One group of sufferers who have been somewhat
neglected consists of those who were forcibly relocated from their native
place. The Secretary of the Redressal Committee, O.Lkhagvarentsen, answers our
journalist’s questions on this and other issues.



How much longer will their case linger?



Such people and their families have received only compensation because they do
not legally qualify to be counted among victims of political repression. We are
also giving them the pension that they would otherwise have been entitled to.
However, many of their children could not find a proper job because of their
parents’ relocation and should now receive social welfare, including an apartment
or a ger, but the law will have to be changed for this. The Standing Committee
on State Structure has prepared a draft and once this becomes law we shall
arrange for places for them to live in, raise their pension amount and also give
cash assistance totaling between MNT3 million and MNT5 million.



There are people who could not produce
documents to confirm their parents were victims. How do you deal with such
cases?



The deadline for submission of documents and claims has been extended until
December 31, 2011. It takes about 3 years for us to verify these.



Many documents were in the former Soviet
Union and it is difficult to get anything from the archives there. What can be
done?



There is information that more than 400 Mongolians were forcibly taken to the former
Soviet Union between 1930 and 1940. Former Presidents N.Bagabandi and V.Putin reached
an agreement to access documents in Russian archives but the problem is they
can be copied only by hand, according to Russian regulations. This is time
consuming work and it also often takes long to trace documents. So far we have recovered
records relating to 80 victims.