Czechs join appeal for EU ban on denial of communist crimes

Six post communist EU nations, including the Czech Republic, have urged Brussels to push for a block-wide ban on denial of communist crimes. In a joint appeal sent to Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner, the foreign ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Latvia and Lithuania, argue that the principle of justice should assure just treatment of the victims of every totalitarian regime, and the victims of communism are all too frequently forgotten. Holocaust denial is already banned in many EU states and the six nations petitioning the justice commissioner would like to see similar treatment applied to communist crimes.