tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114439372024-03-23T18:28:27.483+00:00O NEVO DROMRomani News, Views, Reviews, by Rom for RomUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger574125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-86132952686379392842012-12-02T17:59:00.000+00:002012-12-02T17:59:49.653+00:00Jobbik – First they came for the Gypsy and now they also are coming for the Jew<span style="font-size: large;"><i>by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</i><br /><br />Jobbik, the more-or-less legal Nazi militia and party in Hungary, an EU member state, is now aiming, after having the Romani People made their first target, also for the Jewish population of the country (and elsewhere).<br /><br />In the beginning, it would appear, the Jews took very little notice of the antics of the Jobbik group, seeing that their target were the Gypsy People and not the Jewish community. They should have known better.<br /><br />The adage of “first they did come for... and I did not speak out”, etc. should have been a well-known factor and it was obvious that those people, whose aim is to create a Hungary for Hungarians and other ethnicities have no place in that scheme.<br /><br />The interesting, almost laughable, part is that Hungarians are, in the main, a mixed groups of people anyway considering the fact that once they were part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire and thus most Hungarians not pure Magyars. <br /><br />The same, in fact, is also true for the Romani People and anyone claiming to be pure Romani better checks once again. However, that is not the issue here.<br /><br />It will be obvious that Jobbik's targets will also include ethnic Romanians on the Hungarian territory sooner or later and they might also go as far as wishing to take the areas of Transylvania and such “back into the Hungarian realm, as that area has a large population of Hungarians and was once part of the empire. It would not surprise me.<br /><br />How it is possible for such racist fascist groupings to exist and operate in EU member states where, supposedly, beats me and the EU is not just failing the Romani People in its midst; it is failing all ethnic minorities. <br /><br />Romani settlements and villages have been attacked, in Hungary, by Jobbik and its thugs and with local and state police looking on and doing absolutely nothing except, in a couple of cases, arresting Gypsies who decided to defend themselves against the fascist thugs. <br /><br />It would appear that, when it comes to the Romani, the Gypsy, then the EU laws and conventions are not worth the paper that they are written upon and fascist thugs like Jobbik et al, and not just in Hungary, can do as they like.<br /><br />There could be another explanation to this inaction by the authorities, whether in Budapest or in Brussels, and that is that those groups of fascist thugs are being used as a tool to enact etnic cleansing by proxy. <br /><br />I rest my case and suggest, though, that the Rom and the Jew get together in this matter in order to defeat this menace...<br /><br />© 2012</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-54402048830230462082012-06-09T19:37:00.003+00:002012-06-09T19:37:31.211+00:00Decade of Roma inclusion is but an illusion<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">ROMA DECADE 2005 – 2015 INCLUSION = ILLUSION</span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</i><br /><br />Much has been made of the Decade of Roma Inclusion, a decade that was ONLY for Roma (Sinti and others need not apply, which was discriminatory to start with) and ONLY for Roma living in Eastern Europe. <br /><br />New well over half way though this decade all we can see is money wasted without anything to show for. So, where did the money go? It went into the pockets of Roma leaders and some Gypsyologists with which the authorities only were prepared to deal and virtually nothing, in any way, shape or form, ever reached the grassroots.<br /><br />Instead of improvements to the conditions of the Roma in Eastern Europe, be that living conditions or their reputation in the eyes of the majority, things have gotten worse (as if they actually could but they did) and literal genocide on Gypsies all over especially Eastern Europe and discrimination continues unabated.<br /><br />As far as Romani integration and inclusion the truth is that is has remained an illusion despite the millions of Euro that have been thrown at this project.<br /><br />Much of that money has been wasted on one study after the other, one report after yet another and the bulk of the remainder was handed over, without any proper records and accountability, to Buli Bashas and other big wigs in Gypsy society, who appear to have only improved their own lot with that money.<br /><br />It has to be said that to some extent – and I know that many will not want to hear this – a great many of Rom throughout Europe have only themselves to blame as to how they are perceived by the mainstream.<br /><br />While it is true that Anti-Gypsyism exists in cannot be eliminated by order from governments and by screaming and shouting from the side of the Romani People.<br /><br />Our own attitude, at least that of what would appear to be the majority of Sinti and Roma, towards non-Romani society and the open disdain we too often show towards mainstream laws and the Gadje per se is what is to blame.<br /><br />A German proverb says: “Wie man in den Wald hineinruft to schallt es heraus” which, in the English, says “We reap what we sow” and this is very true indeed. We indeed reap what we sow here for if we treat the Gadje with disdain how are they to have any respect for us?<br /><br />Both side are to blame, that is true, and there is no doubt about that, as we have nigh on always put each others' backs up with our attitudes towards one another but when I hear the disdain with which Sinti and Roma alike treat Gadje then Anti-Gypsyism will continue, regardless of laws against it or whatever. <br /><br />It maybe that we will have to make the first moves here instead of standing there and demanding that the Gadje give us respect (or else) and that they make the first move. <br /><br />If we want to be treated with respect and “demand respect”, as a Rom proverb was translated by someone once, aside from the fact that one cannot demand respect; it has to be earned, then we (too) much change.<br /><br />Integration is a two-way street too. Even if it is offered there are far too many Rom who refuse to do it by way of taking up paid employment if there is no other way to make a living. No, they then rather take money from the government in the way of unemployment benefit and welfare payments.<br /><br />I know, as I said, that this is not what many are wishing to hear but the truth is and remains the truth.<br /><br />Dosta penauas!<br /><br />© 2012</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-10008795341000391622012-06-09T19:27:00.001+00:002012-06-09T19:27:28.781+00:00German Sinti (Gypsies) and the Ostrich Syndrome<div align="justify">
<span style="font-size: large;">by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When, in summer of 2011 I wrote <a href="http://onevodrom.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/is-eu-about-to-ship-all-gypsies-in.html" target="_blank">this article</a> the response on Facebook and elsewhere was one of commendation for having pointed out the inherent dangers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, in response to the German translation of this article of last
year, posted recently by a third person who requested this translation
from me on German Gypsy forums, the attacks from German Sinti were that
they would need to have hard evidence and proof (other than Russian
media a wire service) before they are going to believe that this might
be in the offing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In addition to that there
were serious attacks on my person, integrity and my intentions and it
was a definite case of shooting the messenger because the message is not
one that one wants to hear.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once hard evidence
and proof arrives, as to the aims of the EU appertaining to Europe's
Gypsies as hinted to in my article it is, I am afraid to say, too late.
