Dershowitz on Lithuania
Dershowitz, mustering all the chutzpah available, states, “Thus, the new government’s decision to pardon and rehabilitate genocidal killers had generally been greatly favorable in Lithuania.”
The Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Restoration of Rights to Individuals Repressed for Resisting Regimes of Occupation states in Article 2 as follows:
“The provisions of the first article of this law do not apply to individuals who participated in crimes of genocide or in torture and murder of unarmed civilians.”
The first article of the law restores all civil rights to persons “who were convicted or imprisoned through extrajudicial procedures” and under specified laws promulgated by occupying powers, Nazi and Soviet, enumerating various articles covering so-called “crimes against the State.”
P. ALGIS RAULINAITIS
Burbank
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