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Czech Survivors: So little – So late…

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Czech Survivors: So little – So late…

Germany will pay 2’500 Euro to Czech Rroma Holocaust survivors. Knowing how many effectively survived (actually almost no Czech Rroma did survive, most Rroma in the Czech Republic are originally from Slovakia, having been moved there by the communists right after the war) and the time passed, this is not going to ruin Germany.

It is almost an insult…

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Czech Philharmonic and Rroma

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Czech Philharmonic and Rroma

The Czech Philharmonic is taking time to teach young disadvantaged Rroma music in a music and dance camp attended by 60 children.

Few remarks: There are more than 60 kids in need. And why dance? Isn’t this just too much stereotype?

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Czech Republic: Rroma Holocaust Survivors will be Compensated

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Czech Republic: Rroma Holocaust Survivors will be Compensated

After 70 years, Czech Rroma survivors will be compensated by Germany. Nice, but first, there are very few Czech Rroma who survived and then, after 70 years, there aren’t many left …

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Lety: Czech Government wants to buy site

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Lety: Czech Government wants to buy site

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!

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Czech Republic: Hate Posts on Facebook

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Czech Republic: Hate Posts on Facebook

A complaint has been filed by Rroma activists against a page in Facebook and against the person who posted the comments for requesting that “gypsies be set on fire”…

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More on Sterilisations

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More on Sterilisations

Another article about the forced sterilisations in the Czech and Slovak Republics, a practise that is documented at least until 2004.

A must read!

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Forced Sterilisation

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Forced Sterilisation

Women who were forcefully sterilised in the Czech Republic are telling their story through theatre. This sterilisation practice continued unabatedly until at least 2004.

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Lety again …

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Lety again …

Czech activists have asked the EU to stop subsidies to the pig farm that is located on the site of the former concentration camp for Rroma of Lety, in the Czech Republic. The closure of that farm has been requested numerous times in the last 20 years.

Let’s make it happen!

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Czech Republic: Holocaust Survivors Disagree with Anti-Refugee Sentiment

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Czech Republic: Holocaust Survivors Disagree with Anti-Refugee Sentiment

Czech Holocaust Rroma survivors and relative of the victims disagree with the anti-refugee sentiment that is prevalent in that country.

Read the speech!

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Exhibition on Rroma Holocaust

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Exhibition on Rroma Holocaust

An exhibition on the Holocaust of Rroma in Bohemia and other Czech lands is opening this week. Good one speaks about it, as the Czech lands were nearly totally cleaned of Rroma in World War Two. And not all by German Nazis, by far not.

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Amnesty International and the Czechs

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Amnesty International reported discrimination, racism and abuses in the Czech Republic against Rroma. The Czech education ministry who was stated a violating the children human’s rights filed a complaint with the police. The Czech prosecutor found no reason to push for an indictment but nevertheless slammed the report …

If one wanted a proof …

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Czech Republic, Refugees, and History

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Czech Republic, Refugees, and History

Upon the visit of Bohuslav Sobotka, the Czech Prime Minister, some thoughts as to why the Czechs are so much against refugees (and against Rroma). Interesting read but sad… And that country is very much racist when it comes to Rroma.

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First Rrom in UK Police

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First Rrom in UK Police

Petr Torak, a Rrom of Slovak or Czech origin is allegedly the first serving Rrom police officer in the UK. Not bad, when one remembers that the police there is quite racist (see all articles on the MET and their facebook postings).

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Rroma Women and the Balkans

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Rroma Women and the Balkans

An article on Rroma women in the Balkans. Starts quite badly, as the picture in the headlines depicts a woman prostitute and drug addict in Serbia – we reported on this article a while ago. Then it gets worse … “The Roma identity generally refers to a traditionally nomadic ethnic group, with various linguistic dialects and many sub-groups, living mostly in Europe” Full stereotypes. 99.9% of Rroma, especially in the Balkan were always sedentary (except for their migration from India, but then what to say about Germans J). While the article is right about the discrimination, it is also wrong on the generalisation (and on the numbers). It also presents sex trafficking and exploitation as Rroma issues which it is not, it is a poverty issue. On the other hand (and not in the Balkans, it presents the sterilisation issue in the Czech Republic, and other facts that are quite correct.

The Result: LOTS OF STEREOTYPES, a few facts, and lots of generalisations.

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