Canadian immigration officials are screening passengers departing to Canada at the Budapest airport, and deny entry to anyone presumed to be Rrom.
This is definitively not acceptable!
Romanians are generally not prone at wanted to be identified as Rroma… Or so it seems, except when it allows them to have an easier way into high school, as a case in Romania shows.
Some populists miss no occasion to be populist, prejudiced, racist, and spread idiotic information. This is the case here with Breitbart, a conservative US based news Network. Based on a fight between two Romanian Rroma families in Essen Germany, and the fact that a German newspaper also cited “Arabs” and criminals in the report, Breitbart makes a headline of criminal Gypsy and Arab gangs.
One should say STOP RACISM and START THINKING! This is not journalism, this is actual idiocy. It has to stop.
A street fight in Essen between two Rroma groups – probably from Romania, degenerated into a real street battle involving up to over 1’000 people according to police source. Thses fights continued later on.
This has given opportunity to several papers to equate all Rroma with criminal and to “throw in” an ounce of “criminal Arabs” into the fray to give a view that all migrants are surely criminals and that one needs to get rid to them.
Let’s call this by it’s name: This is POPULISM and RACISM.
Around 40 Rroma from Romania and Bulgaria are currently camping the castle’s park. This is common in France, with the illegal camps, but is definitively new in Germany. To be watched.
In Crimea and in the Dombass (where the new autonomous region is being carved out), human rights for minorities, for Tatars and Rroma, but also for LGBT and religious minorities are under threat. There is an increased discrimination against them, something we can testify for the Rroma in that region.
Some more news from the French migration scene… The Church in St. Ouen; expulsion in Grenoble; reprieve in Roubaix; and an article of what happened after an eviction.
Rroma refugees from Kosovo who fled to Serbia are anxiously awaiting a decision of the European Court for Human Right as to whether they can be evicted from their current informal settlements.
That they still live in ghettoes 16 years later in INADMISSIBLE.
The largest Rroma Festival in Bratislava. Quite a few groups from all over Europe.
Germany’s Green party says that Kosovo is not a safe country for Rroma. BRAVO and at last.
Kosovo was nearly totally ethnically cleansed from Rroma in 1999 with roughly 90% of all Rroma leaving. Today, there are less than 20’000 Rroma in that country. The others cannot go back. Their houses and properties are occupied, and no one will tolerate their return. Definitively not safe.
The Sziget (Island) festival in Budapest is by now an institution. Several Rroma groups appear there, although the old “Rroma Tent” has been discontinued. Yesterday saw Gogol Bordello, but the program continues!
A young Hungarian / Romanian Rrom in la Courneuve is fighting against the looming expulsion that threaten his camp with the help of several associations; and a mobilisation of neighbours to prevent the expulsion of Rroma in Lille in the North of France.
A visit together with Romani Rose, president of the German Council of Sinti and Roma, in Auschwitz. One thing can be said: In Germany, they deal with the past. Some other countries should follow.
Two articles on the safe countries, stating the obvious …
Short article on the multicultural debate in Hungary. Mr. Orban should well remember that when Hungarian was introduced as a national language at the end of the 19th century (very late), only 30% of the population spoke it …
Another article on the “safe countries” and on the fact that these are all but safe if you are from a minority!
Ten pictures to look at …
The town of Banovce in Slovakia is implementing hard rules against the Rroma minority: If a family breaks public order or housing rules three times, it will be expulsed. These measures are meant to “protect” decent people from the noise and nuisance of the Rroma. In fact, this is an expulsion measure and as such cannot be tolerated.
SHAME.
Sweden’s tolerance seems to crumble as an attack on a Romanian Rroma migrant shows. The influx of migrants from Syria and from the Balkan is polarising Sweden.
Another article on the group of young Rroma musicians and dancers from Slovakia, Kesaj Tchave and of a French association helping them.
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