He had spent decades campaigning for the pig farm to be torn down.
Jana Kokyová is the chair of the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust in the Czech Republic.
“During communism and even long after the revolution, nobody wanted to admit there was such a thing as a Roma Holocaust, it was not something you would speak about openly.”Many of Rudolf Murka's ancestors perished in the Roma Holocaust.
However, it took another two decades for the government to finally act on the most obvious symbol of anti-Roma discrimination, the Lety pig farm.
Čeněk Růžička poses with a pick during the official start of the demolition of the industrial pig farm on the site of the Lety camp.
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