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'Ruined My Life': Sterilised Czech Roma Await Compensation

Anna Adamova says that a social worker threatened to take away her fourth child if she declined sterilisation (Credit: AFP)

Czech Anna Adamova is still haunted more than three decades after she was forced into a sterilisation that she says irreparably damaged her life.

A member of the central European country's often marginalised Roma minority, Adamova was about to give birth to her fourth child aged just 22 in 1991 when she says she was pressured into agreeing to be sterilised.

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