The trains will then already be rolling east.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How
harsh this may sound and indeed be, it is a fact. When the first
resettlement transports are on the move traveling to their destination
in the steppes of Russia and we have the hard evidence and proof it is
too late to warn and even to do much against it. The preparations have
to be made now to combat this when it starts and even before it does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As
the Good Book says, however, “there are none that blind than those who
do not want to see and none that deaf than those that do not want to
hear”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Warning is all one can do, acting is what
they have to do. We who have warned cannot be blamed that we have said naught as long as we keep warning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One can, as it is said, a horse to water but drinking one can make it not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">© 2012</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-86295889744661442112012-05-08T19:09:00.003+00:002012-05-08T19:14:36.020+00:00The brown menace is on the rise again<div align="justify" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Fascism is once again rearing its ugly head in Europe</b><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Fascism
is once again rearing its ugly head in Europe and not one of the
mainstream political parties appears to be prepared and willing to do
anything about and against it.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Is it not high
time to outlaw groupings and parties such as the NPD and BVU in Germany,
the BNP and others in the UK, the Fronte National in France, and others
of their ilk elsewhere in Europe? I think so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Presently
those fascists parties and their thugs rant and rave against foreigners
and against Gypsies, regardless as to whether those are Romani from
their own country or from abroad, and therefore none of the mainstream
parties in those countries and in the EU seem to wish to do anything
about them. Gypsies and foreigners have always been a convenient
scapegoat in a crisis and are again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We see a
repeat of the 1930s when people did not speak and did not care that they
came for the communists and socialists, the Gypsies, the so-called
Asocials and then the Jews. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Martin Niemoeller
was right that if we do not speak out when they come for the others
there will be no one left to speak out when they finally come for the
rest who wish to live free and think free. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">While
anti-fascists are persecuted, once again, when they demonstrate against
marches and other activities by the brown menace, under whichever name,
the fascists are allowed to continue to operate and, as we have seen in
Germany only in 2011, the police and the security services actively
work hand-in-glove with Neonazis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">After the
“fall” of the Wall the German authorities banned and outlawed the Freie
Deutsche Jugend (FDJ) (Free German Youth) and the wearing even of blue
shirts remotely resembling the FDJ ones whether with or without the FDJ
badge and also the Young Pioneers the Nazis were and are allowed to
continue and even, instead of being banned and prescribed, allowed to
form more and more organizations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The brown
menace is permitted to freely walk abroad and continue with its terror
against foreigners, Gypsies, and all those that dare to stand against
them, while communists and anti-fascists are being controlled and often
prescribed, have their protest marches and demonstrations banned.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Although
he meant it differently Heinrich Heine's sigh of “Dent ich an
Deutschland in der Nacht so bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht” (If I think
of Germany at night I am robbed of my sleep) it is rather fitting here
and makes sense though.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But it is not just
Germany where the brown menace is rising. It seems to be the case almost
everywhere in the European Union and also outside of it in Europe and
even Russia.</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In Greece the brown menace has
become active also now with the crisis of the Euro and of government in
that country and their “militias” are roaming the streets challenging
anyone that appears a foreigner to show them his or her ID card and if
not Greek and especially if an immigrant they beat the people up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We
don't even want to talk about Hungary where uniformed fascist groups
are attacking Gypsy settlements and murdering people, nor about Italy
where recently soccer fans in a stadium called for a pogrom against
Romani people, nor about the attacks against Sinti and Roma people in
the Czech Republic and Slovakia, to name but a few countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Even
in Switzerland right-wing groups, and some not even that openly
fascist, are calling for the expulsion of all Gypsies and foreigners. </span></div>
<div align="justify" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">While,
with the exception of Switzerland and Russia all those countries where
we are seeing the problems rising are countries of the EU neither their
respective governments nor the EU bodies are doing anything, especially
not as far as the Gypsy People are concerned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No
surprise there really considering that, to all intents and purposes, EU
representatives are contemplating the wholesale removal of all Gypsies
on EU soil, by means to deportation to resettlement, to the steppes of
Russia. Discussions with the Russian authorities have, apparently, taken
place already also and it would appear that they are working with the
EU on this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sounds familiar, does it? It is! We have been here before some 70 years ago and once again the voices are silent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">© 2012</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-20676877240354616542012-03-21T08:16:00.001+00:002012-03-21T08:17:20.881+00:00Lady Gaga gone gaga...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Lady Gaga - yes, she with the outrageous outfits - says she feels "Gypsy at heart". Another one who wants to join the club which is not a club. <br /> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Dear Lady Gaga, you cannot join us unless you were born one of us...</b> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I just wonder what all those wannabes would do if they encountered the real racism and anti-Gypsyism that we are faced with daily, especially those of us in places such as Hungary, Romania, etc. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.eurasiareview.com/%E2%80%8B20032012-hindus-ask-gaga-to-sup%E2%80%8Bport-gypsy-apartheid-issue-as-%E2%80%8Bshe-feels-gypsy-at-heart/">http://www.eurasiareview.com/20032012-hindus-ask-gaga-to-support-gypsy-apartheid-issue-as-she-feels-gypsy-at-heart/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.indiablooms.com/%E2%80%8BBollywoodDetailsPage/2012/%E2%80%8BbollywoodDetails200312d.php">http://www.indiablooms.com/BollywoodDetailsPage/2012/bollywoodDetails200312d.php</a><br /><br /><a href="http://%e2%80%8bwww.entertainmentwise.com/news/%E2%80%8B71905/%E2%80%8BLady-Gaga-Big-Fat-Gypsy-Popstar">http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/71905/Lady-Gaga-Big-Fat-Gypsy-Popstar</a><br /> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">As far as the Hindus (first link) are concerned could they please stop trying to "help" us. It is just someone having his own political agenda to make him look good. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-42434494637039746782012-01-13T19:05:00.002+00:002012-01-13T19:05:18.659+00:00Nazi terrorists murder Romani-Gypsy woman in Czech Republic<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Is
it all starting again?
