Well, what could you expect from him in any case …
Ukrainian Roma are looking for housing in vain. The last resort is the detention facility. And as some have a Hungarian passport, they are not welcome.
The story of a Roma family from the Ukraine, who, in spite of facing discrimination in the Czech Republic managed to get jobs and are now trying to find a more permanent place to stay.
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Roma refugees in Prague were housed in 4 large tents. Two of them have now been dismantled.
They say it: Putin is killing us.
The Czech interior minister agreed with Roma NGOs on how to better help Roma refugees from the Ukraine.
Good!
A former Czech MP has been sentenced to six months’ probation for denying the genocide of the Roma. In 2017, Miloslav Rozner of the right-wing party Freedom and Direct Democracy described the Roma concentration camp in Lety as a “non-existent pseudo-concentration camp”. A district court in Prague assessed this as a denial of the genocide of the Sinti and Roma. However, the judgment is not yet final.
Simply they don’t want them.
The editor-in-chief of the Info.cz server, Michal Půr, went to the assistance centre for refugees, where Ukrainians are registered, and he was unpleasantly surprised by what he witnessed. He described on Twitter how he was shocked by the Roma camp and what would need to be improved within the organization without delay.
There is more and more talk about refugees from Ukraine who have Hungarian passports in addition to Ukrainian citizenship. Politicians talk about these refugees mainly in connection with the Roma fleeing the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The South Moravian Governor Jan Grolich from KDU-ČSL was the first to mention “Hungarian Ukrainians” without any knowledge and context and to to accuse them to abuse social benefits in the Czech Republic. The mayor of the capital city of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, also justifies the Hungarian citizenship not to register them.
As said, the Orban government granted many residents of Transcarpathian Ukraine the Hungarian cisitzenship.
The authorities in the Czech Republic are effectively refusing to register Roma refugees from the Ukraine and send them further to Hungary and to Germany. Officially, the reason is that many of these refugees also have a Hungarian passport, something that Orban granted to many resident of the Transcarpathian Ukraine.
Ukrainian Roma who also hold a Hungarian passport, of which there are quite a few as Orban gave the citizenship to anyone speaking Hungarian in the Ukraine, face difficulties in the Czech Republic: They are denied help and being told to go to Hungary.
In an interview with Právo, the director of the non-profit organization Khamoro, which focuses on helping the Roma minority, explained why it is a problem for Roma refugees from Ukraine to find accommodation. It is called racism …
An essay by Michal Mižigar on the origins and myths of April 8th.
After years of struggle led by victims of illegal sterilizations, the Czech Senate approved, in July 2021, a bill aimed at compensating the thousands of Roma women who were illegally sterilized by the Czechoslovak, then Czech, authorities. between 1966 and 2012.
A summary of the history and struggle.
The funeral of Pavlína Radlová, the founder of the R-mosty organisation was held in Prague last Friday.
May she rest in peace.
An article on Roma refugees from the Ukraine that were welcomed by Roma in the Moravian region of the Czech republic.
A reportage on the fate of Roma refugees from the Ukraine. And of course, discriminations exist.
The Romani writer Elena Lacková was born 101 years ago on March 22.
An article about Roma refugees from the Ukraine in the Czech Republic. The article cites roughly 500 Roma, mostly women with small children, and mostly from Western Ukraine – the region around Uzhgorod.
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