Bearing in mind the dignified and democratic future of our European home,
believing that millions of victims of Communism and their families are entitled to enjoy justice, sympathy, understanding and recognition for their sufferings in the same way as the victims of Nazism have been morally and politically recognized,
we, participants of the Prague Conference "European Conscience and Communism",
call for:
We, participants of the Prague Conference "European Conscience and Communism", address all peoples of Europe, all European political institutions including national governments, parliaments, European Parliament, European Commission, Council of Europe and other relevant international bodies, and call on them to embrace the ideas and appeals stipulated in this Prague Declaration and to implement them in practical steps and policies.
Václav Havel, former dissident and President of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic, Czech Republic |
Joachim Gauck, former Federal Commissioner for the Stasi archives, Germany |
Göran Lindblad, Vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Member of Parliament, Sweden |
Vytautas Landsbergis, Member of the European Parliament, former dissident and President of Lithuania, Lithuania |
Jana Hybášková, Member of the European Parliament, Czech Republic |
Christopher Beazley, Member of the European Parliament, United Kingdom |
Tunne Kelam, Member of the European Parliament, former dissident, Estonia |
Jiří Liška, Senator, Vice-chairman of the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic |
Martin Mejstřík, Senator, Parliament of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic |
Jaromír Štětina, Senator, Parliament of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic |
Emanuelis Zingeris, Member of Parliament, Lithuania, Chairman, International commission for the assessment of crimes of the Nazi and Soviet occupation regimes in Lithuania, Lithuania |
Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geneva, Tibet, Switzerland |
Ivonka Survilla, Exile President of Belorussia, Canada |
Zianon Pazniak, Chairman of the People’s National Front of Belorussia, Chairman of the Belorussian Conservative Christian Party, United States |
Růžena Krásná, former political prisoner, politician, Czech Republic |
Jiří Stránský, former political prisoner, writer, former PEN club chairman, Czech Republic |
Václav Vaško, former political prisoner, diplomat, catholic activist, Czech Republic |
Alexandr Podrabinek, former dissident and political prisoner, journalist, Russian Federation |
Pavel Žáček, Director, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic |
Miroslav Lehký, Vice-director, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic |
Łukasz Kamiński, Vice-director, Institue of National Remembrance, Poland |
Michael Kißener, professor of history, Johann Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany |
Eduard Stehlík, historian, Vice-director, Institute for Military History, Czech Republic |
Karel Straka, historian, Institute for Military History, Czech Republic |
Jan Urban, journalist, Czech Republic |
Jaroslav Hutka, former dissident, songwriter, Czech Republic |
Lukáš Pachta, political scientist and writer, Czech Republic |