The Unbearable Difficulty of Forgetting
They called it the Velvet Revolution but when the Communists were swept from power in Czechoslovakia's return to democracy in 1989 a time bomb was left behind - the secret police files which listed thousands of "traitors" who had collaborated, spied or informed. Now the new government in Prague is pursuing its old enemies through a commission of enquiry, and hundreds are caught up in a purge that threatens to split families and friends. Is it a vengeful,
McCarthyite witch-hunt or a genuine search for justice?
Reporter Peter Godwin talks to some of those who have been denounced, including MP Jan Kavan , who returned to his native land in 1989 after 20 years in exile in Britain. Now he, too, is branded a traitor. Producer Sam Collyns Editor John Morrison