Radoslav "Rade" Radić (; 189017 July 1946) was a

Bosnian Serb The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sr-Cyrl, Срби Босне и Херцеговине, Srbi Bosne i Hercegovine), often referred to as Bosnian Serbs ( sr-cyrl, босански Срби, bosanski Srbi) or Herzegovinian Serbs ( sr-cyrl, � ...

Chetnik The Chetniks,, ; formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland; and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist m ...

commander ('' vojvoda'') during

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. At the start of

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, he belonged to the

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, but in the spring of 1942 he staged a coup in which he killed members of his detachment headquarters and wounded Partisans, after which he formed his own Chetnik detachment,

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with the

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and the

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during the war. After the war, he was sentenced to death by the new communist authorities at the

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and executed as a collaborator.

World War II

Rade Radić was at early stages of the war part of Partisan movement. In the night between 31 March and 1 April 1941, Radić and his quickly formed

detachment, which number around 100 members, attacked Partisan hospital in Jošavka Gornja, killing 15 Partisans including wounded

Mladen Stojanović Mladen Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Младен Стојановић; 7 April 1896 – 1 April 1942) was a Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb and Yugoslavs, Yugoslav physician who led a detachment of Yugoslav Partisans, Par ...

. Following this attack, Radić's Chetniks attacked two more Partisan hospitals in Borje and in Čelinac, killing around 60 members of Partisan movement. These crimes were used by Chetniks to make alliance with

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against the Partisans. Radić on June 9 in

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made an agreement with Ustaše commanders. On July 21 Radić was elected for the commander of Headquarters of Chetniks of

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. However, in this role Radić had just 'moral authority' and as joint representative to Ustaše government and German occupier. In autumn 1942 in Lipje, Radić met representative of Chetnik Headquarters of

Draža Mihailović Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović ( sr-Cyrl, Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић; 27 April 1893 – 17 July 1946) was a Yugoslavs, Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetniks, Chetnik Detachments ...

, where it was agreed that Bosnian Chetniks recognize Mihailović as their supreme commander, however he cannot uniletary appoint commanders in this region without agreement of other local commanders, as well as that new commanders must be from

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. After the war Radić, as a leader of Chetniks in Bosnia and member of

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was among accused ones in

, trial of prominent collaborators. Main indictment of Radić was his collaboration with Nazi Germany and Ustaše and murder of wounded in Gornja Jošavka partisan hospital, including

. He was found guilty and convicted to death by firing squad. After his appeal was rejected, he was executed on July 17, 1946, alongside 8 other collaborators, including

.IZDAJNIK I RATNI ZLOČINAC DRAŽA MIHAILOVIĆ PRED SUDOM – stenographic notes from the trial in serbocroatian
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