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Serbs, Jews Gypsies mark 60th anniversary of dismantling of Croatia's "Auschwitz" www.chinaview.cn 2005-04-18 12:02:16 BELGRADE, April 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Bosnian Serb President Dragan Cavic and about 3,000 people, mostly Serbs, gathered in Bosnia's northern village of Donja Gradina on Sunday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the dismantlement of the Jasenovac camp, Croatia's most notorious death camp in World War II. The Jasenovac camp, known as Croatia's Auschwitz and located about 100 km southeast of Croatia's capital Zagreb, was set up in 1941 by Croatia's pro-Nazi Ustasha regime. Donja Gradina used to be part of the Jasenovac camp complex. "In...

The first pictures have been released of the 105-year-old woman who died after being targeted repeatedly by burglars. Amelia Whale, shown here celebrating her 100th birthday, refused to move from the home she shared with her younger brother Leonard in Islington, despite four break-ins in 18 months. Police installed security bars and CCTV last year after the third burglary. But that did not stop Bernard Gallagher, 23, and Mark O'Brien 26, raiding her home last September and stealing £2,000. The men were captured on CCTV. The pair, both travellers, were caught on camera and traced to a campsite. They now...

Washington Times - Letter to the Editor 6/7/95 - Arlington Thomas Colton Ruthford During the past several months in the American press, the Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very ironic. I remember the Nazis. Let me share a little about them and recall some of their exploits. First of all, "Nazi" was gutter slang for the verb "to nationalize". The Bieder-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was "The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany". Hitler and...

Budapest – If the European Union has its way, the Roma (also called Gypsies) will eventually emerge from their shantytowns and makeshift camps and shed the shackles of centuries-old dis- crimination. Although that day may be distant, Europe's conscience has become aware of the plight of the Continent's most deprived minority. To some, they represent the swarthy violinists in dimly lit nightclubs. But across Eastern Europe, misbehaving children often are warned "you'll be given to the Gypsies" — those beggars and petty thieves who travel from town to town in horse-drawn caravans and live in deep poverty. In Bulgaria, the...

The Holocaust horrors are unspeakable. The images of the Auschwitz death camp are indelible. Dr. Klara Swimmer speaks nonetheless. "You cannot imagine the pain, the suffering, and the smell," says the 80-year-old retired physician. She was a teenage Hungarian Jew when she entered the camp of the damned. Bill Kugelman, a Polish-born Jew, was interned behind the wire fences of Auschwitz when the first Hungarians arrived. He recalls the naked body of a young girl thrown from the train onto a heap of corpses. "She was blue all over," says Kugelman, also 80. "She was all blue," he repeats. His...

Romany Gypsies came out of India Anna Salleh ABC Science Online Monday, 6 September 2004 A Romany woman dances in downtown Prague during the third annual Khamoro Festival of Roma music and culture (Image: Reuters/Petr Josek) Legend has it that European Gypsies came from Egypt but a new genetic study has shown they came from a small population that emerged from ancestors in India around 1000 years ago. The research, by Professor Luba Kalaydjieva of the University of Western Australia and team, looked at the origins of eight to 10 million people in Europe commonly known as Gypsies. Roma, Romani...

WARSAW (AFP) - Hundreds of Roma from across Europe walked through the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland to pay homage to the half a million gypsies who died in the Holocaust 60 years ago. The gypsies, many of them Holocaust survivors or relatives of victims whom had travelled from Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic, took the same path some 20,000 Roma on the night of August 2-3 travelled to Birkenau's crematorium five where they died. Known as the "Pharrajimos" in the Romani language, the Holocaust took the lives of nearly half a million gypsies in different...

MIDI - GYPSIES, TRAMPS AND THIEVES All the scum DemocRATS come to Bean Town to meet Al Qaeda's sending money so they won't get beat Better watch out, they’re gonna get you They will take your wallets…you’ll have nothing left by the time they’re through Liars, gays and freaks They fill up the Fleet Center with their grand perversion Liars, gays and freaks If we cannot stop the DemocRATS this time…our nation won’t survive There on the stage, the woman from hell She’s Satan’s daughter, we know her so well People who love her have lost their head And...

Five Years of Ethnic Cleansing of Roma, Ashkaelia and Egyptians and others regarded as "Gypsies" from KosovoBudapest, 10. 6. 2004, 16:00, (ERRC) Today marks the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the ethnic cleansing of Roma, Ashkaelia, Egyptians and other persons regarded as "Gypsies" from Kosovo. In the wake of the cessation of NATO action against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in June 1999 and the subsequent return of predominantly ethnic Albanians from abroad, ethnic Albanians violently expelled approximately four fifths of Kosovo's pre-1999 Romani population -- estimated to have been around 120,000 -- from their homes. In the course...

Budapest, 10. 6. 2004, 16:00, (ERRC) Today marks the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the ethnic cleansing of Roma, Ashkaelia, Egyptians and other persons regarded as "Gypsies" from Kosovo. In the wake of the cessation of NATO action against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in June 1999 and the subsequent return of predominantly ethnic Albanians from abroad, ethnic Albanians violently expelled approximately four fifths of Kosovo's pre-1999 Romani population -- estimated to have been around 120,000 -- from their homes. In the course of the ethnic cleansing campaign, ethnic Albanians kidnapped Roma and severely physically abused and in some...

