Pogroms – rroma.org https://rroma.org Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:03:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Pogroms – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Ethnic Cleansing and Pogrom https://rroma.org/ethnic-cleansing-and-pogrom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ethnic-cleansing-and-pogrom Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:03:56 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=34039 In April 1995, the Roma settlement in Danilovgrad, Montenegro, was completely destroyed during an anti-Roma pogrom after two young Roma were accused of having raped a local girl.

A police academy was built on the site of the settlement with no memorial left at the site.

Human rights activist Aleksandar Saša Zeković has called for a memorial to acknowledge the historical injustice and educate future police officers about the importance of protecting minority rights.

The UN Committee against Torture found that Montenegro violated international conventions by failing to prevent the violence and subsequent forced eviction of the Roma community.

]]> Serbia: Pogrom https://rroma.org/serbia-pogrom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=serbia-pogrom Wed, 14 May 2025 07:11:28 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=28301 A Roma family was the victim of a brutal attack by a mob in a village in Serbia.

]]> Russia: Pogroms https://rroma.org/russia-pogroms-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-pogroms-2 Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:35:11 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25821 Finally, the news makes it to the West. We reported on it already.

Following the murder of a taxi driver by a Rom, a pogrom started in the town of Korkino, in the Cheliabinsk region. Subsequently after the riots, several Roma were summoned to serve in the army in the Ukraine, a certain death and definitively a punishment.

For the journalist: there are no Sinti in Russia …

]]> Russia: Pogroms https://rroma.org/russia-pogroms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-pogroms Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:47:36 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25614 Last week, 40-year-old Elena Sarafanova was killed in the city of Korkino (Chelyabinsk region) — two Roma teenagers were accused of the crime. The next day, pogroms began in the city: angry residents went to the settlement, where the Roma live compactly, and set fire to several houses.

It seems that hatred ran deep, and that residents asked “where to deport them if they have no homeland” …

]]> Auschwitz – Oświęcim Pogrom https://rroma.org/auschwitz-oswiecim-pogrom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=auschwitz-oswiecim-pogrom Sat, 19 Oct 2024 16:36:07 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25477 In the Polsih town of Oświęcim, better known by its German name, a pogrom against Roma took place in October 1981. Antoni Rokicki’s report “Wystraczy spark” is a documentary on these events.

Dr. Joanna Talewicz, an anthropologist from Oświęcim and president of the W Stronę Dialogu Foundation, talks about the fact that the pogrom is still a taboo topic, even in some Roma families. “We, the Roma, often bear collective responsibility for things we did not do,” she says.

]]> Slovakia and Roma https://rroma.org/slovakia-and-roma-23/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-and-roma-23 Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:16:00 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=24270 Almost a hundred years ago, the so-called Pobedim massacre, a pogrom against Roma, took place in Slovakia. In October 1928, a group of rioters from Pobedimi attacked a Roma settlement. The pogrom left behind destroyed houses, injured and six dead, including a six-year-old child. But no one saw and did nothing. This event is commemorated by a production of the Slovak National Theatre.

]]> Slovakia, a Pogrom, and Theatre https://rroma.org/slovakia-a-pogrom-and-theatre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-a-pogrom-and-theatre Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:32:26 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=24239 In October 1928, a group of rioters from Pobedimi attacked a Roma settlement. The pogrom left behind destroyed houses, injured and six dead, including a six-year-old child. This event is commemorated by a production of the Slovak National Theatre.

]]> Khamoro: Theatre https://rroma.org/khamoro-theatre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=khamoro-theatre Thu, 30 May 2024 05:22:44 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=24137 The Slovak National Theatre presented a play about a tragic 1928 pogrom against Roma in Pobedimi which killed 6 Roma and left many without a house at the Khamoro Festival.

]]> Poland – Gdansk: Pogroms https://rroma.org/poland-gdansk-pogroms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=poland-gdansk-pogroms Thu, 09 Jun 2016 06:27:04 +0000 http://rroma.org/?p=5626 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.

]]> Tula, again … https://rroma.org/tula-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tula-again Sun, 10 Apr 2016 08:50:03 +0000 http://rroma.org/?p=5211 The village in which the fights between police and Rroma occurred last week in the Tula region of Russia are still cordoned and checked by the police… Beoing on the “wrong” side in Russia is not the best thing.

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