10.05.2008 - Czech former political prisoners commemorate victims of communism
"At this place we mainly remember those who were executed," Frantisek Sedivy, deputy head of the Political Prisoners' Confederation, said.
He said the Communist regime had not handed the ashes of its executed opponents to their families but kept them at unknown places without any identification labels.
"After several years of search and the enquiry into the lists kept at the Prague-Pankrac prison, where most executions took place, we found out that the place [where the urns were deposited] is probably here [at the Motol Czechs,USA to sign main radar treaty in July at the latest-Vondra ...
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The burial site was then searched, several urns were uncovered and four identified.
Today's ceremony was attended by representatives of the Senate, Chamber of Deputies, government, Prague City Hall and other institutions.
Deputy PM Alexandr Vondra said there was a debt that can never be completely repaid.
"We owe much mainly to those who after 1948 [seizure of power by the Communists in Czechoslovakia] never came to terms with communism, bolshevism and totalitarianism, who weighed the price of freedom for all of us," Vondra said.
(Ceske Noviny)
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