The Elie Wiesel Institute condemned the nomination of a Romanian journalist, Oana Stanciulescu, to the board of national television. She condemned the law that makes it a criminal offence to deny the Holocaust. Jews and Rroma were victims of the Holocaust in Romania…
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An article by a UK tabloid on Romanian and Rroma … Oh well, what could one expect. Sterotypes. The first sentence says all about the prejudices …
“So, the good news, I tell the first Romanian I interview, is that a British newspaper wants to print a story about Rumänien that isn’t about immigrants stealing their jobs or Gypsy beggars getting their teeth fixed free on the NHS.”
SHAME …
A project and a documentary on the situation of poor Hungarians outside of the capital. Unemployed poor people are often equated with Rroma in this country. Truth is, in the countryside, may have no jobs, not only Rroma.
An article that is positively inclined about Rroma, but which is factually wrong… Yes Rroma had skilled jobs in the Ottoman Empire, but no, a “Vitsa” is not a tribe, it is a lineage – and this exclusively amongst Vlax Rroma. Rroma are not nomadic, no more than the Germans who travelled trough all of Europe in the 4th century.
Would be nice when writing about Rroma to do some basic research …
Two Slovak MPs wore badges that looked similar to the yellow star worn by Jews during Nazi times to remind the country and protest against the party of Kotleba who is extreme right and pro-WWII Slovak leader. This party is extreme in its views of Rroma.
A report that shows that the new Slovak government simply ignores Rroma and refugees. Ostrich politics have never resolved any issue – SAD!
The village in which the fights between police and Rroma occurred last week in the Tula region of Russia are still cordoned and checked by the police… Beoing on the “wrong” side in Russia is not the best thing.
The lack of news on Rroma in France is more than compensated by the number of articles on the Gens du Voyage – Travellerr, who are represented as criminals, undesirable, and generally as not integrated.
First, news about several camps of Travellers, in Saint Laurent de Mure, in Argentan, near Verdun, near Reims, close to Paris and in the West; and several discussions on or about camping spot for travellers in Niort, in Perros, in Indres et Loire, in the North, in Samois, in the park of a castle; and finally two more positive things – an interpellation of a minister in the parliament, and a discussion about the sedentarisation in Limoges.
After the camps, crime … And there the list is long. Police hunted away from a camp in Vernouillet near Paris; arrests in Toulouse and investigation nearby; some stolen goods found in the South West; 22 cars damaged near Toulouse; shots in a camp near Paris; three Romanians condemned in the South East; a Rrom sentenced for having shown a fingers to Valls; Police searching for witnesses in a series of burglaries in the North; and finally, a not so clever thief…
A Romanian former minister states that the Romanian minority in Bulgaria is deprived of its rights … And what does she uses as a claim: Vlax Rroma living in Bulgaria. This is new and as suprising as if Orban were to defend the Hungarian minority in Romania citing that they are Rroma (actually, many Hungarian speakers in Romania are Rroma).
More on the clashes in Tula with the riot police over a gas line…
BAD!
Several organisations have expressed regrets that Rroma are being ignored in the official Lithuanian history.
Rroma in central Russia fought a battle against riot police. The Rroma are accused of having damaged a gas pipe in an attempt to connect their houses to the gas network, and then to have attacked the repairmen called as several other houses were left without gas.
This is new in Russia – and BAD…
This time an article on Ana Radu, the grand daughter of Cioaba, who has built a fashion brand in Romania.
Romanian Rroma street musicians have proven to be a hit on YouTube. 130’000 hits and counting.
Strange article on “Rroma Fashion” …
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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 …
A reportage on Rroma in Serbia in the context of Germany’s declaration of Serbia as a safe country …
The story of the Rroma musicians from Kosovo fighting discrimination is doing the rounds! Good and a good reminder that Rroma were ethnically cleansed away from Kosovo.
With the elections in Slovakia resulting in a Nazi Party having seats in the parliament, what’s next in this country, and what is the impact thereof on minorities, especially on Rroma.
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