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LRT EBU Lithuania January case

Dopesheet Lithuania is handing to court the case of attempted Soviet coup Lithuanian Prosecutor General says that this case of attempted Soviet coup of January 13, 1991, is the most significant and the largest case in the history of Lithuania's law-enforcement. Fourteen people were killed during an attack on the Vilnius TV Tower and the Radio and Television Committee building in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius when Soviet units in early hours of January 13, 1991 tried to overthrow Lithuanian government after Lithuania declared independence from Soviet Union in 1990 March. Now Prosecutor General Office says it has finished pretrial investigation of the events and finally is handing the January 13 case to the court. Some 700 volumes of documents were taken to a court by a special bus escorted with police. Prosecutors say that there are 79 suspects included in the case. Only two are in Lithuania. Most of them are Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian citizens of whom many live abroad in Russia and will probably be tried in absentia. 3 persons have already died, 10 persons are included in a separate pretrial investigation and a court now will investigate 66 suspects. However, critics claim that the most important suspect who was President of Soviet Union at the time Michail Gorbachev is not touched by this investigation. Lithuanian Prosecutors did not even manage to question him although did try. In 1999, six individuals – Mykolas Burokevicius, Juozas Jarmalavicius, Juozas Kuolelis, Leonas Bartosevicius, Stanislav Mickevic and Jaroslav Prokopovic – were sentenced for involvement in anti-state organizations and other crimes. Lithuanian law foresees a penalty for war crimes with imprisonment for a lifetime. Shotlist Shots and photos of case material Soundbite (Lithuanian), ROBERTAS POVILAITIS, son of the one man who died during January 13 events: He was the president of the Soviet Union at the time when killings were made in Vilnius, and in Tbilisi before that, he was chief of armed forces. And we cannot say anything about his activity, Prosecutors did not evaluate his role. I think that this is a huge gap in this investigation. Maybe we lack some documents and this raises questions if we made all our homework. Archive, January 13, 1991 Soundbite (Lithuanian), DARIUS RAULUSAITIS, temporarily working as Lithunian Prosecutor General: The situation where he is not considered as suspect only shows that it was impossible to reach certain data based on very limited available information at the current cooperation with Russia level. However, I must say that this case foresee another investigation regarding persons who were not questioned. Of course today it is a very theoretical opportunity, but maybe Russian attitude will change in the future and this opportunity will wait. More of archive