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Re: progress....or sorts...
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Thursday, April 12 2012, 1:10:16 (UTC)
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The sad thing is that the Roma have always been scapegoated. They were brutally massacred by the Nazis and their henchmen throughout Eastern and Central Europe. And since after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, those who survived are scattered around Europe, living where they temporarily can in the Czech Republic and Germany, where they're now targeted by neo-Nazis, and France, where Sarkozy had their makeshift community destroyed and had them deported even though as EU citizens they can legally settle in any European country.

I love Roma music and in Oakland I went to see a film which I thought was about the musical fusion of Roma from Rajasthan, Spain, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. But the movie turned out to be about the atrocities committed against them in Kosovo by both Serbs and Albanians while they were being bombed by NATO from above for over two months, which lead UNHCR to help them settle in the Czech Republic, Germany and other Euro nations, in which they're now being threatened to leave.. or just simply attacked and murdered.

(This is from a book of poetry I purchased about the Roma of Kosovo)

The Roma of Kosovo are the most unique Gypsies of Europe. Many have not only retained their Hindi language, but also the caste system they brought with them from India some seven hundred years ago.


WHO KILLED THE GYPSIES?
by Paul Polansky


I always thought it was the Czechs
who killed the Gypsies at Lety.
It wasn't.

It was all of us who carried on the
stereotyped stories of kidnapped children
and chicken thieves.

The Swedes are no longer burdened
by the stigma of Viking rape, nor the British
by their bombing of civilians in Dresden.

But we are all guilty of saying that Gypsies
still roam in wagons, when most of them
never heard those stories from their own people.

We have condemned Gypsies to the past
because we don't want them
to have a future.

Someone has to remain
at the bottom of the ladder,
otherwise people, nations,

might look down on us
and remember
what our ancestors did.



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