The present interim government under Josef Tosovský is going to come to terms with a black chapter of Czech history. Yesterday, the Czech government decided to erect "a dignified memorial for the Roma victims of facism" in the place of the former concentration camp in Lety near Pisek in South Bohemia. The problem is that in this place, where hundreds of Czech Roma died during the Second World War, a gigantic pig-.breeding farm has ist place. The owner, the AGPI, is not willing to sell the farm for the price of 150 Mill. crowns (approx. 8,3 Mill. Deutsche Mark), that has been determined by independent experts. Therefore, the cabinet decided to put the firm under oblique pressure. The farm and its surroundings were declared as a protective area that is not developable. Moreover, the government instructed the responsible minister Vladimir Mlyna to call for tenders for the erection of a memorial and to submit proposals and costs for the designing of the area. The firm AGPI insists on an "adequate compensation" in the form of another farm with the same capacity. As there is no comparable one in Czechia, the government would have to build a new one. After all, the owners of a pig-breeding farm in South Bohemian Trebon offered their farm for 200 Mill. crowns, but with a capacity of 9.500 pigs it was too small. The pig-breeding farm in the place of the former concentration camp has 13 pigsties with 14.000 pigs. The building of a new farm with this capacity would also be problematic because the experts think, that this size would not meet the European laws as to large-scale animal husbandry. Furthermore, this building would have to be erected next to the present one because many little farmers are living on the pig-breeding farm. Especially Vladimir Mlyna, the competent minister for minorities, who took over in December 1997, fights for the erection of a memorial site. His involvement nearly made him loose his job when it became known that he had tried to get information from the secret service BIS about the firm AGPI. In order to be prepared for the negotiations, he had tried to find out the share-structure of the firm and whether representatives of the AGPI had been working for the communistic state security service (StB) in the past. For this the opposition accused him of having overstepped his competence, because only the president or the government were allowed to give instructions to the secret service. At last, it came out hat inquiries like this one had also been the usual thing at the time of the cabinet of Vacláv Klaus, and the accusations about it had been part of the election campaigns. The concentration camp in Lety had already been established before the occupation of Czechoslovakia and had been under Czech leadership even during the time of the "patronage". About 1.300 Roma, among them 500 children had been interned here. Many of them died of diseases like typhoid, others died in Auschwitz. Due to comments of surviving persons maltreatments and torture had been the usual thing. Now, Mlynar is going to negotiate directly with the owners of the farm. The "last resort" would be the dispossession. The residents of the place Lety cannot understand all this excitement. Most of them are against the building of a memorial site. Their opinion is, that the existing monument is sufficient. One could build a protective wall between the monument and the pig-breeding farm to hide the latter from sight.