TODAY’S INTOLERANCE TOON ~~ SARKOZY’S DEPORTATION OF GYPSIES

September 20, 2010 at 11:39 (Associate Post, Deportations, France)

‘Colour me a holocaust victim’

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“Discrimination against Roma communities in Europe has a long and bitter history. The repression came to a climax in the 1930-40s when they were targeted by fascist regimes in both Romania and Italy. In areas controlled by the German Nazis several hundred thousand Roma were rounded up and brought to concentration camps or executed directly. This genocide was not even an issue at the Nuremberg trial and the little compensation to the survivors or to the victims’ family members came late, if at all,” he said in a statement last week.

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