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“During this meeting, it is planned to discuss the situation at the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center, about which the center staff wrote to the Seimas Spokesperson, expressing concern,” said Paulius Žeimys, representative of the Speaker of Parliament, told BNS.
The meeting at the Seimas will be attended by Arūnas Bubnys, Director of the Genocide and Resistance Research Department, and the historian Mingailė Jurkutė, the presidents of the Seimas Defense and National Security and Human Rights Committees Laurynas Kasčiūnas and Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius .
“At the same time, they will try to find the most appropriate way to solve the problem,” said P. Žeimys.
The new leadership of the LGGRTC is accused of politicizing historical research in an institution with a tense emotional climate.
Last week, the news portal lrt.lt announced that some of the scientists from the Genocide Center had applied to the General Director of the institution Adas Jakubauskas and the leaders of the Seimas. According to them, experienced historians leave work due to pressure from management.
Following the resignation, Vidmantas Valiušaitis, Acting Adviser to the Director General, announced his resignation. According to the staff of the Genocide Center, a special position was created for him.
On Monday, the Director of the Institute of History Alvydas Nikžentaitis, the Dean of the Faculty of History of Vilnius University Loreta Skurvydaitė, the Director of the Institute of History and Archeology of the Baltic Region of Klaipėda University Vasilijus Safronovas and the Head of the Vytautas University History Department Magnus Marius Sirutavičius addressed the Speaker of the Seimas.
According to these historians, efforts are being made to restrict the freedom of LGGRTC researchers, to subordinate their research to the spread of ill-founded ideas, and to turn the institution itself into a citadel of a primitive information war.
In June last year, A. Jakubauskas, president of the Union of Tatar Communities of Lithuania and professor at Mykolas Romeris University, was appointed general director of the LGGRTC.
According to him, the objective is to review the salary system and introduce quality criteria for research.
The LGGRTC investigates all manifestations of genocide and crimes against humanity and the persecution of the Lithuanian population during the years of occupation, as well as the processes of armed and unarmed resistance to the occupations, initiates the legal evaluation of the organizers and perpetrators of the genocide , commemorates the freedom fighters and victims of the genocide.
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