From uniforms at last year’s February 16th Independence Day neo-Nazi march in central Kaunas, featuring the “Lithuanian swastika” with added lines. Swastikas were legalized in Lithuania by a 2010 court decision, duly noted by the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
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Neo-Nazi March in the center of Kaunas next Saturday 16 February — Lithuanian Independence Day — starting at 2 PM at Ramybės Parkas. If you can, please come and join us to peacefully protest and show the world that the Neos do not represent today’s Lithuania.
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In a city where the Jewish population was massacred.
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Less than a year ago, the 1941 Nazi puppet prime minister who presided over the initial phases of the Kovno Holocaust was reburied with full honors and glorified.
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City’s Vytautas Magnus University continues to honor him as hero.
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Eyewitness report of last year’s event. Lrytas.lt report on this year’s counter-demo led by Dr. Efraim Zuroff.
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Friends of Lithuania are asked to speak out asking for the march to be cancelled or at least moved away from the city center of Kaunas on the nation’s independence day, a time and place that imply conferral by the state of legitimacy.
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