Slovenia’s Vanishing Act

| 15. January 2007 | | Jure

V času, ko se slovenska politična elita sonči ob obiskih pomembnežev in zapira ceste za poslavljanje od tolarja, velja spomniti, da ista elita še vedno ni zmožna rešiti vprašanja izbrisanih. Temen madež še vedno ostaja, še več, kljub novi uradni verziji, ki trdi, da izbrisa sploh ni bilo, še vedno odmeva tudi v tujini. Najnovejši primer je iz ameriške revije MotherJones. Avtor članka je Chris Collins, ki je lansko leto preživel v Sloveniji. Če bi slovenska elita izbris rada čim prej “izbrisala” iz spomina, nam, upam, vsaj drugi tega ne bodo dopustili.

A number of recent developments may force the Slovenian government to finally resolve the matter, though considerable political leverage evaporated once the country was admitted to the EU. In March 2006, the outgoing commissioner for human rights for the Council of Europe reiterated his call for Slovenia to restore full rights to the thousands still without legal status. In July 2005, the United Nations Human Rights Committee called on Slovenia to seek similar resolution, and four months later Amnesty International urged full reparation for the Erased and guarantees they wouldn’t face future persecution. Last July, a group of Italian and Slovenian lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Erased at the European Court of Human Rights.