6 March 2002 KURESSAARE, 6 March (BNS)--A court in Kuressaare [the capital city of the Estonian island of Saaremaa] is about to begin the trial of eight former Soviet interior officials who took part in mass deportations of residents of the island [Saaremaa] to Siberia in 1949. One of the suspects, 74-year-old Heino Laus from […]

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