Recent Romnews postings
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 16:06:24 -0800
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Subject: Recent Romnews postings
From: MINELRES moderator <[email protected]>
Recent Romnews postings
Headlines of the recent postings from the Romnews Network
(distributed by the Roma National Congress):
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Hungary mayors end see-saw over homeless Roma
Budapest / HUNGARY ( RNN Correspondent ), February the 9th 1998
After an uproar that spotlighted accusations of ethnic prejudice, the
Hungarian town of Szekesfehervar promised on Thursday to drop its
attempt to settle homeless Roma in nearby villages. The argument
has been on the front pages of Hungarian newspapers every day for
weeks, with Szekesfehervar, an industrial boomtown of about
100,000 people 50 km (30 miles) south of Budapest battling its
small rural neighbours over where the Roma would live...
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Roma join Jews in demanding restitution
Amsterdam / HOLLAND ( RNN Correspondent ) February the 16th 1998
Dutch Roma have followed the Jewish community's lead in claiming for
possesions looted from their ancestors during the Second World War.
Altough without a shred of paper to their name, 15 families are claiming
for restitutions for stolen horses, gold, caravans jewels and musical
instruments...
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Widespread racist attitudes among Spanish pupils
Madrid / SPAIN ( RNN Correspondent ) February the 2nd 1998
Racist attitudes of young persons are widespread in Spain. Due to a
study that was published in Madrid on Monday, the prejudice and hate
are mainly directed at gypsies, North Africans, and Jews. Approximately
25 % of pupils between 13 and 19 years of age are for expelling the
gypsies and Maghrebines from Spain. The rate is 15 % concerning
Jews, says the report. About 10 % of the Spanish young people call
themselves racists. They would elect an extreme right wing party that
would plead for an expulsion of foreigners. Almost 50 % of the pupils
think that the foreigners take away the jobs from the Spaniards and
serve to spread drugs and criminality. More than 50 % of those asked
said that they would not marry a gypsy or a Maghrebian. For the
study to which the Ministry of Education and Work and the University
of Madrid had contributed, 6,000 pupils in 144 schools all over Spain
had been questioned...
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Roma in Germany can get back their original names
Bonn / GERMANY ( RNN Correspondent ) February the 11th 1998
Danes, Sorbians, Frisians, and Roma of German nationality can get
back their original names that they had to give up under the Nazi regime.
This has been set down in the German contract law within the
framework agreement of the Council of Europe for the protection of
minorities. The law will come into effect on coming Sunday. A speaker
of the Ministry of Justice explained in Bonn on Thursday that this law
concerns cases where people had been forced to change their names
during the time of the National Socialism...
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Exhibition about Nazi victims of Sinti and Roma
Warsaw / POLAND ( RNN Correspondent ) February the 10th 1998
A permanent exhibition about the genocide of the Nazis on Roma is
being planned in the former concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau
in 1998. A speaker confirmed on Tuesday that the management of the
memorial site and representatives of the Roma from Poland, Czechia,
and Germany have agreed upon plans that will be submitted at a
meeting in April. The museum will make a prisoners' hut available for
this purpose...
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Death of Romni in Czech Rep.
PRAGUE / Czech Rep. [RNC] Correspondent 16th February 1998
On Sunday February the 15th 1998, three Skinheads ( 23, 23 and 24
years of age) brutally attacked a Romni. They beat her up and then
they pushed her from a brigde into the Elbe River. It was the third official
attack on Roma in the Czech Republic in four weeks. An editor from the
radio station "Eesky rozhlas" was present during the attack; he quickly
jumped into the water but could do nothing to save her. Then he called
the fire brigade, which spend to days searching the river for the woman;
the search was called off after her husband pulled her body from the
water on February the 17th. Neither the gouverment or media sources
have yet released her name. Police spokesmant Karel Matula said
the 26-year-old woman apparently was attacked shortly before midnight
Sunday on a brigde in the east Bohemian town of Vrchlabi, 75 miles
northeast of Prague. The police are treating the attack as a brawl and
not as a racism murder...
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