Declaration on the Crimes of Communism
The Declaration on the Crimes of Communism is a declaration signed on February 25, 2010 by several leading European politicians, former political prisoners, human rights activists and historians who attended the international conference "Crimes of Communism " in Prague .
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Among other things, she calls for more education on communist crimes, the prosecution of communist criminals through the creation of an international court within the EU for the crimes of communism, the erection of a memorial to the victims of communism (such as the American memorial to the victims of communism ), and the reduction in pensions and benefits for communist perpetrators.
Martin Mejstřík formulated a. a. the demand: “Just like the crimes of National Socialism in the Nuremberg Trials, the communist crimes against humanity must also be condemned by an international tribunal”. Communism is not a philosophy, but a criminal ideology, according to Mejstřík.
The conference
The conference was organized by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes under the auspices of Jan Fischer , Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Heidi Hautala , Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament, and Göran Lindblad , Vice-President of PACE . The cooperation partners were the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , the Information Office of the European Parliament , the Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic, the Robert Schuman Foundation and the Polish Institute in Prague.
First signatory (selection)
- Jiří Liška ( ODS ), Vice President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
- Harry Wu , human rights activist
- Nikita W. Petrov , Vice President of Memorial
- Heidi Hautala ( Greens ), Chair of the European Parliament's Human Rights Committee
- Ivana Janů , judge at the Czech Constitutional Court, former judge at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia
- Joachim Gauck , Federal President (Germany) since 2012 and former Federal Commissioner for the Stasi files
- Vytautas Landsbergis , former head of state of Lithuania
- Göran Lindblad , Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Hubert Gehring , Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Prague
- Naděžda Kavalírová , President of the Association of Former Political Prisoners of the Czech Republic
- Martin Mejstřík , former senator
- Pavel Žáček , historian and director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes ( Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů )
- Władysław Bułhak , Research Director at the Institute for National Remembrance
- Wasil Kadrinow , Director of the Bulgarian Hannah Arendt -Zentrums
- Janos M. Rainer , Director of the 1956 Institute ( Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution )
- Sjanon Pasnjak , Belarusian opposition member
- Marius Oprea , President of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
- Pavel Gregor , former chief investigator, UDV ( Office for the Documentation and Investigation of Communist Crimes )
- Christoph Schaefgen , former attorney general for communist crimes in the former GDR
- Markus Pieper , Member of the European Parliament
See also
- Prague declaration
- Council of Europe Resolution 1481 (2006) on the need for international condemnation of the crimes of totalitarian communist regimes
literature
- "There is only one earthly justice" or How the Berlin Public Prosecutor Christoph Schaefgen charged the GDR state and party leader Erich Honecker and put Stasi chief Erich Mielke behind bars - pp. 86–95 in: Simone Schmollack and Katrin Weber-Klüver : Back then in the GDR - stories of farewell and departure. Berlin 2010, ISBN 9783351027223 (as background on the topic)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.radio.cz/de/artikel/125511
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