Prague - Govt Not To Remove Pig Farm From Concentration Camp Site

Prague - The present government will not liquidate the pig farm situated on the spot of the former WWII internment camp for Romanies in Lety, south Bohemia, as the negotiations with the farm owners have reached a dead end.

According to historical documents, 326 people perished in the Lety camp and more than 500 of its inmates ended up in the extermination camp in Auschwitz.

Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek admits that the problem of the foul-smelling farm will have to be solved by the next government to be formed after the elections, due in early June.
"It has turned out that the whole activity of the government might have been only a fraud to calm down the critics from abroad," Cenek Ruzicka from the committee for compensation to victims of the Romany Holocaust said.

Analysts see one main reason why the government gave up its efforts to liquidate the pig farm: the ruling Social Democrats realised that this could harm them before the elections. "It is known that a significant part of the Czech population does not have a positive attitude towards Romanies. If the CSSD pushed through their plan to earmark hundreds of millions crowns to liquidate the farm, they would definitely lose many votes," analyst Jan Bures said.

The farm's head Jan Cech said that the person who met them did not present any reasonable offer to them. The ministry did not comment on the meeting.