Protecting the Roma from Rome's new Mayor.
iosaf | 14.05.2008 14:10 | Anti-racism | Migration | World
There is a fascist in power in Rome. And the fascist salutes which greeted his election are now moving to expel the Roma community from Italy. The Roma have now been reported as moving on from the burnt camp in Naples.
Roma in Naples
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Roman Mayor on being a Fascist.
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The Roma or "Romani" ethnic group is estimated at 15 million worldwide. It's "day" is celebrated on the 8th of April. Despite their undoubted influence on many musical traditions including flamenco, bolero, zidane or gypsy jazz as well as classical composers such as Liszt, Brahms & Bartok - they have often been the focus of persecution.
Estimates vary on how many were killed in The Holocaust :- "Ian Hancock, director of the Program of Romani Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, proposes a figure of up to a million and a half, while an estimate of between 220,000 and 500,000 was made by the late Sybil Milton, formerly senior historian of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum"
If you can read french you can learn all about their day and them here
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or in English at Wikipedia
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