Gypsies being denied food in Slovakia - posted in March 04

[bobbieinok]

This is part of a discussion forum on European countries sending refugees 'home' who have been denied aysylem status.

The question of people claiming asylem in European countries is apparently a growing problem.

Slovakian Roma Demand Right to Eat

Thousands of police backed by 2,000 soldiers in the ghetto towns of eastern Slovakia appeared to have temporarily ended attacks by mobs forcing their way into food shops. Near 100 per cent unemployment has brought thousands of Roma gipsies out on the streets
The rioting was the most serious social disturbance in the young democracy, forcing the authorities to use water cannon for the first time since the 1989 revolution. Special police units in balaclavas were deployed and were filmed beating gipsy males, some of them very young.

At least 70 gipsies have been arrested and some were injured, most in the town of Trebisov.

Demonstrators in one town gathered peacefully, shouting: "We want to eat." Others said their families were starving since the cuts, meant to prepare the country for European Union entry, were implemented on Jan 1.

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