Lithuanian parliament fires director of genocide research centre over polarisation
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Adas Jakubauskas / BNS
The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, has voted to fire the director of a state-run institution researching Nazi and Soviet crimes in the country.
A secret ballot was held on Thursday, in which 79 MPs voted to fire the director of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) and four voted against the motion.
Meanwhile Jakubauskas maintains that he was removed due to political reasons.
“Simply put, a wrong person was in that position and the person needed to be changed. That was the problem,” he commented after Thursday s vote.
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