Another iteration of the yoyo in the Lakatos case in Canada: The deportation order was cancelled by the Canadian Border Service. No reasons given.
Hungary did commemorate the Rroma Holocaust Remembrance day and even unveiled a memorial to it. Frankly said, they should rather ponder about their history (after all, they deported pretty much all Jews and some Rroma by themselves without assistance), and about the future, namely the extreme racism against Rroma in that country.
Some Rroma women are taking the initiative and cooking their way out of the camps they are still parked in around the city. They formed a catering company called the “Gypsy Queens”.
May they be successful!
The current situation of local Rroma and travellers in the UK and the views of the public. A must read.
The Czech Government stated it is in discussion to buy the pig farm located on the site of the former concentration camp of Lety. This would really close this issue after more than 20 years of protests!
In their official statement on the Rroma Holocaust, the EU commission expressed its commitment at improving the situation of Rroma.
We’ll see …
A few articles and pictures on the Auschwitz commemoration ceremony on Tuesday.
An interview of the 17 years old Gilda Lakatos who is set to be deported next week back to Hungary.
Pictures from the Council of Europe and their commemoration of the Rroma Holocaust.
Survivors and community leaders commemorated yesterday in Auschwitz the Rroma Holocaust.
An article by Katalin Barsony, a Hungarian Rromni and the director od the Romedia foundation on the Holocaust remembrance day and on the increasing hate towards Rroma in Europe. She is right on this, unfortunately.
We just wish that the term Porrajmos not be used…
Today’s the day to remember the Rroma victims of the Holocaust. May they rest in peace.
A humanitarian application has been deposed for the Lakatos family who is due to be deported on August 11. Advocacy groups are urging the government to consider this application prior to this date.
A more positive twist in France: Volunteers are spending time with children in a Rroma camp near Paris, and are organising activities for the Rroma children.
More of it, please …
The Rroma who made the headlines in the last month in the Canton Neuchatel apparently left. Not far, that we know, but they are no longer in Neuchatel. A canton that tries to forbid foreign travellers from coming.
Let’s hope a lot more visit them!
A lot more information on the evictions of poor people in Szekesfehervar. And not all good. Actually even much worse.
Less news on the front page means more on Rroma in the French Press. First, in the South, were legality seems not to be high on the priorities of the state in Montpellier. In that same city, residents are “exasperated” by a camp there. In Montaucran, in the South, a camp was closed; near Paris, two reportages on life in the camps; in Montreuil, camps are being dismantled; in Lyon, a report on the situation of Rroma in that city; in the North the mayor od a twon is accused of racism following the arson attack against a shop for Romanians and especially Rroma, while also in the North, a pedophile was targeting Rroma children.
The shooting in the Munich shopping mall also made some Rroma victims: 3 confirmed deaths. Two were Sinti, and one from the Kosovo.
Residents are angry about an illegal Rroma camp near the capital. They lock the toilets, and then wonder why there are excrements outside,
Several hundred people, about half of which are Rroma are facing eviction in Szekesfehervar, a small city near Budapest. The leases are simply not renewed and people are evicted. Some Rroma reported being told that “the borders are open” …
BAD, and a pattern in Hungary.
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