Rade Korda (), or Rade Kordić(), 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. After the Sandžak Muslim militia burned houses of Serbs living in villages around Giljeva mountain during the July 1941 uprising in Montenegro, Korda became involved in a struggle with Muslims. He became an influential Chetnik commander in the regions of Bijelo Polje and Sjenica, which opposed the Chetniks' anticommunist policy. Korda was nominally under the Chetnik command from Nova Varoš and Major Glišić until 1943 (when he came under the command of Pavle Đurišić), but was an independent commander of Chetnik forces from Serb villages between Bijelo Polje and Sjenica. The Giljeva Chetnik Detachment, established and commanded by Korda, had 300–600 men. Early life and military rank Korda was born in Tutiće village in Bijelo Polje county and completed elementary school. Before World War II, he was a police sergeant. World War II Chetniks in Serbia At the beginning of World War II in Yugoslavia, Korda organized and led a detachment of Serbs in Bare (near Sjenica) to protect their villages from newly-established pro-Croat and pro-Albanian authorities in Sjenica under the command of Major Miloš Glišić. His authority was recognized by the Government of National Salvation in Serbia, to whom he reported on 26 April that his attempts to establish good relations with Muslims failed; they had killed one of his men the day before. During the 1941 uprising in Montenegro, Korda was a commander of the rebel forces. At the beginning of September 1941 Korda killed Šukra Pilica, commander of Muslim militia in the hamlet of Zaklopača in Bare, Sjenica. In November 1941, after the rebellion was suppressed, Korda was elected regional commander and later established and commanded the Giljevo Chetnik Detachment. During November there was heavy fighting between Korda's and local Muslim troops. On November 11, Italians noted than houses were burnt down, 600 people lost their homes and significant destruction of crops. According to some sources, Korda received the rank of Chetnik voivode. In April 1942, the Muslim militia from Bijelo Polje repeatedly attacked forces under Korda; he did not respond to the attacks, in accordance with an order from Major Glišić in Raška (under whose command he was at the time). According to some Yugoslav postwar sources, Korda was not fully under Chetnik control because he