"European Public Hearing on "Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes""(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-11-18. page 156 <<Most of the mass killings were carried out from May to July 1945; among the victims were mostly
the “returned” (or “home-captured”) Home guards and prisoners from other Yugoslav provinces. In
the following months, up to January 1946 when the Constitution of the Federative People’s Republic
of Yugoslavia was passed and OZNA had to hand the camps over to the organs of the Ministry of the
Interior, those killings were followed by mass killing of Germans, Italians and Slovenes suspected of
collaborationism and anti-communism. Individual secret killings were carried out at later dates as well.
The decision to “annihilate” opponents must had been adopted in the closest circles of Yugoslav
state leadership, and the order was certainly issued by the Supreme Commander of the Yugoslav Army
Josip Broz - Tito, although it is not known when or in what form.>>
"European Public Hearing on "Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes""(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-11-18. page 156 <<Most of the mass killings were carried out from May to July 1945; among the victims were mostly
the “returned” (or “home-captured”) Home guards and prisoners from other Yugoslav provinces. In
the following months, up to January 1946 when the Constitution of the Federative People’s Republic
of Yugoslavia was passed and OZNA had to hand the camps over to the organs of the Ministry of the
Interior, those killings were followed by mass killing of Germans, Italians and Slovenes suspected of
collaborationism and anti-communism. Individual secret killings were carried out at later dates as well.
The decision to “annihilate” opponents must had been adopted in the closest circles of Yugoslav
state leadership, and the order was certainly issued by the Supreme Commander of the Yugoslav Army
Josip Broz - Tito, although it is not known when or in what form.>>
