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The persecution of Sinti and Yenish in Switzerland in the 20th century is a crime against humanity according to current international law.

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As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed liberties and global capitalism laced with some measure of welfare state ...

As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed ...

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