Rroma are increasingly suffering from the restitution of housing that is slowly taking place in Romania. They are being expulsed more and more frequently.
A Rrom, an official of the Euroroma political party was indicted and arrested together with 4 other people on suspicion of human trafficking and loan-sharking.
Can very well be true, but criminality is not an ethnic characteristic… It is a crime, nothing more.
A new program was launched in Hungary aiming at retaining young Rroma women longer in schools. Funded with 150 Mio HUF (450’000 EUR).
This is totally hypocritical. Zoltan Balog, the minister in charge of Human Resources openly advocates segregated schools… What is being said and what is being done are two things, and they are different.
The town of Garmen is bracing itself again about protests against the “illegal” Rroma houses. This endless story continues.
BAD
A book by the French ethnologist Catherine Monnot about her conversations and interviews of Gabriela Cantia, a Romanian Rromni who emigrated to France and leaves close to Toulouse in a camp was just published.
An overview of the current situation near Sliven in Bulgaria and a transcript of the exchange that promped the beating of a young Rrom a while back for saying “we are equal” to a Bulgarian.
Chilling …
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!
Czech Holocaust Rroma survivors and relative of the victims disagree with the anti-refugee sentiment that is prevalent in that country.
Read the speech!
A good story of grass root collaboration between Rroma and Jews in Hungary, two communities that are often singled out in that country.
A 95 years old Medic from Auschwitz is to stand trial.
At long last!
A never ending story since 20 years. A Pig farm on the site of the Lety concentration camp where many Rroma were deported from to Auschwitz and other death camps.
After 20 years, this could have been resolved …
Residents of Garmen, Bulgaria renewed their protests at “illegal” Rroma houses. Last time this occurred, this resulted in a several manifestations, assaults, and in a plethora of racist articles and statements.
This needs to be followed.
A crime boss who happens to be also a Rrom from Croatia can stay in Denmark. He is a criminal and claims to be the boss of Rroma in that country.
Well, as one says in the Balkans, he was under the bridge. And he is a criminal and should be treated as such. Ethnicity has lost nothing here.
An article on Rroma. Good – especially saying that the visible ones are just the tip of the iceberg. Most Rroma are not like the stereotypes!
A view on the segregated Rroma communities in North Eastern Hungary.
Fact is, it is worse …
Football hooligans in Gdansk attacked a Rroma compound close to the football stadium in Gdansk. The police, in spite of warnings did not intervene at all. That football hooligans are often closet Nazis is an unfortunate fact, but that the police doesn’t do a thing, is not acceptable.
For the 6th of May, St Georges’ day, or Erdelezi in the Balkan, here is an interesting article about Rroma, the persecutions, non-integration, and life on the brim.
Garmen, a small city in Bulgaria, was at the centre of a controversy on “illegal” Rroma housing. After nearly a year of silence, more news from that town.
Bad!
An example of what can be done, even in Slovakia.
A reportage on teenage pregnancies in Romania, and its inevitable conclusion that it affects many Rroma. While it is true that many young Rroma have children early (very early), ethnicity may not be the root cause.
No sexual education, no contraception are available in the countryside, and in addition, several of the free churches that are active in those regions are adamantly against both, resulting in a new phenomenon of large families among traditionally small Rroma ones.
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