Evropako Forumo e Romengo thaj e Phirutnengo
Forum européen des Roms et des Gens du voyage
European Roma and Travellers Forum
ERTF Charter
on the Rights of the Roma
1. More than seven centuries ago, our People were enslaved in the Indian subcontinent in the course of the Islamization of India and expelled towards Europe during the Islamic wars.
2. For more than six centuries, we Roma have lived here in Europe. Our history has been marked by Antiziganism, slavery, discrimination, persecution, expulsion, violence and genocide; this history has been written with our people’s blood.
3. Hundreds of thousands of our people were victims of the Parraijmos, the Holocaust on Roma , murdered in the name of the Nazi race mania, abused for pseudo-medical experiments and gassed in concentration camps. This injustice and crime against our people has too often been concealed, ignored, treated as a footnote to history, or simply forgotten.
via ERTF CHARTER VOT NOW!.
October 9, 2009
Categories: Action Alerts, Culture, Ethnic cleansing, holocaust, human rights, Porrajmos, Refugees, Roma, Romanes, Romani Rights . Tags: vote on the ERTF . Author: gpjames . Comments: Leave a comment