Photo: Miloš Ruml, ČTK
Researchers have announced a gruesome find at Prague’s Pankrác jail: the cremated remains of 80-plus communist-era political prisoners. The dead included executed opponents of the regime, though much remains unclear about the victims’ identities.
The incinerated remains of an estimated 80 or more people who died between 1948 and 1965 were discovered beneath the courtyard of Pankrác prison in Prague during a dig in November.
Among those whose bones were found: executed opponents of the then Communist regime from various jails around the country; prisoners who died in the hospital at Pankrác; and soldiers who took part in the anti-Communist resistance.
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