Anti-Soviet revolution leader dies

Budapest: Bela Kiraly, one of the military leaders of Hungary's short-lived anti-Soviet revolution in 1956, has died, the government said. He was 97. A brief defence ministry statement provided no other details, including the cause of death or where and when it occurred. However, the daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet reported that Kiraly died on Saturday morning in Budapest. Kiraly served in the Hungarian army during the Second World War and later led its military academy. In 1952, he was sentenced to death on trumped-up conspiracy charges by Hungary's Stalinist regime, but the sentence was later commuted to life in prison.... [read full story]                    

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