Estonia erects memorial to Gypsy victims of Nazi executions

Moscow, May 7 (UNI) Estonia has set up a memorial to Gypsies killed in a Nazi death camp near the Estonian capital, Tallinn during WWII.

Estonian TV said it took the country's Gypsy community six years to find a site and collect money for the monument for about 2,000 Gypsies, who were executed in Kalevi-Lijva together with 4,000 of German, Czechoslovak and Polish Jews during WWII.

Last month, Estonia removed the Bronze Soldier statue to Soviet soldiers buried in central Tallinn to a military cemetery at the city's outskirts.

The monument's relocation sparked a wave of protests, both in Moscow and Tallinn.

Last week, Russia expressed deep concern about a lack of response from the European Union to Tallinn's actions and was angered by the reaction of some EU countries, as well as the US, which said it was the Baltic state's internal affair and called for dialogue.

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