Police break up anti-gypsy march in Slovakia

Article reports that tensions between Slovak nationalists and the country’s large Roma minority escalated in August 2009 when riot police had to break up an anti-gypsy march in the country’s east.

The unrest in Slovakia is part of a regional increase in attacks on Roma minorities by far-right groups, which began before the economic crisis but seem to have become worse as the region’s economies have plunged into recession.

Website: European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) http://www.errc.org/

ERRC: Roma Rights 1, 2009 Hard Times for Roma: Economics, Politics and Violence http://www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=3046

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