Lithuanian President Rescinds State Award to Lithuanian Partisan

 

BNS, Delfi.lt

Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė rescinded a presidential decree signed in the year 2000 to award Lithuanian partisan Pranas Končius-Adomas the Order of the Cross of Vytis, fourth degree. She took the action following the discovery Končius-Adomas was a Holocaust perpetrator.

full story in Lithuanian here:
http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/partizanas-pkoncius-adomas-neteko-valstybinio-apdovanojimo.d?id=69065726