[WSMDiscuss] Coronavirus Pandemic- The Plight of Roma People in Europe

[Umakant]

Dear Friends

Greetings! Roma people, who are ‘untouchables’of European countries face discrimination, exclusion and violence based on workand descent day-in and day-out. Their plight has been further aggravated by thecoronavirus pandemic. The State and the society at large are complicit in ill-treatingRoma people thereby denying them a life of dignity, equality and justice. 

 

Do pass it on to others in yourcircle/network. 

 

Police areusing the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to abuse Roma

Jonathan Lee, Al Jazeera, May 14,2020 

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/police-covid-19-pandemic-excuse-abuse-roma-200511134616420.html

 

The coronavirus pandemicexacerbated the ugly, systematic state violence against Romani people. 

 

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Europe's marginalisedRoma people hit hard by coronavirus

Shaun Walker, The Guardian, Budapest, May 11, 2020 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/11/europes-marginalised-roma-people-hit-hard-by-coronavirus

 

Pandemic has increased deprivation and stigmatisation of continent’slargest minority

 

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ROMA CAMP ATTACKED AND TENTS BURNED DOWN BY UNKNOWNASSAILANTS IN UKRAINE

Jonathan Lee, EuropeanRoma Rights Centre (ERRC) May 04, 2020 

http://www.errc.org/news/roma-camp-attacked-and-tents-burned-down-by-unknown-assailants-in-ukraine 

 

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Pandemic:Roma at receiving end of racist policing

Bernard Rorke,Budapest, EU Observer, May 04, 2020  

https://euobserver.com/coronavirus/148229

 

More and more casesof police brutality against Roma are surfacing amidst quarantines, lockdownsand emergency measures across central and eastern Europe. 

 

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Hungary's Roma facing economic disaster as COVID restrictionslifted

Marton Dunai and BalazsKaufmann, Reuters, May 04, 2020 

Hungary’s Roma facing economic disaster as COVID restrictions lifted 


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With Regards and InSolidarity 

Umakant, Ph. D 

New Delhi 



 






My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality. 
B.R.Ambedkar
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