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Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Monday attended a ceremony to honour the victims of Lithuanian Jews’ genocide at the Paneriai Memorial on Monday. The country observes the National Memorial Day for the Genocide Victims of the Lithuanian Jews marked on 23 September.
President Gitanas Nausėda on Friday awarded 33 persons posthumously with Life Saving Cross awards for saving Jewish people from the Nazi genocide during World War Two.
Lithuania is set to mark the Day of Mourning and Hope on 14 June and the Day of Occupation and Genocide on 15 June with a range of events across the country to remember and honour the victims of Soviet mass deportations.
The "Butcher of Bosnia" Radovan Karadžić has been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity by a special UN court and sentenced to 40 years in prison for atrocities in the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995.
A Kaunas court on Thursday found former KGB officer Ylya Vorobyov guilty for complicity in the 1956 detention of former guerilla chief Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas and sentenced him to two years of restricted freedom.
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs on Friday called the massacre of Armenians during WWI one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, but refrained from using the word "genocide" which is strongly criticized by Turkey.
A Kaunas court on Thursday found former Soviet security officer Stanislovas Drelingas guilty of genocide and sentenced him to five years in prison for participating in a 1956 operation to detain Lithuanian guerrilla leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas.