ERRC PHOTO: The Albanian riots in Vushtrri/Vucitrn were first directed at UNMIK under the slogan "Stop arresting liberators!", then turned against the former Orthodox citizens of the town now lying in this graveyard, and from there assaulted the only living non-Albanian community at hand, the Ashkaelia. Serbs and Roma were burned out of their houses in the summer of 1999, leaving behind only the local Ashkaelia, who have now also been burned out of their houses. European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) Letter of Concern to Kosovo and European Authorities over Violence against Roma, Ashkaelia, Egyptians and Others Regarded as...

http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/yay/bigmidi.html MIDI - GYPSIES, TRAMPS AND THIEVES All the scum DemocRATS come to Bean Town to meet Al Qaeda's sending money so they won't get beat Better watch out, they’re gonna get you They will take your wallets…you’ll have nothing left by the time they’re through Liars, gays and freaks They fill up the Fleet Center with their grand perversion Liars, gays and freaks If we cannot stop the DemocRATS this time…our nation won’t survive There on the stage, the woman from hell She’s Satan’s daughter, we know her so well People who love her have lost their head And...

Slovakian troops sent in to stop gipsy riots By Francis Harris in Prague (Filed: 26/02/2004) Slovakian troops were deployed on the streets yesterday for the first time since the fall of communism to stop looting by Roma gipsies protesting against welfare cuts. 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 gypsies out on the streets The rioting was the most serious social disturbance in the young democracy, forcing the authorities...

SUN SPECIAL INVESTIGATION Britain's our dream Out in the cold ... gipsies in Strane Pod Tatrami, SlovakiaPictures: JON BOND By OLIVER HARVEY in Kezmarok, Slovakia RELATED STORIES • Sun Says GIPSIES determined to flee grinding poverty in Eastern Europe are preparing to flood into Britain in their thousands. They are counting the days until May 1 when countries such as Poland and Slovakia join the EU, a Sun investigation has revealed. Britain has pledged to welcome them with open arms — unlike EU partners such as France, Germany, Italy and Spain. And yesterday one grateful Polish dad-of-two told us:...

November 13, 2003 For Albanians, It's Come to This: A Son for a TV By NICHOLAS WOOD DURRES, Albania, Nov. 11 — Fatmira Bonjaku's husband is in jail, accused by the police of selling their 3-year-old son to an Italian man in return for the television set that six other children watch in the family's dimly lighted room. The police also say her husband had plans to sell their newest born, whom she is breast feeding. Mrs. Bonjaku, interviewed at her family's two-room shack on the outskirts of this port city, denied that she intended to sell her newborn but...

BUDAPEST The European Union pledged continued support Monday for the integration of Gypsies into society's mainstream, but said traditions that contravened human rights could not be tolerated. The comments - applying to Gypsy communities in countries slated to join the Union - came at a conference sponsored by the World Bank on the status and problems of the minority in EU candidate nations. While promising continued financial support for Gypsy integration, Anna Diamantopoulou, the EU commissioner for employment and social affairs, warned Gypsies that traditions that breach human rights would not be tolerated in the European Union. "When fundamental human...

Gypsies bid for asylum From correspondents in Skopje, Macedonia 20may03 HUNDREDS of gypsies have converged on Macedonia's border with Greece, hoping to persuade Greek authorities to grant them political asylum, a police spokeswoman said today. Authorities stopped the convoy of 12 buses from crossing the border at Medzitlija, 200km south of Macedonia's capital, Skopje. The 640 Gypsies were not allowed to leave the country because they had no passports, police spokeswoman Mirjana Konteska said. "They are still there," she added. The gypsies were among refugees who left neighbouring Kosovo four years ago after NATO action to end then-Yugoslav President Slobodan...

May. 8, 2003 Croatia plans to build monument to honor its Nazis By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - ZAGREB, Croatia The Croatian government announced Thursday it plans to buy land in southern Austria to build a monument honoring thousands of Croat Nazi troops and civilians who were killed in the aftermath of World War II. The announcement came just a few days ahead of Sunday's anniversary of the 1945 killings of tens of thousands of Croat soldiers and civilians who fled to Austria in fear of reprisals from antifascists. They gathered in Bleiburg, a small town near the then-Yugoslav border, waiting...

Slovakian Roma Forced to Ghettos Defying EU pressure, Slovakia is systematically segregating its Romany minority into ghettos, and barring their entrance into cities. By Arie Farnam | Special to The Christian Science Monitor KOSICE, SLOVAKIA – Teenager Lucie David still has nightmares about the evening two years ago when local police and neo-Nazi skinheads attacked her family's home in the small town of Stos in eastern Slovakia. "Rocks came smashing through the windows, and a crowd was outside chanting that they would rape me and my mother," she recalls in a whisper. After huddling together in the dark for several...

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (JTA) — A Holocaust exhibit at a prestigious art museum in Zagreb is being hailed as a major step forward in Croatia’s willingness to deal honestly with its World War II history. Croatian President Stepan Mesic recently inaugurated the exhibit, entitled “The Courage to Remember,” at the capital’s Mimara Art Museum. “This is not an exhibition for historians, but one for those who want to revise history,” Mesic said in a speech at the opening. “This is not an exhibition for those who know but for those who do not know, and even more so for...