Daily Archives: Mai 10, 2024

Transcarpathian Ukraine and Roma

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An attempt to mobilise Roma from the Transcarpathian Ukraine resulted in a riot that was dispersed by using gunfire.

Bad.

Lety

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The memorial of the Genocide of the Roma in the camp of Lety, Czechia, will be open to the public on Sunday the 12th of May.

What is interesting in this article is that it states that ‘The participation of Czech gendarmes and camp commanders in the genocide of the Roma during the Second World War was denied throughout the forty years of communism. The taboo after the revolution was broken by historian Ctibor Nečas”

As a reminder, less than 40 Roma families from present Day Czechia survived the Holocaust.

Bulgaria: Romni in Politics

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Folk singer Roxana announced that she is entering politics. She is running for MP from Radostin Vassilev’s party MECH. Antoineta Linkova, Roksana’s real name, is of Romani origin.

“I am a Bulgarian woman of ethnic origin. This does not make me less Bulgarian than anyone. I am here because the integration that has been talked about for 30 years must work,” said the deputy candidate.

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