</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>by
Michael Smith (Veshengro)</i></span></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Prague,
Czech Republic January 2012 : A Romani-Gypsy woman was killed by two
racist terrorists in the capital of Czech Republic, Prague on January
10, 2012.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">According
to statements by people in the know those people belong to a racist
Nazi terror organization and they have attacked homeless people and
those of the Gypsy community before.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">While
this is, as said, not the first racist Nazi attacks on the Romani
community in the former Czechoslovakia, and this recent attack is
causing heightened tension in the two countries that once made up the
CSSR. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Authorities
seems to wish to play down the recent attacks against Romanies in the
former CSSR, in both the Czech lands as well as in Slovakia. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">As
a Gypsy myself, who has relations that never came back from the Nazi
camps and others who were broken in body and spirit there and through
Nazi terror in general, I am very much concerned as to the happening
all over the European Union, from France, over the Czech Republic and
Slovakia and Hungary and even Germany. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Hungary's
police has now been instructed by the ministries to keep conduct
permanent surveillance on all members of the Romani minority in that
country and it would appear that Nazi groups such as Yovik and others
are given a free hand to harass Hungarian Gypsies wherever they are. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Are
we seeing a return to the days of the 1930s and 1940s? It would
appear to be so and, and I hate to say I told you so, I have been
seeing the writing on the wall for some time to come as far as the
European Union is concerned.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">What
we have to be concerned about, as a People, and here I am talking
about the Romani People, and also those that do not wish to see a
repeat of what has happened in the Nazi era and already before in
places such as Germany and Poland. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">If
one would be a conspiracy theorist one could come to believe that the
EU is operating a policy of ethnic cleansing by proxy. Is it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">©
2012</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-64098839146893522042012-01-08T17:04:00.003+00:002012-01-08T17:05:31.988+00:00Czech Republic: Media say another inter-ethnic incident occurred in Varnsdorf on New Year's Eve<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">This is not helpful at all</span></b></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">TV Nova reports that police in the
Czech Republic are searching for a group of young Romani people who
allegedly assaulted three non-Romani people in the town of Varnsdorf on
New Year's Eve, shouting racist slurs at them during the attack. Police
are saying the attack was not racially motivated. Two of the victims
were hospitalized.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">A series of anti-Roma
demonstrations took place in Varnsdorf several months ago as a result of
similar media reports interpreting incidents of assault in the area as
ethnically motivated. According to the latest information, a brawl in
the nearby town of Rumburk last summer now seems to have been motivated
by other concerns. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If our People continue behaving in that way - and yes, I do know there is racism leveled against ours all the time - it is not helping the cause at all and that is what counts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Veshengro</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-39946218684471050312011-10-18T18:20:00.003+00:002011-10-18T18:20:41.589+00:00Do politicians intentionally keep Roma in ghettos to absorb EU funds?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">“</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB">I
am sick and tired of politicians who intentionally keep Roma in
ghettos to absorb EU funds, use money for other purposes, and
eventually blame failed integration on Roma's alleged laziness and
criminal behavior ...” said </span>Mihail Georgiev, Chair of
Board of Directors, organization "Romani Baht" (Sofia,
Bulgaria), recently. A</span><span style="font-size: large;">nd he is
not the only one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now,
the question then must be as asked above: Do politicians
intentionally keep the Romani People in ghettos to absorb EU funds?
And the answer, I must say, seems to be self-explanatory and it just
seems to be thus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However,
not only the politicians of the various countries have found the
Gypsy People, the Romani, in the ghettos a nice little earner; the
community leaders have too. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There
is a veritable Gypsy Industry out there and everyone who is someone
is feeding at the trough, while the poor Rom in the ghettos have to
eek out a living on the rubbish tips. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One
only has to look at the villas of the self-proclaimed voivodes, kings
and emperors, to see where the money is in Romaniland and then ask as
to how they came by that money. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
money that is meant to help the poor Rom, whether in towns or
villages, in the former Iron Curtain countries – for Romani groups
from the West need not apply – never reaches those in need but
drains away in the endless sands of the politician and leader desert.
The EU has had to admit more than once when parliamentarians asked
questions that they knew how much money had gone to Roma projects but
had no idea as to what actually had been done with the money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
other part of the Gypsy Industry are those that make money one the
back of the poor Rom in different ways, while equally keeping them in
ignorance. Language course, and other such things, are a nice little
earner, as is the “standardized Romanes”, no doubt, but what does
it benefit the choro Rom, the poor Gypsy? Kek! Nothing. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
poor Rom does not need standardized Romanes which is claimed to be
needed for all Gypsies to communicate with one another because he has
no time to learn it. The only ones who need this – by now – made
up – language are the academics who get the research funding and
the money for the books and courses. </span>
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is politicians, leaders of the community, as much as Gypsyologists,
whether Gadje or Rom, that like to keep the Rom just where they are,
namely in the ghettos and poor.</span></div>
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2011</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-75762439476772955642011-10-14T20:02:00.002+00:002011-10-15T06:16:21.622+00:00A little personal and editorial note<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Sometime on October 14, 2011 in the
morning local British time someone or some entity tried to and managed
to successfully
attack and access my Blogger account and to disable and in fact close
completely -
though but temporarily - the O NEVO DROM
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<span style="font-size: large;">The system, that is Blogger, detecting an intrusion, then disabled the entire
account with all my Blogs. I managed to get the account reinstated,
including O NEVO DROM. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It
would appear that somewhere along the line someone or some entity
does not appear to be happy with what I am writing and especially it
would appear as far as the Romani-Gypsy cause is concerned. The
question is but who and why...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-6653108592841900182011-09-27T18:39:00.000+00:002011-09-27T18:39:16.845+00:00Don't be just bricks and mortar blinkered, says Minister<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Housing Minister to give more powers for communities to
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<span style="font-size: large;">Housing Minister Grant Shapps urged local authorities on
August 27, 2011 not to become landlocked in their quest to meet local housing
needs – but to consider how new powers restoring local control over housing
provision and planning can enable people to choose boats on water alongside
bricks and mortar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Shapps said that more people than ever are choosing to make
a boat their home and that boats with residential moorings could be an example
of how unconventional housing can allow people to live in areas of the country
where perhaps they couldn't afford to do so otherwise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And as new moorings could be eligible for the New Homes Bonus,
the Minister said that there was a strong incentive for councils and communities
to grant planning permission for more residential moorings. The money that they
receive could be invested in new marina facilities or waterside recreational
activities that everyone could benefit from, as well as being used to attract
further private investment and drive the regeneration of the often-Brownfield
land around parts of the country's waterways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Half the population live within five miles one of Britain's
waterways and so not just those living on the water could benefit from the fresh
injection of funding; water based recreation and tourism is thought to generate
