Monthly Archives: March 2023

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Kazanlak: Tensions Remain

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In order to de-escalate the tension between the warring Roma families after the mass fight in Kazanlak, mayors from the area and the leadership of the police in the city discussed emergency measures, bTV reported.

The enmity between the two Roma families has been going on for 30 years. “I cannot live that my child died, that my child was beaten in a fight. I have two sons in hospital, one died and my other son is now with his father in hospital,” said the mother of the man killed in the mass fight.

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria: Another Fight

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Another fight between Roma families broke out on Thursday in Devin. 18 people were detained afterwards. Luckily, this time no one died.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Robin Stria

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Another article on Robin Stria, a prominent Roma activist, documentarian and artist, who died at the age of just thirty-two. He was born on September 12, 1990 in Jihlava, but from the age of three he grew up in the care of adoptive parents in Skrchov near Letovice. He graduated from the grammar school, then the Evangelical Academy and the Social and Legal Higher Vocational School. He worked as a social worker in the Brno organizations IQ Roma servis and DROM, where he was the head of the community centre.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland and Beggars

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Poznań residents report that people of Roma origin appear on the streets and in shopping centers asking for money. They are often children, sometimes without parents. Some, seeing a few-year-old with a hand outstretched for money, want to act. So they call the police or the city guard. It doesn’t work though.

Polish law clearly states that beggars can be arrested and fined, as begging is forbidden. But it does not solve the poverty issue.

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria: The Brawl

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After the fight in Kazanlak between Roma families in which one man was killed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained 13 people during an action in Taža and Manolovo, two neighbouring villages. The families who caused the mass fight in Kazanlak 2 days ago, after which one person died, live there.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Robin Stria

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Robin Stria, a promising director and curator of the video collection of the Museum of Roma Culture in Brno, died suddenly at the age of thirty-two in mid-March. He succumbed to a very rare urological disease.

The Museum of Roma Culture describes Stria as a director, documentarian and artist who was an active member of the community and a key partner in documenting important moments in Roma history and the activities of the museum.

May he rest in peace.

News Eastern Europe Serbia

Bibija

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Orthodox Roma celebrated the feast of Bibija in Mladenovac, Serbia. Bibi is celebrated around a fruit tree, usually a pear, which is then called bibi. Before the celebration, the tree is decorated with flowers and red ribbons, and fasting food and drinks are placed around it. Every year, the host of the celebration is another local, and when the singing of the prayer is over, the host serves the guests with food and drinks.

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Kazanlak – After the Fight

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Kazanlak mayor’s, Galina Stoyanova, had a strong reaction to the bloody fight between the two Roma families in the city centre. The Roma do not live and are not residents of the city, reported a “Focus” reporter.

“As mayor of the Municipality of Kazanlak, I am concerned about the peace and safety of citizens and the prevention of escalation of public dissatisfaction or clashes between people, as was the case on 03/20/2023 and ended with a fatal outcome for one of the participants.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia, the Holocaust, and the Aftermath

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A few days ago, Slovakia remembered one of the darkest chapters of our modern history – the creation of the wartime Slovak Republic under the leadership of the president of the ruling Hlinkova Party (HSĽS) Jozef Tis.

What memories did this experience of mass complicity in the genocide of one’s own population left in the Slovak collective consciousness and subconsciousness? How do the Slovak deal with this past, and are they willing to admit that they were often active participants Mass Evil?

An Ethnologist is investigating.

Germany News Western Europe

Week against Racism

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The chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, has called for more civil courage against racism. “We are experiencing again that people in the crisis are looking for scapegoats,” Rose explained on Monday at the start of the International Weeks Against Racism in Schwerin. “But racism only comes into play when people watch and don’t contradict,” said Rose, referring to this year’s motto “Get involved.”

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria: Brawl

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A fight between two Roma families left a father of two dead and 6 wounded. The fight between two rival Roma families happened in Kazanlak, Bulgaria. They went at each other with shovels and axes.

Not good.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Roma Luma – Another view

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A non-Roma view of the Roma Luma political congress. According to the article, efforts to unify the Roma minority have appeared frequently in the past, but according to the organizers of the convention, they have always come to naught, and the Roma now have no adequate representation. And that is precisely why the Roma Luma political party was created.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Roma Luma

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Roma Luma

On Saturday afternoon, a Roma meeting was held in Prague, organized by the Roma Luma political party and the Buči association. The event was called the All-Republic Congress of Roma and non-profit organizations, and the participants debated about Roma leaders and the representation of Roma in the public sphere. Roma Luma has two presidents, Mark Cavali and Emil Zajac, who gave an interview to ROMEA TV.

Roma Luma is not necessarily a popular group. As they insulted several people and organisations in the past. “We have apologized to some people, including the ROMEA organization. And I think that now is the right step for us all to meet each other and work together for our community,” said Marco Cavali in the interview.

According to Emil Zajac, Roma Luma proposes that a Roma be elected in each district, who would then represent the Roma. “It would be nice if those people were elected by our people. We can then call them in quotation marks as vajdy,” explained Emil Zajac.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Czech Republic and Forced Sterilisations

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The Minister of Health has reconsidered the decision regarding the rejection of a sterilization application based on discriminatory racial grounds. The application was originally rejected despite the fact that the applicant’s Roma origin was mentioned in the medical documentation as the reason for the sterilization.

The woman will thus be compensated and was awarded an amount of 300 thousand crowns.

News Switzerland

Switzerland and Racism

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Well, no real surprise here: Swiss do not consider racism to be a real problem, but they also have trouble defining it. And clearly, Roma are the ones who are the most common victims of it.

France News Western Europe

French Chronicle …

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Not much going on in France: A celebration of the International Roma Day in Paris at the French National Institute of Oriental Languages, a new squat near Paris, and a burglary in a supermarket.

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Roma Teachers in Bulgaria

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The Trust for Social Alternative Foundation in Bulgaria is funding the “Young Roma Educators” program. According to the program director, Evgenia Volen, Roma children, like all children, have a need from a young age to recognize their potential in a significant adult who serves as a role model. They want to be accepted as they are, and to see examples from their own community that they can become meaningful and economically independent people in the place where they live. She believes that teachers who come from the local community are part of the environment that can engage children in learning.

News Switzerland

Camping Sites in Switzerland

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Nothing new here: There are not enough camping sites for Travellers in Switzerland. They talk about it but do nothing. Apparently, the state is now wanting to put some money aside for this purpose. This will take another 20 years, as usual in Switzerland.

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