Petar Baćović
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vojvoda Petar Baćović |
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| Native name | Петар Баћовић |
| Nickname(s) | Kalinovički |
| Born | 1898 Kalinovik, Bosnia Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | April 1945 Independent State of Croatia |
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| Service/branch | Army |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Commands held | Chetniks in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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Petar Baćović (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Баћовић; 1898 – April 1945) was a Bosnian Serb reserve army officer, lawyer, and then a Chetnik commander (vojvoda, вoјвода) within occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. From the summer of 1941 until April 1942, he headed the cabinet of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Milan Nedić's puppet Government of National Salvation in Belgrade. In July 1942, Baćović was appointed by the Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović and his Supreme Command as the commander of the "Chetnik Operational Units in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina" during which he collaborated with the Italians and Germans in actions against the Yugoslav Partisans.
Along with other Chetnik commanders, Baćović carried out numerous massacres of Bosnian Muslim and Catholic civilians and those sympathetic to the Partisan movement. In April 1945, he was captured near Banja Luka by elements of the Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia (HOS) along with Chetnik leaders Pavle Đurišić and Zaharije Ostojić, and Chetnik ideologue Dragiša Vasić in what was apparently a trap. According to some sources, Baćović and the others were taken to the area of the Jasenovac concentration camp, where they were killed.
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