Kosovo: Roma demonstrate against continuing violence for nyteeu@ursula; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 01:16:49 -0500 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - "RomNews Network" The Kosovo War is not over ! Contact Person: Mr. Jasar Demirov (President) Phone: + 49 711/3290999 Fax: + 49 711/3280618 Roma demonstrate against continuing violence in Kosovo and for their right to stay Berlin / GERMANY ( RNN Correspondent ) Place: Berlin - Alexanderplatz According to statements from the Roma National Congress (RNC), tens of thousands of Roma are fleeing from racist motivated violence. Thousands eke out a miserable existence in provisional refugee camps in Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. International Roma organisations now call for an immediate right to stay for these refugees. Since the beginning of the Kosovo crisis, thousands of Roma have become victims of atrocities by Albanian militias. More than hundredthousand Roma from the Kosovo have fled from these atrocities and the NATO warfare. Among all the families who reached so-called safety, not one that didn't lose relatives, among all the expelled families, not one whose property wasn't stolen or destroyed. Germany must stay to its responsibility. Rape, murder and repelling have become a horrible routine for the Roma in Kosovo. In contrast to the beginning of the NATO operation, today none of the international institutions feels responsible to help the Roma. Not one word about German responsibility! No "Fascism never again! Stop the violence against Roma!" out of the mouth of a German foreign or defense minister. The Holocaust of the Kosovo Roma is neither a subject matter in the media, nor recognized by those who wanted to "bomb human rights back on the Balkan" only a few months ago. It is unbearable for us as Roma to see the Berlin Republic indulge in self-adulation with a "Jewish Holocaust memorial" on the one hand, while on the other hand the survivors of the German Holocaust and their NATO Balkan war die a wretched death. We call this a process of coming to terms with the past - by continuing injustice! We therefore require the federal government to stand to its responsibility, both concerning the Holocaust, and as a consequence of the participation in the Balkan war! For thousands of Roma there is no coming back, they no longer have a home in Kosovo. For this people we claim: For all Roma refugees from the Kosovo currently residing in Germany, an immediate right to stay. To acknowledge all Roma refugees currently staying in Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro as contingental refugees and receive them in Germany, like it is done with the Jews from the former Soviet Union. The immediate abolition of the movement limitation for Roma refugees in Germany! RomNews is published by the RomNews Network on a Non- commercial basis European Central Office: PO Box 30 41 45 D - 20324 Hamburg, Germany URL: http://www.RomNews.com Phone Hotline: ++ 49 170 58 12 852 Emails: Editorial Office: editorialoffice@romnews.com Send News to: news@romnews.com Comments: comments@romnews.com RomNews Network: rnn@romnews.com Moderator Listserver: m.knudsen@romnews.com ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nyteeu-02.12.00-01:16:39-23470