Daksa massacre
| Daksa massacre | |
|---|---|
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Island of Daksa | |
  Daksa Daksa (Croatia) Location of Daksa on the map of Croatia | |
| Location | Daksa, Croatia |
| Coordinates | 42°40′05″N 18°03′28″E |
| Date |
24 October 1944- 25 October 1944 |
| Target | Croatian civilians |
Attack type | Mass killing |
| Deaths | 53 |
| Victim |
Petar Perica Niko Koprivica |
| Perpetrators |
 Yugoslav Partisans |
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The Daksa massacre was a massacre committed by Yugoslav Partisans on 24 and 25 October 1944 during World War II on the small island of Daksa near Dubrovnik.
After partisans entered Dubrovnik on 18 October 1944, they arrested more than 300 citizens of Dubrovnik.[1] Partisans executed 53 Croatian civilians without trial. Exhumation and DNA analysis have confirmed the identity of 18 persons, while 35 remained unknown, and the true number of victims was also determined because before the exhumation, the number of 35 victims was already known for certain.[2]
After the crime, Partisans published and distributed flyers through Dubrovnik with sign: "In the name of peoples of Yugoslavia" in form of the sentence of the "Judicial Council of the Court Martial of the Command of South Dalmatian region". Flayers contained names of 35 persons who were killed that day.
On 19 June 2010, victims of the massacre were decently buried.[3] Notable victims of the massacre were priest Petar Perica, composer of famous Croatian song Djevo Kraljice Hrvata and Niko Koprivica, mayor of Dubrovnik.
This atrocity was never investigated and nobody has been tried for this crime to this day.[4]
References
- ↑ "Partizani pogubili hrvatske antifašiste". Glas Koncila (in Croatian). Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ↑ "Ekshumacija žrtava na Daksi" (in Croatian). Katolici.org. 3 October 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ↑ Peko P. (19 June 2010). "Dostojno pokopani nakon 66. godina mučkog smaknuća". Dubrovački vjesnik (in Croatian). Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ↑ Crnčević, Lidija (8 April 2009). "Zašto se šuti o zločinu na Daksi?!". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Retrieved 26 February 2012.