List of massacres in North Macedonia

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in North Macedonia and its predecessors:

Ottoman period

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrator	Victims	Notes
Albanian Beys	9 or 26 August 1830	Bitola, Ottoman Empire	500	Ottoman forces	Albanian beys	Albanian beys massacred by Ottoman forces.
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising	2 August – October 1903	Ottoman Empire	Over 4,500	Ottoman forces	Macedonian Bulgarians and Aromanians	Macedonian Bulgarians and Aromanian civilians massacred by Ottoman forces.
Takeover of Skopje	1912	Kumanovo and Skopje	3,000	Serbian forces	Albanians
Slaughter in Bitola	1913	Hospitals in Bitola		Serbian forces	Turkish patients	When Serbian forces entered Bitola, they killed Turkish patients to make room for injured Serbs.
Massacre at Ohrid	1913	Ohrid	650	Serbian forces	Bulgarians, Turks, and Albanians	Serbian forces killed 150 Bulgarians and 500 Albanians and Turks.
Kokošinje murders	1904	Kokošinje	53	Bulgarian forces	Serbs	Bulgarian forces killed 53 Serbs

World War I

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrator	Victims	Notes
Bitola massacre	1915	Kičevo and Kruševo	555	Bulgarian forces	Albanians	Bulgarian forces killed hundreds of Albanian civilians and burned hundreds of homes.
Štip massacre	1915	Ljuboten, Štip region	118–120	[Internal Macedonians (ethnic group)\|Macedonian Revolutionary Organization\|VMRO]	Serbian soldiers

World War II

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrator	Victims	Notes
Radolishta massacre	28 October 1944	Present-day Struga Municipality, North Macedonia	84	Wehrmacht	Albanians	Massacre of Albanians by the armed forces of Nazi Germany.
Bloody Christmas (1945)	January 1945	Throughout the Socialist Republic of Macedonia	1,200	Yugoslav Macedonian communists	Bulgarians	Macedonian Bulgarian children, women, and men found in mass graves.

Modern period

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrator	Victims	Notes
Vejce ambush	28 April 2001	Tetovo region, on the Šar Mountains, Republic of Macedonia	8	NLA	Macedonian soldiers	Macedonian soldiers massacred by Albanian insurgents.
Karpalak massacre	8 August 2001	Motorway Skopje - Tetovo, near the village of Grupčin, Republic of Macedonia	10	NLA	Macedonian soldiers	Macedonian army reservists killed by Albanian insurgents.
Ljubotenski Bačila massacre	10 August 2001	Locality Ljubotenski Bačila on the Skopska Crna Gora mountains, between the villages of Ljuboten and Ljubanci, Republic of Macedonia	8	NLA	Macedonian soldiers	Macedonian army reservists killed by Albanian insurgents.
Luboten massacre	12 August 2001	Ljuboten, Republic of Macedonia	10	Macedonian police	Albanian civilians	Massacre of Albanian civilians two days after an ambush of Macedonian soldiers by the NLA.
Smilkovci lake killings	12 April 2012	Butel Municipality, Republic of Macedonia	5	Albanians	Macedonian civilians	Five Macedonian men aged between 18 and 21 years old found killed near Skopje. Subsequent investigations found that they were killed by Albanians.