In the Park of the deleted monument in the form of the upper part of the letter Ć is a reminder of the grossest violation of human rights in modern Slovenia, reports RTS.
31 years ago in Slovenia, almost 26.000 people were deleted from the population register overnight, and they all had a surname with the letter "ć" at the end. This denied them the right to work, education and health care.
"Everything we heard here and this monument are a warning that something like that must not happen again." I have a great desire to tell the world, and especially Slovenia and Ljubljana, that this is an injustice that must not be repeated," said the Mayor of Ljubljana, Zoran Janković.
The Monument to the Deleted Persons in Ljubljana is the brainchild of Vuk Ćosić, Aleksandar Vujović and Irene Vela, and it was discovered in the grounds of the former Rog bicycle factory, which was turned into the Park of the Deleted Persons at the initiative of the Slovenian Amnesty International.
Three decades later, half of the erased persons have acquired the conditions to regain their civil rights in Slovenia.
Deleted recovery
The final decision of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia in 2003 that the state must retroactively return all rights to citizens who had permanent residence in Slovenia until the collapse of the former state, and who were illegally "deleted" from the population registers in February 1992, caused a real storm of public opinion. protests and discussions.
The greatest attention was attracted by the open letter of nineteen dignitaries who opposed the decision of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia, "Vreme" wrote in the text Return of deleted. In addition to some already declared writers from the right (from the club of the nationally heated New Review and the like), among the signatories the names of the former Minister of the Interior Andrej Šter (20 years ago a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), the then Ambassador of Slovenia to Bosnia Tadej Labernik, as well as well-known cultural figures, such as actor Polda Bibič and former member of the Presidency of Slovenia and Slavist Matjaž Kmecl.
The Slovenian police, as confirmed by the Slovenian Constitutional Court, had absolutely no right to delete all those people from the state registers at the press of a button, which moved their personal data and files to the "dead register", according to police jargon.
And all this despite the guarantees of the Slovenian authorities given in a special declaration of "good intentions", in which the Parliament undertook to "guarantee the right to all-round cultural and linguistic development to all members of other nations and nationalities, and to all those with a permanent place of residence in Slovenia to will get Slovenian citizenship, if they want it".
Lawyers Ljubo Bavcon and Tanja Petovar were among the first to warn about the problem of the "deleted" in the early nineties. At the time, the state had ignored the opinion of experts that anyone who enjoyed the acquired right of a resident of the Republic until the independence of Slovenia, after independence could in the worst case be saved to the status of a foreigner with permanent residence, and in no way become stateless, an individual without any residence permit, denied for all human and social rights.
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