A Rromni was beaten up by Skinheads in Zajecar for not obvious reasons other than her ethnicity.
BAD!
Jews and Serbs have boycotted the celebrations of the liberation of the Croatian Concentration camp of Jasenovac on Friday the 22 of April. This is an infamous concentration camp where many Jews and Rroma were exterminated by Croatian Ustasha. Jews and Serbians are protesting against the rehabilitation in Croatia of people associated with this regime and crimes.
Interesting reportage on Serbia.
Some articles on the International Rroma Day yesterday from Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia.
A reportage on Rroma in Serbia in the context of Germany’s declaration of Serbia as a safe country …
A well integrated Rroma family was deported back to Serbia as part of the “safe country” policy in Germany.
SHAME!
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.
Some interesting numbers in Serbia and on education. The census counted 147’000 Rroma in Serbia, or rather, 147’000 people declared themselves or were rated as such in the survey. This represents 2.1% of the population in Serbia. Generally, one counts that there are about 10% of Rroma in that country. A bit more.
The ones who were registered have a bleak future with very low education (only one in a thousand will make it to university).
Bleak but not the full picture.
Serbian police is hiring Rroma. Well, that’s the official line. Let’s see the reality …
An article about heroin addiction among some Rroma in Serbia. Depressing.
The intervention of the Serbian President at the UN. Worthwhile reading.
Times are hard for those Rroma whose asylum applications have been refused following the declaration of Serbia as a safe country by Germany.
Worthy Read!
Serbia is not safe for Rroma – this what people who went there say about it.
Muharem Serbezovski is one of the key Rroma voice in nowadays’ Serbia. Listen to him, and not to the copycats …
According to latest news, Rroma who are expulsed from Germany and return to Serbia will be denied any social help, according to a publication from Amnesty International.
This needs to be closely monitored!
According to German sources, as many as 200’000 asylum seekers from Serbia will be asked to leave Germany very soon. Already 24’000 have been told to leave. Two third of theses refugees are most probably Rroma.
The Serbian government stopped the eviction of 53 families in the Rroma settlement of Grmeč (Zemun)
Rroma refugees from Kosovo who fled to Serbia are anxiously awaiting a decision of the European Court for Human Right as to whether they can be evicted from their current informal settlements.
That they still live in ghettoes 16 years later in INADMISSIBLE.
Another article on the “safe countries” and on the fact that these are all but safe if you are from a minority!
Serbia has been taken to the European court of Human Rights over its evictions of Rroma who fled the Kosovo War in 1999.
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