Grave of Hungary's last Communist ruler desecrated, bones stolen

Vandals who desecrated the grave of Hungary's last communist ruler stole some of his remains, police in Budapest have confirmed.

One report said Janos Kadar's skull and several other bones, along with an urn with his wife's ashes, were missing.

Graffiti reading "a murderer and traitor may not rest in holy ground" was daubed nearby... The vandals removed a marble cover stone and broke into the coffin.

[AP: Kadar was installed as Hungary's leader after the Soviet army crushed the 1956 revolution, leaving around 2,800 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops dead. He ruled until 1988 and died in 1989, a few months before the fall of communism.]