over £1billion for local economies, and supports 24,000 jobs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read more <a href="http://greenreview.blogspot.com/2011/09/don-be-just-bricks-and-mortar-blinkered.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-68973424751129394592011-07-31T16:45:00.000+00:002011-07-31T16:45:19.998+00:00Gypsies targeted in west German arson attack<i>By Michael Smith (Veshengro)</i><br /><br />An apartment block housing Sinti and Roma families was the target of an apparent racial arson attack in the west German city of Leverkusen in the last week of July 2011 and prosecutors have, in fact, put a 5,000 Euro bounty on any information leading to apprehension and conviction of perpetrator(s).<br /><br />Unknown assailants threw several Molotov cocktails into the ground floor apartment of the building, where a well-known Gypsy family of Leverkusen had their home. Luckily the occupants managed to escape unharmed.<br /><br />Witnesses have spoken of four perpetrators who drove off in a car and minibus.<br /><br />Police do 'not rule out a radical right-wing background' in the fire-bombing of the four-storey building.<br /><br />The apartment was totally gutted by the flames, however fire-fighters were able to prevent it from spreading to the rest of the apartments.<br /><br />Germany has time and again witnessed brutal racist and xenophobic attacks in recent years as the center-right government of Chancellor Angela Merkel has<br />tried to downplay the problem.<br /><br />Most of the racial assaults are committed by mostly young-Neo-Nazis who live in what used to be formerly communist East Germany.<br /><br />The German government has been under fire for not really cracking down on far-right violence which is targeting mostly foreigners and leftist activists.<br /><br />Young neo-Nazis feel more and more emboldened to commit hate crimes, knowing that police won't charge them with an offense.<br /><br />Most of the suspects implicated in far-right crimes are juveniles.<br /><br />Hate crime experts and sociologists have repeatedly stressed that Germany's political leadership lacked a clear and effective strategy to really combat neo-Nazi crimes.<br /><br />It has to be said that this is nothing new and has been going on for years and years though in recent years attacks seem to have gotten more severe. One can but wonder as to whether the Neo-Nazi groups are being emboldened by what is happening in Hungary in the way that the Jobik and other groups get away with attacking Gypsies.<br /><br />I must say that I have been – unfortunately – predicting firebomb attacks to be headed the way of our People and have, more than once, suggested that people took precautions, including of anti-firebomb curtains and such like. <br /><br />Other, more active defensive actions, obviously, are not something that we, the Gypsy community, would ever be allowed to consider, unlike the Jewish community who can have their own guards, armed ones even, protecting homes, businesses, schools, synagogues, and such like. <br /><br />One rule for the Gypsy and one rule for others, as per usual...<br /><br />© 2011Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-51783715505839339202011-06-25T19:54:00.000+00:002011-06-25T19:54:13.755+00:00Gypsies to be pressed into forced slave labor gangs<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gypsies (and those receiving welfare) are to be pressed into forced labor gangs, supervised by police and militias</b></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>By Michael Smith (Veshengro)</i></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hungary, June 2011: According to information on the wires Gypsies are to be pressed into forced labor gangs in Hungary in the very near future. Those gangs will be supervised by police and militias and are “to ensure that Gypsies (and welfare recipients) do some work for their money.” </span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is not very far removed from the way that the Nazis talked in the 1930s when Gypsies were rounded up and sent to labor camps.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the next three years, the government of Hungary says, it will create employment for 100,000 Romani Gypsies in the country, the majority of which are welfare recipients, at least those that live in the countryside. They are to work in “charitable” and “community-based” projects in return for the payments that they receive. </span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The payment of any further welfare monies will be made dependent on people working in jobs in infrastructure-important building projects, as well as in agriculture and forestry. </span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apparently those workers, who will be to 95% be Gypsy, who will be forced to partake in this so-called “charitable” labor program, will also be lent out to business against a fee, which the government will collect. It would appear that Gypsy slavery is back and by government decree.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hungary claims, at the close of its EU presidency, that the program of integration of Romani People in Hungary has gone well during this period. How and where I would like to ask for all that happened was that the Orban government allowed the likes of Jobbik and others to intimidate Romani Gypsies in their villages with the police standing idly by. If that is Romani integration then I do not want to see anywhere where that is not being done. </span> </div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;">It is quite difficult to believe that the government of Hungary could introduce something that so closely resembles forced labor camps or forced labor battalions of Jews and other undesirables in World War II. </span> </div><div align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;">However, at a press conference it was announced that “we don’t want to keep the workers under surveillance. …We are talking about instruction, direction, organization. Placing 300,000 people into work projects is a complicated affair that needs exactly the skills policemen have.” So, this is all true. </span> </div><div align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Police officers, obviously, according to Hungarian government understanding, well placed to instruct and direct those workers in the tasks that they are going to be assigned to. I find that hard to believe that they are capable of anything by way of instruction and direction but are indeed well placed to keep the workers “in line”, making sure that they do not run away.</span></div><div align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;">What, we must ask, will happen if anyone does run? Will he (or she) be shot? It certainly would not surprise me if that would going to be the case. </span> </div><div align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Remember, everyone, that Hungary, the country who is intending such actions is, in fact, a European Union member state and it would appear that the EU will do nothing at all here. Thus I am starting very much to believe that the rumors we keep hearing as to talks between EU and Russia as to relocating (all) Gypsies in Central Europe to the Russian steppes are true.</span></div><div align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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Speculation has been circulating for some time that tourism in Slovakia could be developed around organizing visits to Romani settlements.<br />
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Now Petr Duda, Mayor of Veµká Lomnice, a village in the Tatra mountains, is planning to turn local Romani settlements into a kind of tourist destination and attraction and his doing his best to push the plan through in the nearby settlement of Nový Dvùr, where 1,600 people are eking out a living in abject poverty in total substandard conditions, without clean water or sewerage.<br />
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“This would be an organized tour of the Romani settlements here in Veµká Lomnice,” Duda explained to the Czech Radio news server Rozhlas.cz. “The reason is to get people to realize what kinds of conditions Romani people live in here. On the other hand, it could motivate the Romani people to improve their living conditions on their own.”<br />
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In other words, they are doing this in order to shame the Romani residents in those areas who also may not have the means to improve their living conditions. Therefore, instead of helping them to help themselves the Romani People in those areas are now being turned into a circus attraction by idiotic politicians. <br />
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I guess that the mayor is trying to find a way of making money from the misery of the Romani residents in the area and the problem is that there will be enough idiotic tourists, especially from abroad, that would want to visit such Third World conditions in an EU member state in the same way that they would travel to places in the Third World for the very same reason. <br />
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The most important question that we must ask, I am sure, is what eh European Union and the European Commission are doing about this idea? Are they going to make any attempt to put a stop to such exploitation of the conditions of an entire people? <br />
