Lithuanian man to be tried for 1949 deportations
20:18, 30 September 2010
VILNIUS. September 30. KAZINFORM A Lithuanian man is being accused in court of sending two women to eastern Siberia in 1949, the Prosecutor's Office of Lithuania said on Thursday; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
The man, who worked for the Soviet authorities, is thought to have removed two sisters from their country estate in Lithuania and handed them over to the local KGB, who put them on a train to the Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia.
"The sisters remained in exile until 1958," a spokesman for the Prosecutor's Office said.
The man refuses to admit his guilt, despite evidence showing that he and other officials deported Lithuanian citizens in the spring of 1949; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti.
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