ROMA GROUP CALLS ON EU TO END SUBSIDIES TO CONCENTRATION CAMP SITE PIG FARM
May 1st, 2016
A CAMPAIGN group backing the rights of Roma people in the Czech Republic has called on the European Union (EU) to halt paying subsidies to a pig farm that operates on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp where Roma died during the Second World War.
The farm was built in the village of Lety, near Písek, southwest Czech Republic, in the 1970s, when it was part of the then communist Czechoslovakia. Now the Roma group - the Konexe association – wants EU subsidies removed, forcing the farm to close, so the site can be restored as a place of ...
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