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© 2011</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-83720572533970936722011-06-19T18:41:00.000+00:002011-06-19T18:41:18.518+00:00Is the EU about to ship all Gypsies in member states to Russia?<div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>By Michael Smith (Veshengro)</em> </span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;">According to reports that were being circulated in Spring 2011 by Russian news agencies the European Union is in discussion with the government of the Russian state to do just that.</span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;">According to Tolkovatel.ru, the possibility of an agreement by which Europe’s Roma will be dispatched to the Russian Federation and possibly Ukraine was going to be the subject of upcoming discussions between the EU and the Russian Federation, a step France and several East European countries support but the Germany reportedly opposes.</span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;">The first public mention of this, Tolkovatel.ru said, was a “Komsomolskaya Pravda” radio program on April 12 when Roman Grokholsky, a leader of the Roma community in the Russian Federation, said that in his view, “Russia for economic reasons could accept [Europe’s Roma]. It is an enormous land”</span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;">Apparently European governments have concluded that is “neither technically nor economically” feasible “to deport all the Roma to Romania or Bulgaria as was done in the past: the sizes of these countries do not allow that and local nationalists are protesting ever more loudly against” that idea.</span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;">So, it would appear if the Russian reports can be believed that “behind the scenes” discussions are taking place between the EU and the Russian Federation to relocate all European Roma (for that read Gypsies, in my book, probably including all Sinti and Kale as well) to Russia.</span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;">This smacks of the creation of a new Pale, as once existed for the Jews of Eastern Europe, in the steppes of Russian, the Ukraine and Poland and also of the once Gypsy enclave of Transnistria, the place where the SS had a field day rounding them all up, as well as in Bessarabia.</span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;">When I said years ago that I could see the writing on the wall as to the true aims of the EU's Gypsy policy I was being told that I was paranoid and that the EU and its aims were good for us, the Romani People. I am now beginning to think that I am about to be vindicated if the stories coming from Russian sources are to be believed.</span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;">When we have “leaders” such as Roman Grokholsky then we certainly do not need any enemies, that is for sure. How much money is he being paid to play right into the hands of the authorities with his statements?</span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;">Let us all be watchful and ready to fight this.</span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;">© 2011</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-79908287565635531962011-03-20T19:41:00.000+00:002011-03-20T19:42:45.506+00:00Neo-Nazis take on police powers in Hungary<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Romani settlement and inhabitants being threatened</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</span><br /><br />While Gyöngyöspata in Hungary may only be a village and a relatively small village at that the truth remains that Neo-Nazis have usurped police powers and are terrorizing the local Roma (Gypsy) population because, so the organizers of this “militia”, the Gypsies terrorize all Hungary and Hungarians.<br /><br />Local white Hungarians offer the militia personnel of the Jobbik organization free board and lodging and the authorities, what do they do? They let it all happen and do nothing. Is this the new “Roma policy” of the Hungarian government? It would appear to be just that. Worrying in the extreme for anyone who, like me, is of the ethnic groups of the Romani, the Gypsy. It should also be of concern of everyone who does not want to see a repetition of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe.<br /><br />For weeks already black uniformed skinheads of the “Militia Beautiful Future” who call themselves “Gendarmerie” patrol the street of the area and threaten everyone who is not prepared to follow their rules.<br /><br />They have told the local Roma population in no uncertain terms that they'd better pack up and leave Hungary if they wish to live.<br /><br />Hungary is an EU member state and still this is going on and this, and call me a conspiracy theorist if you wish, seems to me that the policy of the European Union is one that wishes to get rid of the Gypsy and permits ethnic cleansing by proxy.<br /><br />© 2011</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-30158766338545670792011-02-20T13:53:00.001+00:002011-02-20T13:54:36.492+00:00Italy wants to expel Gypsies without housing and income<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><i>by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</i></span> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">ROME: Italy wants to expel Gypsies who are citizens of other EU states who live solely off state benefits, the interior minister said recently, a move that would extend a crackdown on the Gypsy People criticised by rights groups as discriminatory.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">France has sent masses of Roma on flights home to Romania in a mass repatriation that it says is voluntary, though some said they were coerced to leave. In fact, it is about as voluntary as were the round ups and deportations of the Nazi era.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">Applauding France's move, Maroni, from the anti-immigrant Northern League party, said mandatory deportation of Roma who do not meet basic requirements should now be allowed.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">The policy would apply to all non-Italian EU citizens who fail to meet certain criteria, not just Roma, said Maroni when asked if such a plan would be discriminatory.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">"If anything, the problem is something else: unlike in France, many Roma and Sinti here have Italian citizenship. They have the right to remain here. Nothing can be done," said Maroni.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">Maroni's comments were immediately denounced by the political opposition, including the Italy of Values party which said the plan smacked of racism.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">What we can see is how the government of Italy thinks as regards to the Sinti and Roma in the country. If they could but find a way they would also consider throwing those Gypsies with Italian citizenship out of the country. </span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">I am sure they will find a way soon; removing the citizenships off them is something that they, I am sure, are thinking about already. </span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">At the same time Jobbik in Hungary is calling for all Gypsies in Hungary to be put into internment camps and if Jobbik can get the general public of Hungary behind it then the government of the country might just think of this too, I would not be surprised.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">And while the European Commission may have spoken out rather strongly, finally, against the actions of the government of France with regards to their removal of Gypsies from their country. But, it would appear, France is going to take absolutely no notice of what they are told. Now let us see as to whether the Commission is prepared to go all the way and drag France before the court. I am not holding my breath.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">All I am seeing is that the EU is permitting an ethnic cleansing by proxy...</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"> <span style="font-size:130%;">© 2011</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-81315099245938533362011-02-20T13:48:00.001+00:002011-02-20T13:51:11.913+00:00Sonia Meyer, Gypsy Activist, to Speak on KOGA Radio<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" ><span lang="en-GB"><b>Sonia Meyer, famed Gypsy activist and scholar will be appearing on the Josh Mackey radio program on KOGA (</b></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000080;"><u><a href="http://www.930koga.com/"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>http://www.930koga.com</b></span></span></a></u></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" ><span lang="en-GB"><b>) in Ogallala, Nebraska on February 22 2011 at 1:30 PM Mountain Time to talk about the oppression of Gypsies across Europe and the impact her book, Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies, has had on her battle for recognition of the rights of Gypsies all over the world.</b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" >Littleton, MA (PRWEB) February 19, 2011: Sonia Meyer, famed Gypsy activist and scholar will be appearing on the Josh Mackey radio program on KOGA (<a href="http://www.930koga.com">http://www.930koga.com</a>) in Ogallala, Nebraska on February 22 2011 at 1:30 PM Mountain Time to talk about the oppression of Gypsies across Europe and the impact her book, Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies, has had on her battle for recognition of the rights of Gypsies all over the world.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" >Sonia Meyer (<a href="http://www.soniameyer.com">http://www.soniameyer.com</a>) is renowned Gypsy (Romani) activist. She fled the Nazis with her parents when she was two years old to live in the woods of Germany and Poland among partisans and Gypsies. They lived in the woods, in abandon houses, and inns, always dodging the German and later Soviet armies who hunted them relentlessly. Her father taught her to throw hand grenades using a wooden darning egg. Just after the war Sonia and her family returned to Cologne Germany where she foraged for food with a band of Gypsies camped nearby.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" >Sonia Meyer is the author of the novel, “Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies.” The novel spans the early life of a Gypsy girl, from a childhood spent with partisans in the Polish forests to her defection to the West during Khrushchev’s visit to Helsinki.