Czech minister’s body exhumed to resolve doubts over 1948 death
New evidence prompts fresh investigation Police have reviewed the case several times since the communist government was toppled in the Velvet Revolution of 1989, four years before Czechoslovakia split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Czech police on Wednesday started exhuming the remains of former pro-Western Czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Masaryk, who died under suspicious circumstances shortly after a 1948 communist coup, they said.
The Czech Republic has reopened the Jan Masaryk case after new intelligence records emerged from the US, Britain and France.
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