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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 29 > Red Army officer Arnold Meri accused of genocide in 1949

Red Army officer Arnold Meri accused of genocide in 1949

By Jari Tanner / The Bulletin
March 29, 2009

TALLINN, Estonia — Arnold Meri, a decorated Red Army veteran charged with genocide for deporting hundreds of his Estonian countrymen to Siberia in 1949, has died. He was 89.

Meri, a former communist party official and the cousin of late Estonian President Lennart Meri, died at his home....

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