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After decades of effort, a memorial to the victims of the Nazi genocide against the Roma and Sinti communities was inaugurated in the Czech Republic on Tuesday. “We have to openly admit that it all took too long,” Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said at the ceremony in Lety, some 70 kilometres south of Prague. During the occupation by Nazi Germany in World War II, there was a work and concentration camp for Roma at the remote location in Lety. After the war, a pig fattening operation was built on the site. Only after decades of protests by Roma representatives and human rights activists did th…

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