out among the population of Szeged because they mistook an approaching herd of oxen for a Serbian troop. The Hungarians attacked the Serbs of Szeged and massacred several of them. The atrocities were put to an end by the Hungarian National Guard. A similar massacre took place in Szőreg.
1848.11.09. Strazsa
Hungarian units kill Serbian prisoners and abuse civilians.
On November 9, 1848, Lieutenant Colonel János Damjanich took over the Bessarabić cs. kir. Strážsa (Táborfalva, Lagersdorf) under the command of Lieutenant General Bessarabić. On the orders of an officer of the 9th Home Guard Battalion, several Serbian border guards who had been taken prisoner of war were shot dead, and a group of sixty insurgents were burned alive in a barn. The Székely border guards and some of the soldiers of the 9th Home Guard Battalion who participated in the attack shoved Serbian women and children fleeing towards the Karas River into the water with bayonets.
15.12.1848. Jarkovac.
In response to a Serbian attack, Hungarian troops shoot their prisoners and armed Serbian civilians.
On December 15, 1848, Colonel János Damjanich’s troops stationed in Jarkovác were attacked in the early hours of the morning by the local population, the Serbian troops of Supljikać and Knićanin. Damjanich drove the enemy out of the village and then burned the settlement. The captured attackers and civilians caught with weapons in their hands were shot dead on the spot.
1849.02.01-03. Senta
Anti-Hungarian mass murder by Serbian troops.
Following Hungarian provocations (lynching of envoys), Serbian troops occupied Zenta in early February 1849 and massacred the Hungarian armed men and then the local Hungarian population. The number of victims of the killings, which continued in the first three days and after the Serbian troops withdrew, is estimated at 2,000-2,800.
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