Litene

[2] Litene became infamous in the summer of 1941, the "year of terror" of the Soviet occupation.

Eleven hundred Latvian army officers were arrested by the Soviet NKVD in 1941.

[3] Two hundred Latvian officers were shot in Litene, 80 in Riga and 560 were deported to Siberian gulags.

[7] On 14 June 1941, the remaining officers, while on a supposed training mission, were disarmed, arrested and deported to forced labor at Norillag, north of the Arctic Circle in Siberia, where they were sentenced to death or long-term imprisonment.

The excavators uncovered the remains of 11 individuals, evidently officers of the 24th Territorial Corps.