VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania has charged 66 citizens of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine with war crimes and crimes against humanity over the deaths of 13 civilians in a Soviet crackdown on the Baltic state's pro-independence movement in 1991, prosecutors said on Monday.
The General Prosecutor filed the charges against former officials of the Soviet Communist Party, defence and interior ministries and the KGB security police.
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