According to an October 18, 2003 report by the Baltic News Service, an appeal to the law enforcement officials by Latvia’s Special Minister for Integration Nils Muiznieks to investigate a newspaper that printed an article denying the Holocaust has been denied. Latvia’s security police reportedly see no signs of an incitement to ethnic hatred in an article from earlier this year (as is all former Soviet states, Latvia has a law banning the public incitement of ethnic and religious hatred).

The article in question, entitled “Falsifiers of History,” appeared in the newspaper DDD, published by Aivars Garda, whose Vieda publishing house has printed books in the recent past calling for Russians to be expelled from Latvia and defaming homosexuals. In the article, author Karlis Rebins claims that “the richest kikes in the world, Churchill and Roosevelt” started World War II, not Hitler, and that Jews spread “legends about gas chambers in which six million kikes died. That is a historical lie composed by kike historians.”

The security police justified the decision by arguing that: “the main theme [of the article] is a criticism of the foreign policies of major states, only in one paragraph does the author indirectly [!] touch on the question of problems of the history of the Holocaust, using according to his own understanding the freely arrived at conclusions of other authors.”

Minister Muiznieks responded to the decision by countering that the article “creates potentially dangerous consequences for broader society, as well as insulting the honor and dignity of a concrete ethnic group.”

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