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More on Rome …

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More on the arson attack which killed three sisters.

– Pope sends comfort and aid to gypsy family after tragic blaze. In: Radio Vatican. 11.05.2017. http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/05/10/pope_sends_comfort_and_aid_to_gypsy_family_after_tragic_blaz/1311404
– Condemning murder of three Roma sisters in Rome, ODIHR Director Link stresses need for investigation of, robust reaction to possible racist motivation. In: Humgan Rights. 11.05.2017. http://www.diplomaticintelligence.eu/international-news/2493-condemning-murder-of-three-roma-sisters-in-rome-odihr-director-link-stresses-need-for-investigation-of-robust-reaction-to-possible-racist-motivation
– Rome Arson Deaths Expose Plight of Balkan Roma. In: Balkan Insight. 11.05.2017. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/confusion-after-roma-sisters-die-in-arson-attack-in-italy-05-11-2017
– Arson eyed in Rome camper fire that killed 3 Gypsy sisters. In: Daily News. 10.05.2017. http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/news/world/arson-eyed-rome-camper-fire-killed-3-gypsy-sisters-article-1.3152321
– Arson eyed in Rome camper fire that killed 3 Gypsy sisters. In: ABC News. 10.05.2017. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/fire-kills-sisters-sleeping-camper-romes-outskirts-47318665 [link-preview url=”http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/05/10/pope_sends_comfort_and_aid_to_gypsy_family_after_tragic_blaz/1311404 “]

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Hamburg Memorial

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A memorial to the victims of the Holocaust was opened on the site of a former train station from which people were deported.

– Hamburg unveils memorial to Jews, Roma killed in Holocaust. In: Fox News. 10.05.2017. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/10/hamburg-unveils-memorial-to-jews-roma-killed-in-holocaust.html [link-preview url=”http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/10/hamburg-unveils-memorial-to-jews-roma-killed-in-holocaust.html”]

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Slovakia and Slums

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A reportage on the life in Slovakia’s Rroma slums.

– Life in Slovakia’s Roma slums: Poverty and segregation. In: Al Jazeera. 10.05.2017. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/life-slovakia-roma-slums-poverty-segregation-170425090756677.html [link-preview url=”http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/life-slovakia-roma-slums-poverty-segregation-170425090756677.html”]

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Rome – Arson

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Three Rromnja died in Rome when their camper burst into flames. This is being investigated as arson and as an attack against Rroma.

– Arson suspected in camper blaze that killed sleeping sisters. In: CBS News. 10.05.2017. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/roma-gypsy-sisters-killed-camper-fire-rome-arson-investigation/ [link-preview url=”http://www.cbsnews.com/news/roma-gypsy-sisters-killed-camper-fire-rome-arson-investigation/”]

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Austria: Exhibition about Holocaust

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An exhibition in Vienna shows the roots and the facts about the Rroma Holocaust in World War Two.
Good, especially since Austria did little work in this respect.

– Auf den Spuren der Vergangenheit: Ausstellung zeigt Völkermord and Roma. In: Vienna Online. 09.05.2017. http://www.vienna.at/auf-den-spuren-der-vergangenheit-ausstellung-zeigt-voelkermord-an-roma/5273522 [link-preview url=”http://www.vienna.at/auf-den-spuren-der-vergangenheit-ausstellung-zeigt-voelkermord-an-roma/5273522″]

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Germany, Holocaust, and Protests

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In Germany, Rroma protests – for example for the right of refugees from Kosovo an former Yugoslavia – have been held at or around memorial for the victims of the Holocaust.
Not an easy thing, and this is shown in this article.

– Wenn Roma gehört warden. In: Taz. 07.05.2017. https://www.taz.de/Darf-man-an-Gedenkstaetten-protestieren/!5404345/ [link-preview url=”https://www.taz.de/Darf-man-an-Gedenkstaetten-protestieren/!5404345/”]

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Poland – An Interesting Interview

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Why should you learn about the culture and customs of the Rroma who have been living in Poland for hundreds of years? What is definitely worth knowing to behave appropriately? A talk about these questions with the guest of Andrzej Grzymała-Kazłowski.

