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Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes are reports and proceedings of the European public hearing organised by the Slovenian Presidency [1] of the Council of the European Union (January–June 2008) and the European Commission.[2] The Hearing was organised in response to the request made by the Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European Union on 19 April 2007.
The president of the EU Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso and the Slovenian Prime Minister, Janez Janša, in 2007.
Edited by Peter Jambrek[3] and published by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union Crimes, the reports and proceedings research and investigate gross and large scale human rights violations committed during the reign of totalitarian regimes in Europe.
There were four sessions at the Hearing:
How to improve knowledge about totalitarian crimes?
How to promote public awareness about totalitarian crimes?
What lessons can be drawn from successful experiences?
How to achieve reconciliation?
The preface was written by the Slovenian Minister of Justice Lovro Šturm, and the introduction by Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the European Commission for Justice, Freedom and Security. Countries that were involved were: Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Poland and Spain.
^European Public Hearing on "Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (January–June 2008) and the European Commission
^EUROPA EU. Press Releases-Brussels Archived June 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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