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.
More than 1’000 people among which many Roma, protested on Saturday against the racist comments of the construction and Transport Minister Janos Lazar, requisquing his dismissal. He had said in a meeting that Roma should clean shitty train toilets.
Several articles on Janos Lazar and on his by now infamous statement that Roma should clean shitty train toilets in the French press.
Another article on Janos Lazar and on his by now infamous statement that Roma should clean shitty train toilets.
Two articles in the Slovak press about the Hungarian Constrcion and Transport Minister Janos Lazar comment that Roma are good at cleaning “shitty train toilets.”
These articles stress the discrimination faced by Roma in Hungary.
On Wednesday morning (28 January), Lajos Lőcsei, vice-president of the Hungarian centrist Momentum Movement, and András Fekete-Győr, the party’s founder, delivered several hundred toilet brushes to the Batida mansion of János Lázár, the construction and transport minister. He had said that Roma should be cleaning toilets in trains.
An article about the offensive comment of Janos Lazar, Hungarian Minister of Constructuion and Transport, stating that this could cost Fidesz, Orban’s party votes in the upcoming elections of Apruil 12th.
A blunt (and Slovak) summary about the cotroversy on János Lázár, the Hungarian minister who said that if there is no migrant workforce, then Roma in Hungary will have to fill jobs such as cleaning toilets on InterCity trains.
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