January 12 10 o'clock Student Representation of Alexander Stulginskis University (ASU SA), honoring the 1991 January 13 near the Television Tower, the victims who died for the freedom of Lithuania, are organizing a social action "Let's remember".
14 empty chairs surrounded by barbed wire will be placed in front of the central building of the University, symbolizing Lithuania freed from the grip of occupation.
We invite you to honor those who died for the freedom of Lithuania and join the campaign by lighting a candle.
On January 1991, 13, there was a mass peaceful resistance of Lithuanian citizens to the attempt of the leadership of the Soviet Union to forcibly occupy the Vilnius TV tower, the building of the Radio and Television Committee, the Parliament building and other objects significant for the coup d'état. At the Television Tower, 14 were killed and over 600 peaceful and unarmed people were injured.
"I, like many of my like-minded people, was born after the bloody events of January 13, so for us those events are not a tragic past that we might want to forget, but a great history that we want to remember and perpetuate," says the initiator of the campaign , ASU SA president Liveta Budreckytė.
"Such days make us think about what we have, what and thanks to whom we must cherish, value and protect. I hope that our generations will not experience such trials, but if there were, we would act as bravely as those people did 17 years ago. I believe that in the event of trouble, not a single plane, train or ship would return full of our compatriots who emigrated," says L. Budreckytė.
These days, the ASU Museum will exhibit telegrams of support sent to the University from various countries around the world, even from Moscow itself.
