Vassili Makarovich Kononov[1] or Vasiliy Makarovich Kononov (Russian: Василий Макарович Кононов, Latvian: Vasilijs Kononovs; 1 January 1923 – 31 March 2011) was a Soviet partisan during World War II, who was convicted by the Supreme Court of Latvia as a war criminal.[2][3] He is the only former Soviet partisan convicted of crimes against humanity.[4]
Kononov was convicted for his role in three deaths in Mazie Bati, a Latvian village where local inhabitants had denounced alleged partisans who were then killed by German troops. A short time later Kononov led a unit, posing as German Wehrmacht personnel, into the village and killed nine civilians, including three women, one in the late stages of pregnancy who was burned alive. A Latvian court declared the killing of the three women a war crime. The conviction was later overturned on the grounds that it was not clearly established whether Kononov was operating on occupied territory and whether he and his men could be considered combatants, as well as whether the villagers could be considered prisoners of war. An appeal by the prosecutor to the Supreme Court of Latvia was dismissed.
^ECtHR usage.
^"Augstākās tiesas pārstāvji Strasbūrā gūst ieskatu cilvēktiesību aizsardzībā" Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Augstākās Tiesa. 24 septembris 2007. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
^"CASE OF KONONOV v. LATVIA", European Court of Human Rights. 17 May 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
^"Amid V-Day Festivities, Soviet Partisan Braces For War Crimes Verdict", Radio Free Europe. Claire Bigg. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
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