They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”, and Article 17: (1) “Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others” as well as (2) “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property”. Article 1 of the basic legal document of international law of its period safeguarding the Human rights, namely the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (of December 10th, 1948), stipulates: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. The Supreme Council of Lithuania, when adopting the legal act “Concerning the restoration of the independent Lithuanian state” as early as March 11th, 1990, solemnly committed itself: “…The State of Lithuania stresses its loyalty to the commonly acknowledged principles of international law, it safeguards the Human rights, the citizens’ rights and the rights of minorities”.
In their legal sense the mentioned “legal acts” are openly inconsistent with the binding legal norms of the valid Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania as well as with the international legal acts signed and ratified by the Republic of Lithuania. by the tax-payers, among them also those, from whom the real property was illegally taken away). The implementation of the “legal norms of these legal acts” has to be paid for by state funds (i.e. Whenever this Human rights is being safeguarded in a state, we call this state a state under the rule of law (carrying out its direct functions), whenever this Human right is being denied, it is by no means a state under the rule of law.įar from safeguarding these Human rights, the law-giver of post-soviet Lithuania “time and again- is arbitrarily creating ever new “laws” regulating the denial of these rights (be it the “land reform” or the so-called “restoration of rights of ownership”). Basically, this difference is shown by the fact that the post-soviet Lithuanian state denies its citizens the Human right to make use of the land either acquired by themselves or by way of inheritance.
The more time elapses since the eleventh of March, 1990, the clearer it becomes that post-soviet reality does essentially differ from the fine-sounding declarations of those days. Was it really necessary to legally restore the rights of ownership of the land-owners? “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Behind the scenes of Post-Soviet Lithuaniaīy Zenonas Jurgelevičius of the Lithuanian Human Rights Centre
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