Petras Raslanas

Petras Raslanas (Russian: Пётр Петрович Раслан; March 25, 1914 in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire - 2002)[1][2] was a Lithuanian Communist active during the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, when he served in the NKVD. He was convicted of the crime of genocide in 2001.

Rainiai massacre

Raslanas, born in Riga to an ethnic Lithuanian then became a Russian citizen,[3] joined the Komsomol in 1931 and the Communist Party of Lithuania in 1938 following which he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by the Lithuanian government for revolutionary activity.[4] After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940 he became head of the NKVD in Telšiai and is claimed to be responsible for the Rainiai massacre.[5] He since had high positions in the Soviet Union, and was an official in the Soviet Ministry of Religious Affairs.[6]

In 2001 he was convicted of genocide by Šiauliai Area Court in Lithuania in absentia and sentenced to life imprisonment.[5] However, Russian authorities denied requests for his extradition and he continued to live as a free man in Russia until his death in 2002.[7]

References
  1. "Расланас Пятрас Пятрович". rosgenea. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  2. Raslanas, Petras. "Petras Raslanas - kgbveikla.lt". kgbveikla. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  3. Gitelman, Zvi Y. (1997). Bitter legacy: confronting the Holocaust in the USSR. Indiana University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-253-33359-9.
  4. Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Centre for Research of East European Jewry. 8–11: 65. ISSN 0334-6641. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. Quigley, John B. (2006). The Genocide Convention: an international law analysis. Ashgate Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-7546-4730-0.
  6. Kultura. 9–12: 123. 1988. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. "В Израиле умер обвиняемый в геноциде литовцев". Lenta.ru. 25 February 2008. Retrieved 29 April 2010.
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