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Cazin rebellion | |||
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Part of the Cold War | |||
Date | 5–6 May 1950[1] | ||
Location | |||
Caused by | Drought, forced collectivization | ||
Resulted in | Uprising supressed | ||
Parties | |||
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Lead figures | |||
Ale Čović Unknown | |||
Casualties | |||
Death(s) | 29–32[2][3] | ||
Arrested | 714 |
The Cazin rebellion (Serbo-Croatian: Cazinska buna) was an armed anti-state rebellion of peasants that occurred in May 1950 in the towns of Cazin and Velika Kladuša in the Bosanska Krajina region, as well as Slunj in Croatia, at that time part of Communist Yugoslavia.[4] The peasants revolted against the forced collectivization and collective farms set up by the Yugoslav government following a drought in 1949, after which they had been punished due to their inability to meet the quotas. The ringleaders were persecuted and some killed, including many innocent civilians.