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 In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial. The term results from the legal concept of summary justice to punish a summary offense, a ...

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. The ...

, by

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

on 24–25 October 1944 during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

on the Croatian island of Daksa, near

Dubrovnik Dubrovnik, historically known as Ragusa, is a city in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, by the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, a Port, seaport and the centre of the Dubrovni ...

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

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

Niko Koprivica Niko Koprivica (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1944) was a Croatian lawyer, civic leader, and politician. He served briefly as the mayor of Dubrovnik during World War II and was executed without trial during the Daksa executions (1944), Daksa execu ...

, 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 given name. Marijan is also a surname found in Croatia. People named Marijan * Marijan Beneš – Croatian boxer * Marijan Brkić Brk – Croatian musician * Marijan Brnčić – Croatian footballer *Marijan Buljat ...

, 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 ( Trnova 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, 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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