As noted by the member of the committee for the excavation and solemn burial of Roma killed during the war, Dr. Miran Komac from the Institute for Ethnic Issues, the Roma minority in Sloveniantry experienced the murder of around 70% of the entire population  during the Second World War – committed both by the occupying side and by partisan units.

Recognising that even partisans killed Roma is an important step. Miran Komac lobbied for the burial of Roma victims in Ljubljana, but Ljubljana’s mayor Zoran Janković persistently rejects this request. It is to be noted that other victims of World War Two got a space in the Ljubljana’s cemetery. So this is definitively racially motivated …

• Masaker Romov: sramotno Jankovičevo zavračanje pokopa Romov, ki so jih pobili partizani. In: Reporter. 12.11.2022. https://reporter.si/clanek/slovenija/bog-masakra-porajmos-v-sloveniji-1006748

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