Newsletter No. 9/2016

Prague, 25 February 2016. Sixty-eight years ago today, the Communist party of Czechoslovakia seized power in a violent coup, instating 41 years of totalitarian rule and massive human rights violations. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience demands that the Czech Stalinist Communist party which has today publicly glorified the crimes of Stalinism, apologise publicly for the atrocities committed against fellow citizens between 1948-1989.

... Die EU-Kommissarin Jourová verteidigte erneut Braun, dem die MEP verübeln die EU-Vorschriften verletzt zu haben, als er vor drei Jahren in der Rolle des stellvertretenden Minister für regionale Entwicklung der Tschechischen Republik mitetschieden hat, die offenbar betraf manipulierten Vetrag für ein Überwachungssystem für die EU-Dotation 2014-2020 und die er beinflusst hat ... http://echo24.cz/a/isz2v/cesti-urednici-sidi-evropskou-unii-a-nechali-se-chytit ...

Pavel Wonka ist auch ein Opfer von 25.Februar 1948, als die Kommunisten, heute vor 68 Jahren, die Macht ergriffen haben. J.Š.25.2.2016

Remembering the Czechoslovaks who served in the RAF in World War II

Historical Information :

Of the 89 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war, the majority are in a War Graves Plot in Squares 121 and 126 bordering a path on the far right hand side of the cemetery. This was constructed by the City Corporation, who also erected the War Cross at the eastern end of the enclosed plot especially designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and closely resembling the Commission’s own Cross of Sacrifice. The names of the 1914-1918 war dead in the cemetery are engraved on the base of the Cross.

There are also 75 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here, mainly in two adjoining Church of England dedicated Squares, Nos. 115 and 159, in the south-western portion of the cemetery enclosed by a hedgerow on three sides, on the fourth side a wall bearing the inscription 1939-1945 THE MEN AND WOMEN BURIED IN THIS PLOT DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE. In the northern section a further Square, No. 42, is dedicated to Roman Catholic burials, there is a metal plaque bearing a similar inscription.

There are also 7 non-Commonwealth war burials and 4 non World War burials in the care of C.W.G.C. within the cemetery.

https://fcafa.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/not-forgotten-southern-england/

J.Š.25.2.2016