Goran Radosavljević

Goran Radosavljević "Guri"
Born	1957 Aranđelovac, SFR Yugoslavia
Allegiance	Serbia
Years of service	1985–2005
Rank	Colonel General
Commands held	Operational Group (1997–1999) Gendarmery (2001–2005)
Battles/wars	Kosovo War (1998–1999) Insurgency in the Preševo Valley (1999-2001)

Goran Radosavljević (nom de guerre: Guri, meaning "rock" in Albanian) was a Serbian police General and the first commander of the Serbian special police unit the Gendarmery.

He was born in 1957 in Aranđelovac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. Radosavljević graduated from the faculty for physical culture. 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 Yugoslav Wars broke out, he joined the special police units which were subsequently turned into the Gendarmery. During the Kosovo War (1998–1999), he led a cluster of counter-terrorism teams that were known as the Operational Group (OPG). They were established to counter the terrorism-linked, Albanian militant organization the Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK) which sought to separate Kosovo from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The OPG were later suspected of killing 41 ethnic-Albanian civilians in the Ćuška massacre in western Kosovo in May 1999.

The General led the OPG in its fight against the KLA for the whole Kosovo War. A number of human rights groups have claimed that the OPG committed war crimes against civilians. Radosavljević was the person in charge of the military operation in Račak on 15 January 1999, which would become known as the Račak massacre. The Serbian War Crime's prosecutor also brought him in connection with the killing of the Bytyqi brothers, three Albanian American brothers who came to Kosovo to fight on the side of the KLA. Radosavljević was in charge of a police training facility where the Bytyqi brothers were detained, executed, and buried in a grave without any legal authorization.

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