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eAsl2e Ju 2e - page three =< In Bohemia (Kladno), in Morsvia (Olomoug and Novy Jicin) in Slovakia (Bratislava and Komarno) special camps have been set up under military supervision, for seminarians ana young priests in draft age as well as retigkeux certain groups of religious who refused to leave their orders. They are drafted into the Army, but, instead of being admitted into regular military units where their influence is feared, they are grouped in those special labor batailions.e ihey are used in the building of factories and of military constwuctions, in heavy industry, in mining ani especially in the factories of the Kladno coal district. Unlike regular draftees, they are given no hope to be released after the compulsory two gears of service. It is made absolutely clear to them that they will stay on in the labor camp, unless they should decide to enter a governmental seminary anda beoome a communistic “patriotic priest", In Moravec (Moravia) a camp for old and sick privcsts and nuns has been established. Their number amounts to approximately 300, most of them wwers60 years of ages They are used for lighter worke A punishment camp for priests and religious exists in Zeliv in Bohemia. It has now about 100 inmates, labeled as “inworrectibles", and treated in the hardest and most cruel waye The largest .camp for priests and r:ligious is located in the contact is allwwed with the outside world. Over two-thousand priests, most of them from Slovakia, are detained here and used in hard labore It is supposed that several hundred priests from Hungary and probably also from Rumania have been recently taken to this same campe The exact nature of the work performed by the pr&goners is kept as deep secrete It is most likely to be in the line of forestry and mininge Besides these exclusively “ecclesiastical” camps priests and religious are also to be found in the general, nuns in the women's campSe Two-hundred religious, mostly Jesuits, for example work in the Jachymov uranium mines; an important group of priests in the Moravska Ostrava coal district. The exact number of priests, theologians, brothers and nuns actsaliy working today in Czecho-blovakia's forced labor units could not be established. According to most conservative estimates, their total number reaches a minkmum of 5.000 detained in special camps and about 2.000 more i general camps and in prisons. Gene ral CAMPS e The most important among general forced lsbor camps in eéeekaeSlovakia is the famous umanium mine camp of Jachymove Organized and supervised by the Czech Secret State Police, it is under direct order from Praguce Nearly all the many thousand prisoners working in these mines, have been sentenced for political reasons: for collaboration with the Nazis, for op ,osition against the people's democracy or for “sabotage of the official economic plane ‘to these political prisoners are associated a very small percentage of ordinary criminals ana a-sociáa elementss Several large separate camps are being establishedj each one in the vicinity of one of the mines. The barracks and the entrance to SE a