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" >Clarion Review said, “…Dosha: Flight of the Russian Gypsies tells the three-part story of a talented gypsy equestrian woman who gets drafted into the Soviet dressage team in Leningrad. Even as she is promoted as a star and given elevated status, Dosha’s only desire is to defect. Well-integrated into the book’s gripping plot are historical facts and vivid descriptions of the Russian gypsies and their role fighting the Nazi invasion during Stalin’s reign, followed by their oppression during Khrushchev’s Thaw in 1956, which instigated the Hungarian Revolution. Khrushchev’s first state visit to Helsinki, Finland, on June 6, 1957, plays a crucial part in this enthralling story.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" ><span lang="en-GB">Edgy, entertaining, and filled with political stratagem, even a jaded fan of novels set during the Soviet era will not be disappointed. Indeed, Meyer’s knowledge and research shines on every page. At no point does she neglect her story to force sterile history on the reader, yet she manages to convey all essential information effortlessly. Her ability to capture the unique relationship between a sensitive rider and her dedicated horse is outstanding. This beautiful stallion is such an integral character in the book that his emotions can be felt during the hard training sessions and unexpected separations from Dosha.”</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" >Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" >ISBN: 978-0-9827115-1-4</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" >Available on Amazon as well as all fine book stores.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size: 13pt;font-size:130%;" >(<a href="http://www.wildernesshousepress.com">http://www.wildernesshousepress.com</a>)</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-23999874474881864912011-01-03T16:28:00.001+00:002011-01-03T16:29:45.682+00:00Nicolas Sarkozy to target Muslim prayers<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Is the man actually still sane? Don't answer that; it was a rhetorical question...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">French President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken another lurch to the Right with a speech on New Year's Eve calling Muslim prayers in the street "unacceptable".</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">After his expulsions of Roma-Gypsies, predominately from Romania and Bulgaria and also an attack on the resident Romani with the reintroduction of the “Carnet de Circulation” and a crackdown on immigrant crime, the French President warns that the overflow of Muslim faithful on to the streets at prayer time when mosques are packed to capacity risks undermining the French secular tradition separating state and religion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">He will doubtless be accused of pandering to the far Right: the issue of Muslim prayers in the street has been brought to the fore by Marine Le Pen, the charismatic new figurehead of the National Front, who compared it to the wartime occupation of France.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Her words provoked uproar on the Left, whose commentators took them as evidence that far from being the gentler face of the far Right, Ms Le Pen, 42, is no different from Jean-Marie, 82, her father, who has been accused of racism and Holocaust denial.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">According to his aide, Mr Sarkozy agrees with the junior Le Pen that the street cannot be allowed to become "an extension of the mosque" as it does in some parts of Paris, which are closed to traffic because of the overflow of the faithful. Local authorities have declined to intervene, despite public complaints, because they are afraid of sparking riots.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">It is such a shame to see France head into such a right wing direction not that the country, in the way it is run, is not, theoretically, a fascist country, in the true sense of the word and term.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Gypsies have had a bad time always, and not just during the Vichy era, but to this very day, including French Manush and others, in that they are required to carry a special passport that identifies them – point blank – as Gypsy, the Carnet de Circulation.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">While the use of this document was, supposedly, stopped in the 1980s it would appear from what we have learned from Rom in France that the use has been reinstated and that all must carry this and the requirements of registering with the police prefecture upon arrival, when on voyage, are still as strict as ever.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">It can just be hoped that France will not become a leading light in this and that the rest of Europe will follow as to the treatment of Gypsies and other “outsiders”. I do, however, fear that that is exactly the very way that we are headed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">© 2011</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-1040194489330356152011-01-03T09:27:00.001+00:002011-01-03T09:36:04.221+00:00The Government has adopted guidelines for the policy on Roma<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Government of Finland has, on December 9, 2010, adopted a “Resolution on guidelines to promote Finland's policy on Roma.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Resolution, so say speakers for the government, is a strong message from the Government of Finland that it considers the policy on Roma important and is committed to the implementation of the National Policy on Roma.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Government will initiate intensified measures to enhance the inclusion of the Roma population at local level and to investigate their housing conditions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Government also wants to improve the status of the Romani language and to increase the opportunities of the Roma children and adolescents for social participation and pursuing hobbies. Furthermore, an international strategy will be drawn up to influence policies on Roma.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">According to the Resolution the Government Ministries will implement the measures that are assigned to them in the National Policy on Roma within the framework of the appropriations available to them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The implementation of the measures will be monitored. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health will set up a monitoring group for the National Policy on Roma to evaluate the implementation of this cross-sectoral Policy. The first monitoring report will be submitted in 2013.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Resolution is based on Finland's first National Policy on Roma that was published in December 2009. The objective is to promote the inclusion and equality of the Roma in various spheres of life. The National Policy on Roma comprises a total of 10 policy guidelines and 147 measures, which several administrative sectors are responsible for implementing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The goal is that Finland will be a forerunner in promoting the equal treatment and inclusion of the Roma in Europe by 2017.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">And while this sounds all very good, what really stands out in contrast to this is the recent policy of – basically – rounding up foreign Roma on the streets of Helsinki as unwanted beggars. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Does the inclusion, which we can but hope to just mean integration and not, like in France, more or less forced assimilation, only apply to the Finish Kaale or also to Romani from other countries who wish to make Finland their home, whether on a permanent or only temporary basis? This is a question that must be borne in mind and asked here. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Source: Press release 389/2010 </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">© O NEVO DROM 2011</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-81568850211606943402010-12-13T18:24:00.003+00:002010-12-13T18:31:13.296+00:00Guilty until Proven Innocent<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibnDlgbP2LelpOl5vxOSEQi6ncsKt4pw9krB4TYRPj8_IGWziURhOO6oRo5eeltBvUz11UzoaZQLIdXvX9GJmjUYIGGiFohWCAx1KxZqCTWl_vLXTlFtNbSNgjmAvjzjT1UUvO/s1600/RomMedia.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 67px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibnDlgbP2LelpOl5vxOSEQi6ncsKt4pw9krB4TYRPj8_IGWziURhOO6oRo5eeltBvUz11UzoaZQLIdXvX9GJmjUYIGGiFohWCAx1KxZqCTWl_vLXTlFtNbSNgjmAvjzjT1UUvO/s320/RomMedia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550235749139540194" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em>Guilty until Proven Innocent</em> is the 35th part of the award-winning news documentary series <em>“Mundi Romani - the World through Roma Eyes”</em> and was shot in September 2010 in France. Since July 2010, the French government's policies on the expulsion of Eastern European Roma have fed an unprecedented media frenzy in Europe and beyond. Rarely had the world heard so much about the Roma. Rarely had so many prejudices and oversimplifications been mirrored in public speech about the state of affairs. Mundi Romani uncovers the roots of the issues at stake, brings to light damning evidence of institutionalized racism in Europe and presents one of the biggest media stories of 2010 as seen through the eyes of the Roma.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIX5ynBwztCZdXGQS338m-A7kMmghBvE3ZMl4GELHWHBDQCRCLxVnM-Fgoou4fKTqn2MdBeuKjUoUZNSoZJ-zpx1w7jMLaLEXJ8H89TY_eWtr9fw1s8_hLG8dMfO5H8u6kKm8k/s1600/InnocentProvenGuilty.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIX5ynBwztCZdXGQS338m-A7kMmghBvE3ZMl4GELHWHBDQCRCLxVnM-Fgoou4fKTqn2MdBeuKjUoUZNSoZJ-zpx1w7jMLaLEXJ8H89TY_eWtr9fw1s8_hLG8dMfO5H8u6kKm8k/s320/InnocentProvenGuilty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550235751169210402" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">New film available at: <a href="http://www.mundiromani.com/videos/?video%5Bvideo%5D%5Bitem%5D=80">http://www.mundiromani.com/videos/?video[video][item]=80</a></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Budapest, December 13, 2010. