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The attacks were condemned by Amnesty International [164] and political leaders from both the Unionist and Nationalist traditions in Northern Ireland. [165] [166] Following the arrest of three local youths in relation to the attacks, the church where the Romanis had been given shelter was badly vandalised.
The Italian journalist Curzio Malaparte, who witnessed the pogrom first-hand, [23] wrote about how "detachments of soldiers and gendarmes, groups of working men and women, groups of long-haired Gypsies squabbled, shouting with joy, as they undressed the corpses, lifted them and turned them over." [24] Bodies being thrown down from the death train
In May 1942 an order was issued according to which all "Gypsies" living in the Balkans were to be arrested. Although the Nazi regime never produced the "Gypsy Law" desired by Himmler, [33] policies and decrees were passed which discriminated against the Romani people. [34] Roma were classified as "asocial" and "criminals" by the Nazi regime. [35]
The Legionnaires' headquarters became torture centers, and Jews kidnapped from their homes were brought there. Jews' homes were set on fire and the Jews themselves were concentrated in places where they could be tortured to take their property and Jewish women were raped. Jews were murdered at random, but also in planned executions.
The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando , inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
New photos show the sickening moment a California man launched a savage assault on a female Safeway employee in San Francisco. Kwontell Summerfield, 28, of Sacramento County attacked the ...
The 2008–2009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary were a series of murders perpetrated by four Neo-Nazis (Árpád Zoltán Kiss, István Sándor Kiss, Zsolt István Pető and accomplice István Csaba Csontos) against people of Roma ethnicity, occurring between July 2008 and August 2009.
Romani feminism or Gypsy feminism is the feminist trend that promotes gender equality, the fight against social inequalities and the defense of the integration of women in different movements in society, making these processes compatible with the preservation of culture and values of the Romani people.