17.01.2008 - Czech Senate for law acknowledging anti-Communist resistance
Active participants in the third resistance (the first two being the resistance against the Austro-Hungarian and the Nazi rules during the first and second world wars) are to be given the status of war veterans.
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"It does not establish any claim to financial compensation or major material advantages," Liska said.
He said not every citizen of former Czechoslovakia who disagreed with the former regime could become a participant in the resistance.
The certificate on who was a resistance activist is to be issued by the Institute for the Studies of Totalitarian Regimes on the basis of relevant documents.
It is to be given to those who fought the Communist regime with arms, who were imprisoned for their attitudes and who suffered bodily harm in connection with this.
The drafters of the legislation partly used as a model a similar law passed by the Slovak parliament two years ago.
(Ceske Noviny)
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