Dear friends and colleagues,
It is my honour to invite you to the opening of the exhibition The Latvian Tragedy-1941, a joint exhibition compiled bythe Museum of the Occupation of Latvia and The Museum “Jews in Latvia” and co-sponsored by the Latvian Council of Jewish Communities. The opening ceremony will take place on May 7th at 18:30 in the exhibition space ‘Gallery Cafeteria’, on the ground floor of the ASP building. Read the rest of this post »
BBC World News, By Nick Thorpe, 11 July 2012
A former interior minister of Hungary, Bela Biszku, who oversaw the crushing of the 1956 revolution, has been arrested on suspicion of war crimes.
Mr Biszku, 90, is accused of failing to protect civilians in wartime, and of responsibility for ordering security forces to open fire on crowds.
He denies the charges, for which he could face a life sentence. Read the rest of this post »
BBC World News, 11 July 2012
More than 500 newly identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre are to be reburied on the 17th anniversary of the tragedy in the Bosnian town.
Thousands of people – most of them relatives of the victims – have gathered ahead of the ceremony at the Potocari memorial centre.
Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed after the town was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995. Read the rest of this post »
BBC World News, 27 June 2012
For the first time, Russians have the chance to examine the evidence surrounding the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family following the Russian Revolution almost 100 years ago.
An exhibition on their detention, killings and the subsequent investigations into them has opened at the Russian State Archives in Moscow. Read the rest of this post »
Source: The Platform of European Memory and Conscience
Prague/Brussels, 7 June 2012.
The Platform of European Memory and Conscience is calling for the creation of a supranational judicial body for the gravest crimes committed by the Communist dictatorships. The call was announced at the conclusion of the international conference “Legal Settlement of Communist Crimes“ held on 5 June, 2012 in the European Parliament in Brussels under the auspices of a number of Members of the European Parliament, including its two former Presidents, Mr Jerzy Buzek and Mr HansGert Pöttering. Read the rest of this post »
