"On 30 June, employees of the Lithuanian Embassy to Belarus and representatives of Lithuanian state institutions, public organizations and the Lithuanian community in Belarus, university and school students paid respects to the memory of victims of the 1941 massacre next to a crucifixion build in Chyervyen nearly 20 years ago," the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said.
According to the press release, the participants laid flowers, said prayers and sang songs.
On 26 June 1941, NKVD officers shot dead about 2,000 people of Belarusian, Polish, Lithuanian and other nationalities in a forest next to Chyervyen in Belarus. The victims included about 100 Lithuanian soldiers, public servants, teachers and an Independence Act signatory, diplomat Kazimieras Bizauskas.
2012 07 02
Lithuanian diplomats and students visit monument to Soviet terror victims in Belarus
Lithuanian diplomats and students visited a monument to victims of Soviet terror in Belarus, which marks the 1941 shooting of about 2,000 people by the Soviet Internal Affairs Commissariat NKVD.
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