Category Archives: Czech Republic

Jaroslav Staník, the secretary of the Czech rightist party ‘Freedom and Direct Democracy” of Tomio Okamura is prone to verbal abuse. He recently suggested to gas all homosexuals, Jews, and Roma.
In which century and times does he live?

– Tschechischer Politiker: Juden, Homosexuelle und Roma vergasen. In: Qeer. 13.11.2017. http://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=30081 [link-preview url=”http://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=30081″]

The Czech President Miloš Zeman, in an interview broadcasted on Cable TV in the Czech Republic stated that 90% of “inadaptable citizen” are Roma and only10% are white.

The Full quote is: “It is probably true that 90 percent of them are Roma. Nevertheless, there may also be 10 percent of white lazybones and we have to approach both [groups] equally. Only if we discriminated against either of the two groups, either positively or negatively, it would amount to human rights violation,”

Not sure how Mr. Zeman arrived at his numbers, but he certainly has preconceived views of the world. Shame on him. Activists are protesting and calling for people not to re-elect Zeman in the January 2018 elections.

– Czech President says 90 % of “inadaptable citizens” are Romani. In: Romea. 13.11.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-president-says-90-of-inadaptable-citizens-are-romani
– Roma reps condemn Zeman’s words, warn of his re-election. In: The Prague Monitor. 13.11.2017. http://www.praguemonitor.com/2017/11/13/roma-reps-condemn-zemans-words-warn-his-re-election
– Civil society members of Czech Govt Roma Council call on voters not to re-elect Zeman. In: Romea. 13.11.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/features-and-commentary/reportage/civil-society-members-of-czech-govt-roma-council-call-on-voters-not-to-re-elect-zeman [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-president-says-90-of-inadaptable-citizens-are-romani “]

In Litvinov, in the Czech Republic, several Roma families have had their water supply cut off in spite of having paid their rents…

– Czech housing estate sees water cut off, situation is critical for residents. In: Romea. 31.10.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-housing-estate-sees-water-cut-off-situation-is-critical-for-residents [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-housing-estate-sees-water-cut-off-situation-is-critical-for-residents”]

There are suspicions of vote buying in poor communities in the Czech Republic during the last election.
Would not be surprising …

– Czech elections: Vote-buying suspected in poor community, Roma not involved. In: Romea. 26.10.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-elections-vote-buying-suspected-in-poor-community-roma-not-involved [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-elections-vote-buying-suspected-in-poor-community-roma-not-involved”]

It seems that Roma are not planning to go and vote in the upcoming Czech elections. This is bad, especially since the country may move sharply to the populist right.
What is also bad is the article …

– Number of Roma, disabled election candidates falling in ČR. In: The Prague Daily Monitor. 17.10.2017. http://praguemonitor.com/2017/10/17/number-roma-disabled-election-candidates-falling-čr [link-preview url=”http://praguemonitor.com/2017/10/17/number-roma-disabled-election-candidates-falling-čr”]

An appeal to Roma to go and vote to bar Tomio Okamura, a rightist Czech-Japanese entrepreneur from governing the country. He is definitively not pro-Roma.

– Alena Gronzíková: Romale, don’t be lazy, vote! Otherwise Okamura will govern us! In: Romea. 13/10.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/alena-gronzikova-romale-don-t-be-lazy-vote-otherwise-okamura-will-govern-us [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/alena-gronzikova-romale-don-t-be-lazy-vote-otherwise-okamura-will-govern-us”]

According to a recently released statistic, there are 245’800 Roma in the Czech Republic. The region with the highest number was the one of Usti nad Labem, with 68’500.
These statistics are usually very unreliable as many Roma prefer not to declare themselves as such, resulting in an over-representation of Roma living in Ghettos and a lower overall number.

– V Česku žije podľa najnovšieho sčítania vyše 245-tisíc Rómov. In: SME. 08.09.2017. https://svet.sme.sk/c/20644588/v-cesku-zije-podla-najnovsieho-scitania-vyse-245-tisic-romov.html [link-preview url=”https://svet.sme.sk/c/20644588/v-cesku-zije-podla-najnovsieho-scitania-vyse-245-tisic-romov.html”]