BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

11/04/2009

Forest Brother's betrayer charged

VILNIUS- A Belarusian priest has been charged with betraying the Lithuanian Forest Brothers in the 1950s. Juozas Bulka, a Catholic priest has had a case opened against him by Lithuanian prosecutors, reported the Lithuanian embassy in Minsk, Belarus.

"The criminal case was opened, and Bulka was put on the wanted list,\" the embassy reported.

Bulka is accused of cooperating and conspiring with Soviet authorities in the 1950s, Belarusian media reported. Lithuania is now saying that he identified the guerrilla fighters as Forest Brothers.

"This is all wrong. I have been fighting alcohol abuse all the time, and they are ascribing a political case to me,\" Bulka told Interfax on April 6.

"People talking about the Forest Brothers want me out. I know where this propaganda comes from,\" he said.

Forest Brothers is the name of the civilian guerrilla movement of nationalists in all three Baltic States from 1940-1957, many of who remained in hiding until the early 1990s. In Lithuania, the movement was most active in the years 1944-47. Some Russian historians claim the movement was pro-Nazi, a claim denied by the west, and is known as the national liberation movement.

Source:

http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/22700/

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