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-- Despite a report confirming the continued use of coercive sterilization on Roma (Gypsy) women, women's advocates charge that the Czech government has failed to take action to stop these atrocities. --
Forced Sterilization of Roma Women Continues
Seeded on Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:50 PM EDT
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I did not know there were still Gypsys in Europe. Thanks for that story Irma
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#1 - Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:29 PM EDTThere certainly are.
Perhaps you remember the story of the guy murdered for his MP3-player in Brussels? First it was wrongly assumed the perpetrators were from Maghreb descent, and they showed on television how especially the Moroccan community showed concern and were all too eager to condemn the act.
Then they found out the perpetrators were from Poland, and Poles living in Belgium were interviewed. And then the Polish people were relieved for some reason or another they were Poles of Roma descent.
Personally I thought it silly for entire communities to feel responsible for such a tragedy in the first place.
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Irma - important seed. The continuing victimization of the Roma in Europe illustrates a failure of required post-holocaust actions needed to avoid "history ignored yields history repeated" and that are best summarized by the acronym CAAAA (C4A): Cessation of violence, Acknowledgement of the crimes, Apology, Amends and Assertion of non-repetition. Germany has done C4A in relation to the Jewish Holocaust but the wrong done to the Roma has not been comparably acknowledged - with the consequence that the Roma are badly treated from Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary through to the UK.
Some months ago I went to a lot of trouble to inform the Hungarian and other Eastern European governments and media of extremely worrisome post-1960 avoidable mortality (excess mortality) in Hungary (about 35,000 people per year) and some other formerly Nazi-linked Eastern European countries (see: http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/ ). Several Hungarian Government politicians acknowledged the reality of what I was saying (elevated Hungarian excess mortality is clearly reported in the medical epidemiological literature) but explained it variously as due to (a) over-work by middle aged men or (b) due to social conditions of the substantial Roma minority - i.e. an acknowledgement of deadly discrimination.
The extraordinary silence in response to my sensible and documented intelligence is consistent with a significant Roma involvement in this ongoing catastrophe (surely media and governments would respond urgently if their "own" people were dying at excessive rates?)
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