MRP-AEG co-founder who warned of demographic threat and answered the slander campaign with a hunger strike
'I have a conscience, and that is why I am here, speaking under its pressure. We cannot go on living like this. We are becoming a minority on our own land.'
In August 1987 he co-founded the MRP-AEG with Lagle Parek and Tiit Madisson, and at the Hirvepark rally warned that Estonians were 'becoming a minority on our own land.' After the rally he began a two-month hunger strike to protest the official media's slander campaign; in the midst of it he carried a placard onto Red Square demanding publication of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and was forcibly sent back to Estonia. He later served as a delegate to the Congress of Estonia and was an editor of the satirical paper Roosa Lipp.
Career Timeline
- 1987Co-founded the MRP-AEG
- 1987.08.23Spoke at the Hirvepark rally, warned of demographic threat to Estonians
- 1987.09–10Two-month hunger strike protesting the media slander campaign
- 1987.09.30Carried placard demanding MRP publication at Red Square, forcibly returned to Estonia
- 1988Active organizer of dissident protests, received official warning to cease activities
- 1989–1990Editor of the satirical paper Roosa Lipp
- 1990Delegate to the Congress of Estonia