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On July 31, 1991, at the Medininkai border post near the Belarus border, Soviet owners killed seven Lithuanian officials: Mindaugas Balavakas, Algimantas Juozakas, Juozas Janonis, Algirdas Kazlauskas, Antanas Musteikis, Stanislovas Orlavičius. Ričardas Rabavičius died of gunshot wounds at the hospital on August 2.
Doctors managed to save the life of the only seriously injured customs official, Tom Šernas.
These men were attacked by an insidious enemy. The enemy, who did not want to join the open fight, used the circumstances of the morning twilight to do his black job, “President Gitanas Nausėda told the audience.
Together with the first Mrs. Diana Nausėdienė, she paid tribute to the victims of the flower massacre, the President of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Energy Žygimantas Vaičiūnas, the first leader of the restored Lithuania Vytautas Landsbergis, ministers and senior officials also participated in the commemoration ceremony.
This time T. Šernas did not participate in the commemoration.
According to V. Landsbergis, not everything that could be done was done in the investigation of the Medininkai massacre.
“Justice: Did we want to implement it, or do we simply imitate, limiting, in the end, a very dubious criminal?” The investigation or simply its imitation in pre-established narrow frameworks, and in fact awaiting the statute of limitations, was so obvious until the President Dalia Grybauskaitė demanded the retraining of the crimes, both on January 13 and Medininkai, “Landsbergis said.
Julius Kalinskas photo / 15min / Vytautas Landsbergis
“Witnesses like T. Šernas were ignored, R.Rabavičius was still alive when he was transported by Vilna in search of a hospital where he could be located,” he added.
Landsberg described the owners’ actions as “attacking the state” and “terror”.
Irena Maurušaitienė, a former inspector of the Medininkai post, recalls that she worked during the shift when the officers were killed and was released the night before the tragedy.
“The men met, consulted. She was a single mother, two children, I released them (…) There were such suspicious events, but we did not pay attention, in the afternoon, when I returned home, I learned all these terrible things in the morning “said the 73-year-old journalist. woman.
“I was born a second time, if I had not been released, I would have been lying in Antakalnis with my comrades,” he added.
Audrius, the brother of the late R.Rabavičius, says that justice has not been restored so far, his hope is that all the culprits will be found.
I was born a second time: if I had not been released, I would have been lying in Antakalnis with my comrades.
“For all the culprits to be found,” A. Rabavičius told BNS.
He was also supported by Genė Orlavičienė, the wife of the late S. Orlavičius.
“I am afraid to say something, I am afraid it is not very. We did not expect that, we expected more justice,” the 70-year-old woman told reporters.
To commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Medininkai massacre, the traditional race from Medininkai to the capital’s Antakalnis cemetery, where the dead were buried, also took place on Friday.
The night of remembrance of the Medininkai tragedy, organized by T. Šernas, already took place in Vilnius Evangelical Reformed Church on Thursday, and he is currently the Deputy Superintendent of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Lithuania.
Konstantinas Mikhailov, a former OMON militiaman, has been sentenced to life in prison for the Medininkai massacre and sentenced to life in prison.
Three other owners, Andrejs Laktionovs, Česlavs Mlynikas and Aleksandrs Ryžovs, were sentenced by the Lithuanian courts to the heaviest punishment because Russia refuses to extradite them.
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