Express our Indignation over the interruption of Lithuanias sovereign function as a result of the military occupation of our homeland by the Soviet Union on June 15. Gravely concerned with the present plight of Sovietoccupied Lithuania and animated by a spirit of solidarity we. the members and friends of the Lithuanian ethnic community of New Jersey. Do hereby protest Soviet Russias aggression and the following crimes perpetrated by the Soviets in occupied Lithuania: (1) murder and deportation of more than 400.000 Lithuanian citizens to concentration camps in Siberia and other areas of Soviet Russia for slave labor. (2) colonization of Lithuania by importation of Russians. most of whom are Communists or undesirables. (3) persecution of the faithful. restriction of religious practices. closing of houses of worship. (4) distortion of Lithuanian culture by efforts to transform into a SovietRussian culture and continuous denial of creative freedom. We demand that Soviet Russia Immediately withdraw from Lithuania and its sister states of Estonia and Latvia. its armed forces. administrative apparatus. and the Imported Communist "colons". letting the Baltic States of Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania freely exercise their sovereign rights to selfdetermination.
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