She also published her personal account of Polish Home Army murdering 3 Lithuanian civilians in July 1944 during Operation Ostra Brama in Vilnius.

Lithuania suspected that Arad had participated in partisan massacres against Lithuanian civilians during the Second World War.

The conflict culminated in the massacres of Polish and Lithuanian civilians in June 1944 in the Glitiškės (Glinciszki) and Dubingiai (Dubinki) villages.

The massacre triggered an act of revenge by Polish partisans against Lithuanian policemen and civilians in Dubingiai (20 to 27 Lithuanian civilians would perish).

Soviet troops attacked the Vilnius TV Tower, killing 14 Lithuanian civilians and wounding 600 others on the night of 13 January 1991 (January Events).

It is unclear whether he was aware of the Dubingiai incident, in which an AK unit massacred a number of Lithuanian civilians (the number of victims estimates vary between 27 and close to a hundred or more).

At the Sajudis session, Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar of Estonia spoke of the beating of Lithuanian civilians on Friday by Soviet soldiers who occupied a Vilnius printing plant.

An estimate by a Lithuanian investigator Rimas Bružas is that about 500 Lithuanian civilians were killed by Poles during the war.

According to Lithuanian historians, the contentious issues involve the role of the Lithuanian Activist Front, the Lithuanian Provisional Government and participation of Lithuanian civilians and volunteers in the Holocaust.

In both the Lithuanian and Latvian capitals, Soviet forces seized key buildings and installations; 19 people were killed, most of them Lithuanian civilians passively resisting Soviet tanks.