Around the Bloc: Lithuania Prosecuting Former Soviet Soldiers for War Crimes
Around the Bloc: Lithuania Prosecuting Former Soviet Soldiers for War Crimes
Author(s): TOL TOLSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Military policy
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: Lithuania; Trial; War Crime; law and order; Maceviciene; Landsbergis; human rights
Summary/Abstract: The refusal of Russia and Belarus to cooperate over an investigation into civilian deaths during Lithuania’s pro-independence push in 1991 means that most defendants are being tried in absentia.
Journal: Transitions Online
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 02/02
- Page Range: 21-22
- Page Count: 2
- Language: English
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