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Latvian minister resigns over Holocaust restitution blunder
by: AFP and EJP Updated: 22/Jun/2012 15:26
Latvijski ministar je dao ostavku zbog pogreške u restituciji Holokausta
Latvijski ministar pravde Gaidis Berzins je bio prisiljen podnesti ostavku na svoj položaj, u četvrtak, nakon kontroverzne tvrdnje da je politika restitucije za Holokaust pogrešna jer stavlja ineterese jedne manjine ispred druge.
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RIGA (AFP/EJP)---Latvian justice minister Gaidis Berzins was forced to resign his position on Thursday, following his controversial claims that Holocaust restitution policy is biased as it places the interests of one minority over others.
His resignation came after the politician, who heads the right-wingAll For Latvia-For Fatherland and Freedom party, voiced his opposition to Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis’ plans to create a commission to investigate the issue of property restitution for the families of Latvian Jews displaced during the Holocaust.
In an official statement posted to the justice ministry’s website, Berzins announced: “Given the prime minister’s and justice minister’s differing understandings of the transfer of real estate to Jewish religious and social organisation...(there is) a situation in which there is no further scope for the minister to work productively”.
The issue has long played a contentious role in Latvian politics, with a prior bill introduced in 2006, proposing $55 million in restitution for property once belonging the country’s Jewish community, being blocked by the national parliament.
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70,000 of Latvia’s pre-war population were murdered during the Second World War, in part due to local collaborators in Nazi extermination policies, as the former independent republic was then under Nazi occupation.
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