The National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria is presenting a candidate as Mayor of Sofia, the capital. This party advocates removing illegal Roma ghettos, something that is already happening in various cities in that country.
Romani Rose, the president of the German Council of Sinti and Roma says in an interview that the values to which we have arrived at on the Holocaust, the persecution of minorities etc. are under threat.
The intervention of the Serbian President at the UN. Worthwhile reading.
Minorities in Hungary bear the brunt of the anti migrant rhetoric. This is particularly the case of the Rroma in that country.
A discussion on prejudices and stereotypes on Rroma.
An article about a social worker from Benin who went to study in Slovakia during communist times and stayed. He is now helping Rroma in that country.
Rroma Pride took place yesterday in 14 European cities. In Prague, they pointed aout the scandal of Lety where a pig farm is located on the site of a former concentration camp.
The Rroma cousins, the Domari (or Doms) are fleeing the War in Syria. Their situation is really bad and without hope.
A MUST READ!
And the usual French review – more of the same. In Wissous, tensions are rising; in Metz, 23 Rroma are without lodgings; a fire in a camp in Ris Orangis, not surprising since temperatures are dropping and heating is needed; a Turkish tourist was mugged by three young Rroma in the RER in Paris; the site of a dismantled camp near Toulouse is being cleaned out; and more Rroma kids in schools in Dijon.
New official Turkish documents are reported to include a tag identifying minorities. Attention, Roum means Greek here. Rroma are simple in the bag of “others”. Nevertheless, this is not acceptable.
The central council of German Sinti and Roma and his president, Romani Rose sharply criticised the concept of safe countries especially in the Balkan and for Rroma.
BRAVO!
Refugees are asking for a stop in the expulsions in Germany due to the “safe country status” of their countries of origins.
The concept of “race” is making a dangerous come-back in Sweden. This is SCARY.
– Hartley, Emma. Revival of a Swedish taboo. In: Politico. 30.09.2015. http://www.politico.eu/article/revival-of-a-swedish-taboo/
Ukraine commemorates the start of the Babi Yar massacre near Kiev which saw nearly 100’000 people killed in 1941, mostly Jews, but also Rroma and some others.
Remember!
The Hamburg based organisation Roma and Sinti Union (RCI) is making a formal complaint the Germany’s top constitutional court on the declaration of Balkan Countries as being “safe”. Let’s hope this puts a stop to the exulsions!
Hotel Gračanica is an exception … Unfortunately.
Times are hard for those Rroma whose asylum applications have been refused following the declaration of Serbia as a safe country by Germany.
Worthy Read!
Interesting reading on the Rroma Decade and its failures. This from the OSI. Fact is, the Rroma decade did not achieve much, if anything…
Serbia is not safe for Rroma – this what people who went there say about it.
A reunion is called by the Mayor of Wissous, a commune that already made the headlines (cutting the water to Rroma; fire in a camp, etc.) to discuss the existing Rroma camps in the commune. Well, what can be expected of such an action?
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