Tea Gorjanc-Prelević, executive director of Human Rights Action (HRA) noted that in 2006 the Montenegrin Parliament, by adoption of the Council of Europe resolution on international condemnation of crimes of totalitarian communist regimes, declared that “victims of crimes committed by totalitarian communist regimes who are still alive or their families, deserve sympathy, understanding and recognition for their sufferings”.

 – However, the efforts have not gone further than urban planning of the city square called “Victims of Goli otok”. Compensation, even symbolical, was never provided to victims. Most of them are no longer alive and those who are have reached old age. It is high time to inform these people that this long, shameless, and monstrous trampling of their fundamental human rights is part of our history of which we are nowadays ashamed and that we are also prepared to prove that in practice – noted HRA director.

Published in Daily Vijesti on 8 October 2012.

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