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On Friday, the center said that the reason for the dismissal was repeated violations “related to the dissemination of information that misled the interested community in the fact that the center did not provide facts and arguments or provided false facts and arguments.”
According to the report, the employee also raised doubts about the reliability and legitimacy of her institution’s work, “because misleading statements have been spread over a long period of time: it includes both former manager Birutė Burauskaitė and the newly appointed prof. Dr. Adas Jakubauskas leadership periods ”.
Previously, M. Jurkutė received a warning. She has worked at the Genocide Center since 2018, as chief historian of the Genocide and Resistance Research Department.
According to LGGRTC, the dispute between M. Jurkutė and the center has already been examined by the Labor Disputes Commission and on March 10 it adopted a decision favorable to the administration.
“In addition, prior to the decision to terminate the employment relationship, permission was obtained from the State Labor Inspectorate, as provided for in the new Labor Code, since the dismissed employee is a member of the labor council. The permission obtained means that the dismissal is not related to the employee’s union membership and employee representation activities, “the report reads.
In January, M. Jurkutė and several other employees of the Genocide Center addressed the Seimas about the tense situation at the institution when A. Jakubauskas began directing it. After meeting with the spokesperson for the Seimas Viktorija Čmilye-Nielsen, the historian said that the historians of the center feel distrustful, they are excluded from essential decisions, such as directions of research, strategic development, etc.
“Historians are excluded from making strategic decisions if they systematically forget to invite managers to classes, the ones that are important, where the research directions, the strategic development, are decided. Doctors of science, experts in the field, are planted, and newcomers who are not specialists in this field teach them how to work with Soviet sources, how to prepare a product to be suitable for propaganda wars.
The task I mentioned is becoming impossible. The basis must be research, very well done in a very qualified way, because a lot of confusion and tissue in the field has been done in a very careless and careless way ”, said the historian.
According to her, “what can arise from this are international scandals that are stalking each other, possible conflicts with strategic European and transatlantic partners.”
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 freedom fighters and victims of genocide.
