Hungarian prosecutors yesterday detained a former top Communist party official for his role in the bloody suppression of an anti-Soviet uprising in 1956.
It was the first time any of the Soviet-backed Hungarian leaders of the time had been pursued in law for the crackdown, which began with a Soviet invasion.
Bela Biszku, 90, was detained on suspicion of war crimes for having directly supervised a Military Council that ordered the shootings of civilians during protests in Budapest and in the eastern Hungarian town of Salgotarjan in December 1956.
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