The Pridvorica massacre was the mass killing of 180 Serb civilians by Muslim members of the Croatian fascist Ustaše movement on 7 January 1942, during World War II.
[2][3] The Croatian fascist ultranationalist Ustaše movement[4] were appointed to rule the new state with Ante Pavelić installed as the leader.
[2] A group of Ustašas led by Herman "Krešo" Togonal arrived and began organizing a local command in Gacko.
[2][12] They attempted to win over the support of the Muslims by promising them among other things, the return of landholdings they lost during the agrarian reforms of the 1920s and the building of mosques in villages.
[2] Historian Tomislav Dulić notes that Ustaše success in carrying out massacres often depended on them securing the support and trust of local Croats and Muslims, and that "Where such pacification succeeded, they were more or less free to initiate the destruction process.