Czech Anna Adamova is still haunted more than three decades after she was forced into a sterilisation that she says irreparably damaged her life. A member of the central European country's often marginalised Roma minority, Adamova is one of thousands who have applied to the Czech government for compensation, although, she says, this cannot make up for the injustice she suffered. "They, in fact, ruined my life," the now 55-year-old tells AFP in a tiny flat in Ralsko, a former military area northeast of Prague. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES