Officials from the Croatian city of Vukovar have been filmed singing a fascist Ustaša song. The Croatian fascist regime killed Jews and nearly all the Rroma in Croatia (yes, almost all!).
This is definitively not acceptable!
A court in the Czech Republic condemned a real estate agent to apologise to a Rromni after having denied her a rental based on her ethnicity.
GOOD, but still a drop of water on a very hot stone. Racism against Rroma is all too common in the Czech Republic.
Another festival in Slovakia, in Banska Bystrica and Zvolen: The festival people from the house of Roma. This year, the festival focuses on the young generation with several workshops for youngsters from different countries.
Canadian immigration officials are screening passengers departing to Canada at the Budapest airport, and deny entry to anyone presumed to be Rrom.
This is definitively not acceptable!
Some populists miss no occasion to be populist, prejudiced, racist, and spread idiotic information. This is the case here with Breitbart, a conservative US based news Network. Based on a fight between two Romanian Rroma families in Essen Germany, and the fact that a German newspaper also cited “Arabs” and criminals in the report, Breitbart makes a headline of criminal Gypsy and Arab gangs.
One should say STOP RACISM and START THINKING! This is not journalism, this is actual idiocy. It has to stop.
A street fight in Essen between two Rroma groups – probably from Romania, degenerated into a real street battle involving up to over 1’000 people according to police source. Thses fights continued later on.
This has given opportunity to several papers to equate all Rroma with criminal and to “throw in” an ounce of “criminal Arabs” into the fray to give a view that all migrants are surely criminals and that one needs to get rid to them.
Let’s call this by it’s name: This is POPULISM and RACISM.
More background to the girl whose IQ beats that of Einstein and Hawkins. Chilling to read that discrimination is ripe in England against Rroma and Travellers.
In Crimea and in the Dombass (where the new autonomous region is being carved out), human rights for minorities, for Tatars and Rroma, but also for LGBT and religious minorities are under threat. There is an increased discrimination against them, something we can testify for the Rroma in that region.
The largest Rroma Festival in Bratislava. Quite a few groups from all over Europe.
The Sziget (Island) festival in Budapest is by now an institution. Several Rroma groups appear there, although the old “Rroma Tent” has been discontinued. Yesterday saw Gogol Bordello, but the program continues!
An interesting opinion on the camps that will be established specifically for refugees from the Balkans in Germany, in view of the German responsibility in the Rroma Holocaust.
A visit together with Romani Rose, president of the German Council of Sinti and Roma, in Auschwitz. One thing can be said: In Germany, they deal with the past. Some other countries should follow.
Another article on the “safe countries” and on the fact that these are all but safe if you are from a minority!
Ten pictures to look at …
Another article on the group of young Rroma musicians and dancers from Slovakia, Kesaj Tchave and of a French association helping them.
Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, warned against the modern racism against Rroma while at the commemorations of the Rroma Holocaust. We cannot but agree with him here.
In the article, the term of “Porajmos” is used. This term has often been put in conjunction with the Rroma Holocaust. Actually, it means a sexual rape, and is only understood in some Vlax dialects. This term should not be used at all in this context.
Israel Galvan, the Flamenco dancer, in his latest choreography “Lo Real” paid a tribute to the victims of the Holocaust.
Worth seeing!
A poster campaign by a far right group in the Stockholm’s subway is shocking. It re-iterates the usual stereotypes of forced begging, organised criminality, etc. Outrage was also directed at the subway authorities that allowed these posters to be hung.
SHAME!
An article on Kesaj Tchave, a group of young Rroma musicians, singers, dancers who are come from real ghettoes who tour Europe under the direction of Ivan Akimov.
Bavaria is going ahead with a controversial plan to set up camps for refugees from the Balkan. These camps, especially in view of the past – Dachau was one of the first camps to be set up in Germany – and since Rroma make about a third of all Balkan refugees, leave a bitter taste.
There has to be better solutions…
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