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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Gudovac massacre (Template:Lang-sh-Latn; Serbian Cyrillic: Пoкoљ у Гудовцу) was the mass killing of 184–196 Serb inhabitants of Bjelovar which took place in the village of Gudovac on 28 April 1941, during World War II. The massacre was carried out by the Ustaše, a Croatian ultra-nationalist, fascist movement that came to power in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina after the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 and established the Axis puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). It was the first act of mass murder committed by the Ustaše after they had come to power.The massacre occurred shortly after the deaths of two local Ustaše, one killed by unknown gunmen and another struck by a stray bullet, which the Ustaše used as a pretext for the subsequent killings. The victims were drawn from the village of Gudovac and its surroundings on 28 April. Most were arrested under the guise that they were Serb rebels loyal to the ousted Yugoslav government. They were taken to a nearby field and collectively shot by a firing squad of about seventy Ustaše guards. Five of the prisoners managed to survive the initial volley and crawled away to safety. The Ustaše subsequently forced Gudovac's surviving inhabitants to dig a mass grave for the victims and pour quicklime on the bodies to speed up decomposition. The following day, relatives of one of the victims informed the Germans of what had transpired. The Germans ordered a partial exhumation of the mass grave and had forty suspected perpetrators arrested. Mladen Lorković, a senior Ustaše official, used his influence to have the detained men released and promised German ambassador Siegfried Kasche that the Croatian authorities would carry out a thorough investigation. No such investigation ever took place.In 1955, an ossuary and mausoleum were erected on the site of the massacre, as was a monument by the sculptor Vojin Bakić. In 1991, amid inter-ethnic violence during the Croatian War of Independence, the monument and mausoleum were destroyed by Croatian nationalists, as was another one of Bakić's works, Bjelovarac (The Man From Bjelovar). In 2002, the ruins of the ossuary were removed by the local authorities. That same year, a number of residents signed a petition to have the Bjelovarac monument erected once again. The restored monument was unveiled in December 2010."@en }

• Q5614677 abstract "The Gudovac massacre (Template:Lang-sh-Latn; Serbian Cyrillic: Пoкoљ у Гудовцу) was the mass killing of 184–196 Serb inhabitants of Bjelovar which took place in the village of Gudovac on 28 April 1941, during World War II. The massacre was carried out by the Ustaše, a Croatian ultra-nationalist, fascist movement that came to power in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina after the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 and established the Axis puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). It was the first act of mass murder committed by the Ustaše after they had come to power.The massacre occurred shortly after the deaths of two local Ustaše, one killed by unknown gunmen and another struck by a stray bullet, which the Ustaše used as a pretext for the subsequent killings. The victims were drawn from the village of Gudovac and its surroundings on 28 April. Most were arrested under the guise that they were Serb rebels loyal to the ousted Yugoslav government. They were taken to a nearby field and collectively shot by a firing squad of about seventy Ustaše guards. Five of the prisoners managed to survive the initial volley and crawled away to safety. The Ustaše subsequently forced Gudovac's surviving inhabitants to dig a mass grave for the victims and pour quicklime on the bodies to speed up decomposition. The following day, relatives of one of the victims informed the Germans of what had transpired. The Germans ordered a partial exhumation of the mass grave and had forty suspected perpetrators arrested. Mladen Lorković, a senior Ustaše official, used his influence to have the detained men released and promised German ambassador Siegfried Kasche that the Croatian authorities would carry out a thorough investigation. No such investigation ever took place.In 1955, an ossuary and mausoleum were erected on the site of the massacre, as was a monument by the sculptor Vojin Bakić. In 1991, amid inter-ethnic violence during the Croatian War of Independence, the monument and mausoleum were destroyed by Croatian nationalists, as was another one of Bakić's works, Bjelovarac (The Man From Bjelovar). In 2002, the ruins of the ossuary were removed by the local authorities. That same year, a number of residents signed a petition to have the Bjelovarac monument erected once again. The restored monument was unveiled in December 2010.".