National Remembrance Institute under attack?

The liquidation of the Central Committee for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish State is the most important goal of a project being prepared by SLD senators aimed at "rationalizing" the work of the National Remembrance Institute (IPN). "This is the first step directed at eliminating the functioning of the IPN," said Professor Andrzej Paczkowski, a member of the institute. The committee to undergo liquidation was IPN's investigative body responsible for prosecuting Nazi, Stalinist and Communist-era crimes. The 95 prosecutors of the committee would go back to the General Prosecutor's Office. "We are not driven by any political motives, nor by some aversion toward the institute, but by a rational stance," said Deputy Speaker Jarzembowski. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A1) A.C.