Zsolt Bayer, author of racist and anti-Semitic remarks, is among the speakers at the event organized in Budapest by an American conservative group. He qualified Jews of “stinking excrements” and Roma of “animals.
So much for these conservative Americans …
Not much news on Roma this week. The upcoming pilgrimage of Saintes Marie de la Mer; the inauguration of the transition village in Montpellier and the fate of Roma from a camp that burnt in Aix en Provence in the South; and two articles on neighbours complaining about new Roma camps in their neighbourhood near Paris.
A young Roma was awarded a Vaclav Havel Scholarship, allowing him to start studying at the prestigious English College n Prague. Money for the scholarships is being raised by concerts.
Robert Fico, the populist ex-prime minister of Slovakia is claiming the aid of 100 EUR promised by the government per child in June is solely aimed at Roma. This is not the case.
There are not enough camping sites for Travellers in the UK, resulting in tensions when they pitch camp in other areas.
Not all is rosy for minorities, and the Council of Europe suggests measures are needed to combat hate speech, especially against Roma and Tattare (the name of the autochthonous Roma group).
A reportage in the South Serbian town of Bosilegrad, a city that historically was part of Bulgaria and is predominantly still Bulgarian with a significant Roma population. Many of them do no longer want to be Bulgarians.
This coming Monday will celebrate the anniversary of the Roma rebellion in the Roma camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. This unprecedented event is one of the essential elements of our history. (…) It is a symbol. Courage and heroism should be a beacon for contemporary Roma. Determination and resistance, even in a seemingly hopeless situation, give hope
– said the president of the association Roman Kwiatkowski in an interview with PAP.
The RFK and Kolektiv 115 groups convened a demonstration in support of Ukrainian Roma in front of the Czech Interior Ministry on Thursday. The organizers wanted to express that, according to them, the Czechia did not ensure basic security for all people fleeing Ukraine before the war.
Many of the Roma currently stuck in Prague’s central station have fled Ukraine but have a dual citizenship (Hungarian/Ukrainian) and are denied any help in the Czech Republic.
The issue of the Ukrainian Roma refugees who also have a Hungarian passport but whom no one wants, starting with Hungary itself. They were granted a Hungarian passport as part of Orban’s drive to grant citizenship to Hungarian speakers in neighbouring countries, but they are not wanted.
For several weeks, hundreds of Roma refugees who fled Ukraine have been refused residence permits in the Czech Republic. In Prague, dozens of families sleep on the floor of the Central Station. An open-air humanitarian crisis that led the authorities to build, last weekend, a guarded camp on the outskirts of the city for these unwanted war refugees.
An article on the museum of Roma Culture in Brno.
The mayor of Gallarate, a town not far from Milan was brought to court by Roma families who accuse him of defamation, as he openly said they were a bunch of thieves. It is part of a longer battle between the mayor and the Roma, as the mayor tried to evict them, and was forced to restore services he had cut off by a court in Milan.
The Ukrainian Roma refugees which were in the Prague central railway station were moved to a camp in Troja.
Deportations of Sinti and Roma started on the 16th of May 1940. Commemorations were held in several German Länder.
On the commemoration of the deportation of Roma in Germany, a statement of the situation of Roma in the Ukraine.
What is the position of Romani writers in the Czech literary scene? Can minority literature emerge from the shadows of a marginal genre? And what does it actually mean to be a Romani writer? Stanislava Miková and Patrik Banga shared their experiences during the evening. The Roma Literary Evening took place in the Václav Havel Library in Prague on the 16th of May and the whole event was broadcast live by the first Roma internet television ROMEA TV.
The promotion of the documentary called a “Musical Biography of Shaban Bajramovic” produced by the Association FROS, began with the sounds of one of the most famous Shaban songs “Sajbija”, performed by famous trumpeter Nebojsa Sejdic.
Another article on the discussions held between the head of the German Railway and the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma on the racist events against Roma aboard trains in March. The conclusion is, there is no structural racism against Roma, just single cases …
The Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company wants to sort out their bias against Roma.
About time, as they did deport quite a few of them a while back.
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