The civic association “Lavuta” with the support of the Fund for the support of the culture of national minorities Kult Minor is organiing a series of cultural and educational events in elementary schools about the Roma Holocaust in the Banskobystrica region.
From March 31, two open-air exhibitions will be open to visitors on the Market Square in Nakło in central Poland: “The Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Europe” and “The Holocaust of the Roma from Wyrzysk County”.
“The Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Europe” is an exhibition prepared by the Institute of National Remembrance and made available by the Institute of National Remembrance Regional Office in Bydgoszcz.
The exhibition “Extermination of the Roma from Wyrzysk Poviat” was prepared by the Museum of Krajeńskie Land on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Roma to the Birkenau concentration camp.
Bishop of Kielce Jan Piotrowski in the company of the Latin Metropolitan of Lviv, Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki visited the parish of St. John Paul II in Lviv and the nearly hundred refugees who live there.
Despite the language barrier, Bishop Piotrowski also talked with Roma children studying in the parish school “Alav” (meaning “word”) organized for them, which, together with the parish priest, Fr. Grzegorz Draus, they sang their own original parish anthem and in Polish “Zielony Mosteczek”. It was a testimony to the success of students who speak Russian and Ukrainian, as well as Hungarian or Romani, on a daily basis.
Latest statistics on whom the Poles like and dislike. Unfortunately, no surprise that nearly 50% of the Poles dislike Roma. What is surprising, is that Roma are only in 4th position, after Russians, Arabs, and Byelorussians (in that order)…
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According to the recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Slovakia must take the necessary measures to eliminate discrimination and segregation of Roma children in education.
The annual report of Amnesty International Slovakia (AIS) for the year 2022 states that in 2022, systemic discrimination against Roma continued in Slovakia. Roma children are systematically denied the right to education and protection from discrimination in primary education. Investigations into inappropriate use of police force are insufficient.
The fight for compensation for Roma women who were illegally sterilized lasted over 18 years. Although the compensation law has been in force since January 2022, the officials of the Ministry of Health make decisions slowly and arbitrarily, according to the victims and their representatives. Even the woman, whose medical documentation directly states her Roma origin as the reason for the sterilization, was not granted the compensation of 300,000 kroner until her second attempt.
In an open letter to the Czech Health Minister, NOGs stated that “261 applications were submitted and 74 were decided. However, only 35 applications were successful.” In violation of the law, the officials’ decision-making was delayed several times.
The chief prosecutor of the Plovdiv Region, in South Eastern Bulgaria ordered garbage containers to be placed in the Roma neighbourhood of Stolipinovo, one of the largest Mahala in the country. They inspected the neighbourhood and found numerous illegal landfills in the area.
By order of the District Prosecutor’s Office the municipality has been notified to take immediate action and prepare a plan with a view to ensuring normal living conditions in the neighbourhood.
The Bulgarian police raised several mahala (Roma settlements) in Bulgaria in Plovdiv, Kazanlak, Gurkovo etc. They were searching for drugs, but also vote buying and other offences.
A description of the dire situation in Roma settlements in Hungary: Poverty, unemployment, and not running water.
It hasn’t improved in the last 20 year at all, on the contrary.
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.
Another fight between Roma families broke out on Thursday in Devin. 18 people were detained afterwards. Luckily, this time no one died.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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