Černová massacre

The massacre of Černová or the tragedy of Černová ( slovak: Černovská masakra or Černovská tragedian, Hungarian: Csernovai tragedian ) was a massacre in the village Černová ( now part of Ružomberok ) was carried out in the Kingdom of Hungary on October 27, 1907.

On the orders of the local leaders of the Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie Ján Ladiczky the gendarmes units fired into a crowd gathered Slovak civilians who were demonstrating against the inauguration of the local Roman Catholic church by a priest instead of the Hungarian Slovaks Andrej Hlinka. In this case, 15 people were - men and between 55 and 14 women - shot and died as a result of their injuries. Other 52 people were injured. The police themselves were also native Slovaks.

The massacre of Černová directed international attention to the dire national situation of Slovaks and other non-Magyar peoples, which the repressive Magyarization in the Hungarian part of the kuk Monarchy were exposed. Former Hungarian Foreign Minister Géza Jeszenszky (1990-1994) assessed the massacre of Černová the "turning point", after which they started up until then as " liberal" in force Hungary " Russian despotism " to reproach, for example in the UK.

On October 27, 1932, a memorial plaque to the victims of the massacre was unveiled in the presence of Andrej Hlinka, Milan Hodža, a Polish delegation and representatives of the Slovak League in America.