Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 11 ga Maris, 1990, Babban Majalisar Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic ta ba da sanarwar niyyar su ta rabu da Tarayyar Soviet kuma ta sake kafa Jamhuriyar Lithuania mai zaman kanta. Sakamakon wannan sanarwa, a ranar 9 ga Janairu, 1991, shugabancin Soviet ya tura Alpha Group don murkushe yunkurin samun 'yancin kai da kuma kula da matsayin Lithuania a matsayin jamhuriyar Soviet. Wannan yunƙurin sake kafa mulkin Soviet ya ƙare a cikin tashin hankali na Hasumiyar Talabijin ta Vilnius a ranar 13 ga Janairu, 1991, lokacin da sojojin Soviet suka kashe 'yan zanga-zangar Lithuania 13 da ba su da makamai, da kuma wani ma'aikacin Alpha (Lt. Viktor Shatskikh, wanda a bayyane yake an harbe shi a baya ta hanyar wuta ta abokantaka). A cikin 2011, tsohon kwamandan Alpha Group, mai ritaya KGB Kanar Mikhail Golovatov, an tsare shi a Filin jirgin saman Vienna na kasa da kasa a kan Dokar Kama Turai saboda wannan lamarin, wanda Lithuania ta bayar, amma hukumomin Austriya sun sake shi a cikin sa'o'i 24, suna iƙirarin cewa bayanin da Lithuania ta bayar "ya yi yawa". A cikin martani, majalisar Lithuania ta tattauna game da yanke dangantakar diflomasiyya da Austria don nuna rashin amincewa. Wata sanarwar hadin gwiwa ta Ministocin Harkokin Waje na kasashen Baltic guda uku sun yi Allah wadai da sakin Golovatov, kuma sun ce ya kamata ya kasance daya daga cikin "... lokutan da ake tsare da wadanda ake zargi da laifin, musamman lokacin da ake zarginsu da laifukan yaki da laifuka ga bil'adama "... kamar yadda "... laifukan da aka aikata a 1991 a Vilnius da Riga ba su da iyaka... " ("Riga" yana nufin irin wannan zalunci
a watan Janairun 1991, lokacin da 'yan sandan Latvia shida da fararen hula suka kashe sojojin Soviet OMON da KGB, wataƙila sun haɗa da membobin Alpha Group).