Council of Europe resolution 1481
In the resolution 1481/2006 of the
communist regimes
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It condemned "the massive human rights violations committed by totalitarian communist regimes and expressed sympathy, understanding and recognition for the victims of these crimes". It also said these violations "included individual and collective assassinations and executions, death in concentration camps, starvation, deportations, torture, slave labour and other forms of mass physical terror".
The full draft recommendation by rapporteur
EPP/CD, ED
, liberal groups and some social democrats, especially from countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic or the Baltic countries.
Final voting results
- 153 members were present and voted out of 317
- 99 members voted in favor of the Resolution 1481
- 42 members voted against the Resolution 1481
- 12 members abstained from voting
See also
- European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism
- European Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes
- Declaration on Crimes of Communism
- Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism
- Vilnius Declaration
External links
- Need for international condemnation of crimes of totalitarian communist regimes (full draft of the Political Affairs Committee)
- Russians In Support of the Idea of International Condemnation of Communism (An Open Letter from Leaders of Russian Anti-communist Organizations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
- Res. 1481
- Press release
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