Romuald Rajs

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Romuald Rajs
Captain Rajs in 1943
Nickname(s)	Bury
Born	(1913-11-30)30 November 1913 Jabłonka, Austria-Hungary
Died	30 December 1949(1949-12-30) (aged 36) Białystok Detention Center, Białystok, Polish People's Republic
Cause of death	Execution by shooting
Battles / wars	World War II, Polish-Belarusian ethnic conflict
Awards	Order of Virtuti Militari (Golden Cross) Order of Virtuti Militari (Silver Cross) Cross of Valour Cross of Merit with Swords (Gold) Cross of Merit (Bronze)

Romuald Rajs, nom de guerre "Bury" (30 November 1913 – 30 December 1949), was a Polish soldier, a member of Home Army (AK) and National Military Union (NZW), an anti-communist insurgent and war criminal.^{[1][failed verification]} In 1946 the unit under his command burned several Belarusian villages in the region of Białystok and massacred about 79 villagers. He was sentenced to death in a show trial held by the Polish communist government in 1949, charged with membership in delegalized NZW. Following the trial, he was executed in 1949. The verdict was nullified by the Military Court of Warsaw in 1995.^[2][3] In 2005, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance conducted an investigation which revealed that his actions bear the marks of genocide against Orthodox Belarusian community in post-war boundaries of Poland. Rajs is revered by regional nationalist Polish groups as a hero which creates tensions with the local Belarusian and Eastern Orthodox inhabitants.^[4]