Czech President has signed the Lisbon and got what he wanted: Again and again he had put for his signature a suspension of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is of course part of the Lisbon Treaty, as a precondition. Was repeated by the media in this context, the word "Benes Decrees" dropped and mentioned the risk of supposedly impending German compensation claims, of course, without explaining the historical background anyway.
Edvard Beneš was the Czechoslovak President, who announced previously approved by the Provisional National Assembly Beneš decrees in March 1946. This expropriated and sold over 3 million German ("Sudentendeutsche") and about half a million Hungarians. Here, some 250,000 German were killed. Two months after the Beneš Decrees the murders were legally declared as impunity ("amnesty law").
Sudeten Germans in 1946
All this of course was illegal at that time in accordance with international law and the Geneva Conventions. The opinion of the Vienna State law expert Professor Felix Ermacora 1990 (for the Bavarian state government) also qualified the events as genocide, when he saw satisfies the conditions of intent in a state.
Genocide and genocide in civil criminal "murder" notes since the disasters of the 20th century (eg the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the expulsion of Germans after World War 2, ethnic "cleansing" population "transfers" world) the worst crime against the state. Unfortunately such crimes can be difficult so far punished, since there is ultimately all about survival of the fittest and measured almost always double standards and will. (more ...)
