Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
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The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos gyventojų genocido ir rezistencijos tyrimo centras or LGGRTC) is a state-funded research institute in Lithuania dedicated to "the study of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Lithuania; the study of the persecution of local residents by occupying regimes; the study of armed and unarmed resistance to occupying regimes; the initiation of the legal evaluation of the activities of the organisers and implementers of genocide; and the commemoration of freedom fighters and genocide victims." The centre was founded on 25 October 1992 by the Supreme Council of the Lithuanian Republic as the "State Genocide Research Centre of Lithuania". It is a member organisation of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience. The centre has been embroiled in several controversies regarding the memory of the Holocaust in Lithuania - it is accused by several scholars and Jewish groups of whitewashing the reputation of Nazi collaborators.
Purpose
The LGGRTC's main areas of activity, in line with its original mission statement, include research and documenting atrocities committed by the occupying Soviet and Nazi regimes and the resistance to these regimes between 1939 and 1990. The Centre recommends former anti-Soviet partisans for larger state pensions and other awards. The LGGRTC classifies the Soviet occupation of Lithuania as a genocide of the Lithuanian nation. The centre uses a broadened definition of genocide including the targeting of social, political, and economic groups by Stalin. This definition has been accepted by the European Court of Human Rights in convictions against Soviet occupation forces.
Activities
In 1998, Lithuania passed a law restricting employment in the public sector for former employees of the KGB, the MGB, and other Soviet security institutions. The centre and the State Security Department had the authority to determine whether a person was an employee of the KGB. In 2002, commemorating the 30th anniversary of Romas Kalanta's self-immolation, Seimas listed May 14 as the Civil Resistance Day (Lithuanian: Pilietinio pasipriešinimo diena) based on recommendations by the centre.
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