Slobodan Lala Berberski

A festival is now celebrating him. Slobodan Lala Berberski was born on October 20, 1919 in Bečkerek, today’s Zrenjanin, where he completed elementary and high school. He began studying law, but as a member of the Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia, he was arrested in 1941. In 1941, he joined the People’s Liberation War of the people of Yugoslavia. He was a Romani writer and the first president of the World Roma Organization bweing elected as the first president of the World Roma Organization in the famous 1971 london meeting.

Festival romske kulture – „Slobodan Lala Berberski“. .In: Vojvodjanski. 26.05.2026. https://www.vojvodjanski.com/rtvsantos/kultura/2026/05/26/festival-romske-kulture-slobodan-lala-berberski

An article in the Slovak press on the origins of the International day of the Roma. April 8 was established as International Roma Day in 1990 near Warsaw at the Fourth World Roma Congress organized by the International Romani Union (IRU). The choice of this day was related to the commemoration of the first worldwide Roma meeting in April 1971 in Orpington near London.

Now why did they put a picture of young Indian girls on the article? The picture is a stock photograph that has been used numerous times in conjunction with various topics about India. Bad journalism…

OHEŇ V DUŠI: 8. apríl je medzinárodný deň Rómov. In: Topky. 03.04.2024. https://www.topky.sk/cl/10/2726405/OHEN-V-DUSI–8–april-je-medzinarodny-den-Romov

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