Rade Korda (Serbian Cyrillic: Раде Корда), or Rade Kordić (Serbian Cyrillic: Раде Кордић), was a Serb gendarmerie sergeant and Chetnik commander (vojvoda, војвода) in the Bijelo Polje region (present-day Montenegro) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
His authority was recognized by the Government of National Salvation in Serbia,[8] to whom he reported on 26 April[clarification needed] that his attempts to establish good relations with Muslims failed; they had killed one of his men the day before.
[10] At the beginning of September 1941 Korda killed Šukra Pilica, commander of Muslim militia in the hamlet of Zaklopača in Bare, Sjenica.
[citation needed] Some sources say that Korda opposed to Chetniks' anticommunist policy,[19] and Axis occupation forces in Montenegro blamed him for protecting communists in his region.
[22] Korda reported on 3 June 1942 that a delegation from Chetnik headquarters in Bijelo Polje asked him to come under the command of Pavle Đurišić, which he refused to do for the next several months.
[26] After Miloš Glišić and his Chetniks were expelled from Nova Varoš, Korda was under the command of Pavle Đurišić; however, he independently controlled Serb villages on the border between Bijelo Polje and Sjenica.
[38] In February 1943 Italians warned Korda to stop disrupting peace, as he was seen as one of the main troublemakers in the region alongside Osman Rastoder.
[40] The Italian 2nd Battalion of the 83rd Regiment from Bijelo Polje organized a mop-up operation of Korda's region, probably at the request of local Muslims, on 25 June.
[43] In the Klisura region of, 25 km southeast of Sjenica, a joint force of the Sandžak Muslim militia and a bicycle unit of the 104th Jäger Division fought Korda's Chetniks.