Anti-Roma sentiment permeates Slovak society from top to bottom. The British Government has just introduced visa requirements for migrants from Slovakia but asylum applicants are never granted visas, November 1998.
By Steve Staines of Friends, Families and Travellers Support Group.
From www.radicalparty.org.
"As our brothers are fleeing the chaos in Kosovo, they are living as unwanted 'guests' in surrounding countries. It is only with a strong and independent Epirus that our people from all over the region will have a place to call home. A country in which we share equal status with all other citizens."
The present frictions in Czech-Roma relations have complex and deep-seated causes, from the Central Europe Review.
Hearing at Washington, D.C., presided by the Hon. Christopher H. Smith, July 21, 1998.
By Zana Russell, Canada.
By Shani Rifati.
From the U.S. Department of State's Annual Country Reports on Human Rights for Calendar Year 1998.
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