crimes committed by totalitarian regimes - Ministrstvo za pravosodje

Crimes committed by totalitarian regimes
– Crimes against peace;
– Victims, criminals, collaborators and observers;
– The role of communist parties;
– The heritage of the totalitarian system and its overcoming;
– General and specific characteristics of the totalitarian regimes.
– Legal. Discussions on the required EU legal instruments, their provisions, instrument drafting
and examination.
7.1.2. Levels of hearings and public debates:
– Multilateral international conferences, which could provide the base for the permanent
international forum;
– Regional conferences (covering the experience of one region or a few states);
– National conferences.
7.1.3. Forms of public hearings and debates:
– Scientific conferences, seminars, round table discussions and their rounds;
– Meetings with the victims and crime witnesses of the communist and other totalitarian
regimes;
– Joint sessions of international and national commissions of historians;
– TV-bridges, involving the European channel EuroNews and national TV channels;
– The development of an internet portal;
– Study trips.
7.1.4. The members of hearings and public debates:
– The representatives of the national parliaments and governmental institutions;
– Scholars (historians, lawyers, political scientists, sociologists, etc.);
– The representatives of international and national commissions of historians;
– The representatives of research centres and museums;
– The participants of the historical events, the victims of terror carried out by the communist regimes,
the organisations of victims of political terror, and witnesses;
– The staff of the European structures and the public sector of the Member States; diplomats;
– The representatives of the non-governmental organisations of human rights protections, etc.;
– Public figures (various groups: national, religious, professional).
7.2. Legal framework
Initiate discussions on the required EU legal instruments, their provisions, instrument drafting and
examination. To draft the required framework legal instruments that would assign another status to the
investigation of the crimes of the communist regimes (by expanding the concept of genocide) in order to
acknowledge them as international crimes to which no limitations apply, while the extradition is enabled
and the Member States are committed (recommended) to pay special attention to the following:
– Education on the crimes of the Communist and other totalitarian regimes;
– Memorialisation of the crime victims of the totalitarian regimes and the marking of the
memorial sites;
– Formation of national museum expositions;
– Criminal prosecution or sanctions for:
– Public support of the genocide crimes of the Communist and other totalitarian regimes;
– Refusal to acknowledge these crimes;
– Excessive derogation of these crimes;
– The responsibility of the successors of the Communist States concerning the compensation of losses.
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