The Daksa massacre,"6 Uninhabited and Mysterious Islands with Bizarre Pasts"
''The Daily Star'', 28 October 2015. also called the Daksa executions, refers to the war crime

summary execution A summary execution is an execution in which a person is accused of a crime and immediately killed without the benefit of a full and fair trial. Executions as the result of summary justice (such as a drumhead court-martial) are sometimes include ...

of 53 men, accused of

collaboration Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ...

, 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 ...

on 24–25 October 1944 during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

on the Croatian island of Daksa, near

Dubrovnik Dubrovnik (), historically known as Ragusa (; see notes on naming), is a city on the Adriatic Sea in the region of Dalmatia, in the southeastern semi-exclave of Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterran ...

. After the Partisans entered Dubrovnik on 18 October 1944, they arrested more than 300 citizens. 53 were executed on Daksa without trial. Exhumation and DNA analysis have confirmed the identities of 18 of these, while 35 remain unknown. The Partisans later published and distributed flyers through Dubrovnik with the words: "In the name of peoples of Yugoslavia" and "Judicial Council of the Court Martial of the Command of South Dalmatian region". The flyers contained the names of 35 people killed on that date. On 19 June 2010, the remains of the executed men were re-interred. The victims included a Catholic priest, Father

Petar Perica Father Petar Perica (27 June 1881, in Kotišina near Makarska – 25 October 1944, in Daksa) was a Croatian Roman Catholic Jesuit priest. He authored the hymns "Zdravo Djevo" and "Do nebesa nek se ori". He was born in 1881 in Kotišina near M ...

(who composed the song "Djevo Kraljice Hrvata"), and

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 ...

, Dubrovnik's mayor. No one was ever tried for the executions. The list of people killed on Daksa # Tomislav Baća # Petar Barbir, typographer # Slavko Barbir, student # Boris Berković, journalist (Zagreb, 1920 - Daksa, 1944) #

Marijan Blažić Marijan is a male Croatian first name. The Macedonian version of this name is Marjan. Marijan is also a last name found in Croatia. People named Marijan * Marijan Beneš – Croatian boxer * Marijan Brkić Brk – Croatian musician * Marijan ...

, prof. (St. Matthew, Kastav, March 25, 1897 - Daksa, October 25, 1944) # Ante Brešković, merchant (Nerežišća on Brač, January 1, 1912 - Daksa, October 25, 1944) # Baldo Crnjak, craftsman ( 1901 - Daksa 1944) # don Mato Dobud (Luka Šipanska, 19 September 1882 - Daksa, 25 October 1944) # Milan Goszl, merchant (Ruma, 1884 - Daksa, 1944) # don Mato Kalafatović-Milić (Janjina, July 23, 1911 - Daksa, October 25, 1944) # dr.

, mayor of Dubrovnik, lawyer and champion of the Croatian Peasant Party # don Đuro Krečak (Dubrovnik, April 23, 1883 - Daksa, October 25, 1944) # Ivo Knežević, farmer (Dubrovnik 1910 - Daksa, 1944) # Ivan Kubeš (Kubesch), clerk (Korčula, 1913 - Daksa, 1944) # Jure (Đuro) Matić, postman ( Točionik, 1895 - Daksa, 1944) # Željko Milić, captain of a long voyage # Makso Milošević, prof., Director of the Dubrovnik Gymnasium, (Dobrota in the Bay of Kotor 1887 - Daksa 1944) # Antun Mostarcic, prof. (Imotski, 1903 - Daksa, 1944) # Ivan Nikić, clerk (Dubrovnik, 1923 - Daksa, 1944) # Niko Nunić, B.Sc. Lawyer, Secretary of the Municipality of Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik, 1903 - Daksa, 1944) # Nikola Obradović, farmer (Danube, 1903 - Daksa, 1944) # Ivo Peko, director of the Dubrovnik Roundabout and journalist (Dubrovnik 1903-Daksa 1944) #

(Kotišina above Makarska, June 27, 1881 - Daksa, October 25, 1944) # Dr. Baldo Poković, lawyer (Dubrovnik, 1897- Daksa, 1944) # Mato Račević, school janitor (

Vitaljina Vitaljina is a village in Croatia. Connected by the D516 (Croatia), D516 highway, it is the southernmost settlement in mainland Croatia Administratively Vitaljina belongs to the municipality of Konavle, Dubrovnik-Neretva County and located in betwe ...

, 1905 - Daksa, 1944) # Vido Regjo (Grbavac, 1906 - Daksa 1944) # Don Josip Schmidt (Vukovar, March 1, 1914 - Daksa, October 25, 1944) # Nedjeljko Dinko Šarić, tax officer (Trstenik, 1905 - Daksa, 1944) # Ante Tasovac, police scout (Vela Luka, 1907 - Daksa, 1944) # Toma Tomasic, prof. (Baška Draga, 17 August 1881 - Daksa, 25 October 1944) # Martin Tomić (Dračevo, 1907 - Daksa, 1944) # Josip Tuta, student (Dubrovnik, 1924 - Daksa, 1944) # Frano Vojvodić, president of the mixed Croatian choir Gundulić in Dubrovnik, (Brgat, 1897 - Daksa, 1944) # Marijan Vokić, driver (Sovići, Drinovci, 1915 - Daksa, 1944) # Frano Žiška, retired officer (1897 - 1944) # Dr. Ivo Karlović, Mayor of Dubrovnik (1893 - 1944)

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