Estonia Finds Ex-KGB Agent Guilty of Deportations

A 79-year-old retired KGB agent who helped send hundreds of Estonians to Siberia 50 years ago was convicted Friday of crimes against humanity and sentenced to four years in prison. Mikhail A. Neverovsky, who was found guilty of selecting 274 people for deportation and personally putting three families on a train bound for Siberia, received the harshest sentence yet in Estonia for participating in mass deportations of the Soviet era. Ainu Rea, 62, who was sent to Siberia at the age of 12 because her family was on Neverovsky_s list, said justice had been served. "I would feel sorry for him if I didn_t remember what he did to us in 1949," she said. "My eyes see a sick, elderly man with a cane, but my heart tells me that today he got what he has deserved--but successfully avoided for so many years."