When the three Baltic presidents met in Riga in May, they agreed to a collective mission to deal with Soviet and Nazi crimes committed in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. With Estonian president Lennart Meri taking the lead, a probe has begun, but the road to truth is not as straight as the international world would have it appear, as Katya Cengel reports.Uldis Strelis remembers the class he was sitting in when Soviet troops yanked him out of Latvia in 1949. Aged 11 at the time, Strelis was studying geography when he was called away and put on a cattle car bound for Siberia. The car was pac...
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