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Source: Romedia</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-51097603453994949192010-12-12T10:02:00.000+00:002010-12-12T10:03:40.607+00:00Dosha - Book Review<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >“Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies”</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF71eB81lI-kWT56UEKNS5F9076qh99-r9jAeZYz67d5mg5V255HFRHYLTd8pnxhcHiayVodwk5KBk-iIlnMb7BH_Nawted01HNLvQe0NhLXLviDQ0SpzT4n_P-hCAhKDS7i33/s1600/Dosha+cover_sml.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF71eB81lI-kWT56UEKNS5F9076qh99-r9jAeZYz67d5mg5V255HFRHYLTd8pnxhcHiayVodwk5KBk-iIlnMb7BH_Nawted01HNLvQe0NhLXLviDQ0SpzT4n_P-hCAhKDS7i33/s320/Dosha+cover_sml.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549733467659341074" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>A novel Sonia Meyer</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >“Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies”</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Sonia Meyer</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">ISBN: 978-0-9827115-1-4</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Published: November 1, 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Wilderness House Press</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Price: $24.94 (hardcover) 6 x 9</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">First Edition: 386 pages</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">“Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies” begins and ends with Nikita s state visit to Helsinki on June 6, 1957. It begins with security and propaganda preparations for the State Visit and the uneasy wait for his arrival. The end unfolds during the arrival of the Soviet delegation and the motorcade that takes them from the train station to the Soviet Embassy. Within this frame the novel tells the story of the Gypsy girl Dosha; from her childhood spent with Russian partisans in Polish forests to her defection during Khrushchev’s visit.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">After the wait for Khrushchev in Helsinki in the first chapter we are then led into the story fully and it begins with 1941 when Russian nomadic Gypsies answer Stalin’s call to sabotage areas already occupied by the advancing German army. They move into Poland where they join Russian partisans and fight for the country that for centuries has shown the Gypsy people love and acceptance.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">After the war they return to Russia to resume their traditional nomadic life, only to find increased hostility toward traveling Gypsy people. Finally in l956, during the short-lived Cultural Thaw, while releasing millions of innocent victims of purges still languishing in gulags of Siberia and Russia’s High North, Khrushchev secretly clamps down on the freedom of the last Gypsy tribes still roaming free. So, as a reward for having helped the Soviet forces as partisans during the war they were forced to settle down, and that often in the very same gulags from which dissidents had been released.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The book also introduces the readers to the legend and ancient taboos, including the cult of the horse and others, as well as to some parts of the language.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">There will, no doubt, be a fair number of those who will condemn this book and its author, as it seems to happen so often with such novels with a Gypsy theme regardless of how positive the authors may present the People.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Others will, in addition or especially, condemn the author for having revealed, as they would have it, secrets of the Rom too the Gadje, such as the notion of the “Cult of the Horse” and other practices of the People, as well as parts of the Romani Language. And that despite the fact that in the latter case some words have, in fact, come out wrong in the book, such as the word for horse, for instance.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I will say, however, that as an ethnic Romani-Gypsy myself, I have found the book extremely good and the history of the Russian Lovara, and that of the Ruska Rom and Ruska Roma per se, and their persecution by the Soviet state after the Great Patriotic War has been presented finally to the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Soviet persecution of the Rom in the USSR is not well known in the West at all where people believe the Rom to have been treated very well by the state due to, more often than not, simply how the Theater Romen was promoted and presented. The picture of the Romani People having had a good life in the USSR having had a fairly good life is nothing but fiction conjured up by the Soviet propaganda machine and “Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies” presents this rather well to the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">This book is very important and timely right now in the light of the way that the Rom are still be persecuted to this very day – in fact as you are reading this – in many countries of the European Union even, with Italy, France, Germany and Denmark, it would appear, in the very forefront. The persecution of the Romani People has, in fact, never ever stopped.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The author makes makes probably one of the most important points and observations in this book when she has Dosha, the heroine, realize that the fatal danger to all Rom lies not only in the external enemy that they share but in the deep-rooted divisions among themselves. It is this very division that makes too many of the People oblivious to the fate of other Rom and thus they even endanger themselves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">There is one final point that I think that must be mentioned though the fault does not lie with the author but with those that may have advised her and that is the term “Poriamos” for the Romani Holocaust. This very word is an invention of Prof. Ian Hancock and the International Roma(ni) Union and would not have existed and been used that shortly after the war. It also is created in a Romanian Romani dialect, with the ending of “-mos” being the dead giveaway. The older term of Samudaripen, as used by Sinti groups, may already have been in existence and use at that time but even of that we cannot be sure.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhURmBe_fCM5bmMeddxBAOCDhq4Kq7BEUpP7bhFv8T_qZcanOmBcol4x8kCN5dhmkUwnPOKgo-J91IZqYpgOWop51vUMvBWjIacsmNj8yo1KOS1EJesCL4fXgcMfMXNGR2S16ns/s1600/Sonia+Meyer_sml.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhURmBe_fCM5bmMeddxBAOCDhq4Kq7BEUpP7bhFv8T_qZcanOmBcol4x8kCN5dhmkUwnPOKgo-J91IZqYpgOWop51vUMvBWjIacsmNj8yo1KOS1EJesCL4fXgcMfMXNGR2S16ns/s200/Sonia+Meyer_sml.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549733735543562034" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">The author of “Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies”, Sonia Meyer fled the Nazis with her parents when she was 2 years old to live in the woods of Germany and Poland with partisans and Gypsies. There her father taught her to throw hand grenades using a wooden darning egg.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">They lived in the woods, in abandoned houses, in isolated excursion inns, in fields and barns, always dodging the German and later Soviet armies who hunted them relentlessly.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Shortly after the war Sonia and her family returned to Cologne, Germany where she foraged for food with a band of Gypsies camped nearby. She now lives in Wellington, FL, USA.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">In conclusion I would just like to say, aside from the fact that I have immensely enjoyed the book, that I am also very happy to recommend it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">© 2010</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-29396286433928082962010-10-31T16:52:00.000+00:002010-10-31T16:53:38.575+00:00Paris: Fake Cops “raid” Gypsy Camp<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">France, October 30, 2010</span>: Unknown perpetrators in the night from Friday 10/29/2010 to Saturday 10/30/2010 attacked a Roma camp in the small Parisian suburb of Triel-sur-Seine.<br /><br />The masked attackers, armed with firearms and batons, entered the camp with a car fitted with a blue light.<br /><br />The unknown perpetrators who, according to residents of the camp, were “dressed just like police officers” forced entry to the caravans of the Roma who originate from Romania. One woman claimed that she was forced to undress and many residents of the camp claim that those fake cops took their identity documents from them.<br /><br />The perpetrators said to have discharged several rounds from their guns into the air and after about half an hour finally left the scene.<br /><br />According to agency reports around thirty Roma families are living on a private piece of land for a number of years already under constant threat of forced removal on the plain of Triel-Chanteloup, an otherwise rather posh suburb of Paris, and have already for a long time requested from the authorities that they be given access to municipal water or alternative accommodation.<br /><br />This story obviously has two rather sinister connotations. One is that probably right-wingers pretending to be police officers have attacked this camp or, two, that the attackers were, in fact, police officers and not fake cops at all.<br /><br />Either way, this is a rather worrying state of affairs for any of us, whatever minority or race we may happen to be, other that white, and, probably, not just in France.<br /><br />Acts such as those could happen anywhere and the reason that I am saying that there could be the possibility that those attackers were, in fact, real cops is that incidents like that have happened in Britain, in a particular South-Eastern county, at a more or less regular basis. On incident that I am aware of was perpetrated by officers on their way home from an exercise. Something that was vehemently denied by the chief of the county's police despite of evidence to the contrary.