The government has amended the acts on disabled war veterans, victims of war crimes and war grave sites, which it says will eliminate the differentiation that is based on ideology, and emphasise what unites Slovenia.
Amendments to the disabled war veterans act will harmonise the act with pension and disability insurance restrictions by preventing the accrual of pension and disability insurance rights. The proposed amendments to the act on war grave sites will allow relatives of persons buried in unmarked graves to bury the remains in family graves with the state paying for the exhumation. The biggest change as opposed to existing act will be the inscription on memorials marking sites where people killed in post-war summary killings are buried. While the current inscription reads "To the victims of war and post-war killings", the new inscription will say "To the victims of revolutionary violence". The amendments also propose a memorial to all Slovenian soldiers as well as victims of wars and revolutions that would be erected next to the presidential palace or at Navje, a small graveyard just off the centre of Ljubljana. According to Labour Minister Janez Drobnic, the memorial will unite all Slovenians regardless of which side they fought on. The amendments, in particular to the act on disable war veterans, have drawn criticism from the ranks of war veterans who fear their rights are being curbed.
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