Interfax 07 May 2007

Estonian police plan to beat visitors of military cemetery - public groups

Public organizations making up the Committee of May 9 have called for a boycott of the events of the Day of Remembrance dedicated to World War II victims on Tuesday.

A statement issued on Monday by the committee says: "Public organizations belonging to the Committee of May 9, including Nochnoy Dozor (Night Vigil), Tallinn residents of different ethnicities will not visit the desecrated military cemetery on May 8."

The committee believes that the visit may end with "a provocation because all public events have been prohibited until May 11 and the police will stage a nasty fistfight in the blind alley near the cemetery."