Roma Rights Spring, 1998: Racially motivated violence against Roma

15 May 1998

Racially motivated civilian violence against Roma is the focus of this issue. It comes in various forms, from skinhead assaults to mob law, and leaves behind death, handicap, and pain, physical as well as mental. Competing with police violence in scope, intensity and impunity, civilian violence against Roma has been documented since 1989 in most post-communist countries of Europe: Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

• Spotlight on civilian violence (Dimitrina Petrova)  

• The man marked out (Nikolai Gughinski)  

• Albania * Bulgaria * Czech Republic * Germany * Greece * Hungary * Italy * Macedonia * Poland * Romania * Slovakia * Ukraine * Yugoslavia  

• Skinhead violence targeting Roma in Yugoslavia (Serguei Chabanov) 

• Lynching is not a crime: mob violence against Roma in post-Ceaucescu Romania (István Haller)  

• Hădăreni case indictment 

• Legal developments in the trial of the killers of Mario Goral: A case report by the ERRC (Csilla Dér) 

• Romani parents sue school in northeastern Hungary (The submission against the principal of the Ferenc Pethe Primary School, Tiszavasvári, Hungary) 

• Czech Republic examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination  

• The policeman knew the skinhead: a young Rom speaks about a racially-motivated attack in Hungary  

• The ERRC in Košice, Slovakia (Stanislava Benešová, Claude Cahn and Cathy O'Grady)