Petras Raslanas

Petras Raslanas (Russian: Пётр Раслан) (born March 25, 1914)[1] is a revolutionary active during the Second World War.

Raslanas, a Lithuanian,[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] He since had high positions in the Soviet Union, and was an official in the Soviet Ministry of Religious Affairs.[5]

In 2001 he was convicted of genocide by Šiauliai Area Court in Lithuania in absentia and sentenced to life imprisonment.[4] However, he still lives as a free man in Russia as Russian authorities have denied requests for extradition.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Raslanas, Petras. "Petras Raslanas - kgbveikla.lt". kgbveikla. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  2. ↑ Gitelman, Zvi Y. (1997). Bitter legacy: confronting the Holocaust in the USSR. Indiana University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-253-33359-9.
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. 1 2 Quigley, John B. (2006). The Genocide Convention: an international law analysis. Ashgate Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-7546-4730-0.
  5. ↑ Kultura. 9–12: 123. 1988. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ "В Израиле умер обвиняемый в геноциде литовцев". Lenta.ru. 25 February 2008. Retrieved 29 April 2010.


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