Vorige week werd de regerende Albanese Socialistische Partij gedwongen een standpunt in te nemen over de prangendste kwestie van het land in de laatste drie decennia.
Lees verder in De Groene Amsterdammer.
Tag Archives: transitional justice
Book Review: My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery
After the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, newly elected parliaments adopted legislation to dispose of the former communist elites. Through so-called “lustration” laws (“purification” in Latin) countries addressed the legacy of human rights abuses by identifying and, in some cases, sentencing those responsible for abuses under the prior regime. Lustration, however, was only one of the ways that secret police files could be used.
Read full book review in Muftah Magazine.
Former Romanian President Faces Trial for Crimes Against Humanity
Last Friday, April 13, Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis approved a request to prosecutea former president and prime minister on charges of crimes against humanity for their roles in the country’s bloody 1989 revolt against its communist dictatorship.
Read full blog in Muftah Magazine.
