| Goran Radosavljević "Guri" | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1957 Aranđelovac, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Allegiance | Serbia |
| Years of service | 1985-2005 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held | Operational Group (1997–1999) Žandarmerija (2001-2005) |
| Battles/wars | Kosovo War (1998–1999) |
Goran Radosavljević (nom de guerre: Guri, meaning "rock" in Albanian) was a Serbian police general and the first commander of Serbian special police unit Žandarmerija.[1]
He was born in 1957 in Aranđelovac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. Radosavljević graduated from the faculty for physical culture.[2] He worked in the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs since 1985. He initially taught in special combat, and then became head of the relevant department.
When the war started in the former Yugoslavia, he joined the special police units which were subsequently turned into the gendarmerie. During the Kosovo war (1998–1999), Guri led a cluster of counter-terrorist teams called Operational Group (OPG), established to counter the terrorist-listed Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) who sought to separate Kosovo from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia). The OPG were later suspected of killing 41 ethnic Albanian civilians in the Cuska massacre in western Kosovo in May 1999.[3]
The general led OPG against KLA for the whole Kosovo war, and a number of human rights groups have charged that the OPG committed war crimes against civilians. Goran Radosavljevic "Guri" was the person in charge in the military operation in Račak on 15 January 1999, which would be known as the Račak massacre.[4][5] Serbian War crime prosecutor also brought him in connection with the killing of Bytyqi brothers.[6]
He became the first commander of the re-established Gendarmerie of Serbia on 28 June 2001.
In 2003, the United States agreed to the deployment of 1,000 Serbian troops to Afghanistan, commanded by General Goran Radosavljevic.[7][8]
In 2005 he left the Serbian police.[9]
On 17 December 2006, Serbian police announced the search for Goran Radosavljević.[10] No indictment has been issued against Radosavljević.
In 2007 Guri came to the public and denounced his rumors of hiding. By 2010, he had decided to join the Serbian Progressive Party and enroll in politics.