– Dlaczego warto poznawać kulturę i obyczaje Romów? In: Radio Opole. 08.05.2017. http://radio.opole.pl/145,310,dlaczego-warto-poznawac-kulture-i-obyczaje-romow [link-preview url=”http://radio.opole.pl/145,310,dlaczego-warto-poznawac-kulture-i-obyczaje-romow”]

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Munich – Moslems and Rroma

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A new study Ludwig-Maximilians University on feelings towards different ethnic and cultural groups shows clearly that Moslems are negatively felt – 18% strongly so, 31% somewhat, and 38% have a low negative view on them. In brief, only 12% of the people in the study had nothing against Moslems … One in ten!!!
And Rroma? 30% of the people have a negative view of them. They are barely better than refugees with 28% and Jews with 18%.

– LMU-Studie: 9 von 10 Münchnern haben was gegen Muslime. In: Abendzeitung. 08.05.2017. http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.gruppenbezogene-menschenfeindlichkeit-lmu-studie-9-von-10-muenchnern-haben-was-gegen-muslime.ce7946e3-d1f2-44f6-9ca4-a59cff1afee2.html [link-preview url=”http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.gruppenbezogene-menschenfeindlichkeit-lmu-studie-9-von-10-muenchnern-haben-was-gegen-muslime.ce7946e3-d1f2-44f6-9ca4-a59cff1afee2.html”]

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Slovenia and Discrimination

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A video game is trying to measure the bias against Rroma in Slovakia. It is trying to assess the discrimination that goes unreported.
Interesting experiment.

– Discrimination in action: the value of experiments in human rights. In: Open Democracy. 05.05.2017. https://www.opendemocracy.net/ana-bracic/discrimination-in-action-value-of-experiments-in-human-rights [link-preview url=”https://www.opendemocracy.net/ana-bracic/discrimination-in-action-value-of-experiments-in-human-rights”]

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Slovakia – Roma Plenipotentiary

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Ábel Ravasz, the Roma plenipotentiary for the Slovak Government has some quite stereotypical ideas on Rroma… He states – partially rightly so, that many don’t speak Rromanes and that the younger generation tends to loose the language; but then ignores history when he says Rroma arrived in several waves from the 17th century; are a very diverse minority; are a patriarchal society; and so on…
Maybe get your facts rights …

– Rómovia hovoriaci po maďarsky sú pre Maďarov Cigáni a pre Rómov Maďari. A Slovákom sú úplne ukradnutí. In: Plus 7 Dni. 07.05.2017. http://www.pluska.sk/plus-7-dni/domov/nerom-terene.html [link-preview url=”http://www.pluska.sk/plus-7-dni/domov/nerom-terene.html”]

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Turkey – Rroma Festival

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This week end, the Kakava Festival is taking place in Edirne.

– Kakava: Roma festival draws thousands to Turkey’s Edirne. In: TRT World. 06.05.2017. http://www.trtworld.com/turkey/kakava-roma-festival-draws-thousands-to-turkeys-edirne-350671 [link-preview url=”http://www.trtworld.com/turkey/kakava-roma-festival-draws-thousands-to-turkeys-edirne-350671″]

Hungary News Eastern Europe

New Hungarian Laws and Rroma

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The current laws targeting NGOs and the CEU in Hungary are a danger to the Rroma inclusion in Hungary. Several NGOs working for Rroma, the Roma Education Fund, the European Roma Right Centre, etc. are directly funded by Soros and would need to be labelled “foreign agents” as per the new law. This is not good.

– CEU and NGO crackdown: a double blow for Roma inclusion in Hungary. In: Open Democracy. 05.05.2017. https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/jonathan-lee/ceu-and-ngo-crackdown-double-blow-for-roma-inclusion-in-hungary [link-preview url=”https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/jonathan-lee/ceu-and-ngo-crackdown-double-blow-for-roma-inclusion-in-hungary”]

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Canada – Denied Boarding

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The Canadian government is denying that Rroma are being prevented from boarding Canada bound flights, stressing that this is the prerogative of the airlines. Fact is, it happens right now.
BAD!

– Roma say they’re being barred from flights to Canada. In: The Star. 06.05.2017. https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2017/05/06/roma-say-theyre-being-barred-from-flights-to-canada.html [link-preview url=”https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2017/05/06/roma-say-theyre-being-barred-from-flights-to-canada.html”]

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Kotleba and Culture

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Yet another case where Kotleba’s party doesn’t quite like culture when it is not “pure” Slovak one… Here, they wanted to close an Art school, mostly for Rroma in the Banska Bystrica region. The ministry of education had to intervene.

