Career
He was one of the key dissidents during the Communist time in former Czechoslovakia. He served as a minister at Department of Home Affairs (1990–1992) of former Czechoslovakian and Slovak Federative Republic, appointed by president Václav Havel. After many years of conviction he succeeded in establishing the Nation"s Memory Institute.
After finding documentations of crimes of several influential people and trying to open these to public, he died in a car accident.
