The General Prosecutor's Office of Belarus declined a request by Lithuanian authorities to extradite former high-ranking Soviet military officers charged with organizing a 1991 attack by Soviet forces on the Vilnius TV center in which 13 Lithuanian civilians were killed. The attack took place against the background of the Soviet government's rejection of Lithuania's declaration of independence. Belarus contends that the suspected organizers of the attack were acting under Soviet law to defend the USSR's constitutional integrity.
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