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Keva's pit cave (Croatian:Kevina jama) is apit cave located in the village ofRadošić in the municipality ofLećevica, part ofSplit-Dalmatia County, Croatia.[1]
The pit cave is infamous as a site where during and afterWorld War II, theYugoslav Partisans used for the disposal of bodies of thousands of local Croatian civilians that they executed.[1][2] Those executed were deemed to be Axis collaborators or enemies of the Communist regime.[1]
The pit cave has a funnel form, which, at the widest part, is about 30 metres wide.[3] In the middle of the pit cave there is carbonated "skittle" made oflimestone and other materials ofkarst.
On 22 August 2015, aEuropean Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, a county commemoration for victims of all anti-fascistic and communistic crimes in Croatia, was held here.[4]
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