Transitional justice, decolonization and the Romani women: A perspective

In post-communist Central and Eastern Europe, the decolonization framework helps us to understand not only what has been done to overcome the injustices of the past, but also why some Western norms and narratives were rejected by a region whose memory frames are a significantly different. Western transitional justice actors faulted Eastern programs for focusing on the communist past while neglecting the abuses perpetrated during World War II when some Central and Eastern European countries collaborated with the Nazi regime. In response, the Central and Eastern European decolonization project emphasized the importance and urgency of reckoning with communist crimes but overlooked the crimes they inflicted on the Roma.