<br /><br />Methinks that the Romani People in Europe have to be very much on their guard again, especially those of us that still travel, regardless from where in Europe we may come and where we may be.<br /><br />© 2010</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-55313614241890023822010-10-09T17:27:00.000+00:002010-10-09T17:28:19.132+00:00Dark Clouds Gather over Europe once again!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The dark clouds of racism and xenophobia and of fascism, once again, gather over Europe and the actions against the Romani People in many countries of the European Union is ample proof of that.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">We had hoped, like Viviane Reding of the Council of Europe said in her condemnation of the actions of the French government against Gypsies in its country, that those scenes would be a thing of the past; of the darkest times of the history of Europe. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">But, alas, as I have been predicting for years, the past is coming back to haunt us because we never buried it properly.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">When it comes to us, the Gypsy, all the legislations and all the talk of equality and all that jazz are nothing but empty words. To the powers that be and the majority of the Gadje per se we are and remain but the dirty Gypsy. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Now, in the economic climate of the Great Recession, the Gypsy is made to be the scapegoat for all of society's ills. The Gypsy takes away jobs, the Gypsy does this and the Gypsy does that. I am waiting when we are being accused, once again, of poisoning wells, carrying the Plague and being spies for the Turks or whoever. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">While I am the first to admit that there are bad apples in the barrel of the Romani People that are involved in criminal activities, from low-level to very serious stuff, this does not mean that every Gypsy is a thief or even a child-trafficker.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">However, the way the governments of many European Union member states behave it will be community punishments for those few that are involved in crimes. This is the same what happened under the Nazis in Germany and elsewhere. And the EU does what? Precisely...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">In fact, to all intents and purposes, it is beginning to look as if we are seeing “ethnic cleansing by proxy” here in many of the EU member states on the European mainland. This is worrying and scary at the same time. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">In Switzerland anti-Gypsy xenophobia is spreading too, but then again it was in Switzerland where Gypsy children were routinely stolen from their parents and placed in institutions and sold as slaves to farmers well into the second half of the twentieth century.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Is the entire European mainland about to go mentally deranged once again as far as the Gypsy is concerned? It would appear thus. And the world had thought that that was all behind us. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">For years I have been saying that I could see the spectre of anti-Gypsyism of the Nazi kind rising in Europe again and that I could see the EU as, more than likely, having a part in such persecutions even and everyone thought me to be out of my mind. Looks like my fears are coming true, unfortunately.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">And what do our “leaders? Where are the IRU and where is the ERTF? Conspicuous by their silence and this silence is really deafening and it proves where they really stand and what really counts for them; power and money. The People are but a means to an end for them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The grassroots let it happen too and are lethargic as always. If we do not make a stand now then we deserve no better than to be seen as a People as scroungers and whatever else. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">While we may be Stini or Cale and not Roma we are, nevertheless, all Romani and hence cousins and that alone should make us do something but...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">So keren?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">© 2010</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-27834265142843022402010-09-29T13:34:00.001+00:002010-09-30T12:10:54.093+00:00Has the EU finally has decided to take France to task?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Epsom, UK, 09/29/2010: In follow on to <a href="http://onevodrom.blogspot.com/2010/09/eu-backs-down-on-action-against-france.html">my previous article</a> where Reuters had reported that the EU is dropping any action against France over the expulsions and forced deportations of Roma-Gypsies, it would appear that it is on again.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">When the powers that be can work out whether they are in the potato field or out of it it would be nice if they could let us all know.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">So, apparently, the European Commission, which to all intents and purposes is the real power behind the European Union, has now decided to start proceedings against France over the issue of deportations of Roma-Gypsies from its territory.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I must say that I am not going to hold my breath as blue does not suit me as a color in the face and I also don't have any intention of dying that way. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">That is to say that I do not hold out any hopes that anything will come of all the talk and rhetoric and all the posturing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">France will, I am sure, just like Italy did last year, put two fingers up at the European Union legal bodies and decide to carry on with “business as usual”, especially as it would appear that there are a number of EU countries that, even if not all that publicly, actually have congratulated France on its actions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">There is one thing what they say in public, in the view of the world, and another what they say and do in private. While many of us have a beef with Israel, the Zionist entity in Palestine, at least the Zionists don't seem to say one thing to the world and do another. They just stick the two fingers up at world opinion, period. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I am waiting EU, but not holding my breath. Surprise me and my People.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">© 2010 </span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443937.post-21586597833070057502010-09-29T12:42:00.000+00:002010-09-29T12:44:04.052+00:00EU backs down on action against France over deportation of Roma<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">by Michael Smith (Veshengro)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Brussels, EU, 09/29/2010: An astonishing U-turn in the conflict in the European Union about France's mass deportation of Roma-Gypsies with EU citizenship (and even French citizenship?) has occurred. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The European Union is now, despite all the talk and rhetoric, after all not going to start legal proceedings against France, according to the Reuters news agency, who gives an EU-diplomat who is dealing with this case as source. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The European Commission will, instead, ask the French government in writing for further information on the issue, said the EU insider. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">This decision comes as rather a surprise to many – though not me: Only a few days ago everything pointed to the European Commission taking action and bringing – or at least trying to – France before the European court. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I must say that, having been in Gypsy politics long enough and never trusted the European Union, it does come as no surprise to me. I would have been surprised had the EU via the Commission done something that really would give France a rap over the knuckles at least. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">All the talk about freedom of movement of EU citizens does not, it would appear, apply to the Romani, the Gypsy, regardless as to whether he is a citizen of France, Italy or Romania. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">France, so I understand, has even reinstated the travel pass for the Gypsies in France, the “Carnet de Circulation” (sp?), which supposedly had been abolished in the 1980s. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">So much for the “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite” of the French Republic. It applies to all as long as you are not Gypsy or immigrant, it would seem.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">In Germany things are not much better either; I am well aware of that, and in many of the new EU member states, such as Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the former Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Even in the supposed bastions of freedom such as Denmark and Sweden things do not look rosy for the Gypsy. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Europe of the early 21st century very much looks like Europe 70 years ago, at least as far as the Gypsy is concerned, and a real sense of deja vu comes over me when I see what is happening all over the European Union on the mainland. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">It would appear that the only one who can help the Gypsy is the Gypsy. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">© 2010 </span><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com