More than 20 years after much of Eastern Europe moved to cleanse public life of agents, informers and other partisans of the Communist system, is taking its turn.
The government, based in Skopje, is reaching the final stage of carrying out its own far-reaching program, forcing people in a wide range of professions to swear that they were not collaborators, and setting up a confrontation with the country’s top court, which is reviewing the constitutionality of the measure.
Under the measure, journalists and employees of nongovernmental, political and religious organizations must submit sworn declarations by Jan. 31 about whether they ever collaborated with the state security services….
While most similar programs across Eastern Europe were meant to help ease the transition from totalitarian to democratic governance in the early 1990s, Macedonia’s program is just now coming into force, raising concerns about its effectiveness and fears that the law is being used to silence political opponents.
As a result, the Constitutional Court is to rule on the program on Wednesday. The ruling could strike down the entire process, allow it to continue or annul specific provisions.
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