Czech Roma write to President Obama

Representatives of the Czech Romany community have written to US President Barack Obama expressing their concern about the rise in nationalist sentiment in the Czech Republic, a spokesperson from the Roma Realia organization has said. According to Roma Realia’s Václav Miko, a letter was handed to Mary Thompson-Jones, the charge d’affairs at the US Embassy in Prague, alerting President Obama to the current situation for Czech Roma. The authors of the letter complained that the Romany Holocaust was not yet being appropriately commemorated by the Czech state, with the site of a former Romany concentration camp in Lety, south Bohemia, still being used as a commercial pig farm.