Justice minister calls on Okamura to stop “polemicizing” about Lety

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Justice minister calls on Okamura to stop “polemicizing” about Lety

Czech Justice Minister Robert Pelikán has expressed strong concern over Freedom and Direct Democracy head Tomio Okamura’s questioning of conditions at a WW II-era concentration camp for Roma in Lety, South Bohemia. Although Mr Okamura apologized for an earlier false statement about Lety, he continues to question the accepted truth about the camp.

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curra...ing-about-lety

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Brno procession protests against Roma Holocaust denial

About 250 people took part in a procession with candles walking through the city of Brno remembering the victims of the Czech Roma Holocaust and denouncing the recent statements by SPD politicians questioning the conditions in the Roma WWII camp in Lety.

The procession's organisers find such statements an unacceptable denial of the Roma Holocaust, inappropriate with regard to its victims and their families.

"It is our national disgrace," Roma musician Gejza Horvath said on account of the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) politicians' statements.

http://praguemonitor.com/2018/02/16/...locaust-denial

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Gov't council for declaring Roma Holocaust memorial day

The Czech government council for ethnic minorities on Friday supported Justice Minister Robert Pelikan's (ANO) proposal that the Roma Holocaust Memorial Day be declared a significant day, Olga Jerabkova, from the government's human rights section, told CTK.

Pelikan proposed that the Chamber of Deputies officially declare August 2 the day commemorating the victims of the Roma Holocaust.

http://praguemonitor.com/2018/02/19/...t-memorial-day

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Pig's head put to Roma Holocaust memorial near closed pig farm

A pig's head was placed last weekend to the provisional Roma Holocaust Memorial near the former concentration camp in Lety where a pig farm was later built that the Czech state recently bought and plans to pull it down this year, the Aktualne.cz news site reported on Thursday.

The Roma Culture Museum that administers the site will not react to the provocation. "Somebody apparently wants to provoke us," Ludek Strasak, from the museum, said.

Strasak said the museum would address the police only if such a thing was repeated.

http://praguemonitor.com/2018/03/02/...losed-pig-farm