News Roundup: Snapshots from around Europe
07 December 1999
- In Kosovo, mass violence by ethnic Albanians against Roma continues
- Czech authorities build ghetto wall, tear it down again
- Under pressure by western governments, Slovak government publishes package of Roma measures
- Failure of state protection in Yugoslavia
- G is for gypsy on Czech records
- Police kill Romani man in Romania
- Victory in restaurant discrimination case in the Czech Republic
- Skinheads attack Roma in Hungary
- Roma denied access to hospitals in Romania
- Mayor of Greek city makes racist comments about Roma; more evictions of Roma in Greece
- Belgian authorities deport Slovak Roma as European efforts to expel refugee Roma become more aggressive
- World War II concentration camp commander found guilty in Croatia
- Instances of police abuse of Roma in Bulgaria
- Romani success in local elections in Bulgaria
- Hungarian State Television attempts to dismiss the only staff member of Romani program
- More police abuse of Roma in Macedonia
- Roma evicted from site in Wales; Traveller education dealt blow in Britain
- Racially motivated attacks on Traveller homes in Northern Ireland
- Swedish Supreme Court rules supermarket ban discriminatory
- Police brutality against Roma in Greece
- Parliamentary Ombudsman for Minority Rights declares Hungarian education system discriminatory
- Roma continue to flee Baranja region of Croatia
- Attack on Romani community in the Czech Republic
- Roma in Transcarpathian Ukraine file complaints of police abuse
- Slovene authorities shoot several hundred animals in Romani settlement
