Pavle Omčikus (1912—1942), nicknamed Pajo or Pajica,[citation needed] was a leader of the Serbian rebels during the July 1941 Srb uprising in the Independent State of Croatia.

He was a supporter of the social liberal Independent Democratic Party,[2] but later joined the far-right Yugoslav Radical Union (Serbian: Југословенска Радикална Заједница).

[7] Italy used the uprising as an excuse to attempt to expand the territory of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) under Italian control deeper into western Bosnia.

[10] Italy supported Serb rebels in helping to establish Italian influence beyond the zones they occupied per formal agreements.

[18] On the other hand, the Croatian Communist forces undertook all necessary measures to destroy any attempt to establish a Serbian nation-state by the "murders of national leaders and Chetniks" and waging against them "a war until extreme limits of life".