MINELRES: Bigotry Monitor: Volume 4, Number 15 (summary)

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Volume 4, Number 15
Friday, April 23, 2004

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and
Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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GLOBAL ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS UP; RUSSIA RANKS THIRD. A worldwide total
of 360 serious antisemitic incidents in 2003, up from 311 in 2002 - a 15
percent increase -- was recorded by the Stephen Roth Institute of
Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism. 

SKINHEAD MOB ATTACKS DORM. About 60 skinheads attacked a dormitory
housing mostly Chinese and Korean students on April 16, shortly before
the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth, April 20, a time of increased
racist and antisemitic violence in Russia for the past several years.

BOMB EXPLODES NEAR VIETNAMESE DORMITORY. During the night of April 18, a
bomb exploded near a Moscow dormitory that houses mostly Vietnamese
workers and students, injuring 19 and shattering more than 200 windows,
according to a report posted on the web site Newsru.com. 

SKINHEADS SET ARMENIAN BOY ON FIRE. On April 20, a group of skinheads
set an Armenian boy, 11, on fire, according to an April 21 report posted
on the Regions.ru web site. 

JEWISH CEMETERY VANDALIZED. On the night of April 15, vandals damaged 14
tombstones in Pyatigorsk's Jewish cemetery, according to UCSJ's Moscow
Bureau, citing local rabbi Shertil Shalumov.  

ARRESTS IN KALUGA DESECRATION. Kaluga police have arrested six youths in
connection with the destruction of tombstones in the city's Jewish
cemetery, according to an April 15 item by the Itar-Tass news agency.
 
ANTISEMITIC GRAFFITI IN TAGANROG. On April 21, antisemitic graffiti was
painted on the walls of a building housing the Jewish community center
in Taganrog, Rostov region, according to a report by Agency for Jewish
News (AEN). 
 
CENTRAL ASIAN DICTATORSHIPS BREED MILITANCY. "Militant Islamist groups
from Central Asia took heavy losses while fighting alongside the
Taliban, but the remnants of those mini-armies have proved remarkably
resilient in recent months and now appear to be regrouping with new
recruits, new strategies and old money," Mark McDonald reported for the
Knight Ridder Newspapers last week from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 

HAGUE COURT RULES: GENOCIDE HAPPENED IN BOSNIA. In what "The New York
Times" called a landmark decision, the five appeals judges of the United
Nations war crimes tribunal ruled on April 19 that the massacre of more
than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995
"should be called by its proper name: genocide." 

FRANCE EXPELS RADICAL IMAM. In yet another tough move against Muslim
radicalism, France expelled an imam to his native Algeria on April 21
after he defended the stoning and beating of adulterous wives as
punishment allowed by the Koran, Reuters reported. 

MOSQUE VANDALIZED IN FRANCE. In the town of Haguenau, just north of
Strasbourg, France, unidentified persons set a fire by the entrance to a
mosque and daubed two swastikas and a cross on its walls, police said on
April 16 according to Reuters. Last month, separate attacks badly
damaged a mosque and a Muslim prayer center in the southeastern town of
Annecy. 

* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, THE CRUCIBLE OF XENOPHOBIA * * * "Russia, the
country that helped defeat fascism and Hitler, is becoming a crucible of
anti-foreigner hate," wrote the "Sunday Herald" of Scotland on April 18.
"It is fed by crushing poverty, a lingering sense of humiliation
following the collapse of the Soviet Union and by Russia's bloody
conflict in Chechnya."


RUSSIA WINS TWO ROUNDS IN THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Chechnya Draft Rejected and Waffen-SS Condemned at Geneva Meeting


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