Petras Raslanas

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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. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ a b 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. {{cite journal}}: 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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