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Czech Republic considers compensating Roma victims of forced sterilization dw.com 3/16/2021 Luboš Palata
Hundreds of Roma women who were involuntarily sterilized in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 80s could finally receive compensation. © AFP via Getty Images Hundreds of Roma women are hoping they will finally win their fight for compensation
Hundreds, potentially even thousands of Roma women were involuntarily sterilized in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the 1970s and 1980s. Even after the fall of communism in 1989 and the country s split into two independent states in 1993, forced sterilizations of Roma women continued in the successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Shortly after the start of the inoculation process against Covid-19, hailed by the government as the light at the end of the tunnel, mounting problems with deliveries to the EU have resulted in confusion and uncertainty about the set timetable. As tension mounts, government officials are sending out mixed signals to the public and people’s frustration is growing.
Although news of mounting problems with vaccine deliveries to the EU have been at the forefront of media attention for over a week now, the news that the Health Ministry had ordered Prague and the regions to suspend further vaccinations for a fortnight came as a shock on Wednesday afternoon. In the confusion that followed, Prime Minister Andrej Babis refuted that such an order had been given.