🇷🇺🇱🇻 Commentary of the Russian Embassy in Latvia:

"The mockery of the memory of the fighters against fascism in Latvia has reached its highest point.

The authorities of the Kraslava municipality, ignoring all sorts of moral and ethical norms, have razed to the ground a fraternal military burial in the village of Šķaune, having destroyed with a bulldozer the memorial and commemorative plaques located there. It`s worth reminding that under them in the ground rest the remains of several dozens of the Soviet soldiers who gave their lives for the free and peaceful future of the people of Latvia. What is it then, if not state vandalism and desecration of graves?

This dastardly, inhumane action has been carried out despite numerous promises made by the Latvian senior officials not to encroach on burial sites and military burials. Is it worth mentioning Riga's international legal obligations in this area - the Russian–Latvian intergovernmental Agreement “On the status of burials” of 2007 and the UN Human Rights Committee resolutions containing an appeal to stop settling the score with monuments?

The Russian Embassy in Riga has sent a note of protest to the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which it condemned the barbaric escapade of the official authorities and urged them to put an end to this illegal and absolutely unjustified "war" being waged on the dead.

We are convinced that the international human rights community should decisively respond to what is happening in Latvia. No excuses and indulgences for such shameful phenomena should be acceptable in a modern civilized society."

#Šķaune #Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy

https://t.iss.one/rusemblv/4138

🇷🇺🇱🇻 Commentary of the Russian Embassy in Latvia:

"Right after the celebration of the Independence Day of Latvia, residents of Sesava in the Jelgava region have discovered another act of vandalism committed on a fraternal military burial located in this settlement – the inscription "Glory to the Heroes" in Russian and Latvian has been torn off from the memorial wall.

The perpetrators of this heinous crime hardly deserve to be named people. It is obviously not worth appealing to their conscience as well as moral values - such acts bring about in the society nothing but hatred and anger.

Such cases of mockery of the memory of the fallen are the result of outright connivance on the part of the Latvian authorities, who themselves are fighting against the symbols of the memorial heritage, thus breeding a sense of impunity and permissiveness in some circles. Apparently, this is the key to successful building of a "united political nation", in the view of the authors of this idea."

#Sesava #Latvia #Russia #RussianEmbassy

https://t.iss.one/rusemblv/4235