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Migrants crisis: Unease as Czech police ink numbers on skin
BBC News
2015-09-02
The Czech police force has come under fire for writing numbers on the arms of migrants at Breclav railway station. Some said the images were reminiscent of the Holocaust, when prisoners at Auschwitz were systematically tattooed with serial numbers. But the Czech authorities appeared unaware of the visual connotations, and said they were simply administrative.