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Records stay. Wrongs get recorded.
Reckoning
Records stay. Wrongs get recorded.
The state keeps records only where it has been forced to admit wrongdoing. Everywhere else the evidence is destroyed by law once the retention period runs out.
What the state has done to people, chapter by chapter. Each chapter has its own page with sources.
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What has to be brought to light
1918 · 1919 · 1932New
The army against its own people
Grenchen, Basel, Geneva: who fired, who gave the order, who granted the troops.
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Patient records · deadlines
Ten years, twenty years, then gone
Why 26 cantonal rules destroy evidence before a wrong is even recognised.
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1926 – 1981
What is already on the record
Administrative detention, the Children of the Country Road, foster placements, coercive measures.
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A rule, not a list of accusations
1
Stop destroying the records.Records of state action, or action licensed by the state, on a person - medical, administrative, police, educational - are archived permanently instead of destroyed when the period runs out. Destruction only with the consent of the person concerned.
2
Access for life, free of charge.The person concerned has access to their own record - for life, free of charge, with no need to give a reason. Protection of the record against third parties stays as it is.
3
Reckon continuously instead of after decades.A permanent independent body records wrongs as they happen, so that they are on the record before any deadline expires. Reckoning must not start only after a federal apology.
4
One rule for the whole country.Retention, archiving and access belong in one nationwide rule. The limitation period is national, the claim is national, and the evidence must not depend on the canton.
5
A fixed place in the school curriculum.These chapters belong in compulsory schooling as a unit of their own, in every canton and every class - as firmly fixed as the founding charter. A generation that knows what authorities did does not need to be told twice.
What the state does to a person is recorded - not only once the state admits it.
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