Tension growing in Lithuania
- Title
- Tension growing in Lithuania
- Genre
- News report
- TX Date
- 15 Jan 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:01:56
- Description
- Sue Jameson reports from Lithuania where tension is growing over fears of a military coup. The roads are blocked off around the Lithuanian Parliament and President Landsbergis has information that an air attack is the most likely. After Soviet troops fired into crowds, the Lithuanian Government has dropped its human wall defence. Neighbouring Latvia and Estonia fear they are under threat.
- Contributors
- Sue Jameson
- Keywords
- Politics; Parliament; USSR; Independence movements; Latvia; Lithuania; Baltic States; Vytautas Landsbergis; Estonia
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