n attack on a Roma family in Hungary.
Really bad.
A theater director is commissioned by the Burgtheater Vienna to stage a play by and with Roma actors. He promptly decides to use the real-life biographies of the participants for his piece and has a house from their village dismantled into 3,000 individual pieces in order to rebuild it on the stage of the Akademietheater. Audience and press eagerly anticipate the extraordinary production and hope for maximum authenticity.
A defintively outraged view of the upcoming Peter Magyar inauguration on May 9th. The issue, the anthems that will be played. Of course the Hungarian one, the one from the Szeklers (Hungarians from Transylvania), the the European Hymn (not so good), and then the Roma antherm. The article questions the existence of a “Gypsy Anthem”, which they claim is not known in Hungary – well 10% of the population definitively knows it. According to this diatribe, this is controversial as it can fuel “racial division”…
An interesting blog very much to the point about Hungary and Roma.
Politician and State Secretary for Roma Relations Attila Sztojka announced that he will not take up his parliamentary mandate in the new election period and will not continue as a member of the Hungarian parliament. The Fidesz politician said that he wants to return “to the field”, where he said he started in 1998.
In his statement, Sztojka also returned to internal conflicts. He mentioned the processes surrounding the Cigány Közösségek Szövetsége (Federation of Roma Communities, CIKÖSZ) and the National Roma Self-Government (Magyarországi Románok Országos Önkormányzatának, MROÖ) in Hungary. According to him, two years ago it still seemed possible to bring change to the Roma representation, but later, according to him, the disintegration began in both the MROÖ and the CIKÖSZ.
Both are highly controversial organisations and did not do anything for a very long time.
On the occasion of International Roma Day, the Roma National High School last week invited young people to a youth event in the Borta Open House (OHO). Young members of the Roma, Croatian and Hungarian ethnic groups participated. The main topic was networking and involving young people in political processes.
4 Roma and 1 Romni were elected to the Hungarian parliament last Sunday. Four of the five are members of the new Tisza Party of Peter Magyar.
The strange story of a Roma school in the Hungarian countryside named after an Indian buddhist figure.
Two good blog articles to understand the upcoming Hungarian elections and whether Viktor Orban manages to stay in power.
A very interesting article from the New York Times on the weight of the Roma vote in the upcoming elections in Hungary. Orban has relied on vote from Roma to remain in power, all while jsapping their rights.
Next Sunday’s elections are critical for Orban. And vote buying or at least influencing is ripe.
On Saturday 28th March, an estimated 1000 supporters of Mi Hazánk Mozgalom (Our Homeland Movement), and members of its affiliate paramilitary groups marched in the village of Kálló, in what the party’s chairman László Toroczkai billed as a ‘pro-order’ demonstration.
They had already done so on March 13th, but were prevented by the villagers. Now they were protected by the police.
And in another fact, the Minister of Construction and Transport, Kjanos Lázár, held a forum in Úrhida, Fejér County, where his usual arguments about protecting sovereignty eventually led to the conclusion that Fidesz should cooperate with Mi Hazánk in this regard.
Bad.
The extreme-right My Hazánk Mozgalom (Our Homeland Movement) party, together with their anti-Roma Bűnvadászok (Crime Hunters) vigilante group did an action in the small Nógrád village of Kálló. They were met by local Roma who peacefully told them they should leave.
The party represented this as having been aggressed, even though there are no records of people being wounded or of any police action.
Bad.
A scary article about the Hungarian “Bűnvadászok” (Crime Hunters), a vigilante group linked to the extreme right party “Mi Hazánk” who regularly target Roma whiom they often call “parasites” in tehir social media chanels.
At least some legal proceedings have been stqarted against them …
February 23rd is the 17th anniversary of the murder of a father and son, victims of a series of attacks by Neo-Nazis that left 6 Roma dead and more than 50 wounded. Let’s not forget.
Neo-Nazis with Svatiskas in SS uniforms are allowed to parade in Bupdapest, but antifascists are forbidden…
Nazis celebrated the124th of February in Budapest in full SS uniforms. It commemorates the failed attempt by 28’000 SS and Wehrmacht troops to break out of encircled Budapest in February 1945.
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a Roma and LGBT+ activist from Pecs, Hungary, has been indicted by the Hungarian justice for having organised a pride march in that city. He risks a year of jail if convicted under the laws banning so-called LGBT+ propaganda to protect the Hungarian youth.
The story of a Hungarian family adopting a Roma child.
This is uncommon.
An article in the French press about the remarks of the Hungarian Minister of Construction and Transports, Janos Lazar, who said tht Roma should clean the shitty train toilets.
Meanwhile, a toilet brush has become the symbol of protest in Hungary.
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