Study on how the memory of crimes committed by totalitarian regimes in Europe is dealt with in the Member States. Contract No JLS/2008/C4/006
| Year of publication: |
2010
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|---|---|
| Authors: | Closa Montero, Carlos |
| Institutions: | CSIC (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Justiz und Inneres |
| Subject: | Europa | Europe | Kriegsverbrechen | war crime | Opfer | victim | politische Geschichte | political history | Totalitarismus | totalitarianism |
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. REPRESSIVE REGIMES IN EU MEMBER STATES
- 1. 2. Period and duration of repressive regimes
- 1.3 Type and nature of the crimes committed
- 2. MODELS OF TRANSITION
- 2.1. Paradigmatic examples of the main characteristics of the transition process
- 2.2. Kind of measures adopted
- 3. LEGAL INSTRUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN ADOPTED TO DEAL WITH THE LEGACY OF THE REPRESSIVE PAST
- 3.1 General legislation on the legacy of totalitarian regime
- 3.1.1. Laws condemning the previous repressive regime
- 3.2 Competent authorities and bodies to implement the specific legal instruments or in charge of these issues
- 3.2.1 Official bodies (Governmental or other regional institutions)
- 3.2.2 Non Governmental Organizations
- 3.2.3 Other type of institutions (research centers and institutes, museums)
- 3.3 Legislation on publicly condoning, denying or grossly trivialising crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes directed against a group of persons defined by reference to criteria other than race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin, such as social status or political conviction
- 4. JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS
- 4.1 Identification of victims
- 4.1.1 Legal definition of victims
- 4.1.2 Measures for identification and location of victims (exhumations and inhumations etc.)
- 4.2. Material Reparation Measures
- 4.2.1 Personal rehabilitation
- 4.2.2 Compensations, idemnities, subsidies, packages, etc,
- 4.2.3 Restitution of property
- 4.2.4 International schemes for compensations
- 4.3 Symbolic reparations
- 4.3.1 Memorials (on exhumations and inhumations, public ceremonies, monuments established in memory of the victims, etc.)
- 4.3.2 Public, institutional or other type of apologies and declarations or acknowledgment of wrongdoing (such as copies of truth commission’s reports, list of names of victims, personal letters of apology, etc.)
- 4.4 Non-regulatory measures to support victims; f
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