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Jan 01, 1923 Latgale, Latvia Died on 31 Mar 2011 (aged 88)
Soviet partisan
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About Vassili Kononov
- Vassili Makarovich Kononov or Vasiliy Makarovich Kononov (Russian: ??????? ????????? ???????, Latvian: Vasilijs Kononovs; 1 January 1923 – 31 March 2011) was a Soviet partisan during World War II, who was convicted by Latvian supreme court as a war criminal.
- He is the only former Soviet partisan convicted of crimes against humanity.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.
