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The Drvar massacre

Background
Initially, Ustaše imprisoned all Serb men from Drvar during June and July 1941 and then began with preparation to imprison and kill all Serbs from Drvar, regardless of ther age and sex, including all women and children.

The mass uprising in Bosnian Krajina first started in Drvar on 27 July when three rebel detachments from Kamenica, Javor and Crvljivica, accompanied by hundreds of peasants armed with cold weapon, attacked garrison of 400 Ustaše and Home Guard soldiers in Drvar and captured it. The rebels captured all surviving enemy soldiers and captured the supstantial quantity of arms and ammunition.

The rebels immediatelly established the command of the municipality which operated until 25 September 1941 and renewed at the begining of July 1942 when Drvar was captured by Communist forces.

The headquarter of joint Partisan-Chetnik rebels had its seat in Drvar. The Chetnik commander Uroš Drenović was subordinated to this joint headquarter.