– Barbar Kotleba: Kontroverzný župan sa pokúsil zlikvidovať umeleckú školu. Jej žiakmi sú najmä Rómovia. In: Pluska. 06.05.2017. http://www.pluska.sk/plus-7-dni/domov/kotleba-vs-plavcan.html [link-preview url=”http://www.pluska.sk/plus-7-dni/domov/kotleba-vs-plavcan.html”]

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Romania, Kitsch, and Rroma

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A new museum opened in Bucharest. It is a museum of kitsch. And a section thereof is devoted to Rroma kitsch – as stated in the article “A section on Roma, or Gypsies, regurgitates stereotypes. A pregnant Gypsy woman stands next to a model baby lying on the ground and a metal bucket full of sunflower seeds, the image of a poor Roma woman. In another corner, there are photos of ornate houses with turrets which are labelled “Gypsy Architecture,” a style of house favoured by some well-off Roma.”
Well in this case it is not only kitsch but also stereotypes.

– Romanian Kitsch Museum opens in Bucharest. In: WPXI News. 05.05.2017. http://www.wpxi.com/news/national-news/ap-top-news/romanian-kitsch-museum-opens-in-bucharest/519633181 [link-preview url=”http://www.wpxi.com/news/national-news/ap-top-news/romanian-kitsch-museum-opens-in-bucharest/519633181″]

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France, the Elections, and Manouches

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A 91 years old Manouche, Raymond Gureme, who himself is a Holocaust survivor, warns against Le Pen. Let’s hope for tomorrow. And it is good that such views are put forward!

– Roma Raymond Gureme warns of civil war if Le Pen wins. In: Al Jazeera. 06.05.2017. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/roma-holocaust-survivor-civil-war-le-pen-wins-170506075159631.html [link-preview url=”http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/roma-holocaust-survivor-civil-war-le-pen-wins-170506075159631.html”]

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Germany and Refugees

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A report on by the German Press reports that there are more refugees arriving in Germany than in the whole of Europe … Responsible are internal European Refugees – a lot of them Rroma, according to this short report (not necessarily explicitly named – Bulgarians and Romanians are stated here – but who from these countries requests asylum?)
Bad.

– Wie kann das sein? In Deutschland kommen mehr Flüchtlinge an als in Europa. In: Focus. 04.05.2017. http://www.focus.de/politik/videos/interessante-zahlenkonstellation-wie-kann-das-sein-in-deutschland-kommen-mehr-fluechtlinge-an-als-in-europa_id_7081691.html [link-preview url=”http://www.focus.de/politik/videos/interessante-zahlenkonstellation-wie-kann-das-sein-in-deutschland-kommen-mehr-fluechtlinge-an-als-in-europa_id_7081691.html”]

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Lety and the Czech Government

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The commemoration of the Rroma victims of the Holocaust on the site of the former camp of Lety (Czech Republic) seem in a bad shape. They were due to be held on the 13th, but the Rroma organisations are postponing their participation following the resignation of the Czech government. This resignation potentially endangers the decision to buy back the site from the operator of the pig farm located on there.

– European Grassroots Antiracist Movement postpones involvement by internationals in Lety commemoration/ In: Romea.cz. 04.05.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/european-grassroots-antiracist-movement-postpones-involvement-by-internationals-in-lety-commemoration [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/european-grassroots-antiracist-movement-postpones-involvement-by-internationals-in-lety-commemoration”]

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Slovakia – Moving Rroma

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A mayor of a village purchased a house (on communal funds) to move Rroma from a settlement in a village to another village 20 km away. Basically, it is the politically correct version of ethnic cleansing.

– Starosta kúpil problémovým Rómom dom o 20 kilometrov ďalej. Je toto riešenie na chatrče a getá? In: Dennik. 02.05.2017. https://dennikn.sk/717339/starosta-kupil-problemovym-romom-dom-o-20-kilometrov-dalej-je-toto-riesenie-na-chatrce-a-geta/ [link-preview url=”https://dennikn.sk/717339/starosta-kupil-problemovym-romom-dom-o-20-kilometrov-dalej-je-toto-riesenie-na-chatrce-a-geta/”]

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Slovakia: Police Pursues Kotleba’s Party MPs

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The Slovakian police interrupted a debate of a parliament commission to question a MP – Stanislav Mizík – from the extreme rightist party of Kotleba – and to charge him with crimes such as Holocaust denial. Another MP from the same party, Milan Mazurek was also charged with crimes for his comments on radio against Rroma, migrants, and Moslems.
GOOD!

– Police pursue MPs for racist statements. In: The Slovak Spectator. 03.05.2017. https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20523225/police-pursue-mps-for-racist-statements.html [link-preview url=”https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20523225/police-pursue-mps-for-racist-statements.html”]

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