| Christian Democrat Cunek example of modern Czech segregator-press
I think that an unemployed person should get money for three months, but then he/she should come and apply for public benefiting work. Who does not want to work, must die of hunger." Nemecek says that not even Miroslav Kalousek, party former chairman who is considered a right-winger, would have dared say something like this. This year, Cunek moved a majority of rent non-payers, most of them Romanies, to "indestructible" container-like flats with washable plaster and transferred the others during the night far away from Vsetin from where they will not return because they do not have money for bus, Nemecek writes. Svehla writes in Respekt that the situation of the Romany minority, which is about 400,000 strong in the 10 million country according to estimates, has been worse and worse in the Czech Republic since the change of regime in 1989.
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