Island of Daksa, near Dubrovnik, Croatia (26

Daksa is a small uninhabited

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

in the

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n part of the

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. It is situated near

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in front of the

Rijeka Dubrovačka Rijeka Dubrovačka (Italian: ''Val d'Ombla'') is a ria (coastal inlet) to the north of Dubrovnik, Croatia, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. The Ombla The Ombla is a short river in Croatia, northeast of Dubrovnik. Its course is approximately l ...

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. The area of the island is about , the highest point is above sea level. The Daksa's

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monastery was built in 1281. The island was the site of the Daksa massacre by

Yugoslav partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод� ...

entering Dubrovnik in late October 1944. Mayor of Dubrovnik

Niko Koprivica Niko Koprivica (1889 in Cavtat – 25 October 1944, in Dubrovnik) was a politician of the Croatian Peasant Party who was mayor of Dubrovnik in the final days of the Independent State of Croatia. He was a lawyer by profession. Koprivica was admitt ...

was among those executed. In September 2009, authorities discovered the remains of six victims in the area. Soon after, the Daksa 1944/45 Association announced that 48 bodies had been discovered on the island. The president of the Croatian Helsinki Committee

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called for an investigation into what exactly occurred during the massacre. Members of the

Croatian Bishops' Conference The Croatian Bishops' Conference ( hr, Hrvatska biskupska konferencija; la, Conferentia Episcoporum Croatiae) (HBK) is an episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in Croatia. The Conference was founded on May 15, 1993 after Croatia regained it ...

visited the site in October 2009.HRVATSKI BISKUPI POHODILI OTOK DAKSU POKRAJ DUBROVNIKA
, pobijeni.info; accessed 12 August 2015.

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