On Saturday, in the course of the solemn commemoration of Defenders of Freedom Day within the March 11 Corridor of the Seimas, she quoted the phrases of poet Justin Marcinkevičius, mentioned on January 16, 1991, when saying goodbye to the victims of January 13 on the Cathedral Sq. in Vilnius.
“Our hearts don’t name for revenge. The Crier of Justice, if he nonetheless exists on this world. Humanity, if it has not been fully trampled. Let the enemies of Independence know that we’ve change into even stronger in our religion and wrestle, as a result of our useless by no means depart us, they stick with us, they help not solely us, they help freedom, justice, democracy, common ideas of reality and humanism”, – then J. Marcinkevičius spoke.
“Right here, our path is to not establish with those that wish to defeat, enslave, and destroy us. To not give in to blind revenge, to not flip grievance right into a criterion, to not usurp the monopoly proper to evaluate. To defend one’s proper to freedom with out shedding human dignity, with out taking away the humanity of others,” the Speaker of the Seimas asserted on Saturday.
She recalled eyewitness accounts that on January 13, 1991, because the tank weapons roared, individuals ran towards the shooters, not away from them.
“The individuals who defended the buildings tried to speak to the troopers, tried to persuade them, checked out them as individuals who have dad and mom, brothers, sisters, who lastly have a conscience, and never simply as recruits holding a weapon,” mentioned V. Čmilytė-Nielsen.
In keeping with her, that is the best way Lithuania got here to March 11, which led it to the Northern Alliance and the European Union.
“Commemorating January thirteenth, we’ll at all times do not forget that we reached our purpose on the best way to freedom because of such worldwide establishments because the European Parliament, and the efforts of self-sacrificing freedom employees like Petras Plumpa, defenders of freedom, and people who sacrificed their lives on January thirteenth”. – mentioned the Speaker of the Seimas.
The Seimas has determined to award the 2023 Freedom Prize to the European Parliament and to P. Plumpa, a participant within the unarmed resistance to the Soviet occupation regime.
Defenders of Freedom Day is widely known in Lithuania on Saturday, it honors those that died on January 13, 1991 in the course of the aggression of the Soviet military in Vilnius.
Then, 14 individuals had been killed and a couple of thousand had been injured when Soviet army models stormed the Vilnius TV tower and the constructing of the Radio and Tv Committee.
The Soviets tried by army drive to overthrow the respectable authorities of Lithuania, which declared the nation’s independence from the Soviet Union on March 11, 1990.
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2024-06-22 11:26:46
